Since I know you guys have barely heard anything about this project, here’s a new featurette for James Cameron’s Avatar.  A couple thoughts: first, as much as I want to see it, I can’t stop thinking about this comment about it from the other week:

“Good news, we can fly you to an alien planet and graft your DNA with that of an alien, follow that up with a mind-meld thingy, thereby allowing you to infiltrate their species and take them out.”

“And what about my paralysis? How’s that coming?”

“We’re not miracle workers, dude.”

Kind of a big ol’ turd in the Avatar punch bowl when you think about it.  Also, who decided it was a good idea to put Michelle Rodriguez in this?  She’s impossible to take seriously.  She’s like a female Billy Zane.  Except hardcore and Latin (a chill just ran down my spine from imagining a hardcore, Latin Billy Zane).  And lastly, I don’t think I ever noticed this before, but the material the humans are supposed to be mining is called “unobtainium.”  Seriously. It’s said to be found only on Pandora and in Diora Baird’s panties.

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