Films I don't like: Avatar

James Cameron has never been among my favourite directors: his specialty always was making huge bland special effects movies that do extremely well at the box office but leave me feeling cheated out of my money. I should have heeded my best judgment, listened to my doubts, and watched a pirate copy of "Avatar" (by myself). But no, after I had seen the gorgeous "Avatar" trailer I got so tempted that I went to watch the film in a movie theatre, and even more – I dragged my family with me. The result is simple – we lost 20 pounds that we will never get back. My daughter spent the whole movie nagging me continuously "when is this going to end" and Mr. Alexander stoically suffered through it summarizing our feelings "I have never seen such nonsense".

- To start with, the movie plagiarises blatantly from several 80s science fiction novels, Hollywood films ("Dances with wolves", Disney animation ("Fern Gully"), Japanse anime ("Princess Mononoke") - you name it!

- Special effects could have been quite good in 2D but we watched the film in 3D where quite few elements looked blurry and out of focus.

- The story and dialogue were both naïve and patronising.

- The ending was most predictable.

- And what about the poor race of blue folk of Navi? A big white man came and rescued them out of their difficulties! They could have never done it by themselves!

- And what about poor disabled Jake Sully? He had to be rescued out of his own body into a blue pseudo-body! Because, I guess, he wasn't "whole"?