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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
It was visually amazing but I laughed out loud while watching it in the theaters. A movie that is not a comedy should not make one laugh out loud. Avatar is only eye candy and that's it. Nothing else is special about it. T2 kicked it's butt as a genuine movie IMO.
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If T2, which I think is one of if not the greatest action movie of all time, is the only comparison then that's a little unfair.
So what PG blockbuster action movies didn't make you laugh out loud? A few of the Marvel comic book movies have been pretty good. After that I can hardly think of anything that is better than Avatar. It is Citizen Kane compared to any of the Transformers movies or Die Hard 4 or pretty much any of the other tentpole movies that come to mind that are family friendly.
If we're talking 14A or higher then I can think of maybe a few more but not many.
Here is a list of movies, sorted by most recent release, that comprise some of the top grossing action films of the all time. I wasn't able to filter out PG 13 or higher movies so it includes some R rates stuff (those are US ratings BTW).
http://www.the-movie-times.com/thrsd...arDown+All+Act
TDK, Inception, Spiderman 1 and 2 and a handful of others I'd rate near as good, equal or better. The rest of that list is complete crap. Indy 4, anything by Michael Bay or George Lucas, Independence Day, Armageddon, Pirates of the Carribean etc etc.
Then there are a few gems, which once again compared to a good drama are usually complete crap in the acting/writing departments. Jurrasic Park, Indy 3, T2. And all 3 of those are 20 years old or more. Except T2 is rated R and as such isn't really fair to compare.
So if the worst thing you can say about Avatar is that is isn't the best action movie in the last 20 years then that's not much to go on.