It's a sad day when I see so many people actively cheering for a movie based on little more than visual niceties.
The Hurt Locker was 100 times the movie that Avatar is. Hell, even UP was more engaging to me just for the first 10 minutes of the film. Avatar wasn't even the best sci-fi movie of the year... Star Trek was more fun and District 9 was more intelligent and interesting.
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