Fictional universe of Avatar Fictional universe of Avatar In the 2009 science fiction film "Avatar", director James Cameron conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium on the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora. The Earth-like moon is inhabited by a sapient indigenous humanoid species called the Na'vi, and varied fauna and flora. Resources Development Administration (RDA) scientists, administrators, recruits, support, and security personnel travel to Pandora in the 22nd century to discover this lush world, which is inhabited by many lifeforms including the human-like Na'vi. The clan with which the humans have contact in the film "[lives] in a giant tree that
Precious (film) but said it was not quite the "transcendent masterpiece" some had made it out to be. Sukhdev Sandhu wrote in "The Daily Telegraph" that he found the film "a dispiriting mix of cliché and melodrama," although he acknowledged that "Precious" does feature some superb acting. Noting Daniels' admiration of the work of John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar and the joking attitude he and the actors sometimes took towards their material while making the movie, Jim Emerson argued that "Precious" is best understood as a deliberately over-the-top piece of camp in the vein of Waters's "Female Trouble". "Precious" received dozens of