So Avatar... Does anyone want to explain the great appeal to me? Over a billion in the box office, shows selling out months after it's release, people wanting to be like the blue kitty people who live in a fantasy version of the East Coast pre-Columbus. I mean, yeah I saw it. Encourage to spend the extra $6 to see it in IMAX 3-D, which it was not worth.

It was an ok movie. However, it's a plot that has been revisited hundreds of time in theaters, and countless more on Hallmark movies about settling the West. What made this one so special? "James Cameron makes you feel like you're really in Pandora!" No, not really the visuals again were okay. Certainly nothing special in this day and age, when anyone with a Macbook Pro can start making decent flash animations. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the graphics were in anyway bad, some scenes were shot very well and to some I'm fully aware that the elaborately detailed backgrounds were breath taking. But the focus of the camera, the "Navi" were less than stellar. The 3-D effects were barely noticeable toward the end of the movie, were it not for floating tree jellyfish and "Scorpion" debris I wouldn't have acknowledged it at all.

I have a lot of beefs with this movie being as popular as it is, and I certainly have a problem with it receiving the acclaim that it has in both the general public and among the Hollywood crowd. However, if anyone wants to explain the reason that this one is different other than because James Cameron managed to yet again sneak breasts into a PG-13 movie, I am more than willing to listen to any and all arguments about what makes this movie so "spectacular". And if you say because the "Navi" are way cooler than people, or because "Neytiri" or "Jake Sully" are "hot", your argument is invalid.