Complete and Utter Stupidity.

Rating: 2/10 (27 January 2012)

James Cameron's Avatar is the embodiment of what makes Hollywood bad. While the movie captivates its audience with some stunningly realistic-looking visuals, it lacks in almost everything else. Do not listen to the people who say it was one of the greatest movies ever made. They have very limited intelligence and no sense.
The one good thing I will say about this movie is the special effects. They were very good. But that's really about it. The story and characters that were supposed to fill these stunning landscapes fall short of acceptable.
The story is a painful, recycled, lazy, piece of writing that has ever appeared on the screen. The story follows the exact format of movies like Disney's Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. A man fighting for one side befriends and falls in love with his enemies and ends up fighting for them. Completely unoriginal and unbearably lazy. Cameron, the man who brought us The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss obviously didn't try to come up with something new.
I found the characters to be entirely unlikable. The main character must be mentally challenged, as he is told to sit still when he first goes into his Avatar, and he gets up. They tell him not to walk, and he walks. They tell him not to run, that its dangerous, and he runs. The blue alien lady he falls in love with was not very charming or likable either. She spends most of her time yelling at him in a fake-sounding, broken accent. Everyone else in the movie was so bland that watching a puppet show would have been more engaging.
The emotionally-charged scenes were rather laughable. When the blue couple began to make out in that one scene, I and several people in the audience could not help but laugh at how ridiculous it looked. Whenever a person died, or when the blue aliens were being attacked, I felt no sympathy for them, and no thrill at the action. Which leads me to my next complaint: The ending action sequence was unbearably long. I actually drifted off in the middle of it, because I do longer cared who was fighting who, and I couldn't help but wonder, "When is this stupid movie going to be over?!" SPOILER: And why did the main antagonist take so long to die? According to the rational laws of science, he should have died from the FIRST arrow in his heart. Instead, he gets shot in the heart twice, and yet manages to stumble around for about ten minutes more before finally collapsing. END OF SPOILER.
One more thing, the whole thing about the blue aliens being able to "connect" with nature using the tentacles in their hair? Did anyone else find that a bit disturbing? The only aspect of this movie that had real effort put into it were the special effects. Hollywood needs to learn a lesson here: that special effects alone don't make a movie. They make a very elaborate slide show. All the key components for a good movie were missing from Avatar: an original, well-written story, meaningful emotional connection with the characters, and an overall engaging, and satisfying experience. Avatar fails to deliver in many ways. I am only glad that this atrocious film didn't win the Best Picture Academy Award. The future of movies looks bleak, if films like this are praised as being something of an artistic achievement.