[T-nex]

In all honesty, Avatar isn't much to wow about, apart from the graphics I guess. Personally I really liked it as it's my kind of movie( i like cheesy flicks with sci-fi/fantasy elements and nice eye candy), but I think it'd be stupid to say that everyone has to like it. The story was rather simple, and not original. But I do think the story was ok anyway. I mean, it doesn't lie about humanity.

I'm happy about the graphics though. I used to really dislike 3D effects in movies because it was so evidently fake, and would have been much better with the use of puppets(For instance, the Alien movies used puppets and the effects are way better than many modern movies IMO).
But after this movie, I have faith that using CG will not cheapen movies as much as it did in the past.

I guess what I'm saying is you're not missing out by not watching Avatar, the story you can get from other movies, and really the graphics was the wow factor of the movie(which if pointless if you don't care about graphics).