It’s Avatar day!

Today a lucky few film fans who were able to get through online will get to see a 16-minute preview of James Cameron’s highly anticipated 3-D movie Avatar.

For those who didn’t get tickets, a teaser trailer came out yesterday.

The premise? Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully, a wounded Marine is given a chance to run free again when he participates in a program that allows him to use his mind to control the body of an alien-human hybrid on a new world. What he doesn’t realize is that the military is interested in the planet’s resources and Sully soon has to choose sides between duty and this strange world’s peaceful inhabitants.

Looks pretty good, although I have trouble getting excited for cartoon characters running through a cartoon landscape from a cartoon threat … sort of why the beginning of the Clone Wars in the new Star Wars trilogy kind of felt hollow to me.

But I have to ask … hasn’t that storyline been done before? In fact just this year we had the Battle for Terra (also released in 3-D), here’s the summary for that film: A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Cameron is known to be a big perfectionist, sometimes to a fault, and he has been working on this movie off and on for about 12 years.
Did he wait too long? Let me know what you think!