disolitude on 26 August 2010
The thing you have to consider about Avatar's story is that the script was finished in 1999.
There are copies of the script on the itnernet from back then and the only thing that changed is the fact that people of Pandora were supposed to be purple, but became blue in the movie.
It took them 10 years to develop the technology to shoot the movie. While the story telling does seem a bit dated today, it was pretty much top shelf for when they wrote the movie.
