WELL, THIS IS a big one. In fact, they don’t get any bigger.
In 2009, James Cameron returned from a 12-year hiatus, dropping his latest artistic venture into cinemas worldwide. It was called Avatar, and it made an impact, to put it mildly. People went back, and back, and back. Then went back one more time, just for luck. The sci-fi epic grossed $2.8 billion (still more than any film in history), gave some viewers actual withdrawal symptoms (viperwolves are addictive; don’t look at more than three a day), and brought us — in my opinion — one of the greatest movie villains of all time, in the shape of Stephen Lang’s Colonel Miles Quaritch, a man so tough he probably chews gravel, then shoots it.