Great special effects, hackneyed story.

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2014)

Well, I saw Avatar when it first came out in late 2009. At the time I was blown away by the special effects -- the inside of the space ship, the environment on the beleaguered planet etc. I did like Sam Worthington as the protagonist, but he didn't have enough to do. The story always left me dissatisfied. It seemed so simplistic and silly -- bad guy military type trying to "conquer" the noble savages on some planet. Noble savages with too many resemblances to old-timey American Indians. How overdone and how unimaginative. In fact, this was in a lot of ways so much like James Cameron's other "epic" film, Titanic, which had one of the stupidest plots of the last 50 years. Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet, 1990's "teens" disguised as 1912 look-alikes who slogged through freezing water for about 100 hours (and then he dies). Arrggh. Avatar was too much like this and and in the end, I just hated this movie. I even read how the people who made this movie were sitting around struggling to cobble together the plot. It shows in how lame it turned out to be.