>>>btw I didn't like Titanic.
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>>I didn't feel like getting into the movie dispute, but I didn't even watch it.
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>>There's something repelling in a movie with an advertising campaign boosting the production cost as its main feature. With that much money (and a list of countries with budgets less than that) there can't be much room for director's liberties, it will contain only what sells, it will be produced by lawyers and merchants.
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>>I may have been wrong, but never bothered to check.
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>So I'm guessing you haven't seen Avatar either? :o) What I expect when that much money is spent is excellent special effects---

I'd have to confess here - I saw a decent screener dubbed in Russian. The roughshod translation makes the militarized language sound even worse in translation. I think it just exposed whatever was wrong in the text.

Nice postcard, but that's not even SF, that's borderline disneyfied, and not too convincing. The scenery works, the story sucks on too many levels. Let's see, the young Western comes among the natives and leads them, becoming the hero in the process (Muad'dib, Tarzan and many others), falls for the tribe's chief's daughter (you make the list), gets to duel a prospective young warrior who doubts him (Dune again, but then any other story of the kind has one of those), goes native and rebels against his own (Mutiny on Bounty), marries the princess. Yeah, everything's there. May have left two checkboxes blank in the checklist.