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Who is "blaming" anything? The movie bored me. When I find a movie boring, the usual culprit is the plot and the characters.
There's a difference between a familiar, engaging plot and a familiar, boring plot. I didn't need Avatar's plot to be revolutionary. I agree that with $500M riding on this movie between production costs, doing something crazy and avant garde would be an unnecessary risk. Remaking Pocahontas+Dances with Wolves+Ferngully was, in my opinion, trite, lazy and boring.
I am familiar with a lot of great science fiction literature and movies, so I haven't the first idea what you mean when you say I'd get it if only I knew something about the genre. As I've said, Avatar is a visual spectacle that ought to be enjoyed on the biggest and most expensive screen you can find. I didn't find the story interesting or compelling. Obviously, some people did, which is fine. I don't understand what there is to like about the plot, but the plot is adamantly what I did not like about the movie.
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