Utterly Pedictable

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2010)

The fact that this film is doing so well and is receiving so many adoring reviews is sad. It clearly demonstrates the banality that has seemingly permeated global culture. The story of Avatar, from structure and dialogue, to character development, is amazingly inept and shockingly predictable. It is replete with cliché, lack of creativity, heavy-handed misinformed propaganda, and blatant stereotypes catering to the most unsophisticated of intellects. If you walk away from this film feeling as if it actually put forth meaningful allegorical commentary on matters political, sociological, ecological, or historical of any kind, then you are a simple, naive idiot or have the intellect of a pre adolescent child.
For an example of a much more sophisticated approach to relevant social commentary you'd be better advised to watch District 9.
I know this all sounds rather harsh. Deal with it because I speak the truth. Yes, this film will generate a sequel or two and studios will throw a ton of money at attempts to capitalize on its success by ripping it off. After all, Avatar itself is a blatant rip-off of previous films; most apparent, Dances With Wolves. In fact, a quick reference to Dances With Wolves will summarize about 50% of the story. The other 50% is comprised of misguided stereotypes of capitalism, a military that simply serves as a means of advancing capitalism at the expense of the indigenous cultures, western imperialism, and ridiculous new age noble savage nonsense.
However, the real travesty of this horrible film is that, at no time, was I ever surprised while watching it. There was not one plot point, twist, character action/evolution, etc, that I didn't see coming a mile away. The story, from beginning to end, was utterly predictable.