E Unit

Surprisingly, the movie doesn't hold up very well for me. I thought it would when I first saw it. First time in IMAX 3D, I was all "Ooh...ahh", but even then I didn't think the story was very strong. Technical greatness as it is, I don't care for this movie at all. Nice eye candy to watch in 3D, but that's it. Whenever I throw this in the player, I usually skip to the wow factor stuff, but I doubt I'll ever watch all the way through again. If I were to rate Cameron's movies, this will be sitting somewhere near the bottom.

Troy Stiffler

Great movie. But still flawed. I wasn't aboard to feel the devastation while the tree was being attacked. Nor did I totally accept all of the "tribal" stuff. Love the exposition stuff (I melt for logical sci-fi technology), the action, the story (though largely borrowed).

uberjoe

In the theater it was amazing. Now, when it pops up on television, it can barely hold my interest for more than a few minutes. I went with a "no" vote.

RichC2

So you did like it, but it has no replay value, so you didn't like it?

Hokeyboy

Cliche-ridden tripe. Nice to look at, but tripe nonetheless.

uberjoe

Away from the giant theater screen and 3D? Yeah. It's just "meh" on my 55in LED.

Imagine a stunningly beautiful woman feeds you a piece of cake, bite by bite. Now that would be a pretty good cake.

Later you have another piece. Only this time there's no beautiful woman. It's just me, alone, sitting on the floor in front of a mirror, eating and crying and calling myself "fattie" over and over. Then I realize it was the experience I loved, not the cake.

Oh God I hate myself.

RichC2

inri222

And IMO the original Terminator is still his best film. A low budget combination of Action/Sci-Fi/Horror with some Noir sprinkled on top.

Why So Blu?

I prefer the director's cut with the extended Earth beginning.

Solid Snake

Yeah. That added something nice. Sadly it's still too long in the theatrical.

rexinnih

Yes. The haters will hate based on similarities to other movies but that would eliminate most of the films out there.

Giantrobo

Yes

It was the first film in years to make me give a shit about 3D thanks to how they handled it. Rather than cheap shot of things coming at you, they gave depth to the Environment.

The story has been told before, which is nothing new in Hollywood. So that didn't bother me.

d2cheer

Yes and I am not ashamed to admit it.

As Oldboy already stated: it was breathtaking in 3D. Simply breathtaking. It most certainly was.

Dr. DVD

I think a lot of people are not looking at the question's wording. The question is "did you like Avatar?" Not "do you like Avatar?" I think if we're talking about how we felt when it was first released, we would get quite few more likes.

Hokeyboy

"Haters"

Trevor

Expected/wanted to love it, but hated it in the theater.

Hated it enough to probably never watch it again.

And I didn't even buy it, which is really saying something.

tommyp007

It was ok. I saw it twice, and have no interest in seeing it again.

RocShemp

Despite the extra length, I felt thee extended cut flowed better than the theatrical cut.

I held of on the 3D release of the theatrical cut in hopes that they re-release the collector's edition with both cuts in 3D and the 7.1 audio mix they promised but never delivered.

dconev

Yes
Spiritually moving, visually daring and emotionally stirring, Avatar is classic storytelling at its very best.

mortalplague

I go to movies for the story not special effects. This story was recycled from everything else and they all did it way better. Was this movie horrible? No not at all. It's mainly because it is so well loved by the majority that makes people like me hate it more than it probably deserves.

Eddie W

Saw it first in 2D & didn't get what all the fuss was about. Saw it in 3D when it FINALLY became available on BD & enjoyed it much, much more. Watching this in 3D is like some kind of fever dream & makes the unoriginality of the plot much more palpatable.

Brack

Ferngully was better?

hanshotfirst1138

McDonalds on a gold plate is still McDonalds, and given how much I hate 3-D and how its largely the reason it's being jammed down our throats now, that doesn't endear me to it. It's a hodgepodge of more cliches than have ever been seen in one place before, a hypocritical message film about the evils of a corporations made by a giant corporation. It borrows left, right and center from Lawrence of Arabia, Ferngully, Dances With Wolves, Princess Mononoke, The Last Samurai, Pocahontas, Nausicaa, and way too many others to count. It's the ultimate expression of the digital X-Box age (Why live in real life when you can have an avatar?), and the consummate post-modern film: you've seen it all before, but never like this!

It is, however, visually stunning, and James Cameron's action choreography is still cool in the age of the aesthetically incomprehensible like Michael Bay. It appears to be a fully realized vision is sheer cinematic terms, the film is put together down to the last frame and is immaculately composed. It's a reminder that cinema might still have places to go, which is all the more frustrating when you consider how backwards-looking it is. It's technology in the service of nothing, a film constructed from the outside in instead of the inside out, not concerned with narrative or thematic coherence. But it does what it says on the tin. As a film which technically pushes the envelope, it's undeniably an impressive achievement, and hopefully someday a more interesting artist will come along and play with Cameron's shiny new toys.

Cameron started as an old-style B-movie exploitation filmmaker from the Corman school. The clearest expression of that is The Terminator. From there on, he basically became Cecil B. DeMille/David O. Selznick, a snake-oil salesman who sold his movies on increasingly huge production budgets and spectacle, and his movies got increasingly bloated, sentimental, and so forth ("I know know why you cry!"). Aliens is right on the cusp, it's still the high watermark for sci-fi action films for a particular demographic, a near nonstop display of high-tech hardware, special effects, and technical virtuosity from the golden age of the genre. Almost all sci-fi action flicks since it feel like they somehow recycle it.

I like this review.

moviefan2k4

I never saw it all the way through, just clips here and there. I did read a lot of reviews, and the whole concept reeks of reincarnation and nature worship to me. So, I avoid it.

DaveyJoe

Can I change my vote? I now love Avatar.