I have no clue what it is, but this new Avatar film from James Cameron is just not capturing my interest in the least.

Perhaps it is the fact that Cameron, director of Titanic, has been working on it for nearly 10 years, or maybe it is the fact I think he is horribly over rated as a director, but something just isn’t clicking with me.  There was a day that I should have been bouncing off the walls for this new trailer, and instead I find myself going, “eh”.

I think if I was to nail it down to anything is that I am simply growing fatigued of CGI fests.  No matter how advanced the systems get, certain things still don’t look life like.  Sure the Na’vi are supposed to look alien, and they do, but at the base level they still look like a bunch of really pretty computer pixels.  When you add up the over the top environment of the planet, the rubbery look of the aliens, and I just walk away from this without feeling any emotional weight, any sense of true peril or threat … in short, I’m bored.

Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but for now judge for yourself by watching the new 3 and 1/2 minute trailer below.