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Remember that part in Independance Day when you learn the aliens were going from planet to planet sucking them dry of natural resources and intelligent life?
Remember when it happened again in War of the Worlds?
Well now its kinda happening again in James Cameron’s new film Avatar, except this time we get to be the genocidal mineral deposit consuming aliens!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJpm9wvzKE
See in Avatar, humans have overpopulated the earth(again), and go out planet plundering to gain more land and reap more resources. But when they travel to the lush planet of Pandora, they are charged with wiping out a savage native race known as the Na’vi. I know, it’s sooo Anglo-Saxon.
The focus of the film is on Jake, a wheelchair bound vet who gets to jump back into action by being mentally zapped into the bodies of captured Na’vi.
Avatar is due out in 12/18/09.

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