its a 300 million dollar piece of crap.
While its dipped in gold and covered in diamonds it is still a piece of sh*t
My biggest problem with Avatar is that EVERY movie is going to be in 3D now, which makes the budget and price (admission) of movies go up.

I had little expectations of this film and it still felt hollow and dragged out to me. The movie running time could have been made shorter. I felt the movie died halfway into the film. But i persevered and watched it to the end. This movie reminded me of the movie "The Last of the Mohican's" and Pocahontas a lot.
Plus the Osprey aircraft style ships looked far too modern day and ordinary considering how far in the future this movie is set in. I think it is set in the 22nd Century. I was not impressed with this movie.I've always been more interested in an excellent storyline than 3D graphics. I thought graphics were quite ordinary. Check out this trailer of the first Final Fantasy movie for CG graphics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnE64DbnUzY
Those graphics in that movie in my opinion are almost as good or as good as the CG in Avatar. Also that movie came out 9 years earlier than avatar. and to say they could not make avatar back then due to lack of graphics technology is nonsense.

Key word here being "kinda". The movie Pocahontas is so loosely based on history that it's almost entirely fictional. Sure, the main characters did exist, but they weren't in love at all, and Pocahontas (not her real name, btw) married another Englishman.
There was no happily ever after either.
You only have to read a letter by John Smith to know why.
To get back on topic, I was also rather surprised by Avatar's reviews. Frankly, it's so clichéed that it's almost laughable. i don't really see the appeal of 3D movies either.

I hope you don't mean colonel badass because i will cut your privates off and feed them to your mother.
He was awesome. best parts of the movie were when he was on screen.
Anyhow:
I liked it. it was good movie. I watched it... (twice btw. in one day. told a friend to go with him then got invited by my gf. on the same day. couldn't say no to either), enjoyed it and then i can forget about it.
Is it overhyped. Like hell it is. but it doesn't mean it is horrible either.
I mean: Returned of the king was much crappier, longer movie than avatar.

It's a love it or hate it movie. I, for one loved it. It's true that the plot is very average and predictable, but James Cameron sneakily hid the substandard plot in a beautifully imagined 3D world. He took a simple plot and made it gorgeous. He took a cookie-cutter story that had been done to death and made people love it again.

Oh, he's my favorite character of the movie, don't get me wrong, but he's still stereotypical, just well designed.

Oh, come on...

'Hold on to your butts..............................................................errrrmm....'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uuPza41Uw

I stand by what i said. hated that movie. too long with crappy ending (not the movie fault but it should be trimmed), predictable and simply boring. 20 minutes of fun when gandalf charges and ghost army but rest? The whole frodo part was utterly boring also I literally facepalmed before bursting in laughter when i saw them lying in the middle of flowing lava without bursting in flames...
Yeah: return of the king was crap. much worse than avatar. 20 or so minutes of good stuff filled with 2 hours of some really bad stuff.
It wasn't matrix revolution of course, I only really wanted to go home after gollums death but it was far from being a great movie.

Its just a remake of Disney's Pocahontas for adults - with falshy graphics.

You are aware that A) it's a fantasy movie, and B) it's a movie adaptation of a book, right?

Speak for yourself. I loved it.

A)fantasy movie or not that made no sense. It is like The Core but that movie was campy on purpose.
B)and that excuse the movie from failing how?
@Cambrey
I do speak for myself. just an opinion :)
so yeah. Avatar was a good movie. not great but neither horrible. There are many more overyhyped movies which are utterly horrible.

I'm just saying that if you complain about things that are depicted in the movie exactly as they are in the book, then you should be complaining about the book instead.
I'll agree that the ending was horrible, but for the opposite reason that you think so. They cut the real ending (the one from the book) out of the movie, thus removing the culmination of the underlying storyline, dealing with the personal growth of the hobbits.
Still, it's not a good book for a modern movie, since it doesn't follow the traditional Hollywood structure of storytelling. Quite a lot of things happen after what would traditionally be the climax of the movie, and people generally don't react too well to other modes of storytelling than they're used to.