Star Wars vs Avatar
The first article I wrote for channel24.co.za, the website that I have been steadily writing for ever since. It may not be timely - and I'm surprised that it's actually way shorter than most of my reviews - but since when did discussions about Star Wars have to be timely? From channel24.co.za James Cameron’s Avatar has garnered more than its fair share of attention since its release in December 2009. In no short time, it has taken the major award ceremonies by storm, developed a sizable fan-base and became the highest grossing film of all time. Add all that to its sci-fi/ fantasy setting, classically simple storyline ("Pocahontas in space", indeed) and groundbreaking special effects and it isn’t that hard to understand why it has been called "this generation’s Star Wars " . Me, I don’t buy it. Putting aside the fact that calling anything "this generation’s Star Wars" is about as unlikely a claim as calling the latest teenybopper band "this gen...