Most overrated movie of the last century

Rating: 2/10 (8 November 2010)

Okay so let's see... There's aliens...and humans can make avatars to look like those aliens...go into their world...explore it...guy falls in love with alien chick...big fight about the 'taboo'-ness of it...typical climatic battle. OHMYGOSH THIS MOVIE IS LAHK SO ORIGINAL /sarcasm
The only thing good about the movie is the graphics. Nothing else made any sense. I must have dozed off at least 3 times during the length of the movie. Why this movie didn't work for me is that it had no rhyme or reason. Perhaps if there was some underlying plot, some suspense, or at least some (detailed) scientific explanation for the avatars and the existence of the aliens, the movie would have been much better. But all we're shown is that "So here's this planet and these are the inhabitants. This a capsule, you sit in it and then you look like the inhabitants. Voila! Magic!"
AND THEN. The whole cliché taboo love story. So there was no human girl that gave Sam Worthington's character a hard-on, just some gigantic alien...thing (saw this coming). Zoe Saldana's character's family had qualms about it (saw this coming). The Colonel is actually evil who wants to take over this planet (saw this coming, too!). Sam Worthington's character is ready to defy all rules for love~ (saw this coming). There's a big battle, and the army with out-of-this-world artillery lost to a bunch of 7-foot tall winged people.
-sigh-. What happened to story-movies? I don't mind watching a movie with shaky-cam and graininess as long as the story is engaging. This was boring, repetitive, predictable, cliché and overrated.