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survivorjordancontestant wrote:

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I really don't understand anyone who says Avatar is the best film of the year, it's innovation relies solely on the technology. Once you take away all the smoke and mirrors, it's a mediocre white guilt story. There is no point in the entire movie where it was unpredictable, You knew that the main character would fall in love with the aliens, you knew that he was going to betray his race, you knew some of the minor characters were gonna die, you knew that the good guys win at the end. It's not that it's bad, it's boring and the polar opposite of revolutionary, story-wise.

And I don't want to get dirty but the dialogue was horrendous, all the "i See You" bullshit and that laughable debriefing at the beginning. Even the design of the aliens weren't that special. Just alienized dogs and Rhinos, dragons with an extra pair of wings and Horses with an extra pair of legs. It all seems lazy after you've seen Lucas go creature crazy with Star Wars. Even the Na'Vi were just classic tribal people complete with tribe chief, female tribe prophet, a tribe princess and angry tribe warrior who butts heads with main character. That entire montage of Jake learning the ways of the Na'Vi could've been replaced by "Colors of the Wind" and it would have been the same (which mind you, that song is a billion times better than that "My Heart Will Go On" rip off) with those jellyfish things replacing Pocahontas' floating leaves. In terms of sci-fi fantasy, we've seen better. Even this year, if you want a good sci-fi story about a man thrust into an alien lifestyle, watch District 9 instead. At least in that movie the aliens really were aliens.