Many flaws, Incredible qualities

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2009)

Yes, that's right. I said many flaws, and I didn't say "more qualities" or something like that, and yet I gave this movie 10 out of 10. Don't ask me why, I'm just sure that that's what it deserves.
This movie is my generation's Star Wars. It is the movie we see in the theater (especially if we follow it with IMAX 3d... trust me and don't see Avatar that way for your first time, but see it that way eventually!) and are blown away by not just through sheer spectacle, but more importantly through the incredible immersion that the movie manages to give you.
I'm serious about how important this is. It's a science-fiction action movie with a plot lifted out of many other films (epic classics of film history, but still other films), and yet it manages to immerse you into the setting like those other stories just... didn't. This is the sort of thing that pushes not necessarily all the right buttons, but rather pushes buttons you didn't know you had, causing you to go "wtfomgwowthisisincredibleahhhh!" at many different moments that are actually about a half-and-half mix between action moments and actual scenes of character development and setting exposition.
Okay, so that may be over some peoples' heads. Just let it suffice for me to say that you must see this movie unless you are prone to motion sickness or annoyance from loud noises, as well as if you have to leave the theater at any point in a 2-1/2 hour time period, because the movie is really that important to see the whole way through, with proper sound, and on a proper screen.
Eventually, Avatar will be sent to the tiny screens and the tinny speakers of our multiplexes and then our homes. Seriously, that is a shame because this movie is worth seeing just for the spectacle, even with all the flaws and deeper qualities (no I don't mean the moralistic messages, those are so obvious they're almost self-defeating).
Enough of my yapping, get out there and see this movie, because James Cameron and the rest of the crew (who I'm intentionally going to sit through the credits for next time, with the great job they did) deserve your money infinitely more than the makers of most of the blockbusters or tearjerkers or romances of this year. Seriously, they did a good job.