New Avatar trailer is the real deal

[Big D]

Punk kids born in the 1990s do not get to complain about 'bad' CGI. Especially not when they're of the standard this film's offering.

Anyway, the film looks like it could well be a case of "simple story told well". I've seen journalists echoing Dreddz's sentiment about the lack of a pre-existing story or book behind this film, and its potential effects; the film's all the more ambitious for it.

Regardless of whether the work is 'cliched', it's got potential as long as the context is original. And original world, culture and environment. While the little we've seen of the colonial army is hardly original, the Pandora planet and its environs are definitely looking like a very well-realised fantasy setting.