Waste of special effects

Rating: 1/10 (5 May 2010)

Avatar is my reason for joining IMDb. I simply can't grasp how such a piece of crap can get an 8,4 rating. Here's why:

It is the most un-imaginable blockbuster sci-fi movie I have seen in years. The aliens look like blue humans with tails, human facial expressions and the same genitals covered in the same way. Why would creatures who live in harmony with nature wear clothes? And if prudish Hollywood does not want to show a single nipple, then don't give those non-mammal aliens human genitals to begin with!

All the animals resemble earths' wildlife, just blue and bigger with an extra leg here or there.

Rocks float in the air with waterfalls on them, no explanation given.

So mankind has the means for space travel, but still uses machine guns and manned vehicles? Helicopters instead of drones? Even the war in Iraq is fought with way more advanced weapons. Avatar reminded me of starship troopers, but that movie was meant as a parody.

Do people with disabilities still use wheel chairs in the distant future? I would hope not.

Thanks for the fact that I saw the movie in Spanish, I missed most of the environmental message. Still the message was so forced into the movie I could not watch it without growling here or there. Is it so hard to make a non-political movie?

How come all evil humans are played by white people? Kind of racist I would say.

And of course the words used: Planet Pandora, Unobtanium, naive Na'Vi, so original.

Then comes the story line, as mentioned before, an exact copy of Pocahontas and Dances With Wolves though more racist. It was more predictable than missing in action 2 and less satisfactory. Or as Will Heaven wrote in the telegraph: "the ethnic Na'vi, the film suggests, need the white man to save them because, as a less developed race, they lack the intelligence and fortitude to overcome their adversaries by themselves," he writes. "'Avatar' is artistic evidence of the ugly mindset which underlies so much of Left-wing thinking today: the belief that only the superior Western liberal is fit to lead the world into a better future."

The movie is so filled with action-movie clichés I can't begin to name them. Of course you can't make a movie without using clichés, but Avatar is a 3-hour cliché chain.

So glad I didn't see this in the cinema.