Am I the only one failing to see why this is revolutionary?

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2009)

I have to say, it hurts me to see this movie so high in the top 100, higher than The Matrix, 2001, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and many many other movies that actually had something new to offer other than special effects.
Now I can understand why people are blown away by the special effects in this movie. Everything looks just great, there has been a lot of attention to detail, and the 3D is not the annoying in-your-face kind of 3D that some other movies have. It's more of a subtle kind of 3D, enough to have its effect, but not constantly screaming "LOOK, I'M A 3D MOVIE!!"
Sadly, this is the only subtle thing about the movie. Cameron has a message for us, one that is very important, and it had better be clear, otherwise we might misunderstand. The message is this: humans are evil. And by god, let's use every single cliché we can think of to make this as clear as possible. We have a bunch of evil scientists who care about nothing but money, another scientist who tries to convince them that they are wrong but no one listens to, a soldier who is sent to learn the unfamiliar and oh-so non-human species from the inside to provide information to the evil scientists but becomes attached to them, and the list goes on.
Let's discuss the script some more. The main character is Jake Sully, a marine who is in a wheelchair but he wants to go to Pandora anyway and gets permission because... well because this is Hollywood, and we need our main character to be an outcast. His twin brother, who "was always the scientist" just died (something that doesn't seem to bother him much) and he now has to take his place to use an Avatar body to explore Pandora, regardless that he has no experience whatsoever, because he is the only one with the same DNA. By all means let us not have a main character who actually knows what the hell he's doing. Evil Colonel Quaritch blackmails him into becoming his personal spy, saying he'll make sure Jake gets his legs back if he provides him with a lot of information about the oh-so non-human people on Pandora. Jake gets lost in the forest on his first day and ends up with one of the blue creatures, Neytiri, who appears to hate him but takes him to their home anyway. Now this couldn't possibly lead to a romance, could it? The blue people (I forgot what they are called, but they're so similar to humans that you may as well call them people) normally hate the Sky People, as they call the humans (and yet they all go to some school one of the scientists made to learn English - how does that work anyway? There are some humans who speak their language, and some of them speak English, but how did they learn this providing that they are from other planets and the blue ones don't want to have anything to do with the white ones?) but they are willing to accept Jake to be taught their ways by Neytiri, so that he can become one of them. He sees this as a great opportunity to gain information about them to tell the Evil Colonel. Once again, I wonder what this could lead to.
One of the most annoying things about the movie is the main character himself, Jake. He has this extremely irritating "oh, look, I don't know anything about their culture, so why don't I make this as clear as possible instead of shutting up and trying to understand them?" attitude, along with zero personality. In fact, if you expect any of the characters to have any personality at all, you'd better drop that expectation right here and now. Stereotypes all the way.
The sad thing is that James Cameron isn't just out to make money. This ain't Michael Bay. Cameron is a man with a huge passion for film. He would sell his soul if that was the only way he could keep making films and I respect him for that. The only problem is that, beyond the looks, he's just not good at it. Cameron, by all means keep making films, but please, just get someone else to write the script in the future.