the kids must have loved it...

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2010)

Well there is a lot to say about Avatar. When I first hear about it.. well since then I expected that I will see some cool SF movie with an outstanding story and excellent characters.. but.. well the movie started and the movie ended and I still don't know anything about the scenario and the world Avatar tried to illustrate. There were huge gaps in the story.. everything jumped from an action to another with no apparent reason.
We don't know what they do with unobtanium (who came up with this name anyhow?.. lack of imagination).. they don't even seem to care since they are ready to blow everything up around it. Why did they choose avatars to relate with the Na'vi instead of just going there themselves? How come they are still using wheelchairs, and why they use a heavy transport ship to carry the bomb on pellets.. after all, the rockets from the helicopters obviously worked on the big tree, why not on the glowing one as well? Why would they commit everything in one big push ? Then for the world.. How come you can find on Pandora only like 5 species of animals and some flying glowing seeds. I mean if they bothered to show the nature so much.. you'd expect..i dunno .. a bug? some rodents? flying insects?.. but no.. there's a panther, a bigger panther with another pair of legs, a triceratops, a big strange bird, and an even bigger strange bird... and the horse.. and they are all ridable.
Why would you build separately a big gun for the big robot instead of attaching it to the robot?.. maybe then they wouldn't have to build a big knife for the robot to fight with when he looses the gun. The reason for this is that the whole world was inspired from video games. I think Cameron kidnapped a few koreans for this movie.. Everything from floating mountains, ridable big birds, avatars, those robots driven by humans.. everything looks very similar to things from recent video games (if you're a gamer this is very obvious). I think Cameron spent the last 15 years playing video games and this is what he came up with.
Characters - very boring, plain characters.. always speaking in clichés. I don't think any character from this movie will be long remembered. I barely remembered a couple at the end of the movie. The actors also didn't perform that well.
Now to be honest it's not as bad that it should get 1 out of 10.. but when I saw that many others rated it 10/10.. I couldn't think anything else than give the lowest rating to bring it down a bit. It's a fair 4/10.. has good graphics, pleasant to watch. So if you're not looking for a mind experience, but just an eye experience .. Avatar is great for you.
PS: they should be happy they got 3 Oscars.. each at a cost of 200.000.000$ tho :D