Avatar: Why it was Good (To the Haters)

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2010)

Most Avatar haters give as reason that the story is not original.
In my opinion, Avatar's story is not less "original" than LOTR, Star Wars Titanic or many other movies.The fact that the plot was not overly "complex" still doesn't make Avatar a bad movie. In fact we had a blast watching it.
Here is why Avatar is a GOOD movie: James Cameron managed it for the first time to create a believable world and characters based on computer graphics - the first time where such characters actually have (excuse the pun) "character", not like the static/dead computer animated characters we were used from Pixar movies or Disney animations. The CGI characters are like-able, they look incredible real as we have never before seen in ANY CGI movie. Far from "cartoon-ish".
The visuals in Avatar, the colors, the world is nothing short of amazing. The whole movies makes for a good three hours of amazingly good entertainment.
It even has a very simple, but powerful message which is in stark contrast to so many other movies of our time. Hopefully, many people will actually get the message.
Criticizing inconsistencies like "floating mountains" and dissing the movie because of this is absurd. This is the beauty of our imagination, and people like Cameron, Lucas, Spielberg, Tolkien etc. need to be given credit having created such "fictional worlds" - because they enrich our lives.
In regards to criticism that the movie is "bad because it is all CGI and not real actors": It is utterly irrelevant whether it is "real" actors or CGI. I myself remember the time where a feature movie consisting of 100% computer generated characters was totally unthinkable. I remember having a discussion with friends whether CGI characters would ever be "accepted" by the audience. Cameron answered this question without a doubt.
Avatar is an amazing movie.