I tried to like it, I really did.....

Rating: 4/10 (14 July 2010)

*sigh* I am not going to survive the endless hoard of fans who defend this Sci-Fi. I was going to avoid this film originally, but my friends got me to. so I found it and gave it a try. I tried to like it, I tried to FORCE myself to like this, but the bull crap plot, the liberal messaging, and the stupid characters really didn't do it for me.
First off, yes, Pandora looks stunning. Its really beautiful. But special effects does not make a good film, not by a long shot. My biggest grip with Avatar was it's story. To those who say that this film has an original story, that is a bold faced lie. I am sorry but this story has been done. It has Disney's Pochahontas, Dances with Wolves, and hell even Fearngully's plot lines littered all over the place, and when left to what little originality there is, the film just bored the hell out of me.
My next grip are all the democratic, lefty liberal messaging, you know; "America bad" "Natives good" or how about all the subliminal spitting in the face of our soldiers anyone? This film was basically an uppercut to our soldiers who returned from Vietnam. Its been said by a few and I agree.
The characters are not much better. Most of them are cardboard cut outs with little personality. And all of them are annoying, from the "Oh so perfect Navi" to the cliché American villain who wants to mine the moon of Pandora for "Unobtainium". The Navi think there perfect, there full of themselves and claim that all humans are evil. while the cliché villains claim that there is no intelligent life form on Pandora. I was expecting the humans to leap out and start singing "Savages".
If you like Avatar, fine, don't accuse me of lacking imagination or creativity because that is just plain rude. I am part of a minority I understand, with that being said I dub Avatar by James Cameron the most overrated film I have ever seen.