This movie is plain stupid!

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2010)

There are so many things wrong with this movie I don't even know where to begin. I know it's been months since the release but I have to get this off my chest. To refresh my memories I fast-forwarded the movie in HD and... what an overrated piece of crap. The negative reviews are right - exclude the CGI and you're left with nothing. On the same note the CGI is not even that great. They've spent $500 million on this but guess what, the CG characters still look fake. Hell even the real ones look fake. I've seen more believable CG characters: I Robot, District 9, Watchmen, King Kong... Anyways, let me try to break this down:
1. First of all let's take a look at the story. We all know what it is so I'm not going to summarize it. Cameron had 13 years and half a billion dollars at his disposal and yet he FAILED to come up with a decent plot. The story is cheap, predictable, the script is full of clichés of all kinds and it's copied from a bunch of other sources. It's so banal it's not even worth telling your kids as a bedtime story. You're probably thinking "this guy has the nerve to use the word 'story'...?". I admit that IS wrong.
2. Characters. Let's face it, every character in this movie is the very definition of the word stereotype. You've got this slow marine, some geeky scientists, a tough woman lead scientist, a greedy corporate guy, a bad-ass military guy, a fragile forbidden female for the marine to fall for, her father he has to impress... Anything you can think of that isn't original - you've got it here. This literally forces you to not care about any of them throughout the whole movie. I know what you're thinking, you're thinking "this guy has the nerve to use the word 'character'...?".
3. Jake Sully is the main character. Cameron knew his movie was going to suck, so he made the main character double crippled in an attempt to make you care about him. Jake Sully is a slow paraplegic ex-marine. Every sentence he comes up with sounds as if written by a 5 year old. The following scene literally proves my point. OK, so Neytiri, the beautiful and fragile aborigine girl saves Jake from the dangers of the forest and takes him to her tribe, the elders gather and mumble about something, Jake asks "what are they talking about", Neytiri says "my father is deciding whether to kill you". If it were you you'd probably go "oh shoot, they want to kill me, what do I do". But not Jake, he's smarter than that, he's thinking with his dong. What Jake does, he stretches out his hand and says "oh you're the father, nice to meet you sir". You're surrounded by a tribe of savage aliens that openly want to kill you, they don't speak a word of English and this is the best you can come up with to protect your skin? What a retard!
4. Music really sucks. All that new world / ethnic crap... come on!
5. The whole concept of Pandora is ridiculous to say the least. Remember, this is a moon some 6 light years away from Earth, and yet everything is the same. Humans biologically have more things in common with the Naaaaviiii from 6 light years away than with any other creature on Earth. Genius!
5.1. Pandora is a moon and from the shots Cameron shows us we see that the planet it's orbiting is actually very big. The events take place during quite a long period of time and yet we never see a solar eclipse. Makes you wonder how the hell is Pandora orbiting it's planet so that these people over a period of a few years never witness a simple solar eclipse. I'll tell you why it never happens in the movie. If an eclipse took place on Pandora, even if it were for just a few days, no creature would possibly survive on that piece of rock. Cameron couldn't have that in the movie without backing it up with some more sci-fi stuff, but you can't really blame the guy, he had only 13 years to think this through!
5.2. Everything is the same. The creatures, the primate Naaavii, vegetation, landscape, waterfalls, sky etc. Humans can't survive on Pandora without an oxygen mask, meaning the atmosphere has to consist of something else, doesn't this also mean that the sky has to have a different color? Too complicated for the average moviegoer?
5.3. At some point in the movie the oh so bad-ass colonel Quaritch says the low gravity can make your muscles soft, that's why he goes to the gym. And yet, as they move around, as Ribisi is playing golf, you never actually see motion being affected by low gravity. Remember the moon landing footage? See what I mean? Too complicated?
5.4. My final point - Pandora is 6 freaking light years away! Cameron had every opportunity to make it look different, unusual, interesting and awesome. But he didn't. Instead he made it look exactly like Earth. Pandora might as well be some remote place here on Earth.
What a waste of time, at least I'm glad I didn't pay to see this crap. Awful movies are being made all the time, what sickens me is the positive ratings Avatar is getting and all the facts surrounding it, the budget for one. Wouldn't it be more rewarding, for example, to instead feed and clothe the poor with that money. No, let's instead fill our minds with banal garbage. Avatar makes me feel political, and I am never political and I hate this movie for it.