Fantastic movie! Best it could have been.

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2009)

James Cameron has astounded me. Avatar is a huge movie in almost every sense of the term. The technology that this movie represents is impressive, everything that went into it was well thought out, and the world that this movie builds is marvelous. Marvelous isn't a word I like to use a lot, I like to keep the big words in reserve for things that really deserve and boy howdy does Avatar ever deserve it. I literally cannot say enough positive things about this piece of cinema.
Now before I get ahead of myself, I won't say it's perfect. The storyline is obviously simple. Everyone and their auntie has already made the connection to Dances with Wolves, but it is startlingly similar. The acting is completely par for the course, but mostly that's because they weren't given very many important lines to work with. There aren't many character driven scenes at all, and you know what? All of that is completely fine. It doesn't matter that the story is simple, it doesn't matter that the characters have been seen before, it doesn't matter at all because that wasn't the goal of this film. This set out to move us with the world of Pandora, and the setting is more than ample to truly move your emotions in every way needed for a truly wonderful movie.
All in all, you can probably tell this is an immensely positive review. I think James Cameron was completely successful in every goal he set out with in this movie. It is entertaining, exciting, and managed to move and sway my emotions every way he wanted. I cannot recommend seeing this movie enough, simply to appreciate the cinematography and world that this film creates. I give it a completely honest 10/10, as I don't think there was anything that could have made me enjoy it more. It's as good as a movie gets, and I pray it makes enough money to encourage humanity to take a second visit to the world of Pandora, so that we can see where else that wonderful world can take us.
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