I'm assuming since the Avatar's are merely lifeless objects which requires a mind to control, they can not perish? Becoz Norm's avatar got shot, he got "disconnected" but at the end his avatar was still standing there watching the humans.

Totally made me feel like a kid again. The moment they landed in Pandora, it felt like the moment I was sucked into Jurassic Park.

I'm with kobe on this. I felt that the dialogue wasn't that inspiring to begin with and the best lines were probably those spoken in the Na'vi language (the subtitles were in Malay though). Lines like "let's dance" and "I figured he wouldn't look up" had me cringing.

There were a few scenes which had me licking at my lips and on the edge of my seat like the one where Sully was chased by that ruthless 'panther' like creature, when he wanted to capture his Irkhan (his flying mount) and that final battle with Quaritch. But yeah, the one that stands out would be the morning after Sully and Neytiri 'mated' (how was it done anyways? Did they connect their 'usb's? Thx to the Malaysian censors and their disregard for animated porn, we're left with our own imaginations).

The storyline wasn't brilliant, certainly not original in any way. It had a little of Dances with the Wolves, Pocahontas, Ferngully and The Last Samurai, but what it succeeded in was creating a beautiful world and giving the characters meaning and substance. You wanted Neytiri to plant another arrow down Quaritch's throat so bad. You wanted the Na'vi ppl to accept Sully becoz you felt for him. You wept in your heart when the tree was brought down. You whooped in joy when Eywa answered and the Pandora inhabitants rallied to bring down the greedy humans.

Well, the premise of District 9 was definitely far more original than what we have in Avatar, and the delivery could've been better, but this is a movie working at about 10% of Avatar's budget and from a relative newbie director in comparison to the god that is Cameron. D9 pips it for me becoz with the limited amount of money it had to work around, it surpassed all expectations and I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. The main actor, a relative unknown, had more acting chops than Worthington! Avatar is right up there, behind D9 and above Star Trek for me, but the fact that it cost a small country's GDP and then some, the expectations were massive, and sad to say, its not even Cameron's best film.

A signature change is due then.

Never explained what that unobtanium was capable of which made it so valuable.

So as paying cinema-goers we're not allowed to have an opinion?

A nude portrait of Neytiri?