Even the Eye Candy Gets Old

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2010)

I went into Avatar with low expectations, and even those weren't met. Once you get used to the pretty cool 3D and the (still kind of cartoony looking)CGI, you are left with an overlong, uninspired movie that we've all seen countless times before.
The Script was bad even by James Cameron standards. Some of the dialog had me literally rolling my eyes. The politically correct talking points were pounded through the whole movie by a sledgehammer.
Here's what I took away:
White men are evil. America is evil. Corporations are evil. The military is evil. Native people are good, wise, and in tune with nature. It's wrong to displace people for something underneath them. Cutting down a tree will be someone's 9/11. Humans are destroying earth. War is wrong (except apparently when evil Americans are getting beaten). All that, plus a headache from the glasses.
After watching Avatar, I saw Up on Blu-Ray. It was touching, entertaining, and had an environmentally friendly message delivered with subtlety. Imagine that!