Avatar....Where's Kevin Costner the one time you actually need him???

I have been reading internet posts about Avatar for a few years now.
People drooling over every little bit of news or screen shot or old script.
10 years.....3D......James Cameron...... blah blah blah blah
I never thought twice about it. I figured if it was as ground breaking as everyone is claiming it will be, I'll see it when it comes out and be the judge of it.

Well it came out.

People weren't going bananas like an opening of Star Wars or Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. No real sleeping outside. No one painting themselves blue.
*With the exception of a select group of socially retarded super geeks
I didn't even know there were blue people in the movie til I saw this photo hahahaha
What a couple of jackasses.
What is the thought process here??
Okay.... you won some kind of contest and you get to see Avatar on opening night....
PLUS.... we'll give you these Avatar tshirts....
PLUSSSSS..... you get to meet James Cameron!
What's the first thing you do????
Run to the costume store and buy blue face paint!!!! DUH!!!!!

Anyway....
"People" (protect the innocent) have been raving about Avatar. Even making multiple trips to the theatre to see it over and over again.
I felt the pressure. I knew that if a movie had people reacting that way, it had to be something special.
Carrie and I broke out my secret stash of Capri Suns and peanut butter candy, suited up with our war goggles, and prepared ourselves for a trip to some kind of world that had blue people in it. hahah
After 2.5 hours of focusing and refocusing my eyes.... it was over.
My immediate reaction was that they just spent 10 years and millions and millions of dollars trying to solve one simple, cine-math-matics (umm... did I just invent a word?!? I think I did. Please everyone note that one Dec 22nd at 8:30pm Eastern Time, I, Justin Kramer, have coined the term, cinemathmatics) problem:
What do you get when you take......
Dances With Wolves and add it to.....
Fern Gully and throw in 3D for added measure?????
The answer was simple....


Considering Dances With Wolves and Fern Gully are both semi-classic American films (at least in my mind), Avatar had to sit somewhere between 3 and 3.5 (out of 5) stars.

The visual effects.... undeniable.
The shots..... incredible.
The story...... been told a bajillion times.

Am I glad that I saw it?
Absolutely.
Will I run out and see it again?
Nope.
Do I wish that Kevin Costner was the bad guy in Avatar?
Yes.
Do I wish Robin Williams was the voice of Sully?
Ehhhh..... I'll go with yes just for the sake of argument.