Originally Posted by
Bluesparks
To be fair, the love is centric in Avatar (Jake feels for the Na'vi and thus switches sides), but yeah in a lot of movies they just tack on "there was a girl" for sex appeal. Honestly that's all it is in quite a few movies, and it gets on my nerves like nobody's business. I've been so overexposed to scantily clad women that what I'm attracted to has become something of the opposite: good-looking fully-clothed women (bonus points for ponytails and hoodies). Sex appeal is just one of the basest ways to sell something and I think of it as mildly underhanded and/or desperate--if you have to resort to sex appeal to sell something, it tells me there's not much else you have that I'd be interested in.
Like--this isn't the best example--but in Iron Man and the Avengers. They chose Scarlett Johansen to play the Black Widow. Okay fine, she's supposed to be attractive (I don't find her attractive personally). But what bugs me about that isn't that she's supposed to be hot, it's that they chose an actress who makes stunts look super-awkward. For how fit that character and accustomed to physical activity that character's supposed to be, Scarlett just doesn't make the stunts look fluid, natural, or comfortable. It bugs me something awful.
I won't mention Transformers because that movie is made of appeals to some of humanity's basest desires. It's not terrible, it's just not deep or intellectual at all.
It's cool. I don't have an actual objective problem with Avatar besides lack of originality, but honestly that could be said to work in its favor since the Pandora is really, really alien. Having to follow a complicated storyline on top of that might've just been mental overload.