Yeah, but as Matrix Revolutions proved, you can put as much effort into CGI and the setting you want, but as long as you don't have decent characters, good dialogue or a story that's not insanely cliché, the movie is gonna be pretty lame.

Seriously? Sure a lot of effort went into the CGI, just a shame a lot less went in to the plot/script.

I mean unobtanium is such a lazy name, I can almost hear the conversation. 'We need a name for a mineral that's hard to obtain'.

'I know, unobtainium because you know, it's unobtainable'.

'That's genius'.

My 12 year old nephew could come up with a better name.

Avatar looks like a video game. A very very pretty video game, but fake nonetheless. I prefer practical special effects over CGI any day.

This is how you do special effects:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

(animatronics T-rex from Jurassic Park)

Are there any people here who prefer the CGI orcs of The Hobbit films over the practical orcs and Uruk-Hai of the LOTR films?