Avatar Movie Review

"Avatar," the movement picture director James Cameron has been working on for four years and planning for 15, his first movie since 1997's "Titanic," is really a gamechanger. It lifts the bar.

Like those (very different) movies, "Avatar" stretches the bounds of the cinematic imagination. It shows us something we've never seen before: an entire alien world, a new and complex ecosystem rendered in three dimensions with dazzling fluidity and detail.

Welcome to Pandora, a distant planet and one of the most valuable outposts in the solar system. Here, earthlings mine a rare mineral and try to maintain equitable relations with the indigenous people. The Na'vi are 10 feet tall, blueskinned and increasingly pissed as the humans encroach on their sacred lands.

Jake accepts the offer just because he knows that by this he would be able to walk again on his feet and he would be able to pay off surgery expenses. Avatar is the body of tall, blue Pandora natives known as Na'vi. He travels to Pandora but Dr. Grace Augustine, head of the project, is not happy he does not want to send an inexperienced person on the most important project of her life.

There is a love story brewing between Sam's Na'vi avatar with the Pandora princess (Zo Saldana) and soon he discovers an altogether new world. Literally. He wages a battle of his own with support from a handful of friends from 'sky people' along with tribe members and animals belonging to all shapes and sizes.

Sam Worthington's Hair: It sounds ridiculous, but this is another detail that really stood out. Normally you'll notice that an actor is given a hairstyle that they can have throughout the entire film, but Worthington's hair changed with every time shift in the movie and it always looked completely natural. Yet again, nice touch.

It's every video game you've ever played, ever steamyaction novel you've ever read, every plot line you've seen before in a big budget film. Is it well told? Absolutely! But with all the time and money Cameron put into it, I would expect him to tell an old story well. I get that he took a number of risks, so maybe asking for an original story was taking things too far

Does one admire Cameron for the sheer vision that he has put to tremendous use in the making of "Avatar"? Does one pick up each and every frame in the film and start bisecting it for every pixel which has been designed to perfection? Or does one silently nod in approval for the familiar world of love, brotherhood, attachment, greed, misunderstandings and the ultimate reunion where spirit of togetherness is the ultimate winner?

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Dubai shares continue to fall on debt concerns

The stock market of Dubai has fallen for the 2nd contiguous day on continuing fears about the big companies' capability to return debts.

The primary Dubai Financial Market index fell 6.1%, after closing down almost 6% on Monday.

Two weeks ago, the World of Dubai asked for a six-month retard on debt payments. Credit agencies have since downgraded many leading Dubai companies.

The index of Dubai has now fallen with more than 20% since the extension supplication.

Tuesday's plunge was led by real estate developer Emaar Projects, which fell by 9.8%.

One of Dubai World's first primary payments to bondholders in its estate firm Nakheel is due next week.

"Until there is some lucidity in debt restructure, there won't be some serious buyers (of shares)," said Julian Bruce at EFG Hermes Holding in Dubai.

"The closer we get to the Nakheel deadline with no news, the worse it will be."

The World of Dubai has some esteemed priority, notably its ports business, which includes London's Tilbury Docks and France's Le Havre.

Different items in its wide-ranging investment portfolio include the luxury retailer Barney's of New York, a list of high-end US hotels, and the Canadian acrobatic circus franchise, Cirque du Soleil.

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Obama's West Point speech offers hope but no surprises

Yesterday's night, President Barack Obama traveled to the oldest military academy in the United States to reveal his highly-touted strategy to fetch security to Afghanistan and eliminate terrorist safe havens that intimidate the region and the world.



Emphasizing the need to concern the strategy and resources he said had been lacking since the United States went into Afghanistan, Obama claimed his war plan will concern what's needed to succeed and bring the U.S. mission there to an final.

Obama conceded that his strategy will have a profound impact on its most firsthand audience: thousands of Army officers in training at the U.S. Military Academy who will be called on to carry it out.

According to President Obama's plan, the distribution of additional troops would factor in the current U.S. footprint in Afghanistan, which comprises about 68,000 troops -- a mixture of combat forces and trainers -- spread throughout, but with the east and south serving as focal points. Troops under NATO’s command add a addition of 42,000 troops.

The strategy also demands much from Afghanistan, calling on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to help grow Afghan sureness forces rapidly, concern better governance at the local and popular levels. Deployment lengths for U.S. service members will remain about the same -- seven months for Marines, and 12 months for soldiers. With the planned reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq to 50,000 by August 2010

In that way, Obama stated that only 30,000 more troops would be deployed, far fewer than the 60,000 originally requested by General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, or the 40,000 many anticipated as a compromise.

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