The buzz surrounding the movie AVATAR, seems unaware that Jar-Jar Binks debuted on screens a decade ago. When George Lucas went down this same path, he was championed as revolutionary in the year 1999. Now in 2009, using digital capture is no longer new nor ground-breaking. Hence my confusion over why exactly James Cameron is being lauded solely for embracing digital production?

Cameron boasted on 60 Minutes recently of his unprecedented achievement in creating everything, “every character, every blade of grass, every cloud…” using digital effects. Yet this has been done before. It’s called a “cartoon.” Bewildering then, that the boomer media didn’t go into overdrive applauding Shrek 3.

On that note, enjoy this Thanksgiving themed parody of CGI from Tim and Eric, that’s on par with the above titles and says all that’s necessary to say.

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