Sometimes if a film excels so exceptionally in one specific field of filmmaking (be it screenwriting, cinematography, directing, acting, etc.), all of its other flaws in the other departments of the filmmaking process can be easily condoned. Avatar epitomizes this notion. Weak screenplay and cheesy dialogue aside, this is a film that holds true to its austere ambitions and surpasses its own self-coveted hype. Exclamations such as “film event of the decade” and “the most revolutionary film of a generation” have stuck to the project like flies on a swatter, and the justice within those statements can only be beheld once one experiences the film for what it is: a supreme technical marvel and a spectacle of pure imagination...[more]...