I haven't seen Avatar, but at the very least it seems to be a masterpiece of PR. I forget, now, how many articles I've seen describing every random aspect of the production. How do they manage to get these written and published?
Maybe this means that Avatar was done well, but I wasn't terribly wowed by anything in it. Yes, it looked real, but...so do movies that have no CGI at all.
I guess my point is that the back-end stuff from this movie is the interesting bit, so the PR is welcome.
Yea, but Avatar makes stuff that can't be real look real, which aids greatly in being able to suspend disbelief and go along for a ride in someone else's imagination. Movies without CGI just show me the boring real world I'm already very familiar with.
If this is just me, please don't tell me--being wowed by the real world is awesome :).