Beautiful images but lame story

Rating: 6/10 (7 December 2010)

Man I don't know where to start the story of Avatar is a long and predictable one. With all its hype of: 3D, imax, and ground breaking C.G.I. there really wasn't anything left for a decent story to be told. I'll be frank. The movie is beautiful to look at (By beautiful I mean the most: realistic, gorgeous, and imaginative visuals I have ever seen!)but is hampered by a very lame and predictable story. By the time your half way through you'll know what the movie will lead toward and probably guess the ending. So what is so bad about this story? Well I should say it isn't bad but one that we all heard somewhere before not to spoil anything but in a nutshell its somewhat like Disneys Pocahontas and Dances with wolves. Just in the future with blue aliens and not as good. Now I know the budget for this movie was a ridiculous amount what with all that groundbreaking CG; I guess one could debate they wanted to be safe and kept the story and script to formula but they could have done a better job I mean Titanic had that a story we all heard but pulled us in with its characters.
This is where Avatar really fails for me as great movie the characters in the story really aren't that interesting or engaging. I didn't find myself caring about what happens to a lot of them. Some dialogue and sequences from the characters come off as more than a little cliché and at times awkward to sit through. My mind started wandering at certain parts because I wasn't immersed with the characters, or because I knew what might happen and was waiting for it to draw out. I don't know what went wrong when James Cameron the guy who wrote and directed Titanic and the first two Terminators but some re-writing in the script would of helped.
Now I probably bashed this movie so much you think I hate it. Not so. As an experience it really is worth checking out for the sheer spectacle of it all. The visuals really are breathtaking to see and being the first movie in 3D (from what I know) that's good I recommend you go to the nearest imax theater to watch if it still is playing, or rent it. As a movie on its own though it really isn't worth collecting unless you want it for being so groundbreaking. The predictable story and bad character writing at times really do bring down what could of been a classic for me anyway. Especially considering its over two and half hours that is a long time to wait and watch something you know is going to happen.