You walk into a theatre. BOOM. POW. FLASH. VIOLENCE. ROMANCE. OBVIOUS PLOT TWIST. THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER. THE END. You walk out of the theatre and go home. Maybe you'll buy it on DVD or BLU-RAY when it's available, maybe you'll just forget about it and watch another HollyWood movie. Most of you will find the absolute disgust I experienced when I watched James Cameron's Avatar confusing. I had my fingers crossedthrough thetorturous three hours, hoping and praying that the aliens would be wiped out in a well rendered explosion and the humans would win, suck the planet's resources dry and move on in a horribly relevant climax. But alas! I was forcefully spoon-fed a 'happy-ending' in which blue people with sharp sticks and bows route a high-tech military force.

Speaking of which, did I mention that this movie's storyline is terribly similar The Last Samurai's? Replace the samurai and Tom Cruise with taller, bluer, people, and the Meijigovernment with future westerners, and you have the same movie. Don't let me make you think that Avatar is all bad, it has some nice special effects. BOOM. POW. FLASH. There's no substance, however, and nothing to suck you into the movie, except the CG aliens, which are well rendered yet look so ridiculous at the same time. I made me wonder how you can even become emotionally attached to the Navii.

It's depressing really that movies can have a bad plot and an uninteresting premise and get away with it if enough money is shelled into the CG department.