Looking forward—as are many of us—to an airplane flight in the near future, some questions are occurring to us: Exactly what in the Hell is going on, how did the guy get high explosives through security, and just how screwed up will air travel become? There are only a few explanations for how our perp
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Elaborate visual effects are used to convey a mediocre story. Every single plot turn is predictable, and helmer/scripter James Cameron certainly did not need 162 minutes to tell his tale. Yet, parts of it are exciting, and even moving. The year is 2154 and marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), severely wounded in combat and unable
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Older moviegoers aren’t the only ones who would like an occasional break from the FX-dominated big releases, so typical of this era. Plenty of kids are also wondering what happened to story and decent dialog—not to mention acting. The best antidote to the current over-produced under-written fare is to go back into the archives, and
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