Maria Martinez

Every time we sit down as a family to watch a movie, my mom begs us to play her favorite movie, the so-called masterpiece of the century, Avatar starring Sam Worthington. The movie Avatar is set in the year 2154, and it involves a mission by the U. S. Armed Forces to a moon in orbit around a massive star. This new world, Pandora, consists of a rich source of a mineral Earth desperately needs, so we do what we know best and try to move into the planet and take the resources we need, but there's a problem and that is that there's Na’vi, or infamously known as the blue humans, living in Pandora, plus the atmosphere is toxic for humans. But that is resolved by using clones of the Na’vi who are mind controlled by humans. Here comes Jake Sully, who is played by Sam Worthington, into play, he is paralyzed waist down and he is recruited to control one of the Na’vi avatars as his own. Skipping through all the fighting and running, Jake falls in love, so typical, with a real Na’vi named Neytiri. And as you can already assume he realized he's fighting for the wrong side and he fights his own species the humans, or more like the corrupt ones, and in the end, everyone is co-living happily and he gets the girl. If you asked me about it, I would say the movie Avatar is two hours and forty-one minutes -spent watching adult smurfs fight humans- of your life that you can never get back. I remember the first time I watched the movie like it was yesterday. I think I was seven years old, and I was laying next to my parents in their bed. I remember being confused about what was happening, and to be fair I was seven so it makes sense, but the whole experience felt like a fever dream, or you know when you are extremely tired so you take a nap and the next thing you know, you wake up 3 hours later in a pool of your own sweat feeling like you’ve died and come back to life. That's exactly how that movie felt to me back then. My sister continuously tells me that I need to give it another chance, and my mom begs me to watch it with her every single time. And I do, I have. Yet now almost 10 years later every time I watch it, it feels the same as it did back then. It would be understandable if I was the only one who felt this way because maybe it's just not my type of movie, but there are hundreds of people that still after watching it time after time can’t seem to grasp why on earth this movie was made. Sadly, the movie's fanbase is quite big, and delusional in my opinion, hence why it made 2.847 billion USD in box office alone, making it the most selling movie so far. But that makes me think, has everyone been brainwashed?? I'm not going to lie and say the editing was horrible because you can't deny it was so well made. The CGI was spectacular, but the art of it is not able to hide the whole lot of nonsense and pointlessness that this movie is. So I give the movie Avatar 0 stars.