Avatar (2009)

James Cameron’s 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar (2010) beat the director’s own box office record when it outgrossed Titanic (1997) with a worldwide gross of $2,550,560,068, making it the first movie to ever cross the two billion dollar mark. The first flick he directed since the star crossed lovers smash hit, this one cost 237 million dollars, took four years to make, and involved not just crafting cutting edge special effects but hiring a linguist to create a completely original language. Talk about a risky flick for the studios to finance. The film stars Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a paralyzed Marine sent to a distant planet's moon called Pandora, that is being mined by humans for its rare mineral called unobtanium. Jake is going to have his mind transferred into a alien clone, so that he and a few others can win over the trust of the natives and make them easier to exploit. But when Jake falls in love with both a blue-skinned alien babe named Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and the Na'vi way of life in general, he decides he's been fighting on the wrong side and will do anything to stop the humans from destroying Pandora. Why did so many people flock to theaters to see Avatar? The Oscar winning cinematography and special effects? The environmental themes? Whatever made this one such a huge hit, it sure wasn't a heavy dose of sex appeal. All we get in this one is a look at Michelle Rodriguez in a tank top, looking all sorts of busty but also ready to bust a bottle over someone's head. Forget unobtanium. Those funbags are the real thing we'd like to get our hands on. It'd be a whole lot of fun to obtain em! The flick that launched books, video games, a Disney World ride and an absurdly successful sequel, Avatar would've done even better if it had at least one nude scene!