Avatar

What is there left to say about Avatar? For thirteen years no film came within throwing distance of knocking James Cameron's Titanic out of the number one highest-grossing film of all-time slot. It took Cameron himself to break his old record, and he did it by inventing some new technology that he used to create a world unlike anything anyone had ever seen before.

It can be argued all day whether or not Avatar is really the best movie of the year (it's not). The plot is derivative, the characters one-dimensional, and much of the dialogue is cringe-worthy. But the fact of the matter is that somehow none of that matters, because the movie is just flat out fun.

Avatar has dragons fighting spaceships. Awesomely realistic looking dragons fighting spaceships. And if dragons and spaceships clashing in 3-D with floating mountains in the background isn't awesome, then I don't know what is.

Dragons not really your thing? The movie also has a bunch of dudes in giant robot suits fighting other dudes with bows and arrows. ROBOT SUITS.

I would like to see the Academy have Cameron duke it out with his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow (director of The Hurt Locker) to see who gets to take home the award for Best Picture. Instead I think they'll just hand it over to him.

Too bad, Kathryn would kick his ass. 

4 / 5 on the Awesome Meter