James Cameron likes his leading boys to be carte blanche quick studies and he likes his women to kick ass. I don't know why gender was the first thing on my mind, but I like how he puts those qualities on the characters that Worthington and Weaver play. My bullshit meter went up quite a few times but the characters made the movie. And Avatar made me lurve Sammy all over again. And this is one of the few movies this year when I didn't look at my watch.
Just re-watched it. Despite of the CGI and a few unsalvageable (tee-hee) line reads, this made me wanna see Avatar. It'll be on once every six months, you will sit on the couch, relive the cheese and get your heart broken watching all that death.