Forgetting How to Make Action Films

A reader asks: "If you are looking for movies to discuss, how about the one due out this Friday, Avatar, what looks to be a classic science fiction vehicle?"

Discuss movies? You dare to ask me to discuss movies! Prepare yourself, then, for discussion! I will discuss and discuss til my discusser is sore!

But there is not much to say about AVATAR -- it looks from the commercials to be like an update of FERN GULLY, DANCES WITH WOLVES, and POCAHONTAS except without the really goodlooking Disney pr...