Good Movie Bad Plot

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2009)

Great movie, but I did not like the "save the world" plot theme. I think the movie would have been more exciting if they explored the opportunities of the moon. In other words have more of a sciency, imaginative, learning about new things and helping the indigenous life understand more of the science of there world plot. The humans are bad evil killing things that don't care about anything but them selves and money theme that the movie portrays I thought was a poor story to film. Not that the movie wasn't good or exciting, i'm just board with the old recycled plots and was hoping for something new and unexpected.
For a $300,000,000 film I expected the CGI to be flawless, which in most cases it was. However I noticed that in some cases when characters are walking on or touching something in the CGI scenery that the movement was not fluid or that they had a floating aspect about them. This was not a major flaw but is noticeable.
The Story line (I think) could have been expanded to include the different environments the moon had. They briefly showed the plains, Ocean, etc. but why couldn't the humans find somewhere else to mine, have other outposts on the moon or even use different mining methods (this is in the future and they have worse methods then we do now). Now not to be picky but how many animals are on Pandora? I counted 6 including the Na'vi now this may be all that was needed to film but your stationed in a rainforest and there are ONLY 7 animals, where are the food chains the disease and over population? Another thing that I question is that all of the creatures don't have any form of feathers or hair (if you don't count the Na'vi) none of them. Why I ask, was it to hard to animate or is there no need in there environment. If yes then briefly explain why. All I'm asking is for a unique plot and realistic natural environments and a broader view of the whole of Pandora as James Cameron sees it.
The things that amazed me were the graphics. I mean wow never saw anything like it ever. The spaceship surprised me, usually you see some sleek sexy futuristic space vehicle in sci-fi but this was down to earth in every aspect of realism. The story development was well done as well as the story telling. And they did a superb job of explaining the Alien culture, how they lived what was important to them etc. The fact that the moon was a type of brain was a shocking relief of originality. Things that were unexpected and unbelievable and could have been done better were, the knife fight between Jake and a Mech. Somehow this seems to be more for show then for realism. The colonel. Just everything about him the blood lust, hate, survivability, and attitude, too over the top. Hallelujah mountains and there waterfalls could have been more justified.
Overall I thought it was a great movie not excellent but defiantly one of the better ones I've seen. What I'm looking for in a movie is originality and plot twists. This film defiantly has potential, and I would recommend this movie.