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I was completely underwhelmed by this movie. It is long on EFFECTS. That part of the movie is truely eye-popping. The meticulously drawn and colored world of the planet Pandora is exceptionally gorgeous. We see far too much of it over the 160 minutes of the movie, but it is beautiful. The movie was four years in the making. The screenplay could have benefited from more attention over that period of time. It is incredibly weak on two fronts: the overall plot and the dialogue itself. There is nothing new here. In fact, it is kind of cartoonish in many ways. The military guys are as two dimensional as 'Small Soldiers' and the avatars are equally uninteresting, think 'Dances with Wolves'. It is a tremendous example of what can be done with visual effects, but pretty underimpressive in all other aspects of film making. What, besides revenue stream, qualified this for a Best Picture Oscar nomination?