Strictly visual

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2010)

400 Million and no whatsoever bearable story.
I understand, a project of that size may not be a failure. An interesting story is always controversial and disturbing. And thus risky. And that is exactly how the story is. Predictable to the very last second, good and bad neatly sorted out.
Unfortunately the filmmakers added a moralic momentum. Every fairy tale, every archetypal story is simply about good and bad struggling with each other. Just have a look at good old Star Wars.
Avatar is a lot worse, good is obviously American indians, but pretty ecological, and in deep love with gaia. While white American men, members of the military industrial complex, are out there to destroy everything. I am simply too old and by far not dumb enough to buy that crap.
The pictures are brilliant. Especially the 100% computer generated ones. While live action has some difficulties in 3D, CGI is just plain perfect. Even though Pixar is a serious rival in technological excellence, pixar does not have the money to produce almost 3 hrs of highly detailed landscape.
But that is money only! The extremely convincing animation of the alien characters is the most impressive feature in Avatar. In fact, it is the only real new feature. You could have seen everything else in other movies, not that exhaustive though.
Avatar is impressive, a must see. But ultimately it is a mindless piece of film. I would have enjoyed it a lot more without this childish story.