Cameron turns sci-fi spectacle into visual adventure

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“Avatar” looked like an ava-turkey. With production and promotion costs soaring toward $300 million, it had early earmarks of a Jim Cameron boondoggle. After 12 years away, the “Titanic” showboat was investing the gross domestic product of a small nation into a two-hour, 41-minute vanity project about steroidal smurfs with magic ponytails!?

 

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