One of my favourites. Truly wonderful!

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2014)

I can't believe I haven't rated this movie yet! It is one of my all-time favourite movies! - "Why?" - "Why not?"
It has brilliant actors. It looks gorgeous. It has superb music. It has a well-developed world building with its own fauna and flora. It displays an interesting culture with an actual credible foreign language. It has a beautiful spiritual theme. It has a great humorous script with a structured outline and perfect pacing. ...
Okay, there's the originality issue. Well, I think my definition of originality is somewhat different than "Something that has never been done before". Because it's very hard to claim that for anything. Every idea is based on something, either consciously or subconsciously. I consider the story of The Hunger Games to be a very original one and the writer admitted it was kind of a 'gladiator games meets reality soaps' world. "So what?!" 'Originality' is actually the favourite argument of most hypocrites because it's a very subjective concept you can use in favour of everything you like and to the disadvantage of what you don't like. If you really try, you can find as many arguments to call anything original as you can call it "stolen from X or Y", "A meets Z" or "based on B".
To me, originality is about doing something creative and personal with something, whether it's been done or not. Avatar is more original than a lot of other movies in that respect. So what if it's "Pocahontas in Space" or "the Last Samurai on Pandora". It is a classic but very emotionally powerful story in an original setting with timeless themes.
I've seen this movie in the theatres six times and a seventh time as an extended version. Then I've seen it 'god knows how many times' on DVD. One can hardly call it a bad movie then, if it's even possible to call any movie bad 100% objectively (except for the Room maybe). But if such true piece of cooperative art does not impress anymore than I'm afraid of what still will for future generations... (Oh, right, it's Man of Steel and the Dark Knight...) I definitely found this movie Oscar-worthy although I don't think the Academy is going to give the fantasy genre the respect it deserves any time soon. To me, this was one of the best movies in years. And I think, in the end, if you see the box office results, most people will agree with that.