i am stunned that Avatar is considered anything more than mediocre. the story is plain awful, the plot twists and general story development are generic like going through hackneyed checklists. the fx aren't even that good. that's right, they are not impressive save for motion capture emoting. this thing is a stinker.

why cameron creates a new language and fauna and essentially new alien world spending in excess of 450M is almost as bad as the thin disingenuous save the savages Dances with Wolves nonsense that passes for story. not to mention the other dated elements like weapon and craft design and cheap jokey 1-liners.

both half-baked and overcooked and yet how beautiful would it be to make a similar movie right here in the alien lands of our very own rain forest where we are still cataloging undiscovered fauna and species of wildlife as it all dwindles away at alarming rates, not to mention rapid loss of languages and cultures on daily basis -- ya think 450M would preserve quite a bit of that and maybe more importantly the lungs of our earth at the expense of saving us from middling status quo entertainment, or lack thereof, disguised in shiny throbbing cgi rainbows of cheap Fake.

one thing all of this conclusively confirms is the idiocy of our land. forget art, this flick is just polished blue turds like the crap between most people's ears and the vacuousness of their eyes. i wish i could be positive about this movie, truly..........