# Avatar was a bad movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-was-a-bad-movie/531738 "2010-03-08T16:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-was-a-bad-movie/531738/39 "2010-03-08T19:36:25Z")
I enjoyed the hell out of _Avatar_. It was a fun two-and-a-half hours, and my wife and i actually contemplated shelling out another $16.50 each to see it on IMAX a second time. i also thought it was an incredibly awful movie. Ham-fisted allegory, embarrassingly bad dialog, caricatures for characters, mediocre acting, and a storyline as banal as laundry day and as predictable as sunrise. It had everything and nothing. It was a triumph of technology and visuals, and a disaster in every other respect. I think its long-term significance will be simply as a vehicle for introducing audiences to the new technology\*; in the future, much better film-makers than James Cameron will combine that technology properly with the other aspects of film-making to produce well-rounded, interesting, and truly great movies. - And also the oodles of money it made. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-was-a-bad-movie/531738)._