6. Avatar = Dances With Wolves
Sigh. After Battle Royale and The Hunger Games I was hoping I was done with these high profile entries, but then up comes this behemoth. You all remember Avatar. The film that was everyones favourite for three months, made shed loads of money and tricked you into thinking 3D was more than a tool for having things thrown out at you by throwing things out at you. Its been almost four years since James Cameron returned to directing, but the criticisms of the films lack of originality still abound. As everyone who saw the film realised, Avatar was little more than an environmentalist adaptation of the British arrival in America, with humans the English and Navi the Native Americans. I could draw up the in-depth similarities, but youd likely just skip the paragraph because we've all seen it before. Avatars similarities with several other films on the topic was raised upon, but the one closest to Camerons overly long Oscar loser is Kevin Costners Oscar winner Dances With Wolves. With a soldier becoming close with the Indians and eventually joins them, a rerelease of this much better film with a multicolour filter may have been a more enjoyable watch. And yes, I could have drawn even more parallels with Fern Gully, but, even more so than with Battle Royale, no one had heard of that before.