Avatar (2009 film) Avatar (2009 film) Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's
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