Avatar movie opinion

Finally saw Avatar in 3D. It was a rainy New Year's Eve afternoon, so I'd expected a much bigger crowd. Got there in plenty of time and had a relatively close seat but the screen was set well back. I wasn't that impressed with the 3D effects and glasses were required. Wearing glasses on top of glasses is a pain and you don't really want to move your head for fear of losing some of the 3D aspect.  The movie is a love story combined with a cowboys versus Indians, humans versus alien, technologism versus primitivsm, science versus pantheism, the last a false dichotomy if ever there were one. The planet Pandora, a moon of a gas giant whose atmosphere is unbreathable to humans, contains the unlikely named mineral unobtainium, worth $20 million a kilo (I can't remember if this was a kilogram or a kiloton). The mineral has some kind of energy properties that will alleviate a crisis on Earth. This might explain the floating Hallelujah Mountains. The indigenous Na'vi humanoid species stand in the way of human exploitation of their planet's geological treasure. The humans use biological robots called avatars and coffinlike immersion chambers  to control the avatar and interact with the the Na'vi who regard the avatars as demons. When the human agents are out of the immersion chamber the avatar itself is essentially unconscious. The setting, life forms, art direction and attention to detail in Avatar is indeed like nothing you've ever seen before in a science fiction movie and James Cameron has once again raised the bar in that genre. The story, however, leaves a lot to be desired because it is so heavyhanded, moralistic and prejudiced against human behavior. Would we really squandor the opportunity to fully interact with our first contact with an intelligent alien species, no matter how primitive they appear to be?

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