I really wasn't giving critique, I was just giving my half-assed opinion of the movie as I thought of it while typing. If I wanted to put critique in the movie, I would have tried.

I completely take back what I said earlier. Saw it in 3D tonight, and absolutely fell in love with this film.

I will say the CG of the avatars did take some getting used to for me and I didn't like them at first (as I predicted I wouldn't), but after they leave the base and move on I totally dug it. Great film!

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I have had absolutely no interest in this film whatsoever. A coworker is convincing me to see it in IMAX 3D, claiming it'll be a huge piece of crap otherwise. That leads me to believe that the film literally only has the special developed-only-for-this-film 3D going for it and nothing else.

I watched it on a normal theater screen and it was fine....Judging things from other people's opinions isn't a wise thing to do...

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How can they have sex and have it not be R rated? They could only play the sounds if it's PG-13, if they show anything such as breasts or anything else it has to be R or that's illegal Unless the new R is PG-13..?

Its been that way for years now........LOL!

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How can they have sex and have it not be R rated? They could only play the sounds if it's PG-13, if they show anything such as breasts or anything else it has to be R or that's illegal Unless the new R is PG-13..?

Its been that way for years now........LOL!

There is going to be an extended "fun time" scene between Jake and Neytiri on the DVD/Blu Ray release.

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There is going to be an extended "fun time" scene between Jake and Neytiri on the DVD/Blu Ray release.

Which is why I'm only seeing it on DVD.

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That explains it. I wasn't paying too much attention to the movie.

To anyone trying to look at this from a military perspective... All of them are ex-military. They are all the crazy fucks that wanted the massive pay they receive for fighting beings several meters tall. All the aircraft are hot-weather style fighters and I am guessing, the propellers is because of the electromagnetic within the atmosphere. Without instruments, there is no way something like a jet could ever be used around this place and would be impractical to try.

As for everything else, that was corporations, meaning civilians. They are not that smart.

Although I do have to admit, this movie was severely annoying. You have a ****y Command Officer that runs the place, very much on the psychotic side. A wound warrior as we call them, getting the hots for an alien. Then everyone going genocide over some rocks that they are too lazy to extensively search for and just want to go the 'easy' route, by killing hundreds of people trained to kill animals many times the size of our own. I mean... Really? Does that sound smart to you, even with guns?

Saw the movie yesterday. It would have been SO MUCH BETTER with a bad ending. The good ending to the movie makes no sense. They're fighting humans with machine guns and rockets with bombs with beasts... and they win!? It could have had a really great tragic ending, too.

Dude, as mediocre as the story may be, PLEASE put spoiler tags around that or something.

Keep in mind that Cameron is making 2 sequels, so they sort of needed the happy ending.

Really? Hell yeah son. More hot blue chick action.

I have seen the movie, and I have one thing to say "THE 3D ROCKS!". But with that said, that 3D also sold the movie. Take away the 3D, do you really want to see a movie that just has a bunch of more actions scenes and appears to have taken a budget cut for the ending of the movie? I mean seriously, come on... another #$%@ing disney movie ending? The good guys win? WDF! I would have prefered to see the bad guys win, and a sequel that shows them making a comeback.

I do agree that the movie had a good plot and was a wonderful experience overall, but if you take away that 3D, it falls to pieces. Think about it.

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I have seen the movie, and I have one thing to say "THE 3D ROCKS!". But with that said, that 3D also sold the movie. Take away the 3D, do you really want to see a movie that just has a bunch of more actions scenes and appears to have taken a budget cut for the ending of the movie? I mean seriously, come on... another #$%@ing disney movie ending? The good guys win? WDF! I would have prefered to see the bad guys win, and a sequel that shows them making a comeback.

I do agree that the movie had a good plot and was a wonderful experience overall, but if you take away that 3D, it falls to pieces. Think about it.

Sequels.

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Sequels.

I am only trying to prove that the ending was crap, and that the 3D sold the movie. As for how the "sequels" go is out of the scope of what I understand of Avarta. My point still stands whether there is "a sequel" or "many sequels". I would think that most could agree with me (depending on age) that the ending was very poor and uber corny.... The director could have done a much much much better job with the ending.

In order to start the trilogy, it's not like there were many other options. You could kill one of the main characters, but that gives you nothing to work with in part 2. Defeating the invading humans leaves all sorts of possibilities in the future.

I mean yeah, the entire film is a completely predictable cliche, but a damn good predictable cliche.

Have to bump this topic simply because I am disgusted for my species that this is the highest grossing film of all time.

It's like an incredible Science Fiction trilogy got turned into a 75 minute movie, only it took twice that long and there isn't even one fucking book. This movie was filled with more plot holes than anything I've ever seen. It's just despicable, it was utterly predictable and I knew exactly what was going to happen halfway through the movie. The characters are entirely and ridiculously unbelievable, they have no depth, and they have not even the slighest hint of motivation for their actions.

This film basically took "The Matrix," which actually had a legitimate sci-fi plot, mixed it with "Eragon," which had a legitimate fantasy plot (in the book, anyway) and then threw in a bunch of CGI and called it a day. Fucking pathetic, there's really no other way to describe this. I'm used to movies being far sub-par when compared to picking up a novel, but to quote one of the dozens of lines from the script that I'm pretty sure a six year old wrote, "to ever face them again, I was going to have to take it to a whole new level."

If I had to sum up this movie in a single word, it's a 'cinematic'. Pretty and entirely devoid of meaningful substance. Utterly terrible. 1/10 is a gift for looking nice.

I hearby submit the scene where the colonel steps outside with the rifle and pistol, to be nominated as one of the most bad ass cinematic scenes in human history. The colonel stole the movie from start to finish. I just wished it was just him killing innocent blue people the entire time. That would've made it a 10 out of 10 for me

BTW - There's some major pretentious hater-ade going on. People need to relax and stop trying so hard to sound smart. Like I agree with a lot of the critics here, hell I am one, but come on, seriously.