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Of course the movie was overrated and absurd, as if anyone living today should feel even the tiniest amount of guilt for what happened to Native Americans hundreds of years ago. Heck, when I get those racist forms often published by government agencies asking what ethnicity I identify with, I always select Native American. I'm not native to anywhere else.
That reminds me how I refuse to use the term "African American" to describe black folk. Most black people in the US were not born in Africa, and it doesn't uniquely describe being black anyhow as 15% of people born in Africa are not black.
That said, the movie is most excellent for the high quality entertainment. It was the first 3D movie I had seen in theaters, and the scene where the paralyzed guy goes for a run in the Avatar made me smile for 5 minutes straight.
The movie fails to make any political point at all, or tell a deep story that anyone can identify with, but that doesn't matter in this case. It transports the viewer to another world in a convincing way, and that's good enough.
I'm hoping the Alien prequels start getting good. I feel like there's plenty of story to tell in that universe, and the opening scene to Prometheus was compelling, yet the movie failed to advance the story.
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