good one! but let's talk about unoriginal then! you asked for it!

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2010)

it's Cameron's avatar. awesome looking sci-fi action with a good enough story to keep your jaw from closing up due to the visuals. no originality? yeah, well give me a f**king break people. tell me a story that hasn't been told yet! TELL ME A STORY ELEMENT THAT HASN'T BEEN PUT ON THE SCREEN YET! mental states, or space-time puzzles, or character types, or atmospheres, or social critiques, or just NAME IT! what the hell hasn't been told yet??! THIS IS A SCI-FI MOVIE DUMBNUTS! you know it is a sci-fi movie! what do you want? a Shakespeare? all you idiots who pull down excellent movies like this... you just don't know where to release all your personal negative feelings about yourselves. and/or you think that if you scold a huge title like Avatar - like professional critics do... that makes you cool, cuz you know it's been told before in some previous and rather old titles, and people will see how well-versed you are.
because this is what you naysayers do. know what? get a budget like Cameron got! then make a movie half as awesome as this! then maybe i'll give a darn about what you write in your critics. The amount of work put into this movie didn't only show off in the CGI. The pacing, the way the story was told, the characters... all clichés? yeah, well... did you for one second think about standing up and leaving the room? yeah? good for you... sci-fi's are not made for your kind then. did you not? and still scold the movie? seriously guys make something better or deeper.
character development is best possible where the environment doesn't need any special explanations. in that case the movie can focus on the characters. this movie had a whole alien planet with an alien race and with a set political situation. okay it didn't have the best ever character development, but it was pretty damn decent as it was.
same goes for predictability. you can of course guess what will happen to the good guys, because the movie's atmosphere tells you that it's not gonna have a sad ending. but then in this one you have lots of them fall, and until their last breath you want them to survive. that means it keeps you interested on a personal level.
why have such a long movie? because it aims to tell as much as possible... for those that are interested in the political situation, for those that are interested in the characters, for those that are interested in the new alien world and it's fauna. lot of material in there! hell there's even a new language... unimaginative, huh? you can relate to native Americans? you can relate to lots of things, middle eastern - USA political involvement for one. know what? go live there, get wed and get tossed around like trash for being a labeled a potential enemy of your own country. have fun! unoriginal, yeah? really guys. the originality only resides in how you tell a story - not what you tell - for all has been told before. ALL! it's the way you tell it that makes a difference by now. could have been told better? write a script, have a beer with Cameron and help him make something better. even better... make your own movie! i would just smack all you naysayers up like little kids, seriously...
this one is a fun movie, even if it was only 2d. you just don't know what to pay attention to, because you are enticed by the stunning visuals all along and your limited brain capacities don't know which way they should limit themselves. for instance... arrows not breaking the glass to show na'vi desperation, then they suddenly do break the glass to show na'vi heroism? let's look at that... damn huge arrow making a crack on the windshield because the na'vi was standing on the ground, shooting upwards. final battle scene - na'vi flying in opposite direction as the human fighter - na'vi lets loose an arrow in a perfectly perpendicular direction to the windshield - arrow gets through... pretty simple concept, no? did you attend your basic physics class in elementary? no? too bad, it's pretty fun stuff, but this way you can't understand the world around you... oh well.
so all in all naysayers are understandable, but are not right. this one was a good movie. not the greatest, but a really, really good one. an enjoyable one. one i will remember. like the naysayers remember dances with wolves, for it was the first one that told the story well. but you need to appreciate a little more what you see. seeing faults of things... it's something everyone can do. even i can. you think i didn't see the faults in this movie? well i did. i'm just not stuck up enough to mention them. for all in all this movie was cool.