Comments on: Top Five Ways Avatar Will Change the World… for Star Wars Fans

By: Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:58:12 +0000

O My this article is Hilarious. I love the fact that you combined Avatar and Star Wars. And my favorite parts are the ewok, and “When people talk about the beautiful, half-naked alien, they won’t be talking about Oola.” Classic is all I have let to say, classic!!

By: oneill noah

oneill noah — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:46:38 +0000

hey devanjedi…was wondering if there is a STAR WARS fan
club in India?? Am a great fan of the series…was wondering about
the possibility of re running this wonderful movie, and let a whole
generation, who have missed out the pleasuer of enjoying this
master piece on BIG SCREEN experience the magic .

By: Captain Rick

Captain Rick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:18:03 +0000

Sorry, Avatar is a lame rehash of every other western film where those darn union soldiers are attacking native peoples and stealing their stuff.

By: DevanJedi

DevanJedi — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:29:06 +0000

Well said, Chris. Agree with all of that—I was thinking about the same thing recently. Avatar doesn’t have much that a kid could take home and make his/her own.

By: Chris Stansfield

Chris Stansfield — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:30:35 +0000

This should not be misconstrued as bitterness or poor sportsmanship on my part, because I wish James Cameron and Avatar all success. For whatever reason, Avatar seems to have captured the hearts and imaginations of audiences in a way that hasn’t been done in the last ten years. That said, I don’t think “our generation is past.” There are significant differences between Avatar and the Star Wars films that will, in my opinion, ensure that Star Wars remains a legend while Avatar will have to settle for being, at best, a classic. Namely, the reason why Star Wars has endured as long as it has goes beyond its sequels and merchandising- it has endured because the first movie and all that followed presented a universe infinitely rich with possibilities and storylines. Both foreground and background characters had the kind of depth that lent itself to the possibility of all kind of stories- both the published kind and the kind simply imagined by children playing with action figures. In doing so, it became “of the people” the same way that Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and other stories have before it.

Avatar, in the end, focuses on two peoples, one planet, and a handful of stock characters. It just doesn’t have that sense of possibility. Even if Jim Cameron wanted to make it so, there just isn’t room in Avatar for a thousand books, comics, television shows, etc, to be made from it. It’s one linear narrative, and that’s it. So it’s very unlikely that it will ever become the mythology that Star Wars became.