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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
i'd argue against middle earth, at least the film version. if you're talking about the book, obviously Tolkien was the first to really create a full fantasy world, but by the time the movies came out we had seen middle earth done countless times over in video games. LOTR and Star Wars also had the advantage of being trilogies, so it wouldn't be fair to compare them to Avatar until Cameron has a chance to flesh out his universe a bit more. and as he has stated a desire to do more movies based on the other worlds around Pandora, i doubt all there will be to his world is blue natives and glow in the dark plants
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Take Fellowship of the Rings and it still has more depth in world-building than Avatar, IMO.
And who cares if we've seen Midde-Earth in video games? We've seen countless Avatars in video games, too. It's only fair to stick with a single medium, or else it's comparing apples to oranges.
My replies are honest, just so Nehkara knows; I'm not trying to say Avatar sucked. Far from it... I just think it should be praised based on its merits, and not made into something it's not, at least in my opinion. James Cameron has a knack for making things bigger and better than ever before, he's never been the most original guy.