[GerateWohl]

There are very few film directors who managed to setup a believable and original extraterrestrial world building. George Lucas managed to do that in his six Star Wars movies, sometimes better sometimes less. Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger managed to do so in Alien.

Avatar has a few good world building ideas, but overall in my view Cameron fails in that regard due to his all too romantically sticking to this Buffalo Bill Native American blueprint and his all to obvious “in this biotop everything is connected physically” design. Because here he didn’t invest much creativity the whole setup appears quite cheap even though on the surface it looks expensive, but not original.
And the music with its lion king etno sound plays an inglorious role in this cheap appearance.

My view. Sorry.