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This. The movie wasn't well-receieved by a majority of the people who watched it. Unfortunately it still did really well.
I watched Avatar a little while after it was released and across the board, everyone was telling me they LOVED it. It was only after awhile that the hate train really started going I think.
That was my experience as well, though I think I saw it the week after it came out maybe. I wasn't overly impressed by the trailers, but it was James Cameron directing an action movie so I kind of have to give him the benefit of the doubt (the man did direct too many classic action/sci-fi films to write him off completely). Aside from it being competently directed (and by that I pretty much mean there was little to no shaky cam crap), there wasn't really anything that good about it. But people were going on about how awesome it was and I was left just shaking my head wondering what everyone else was seeing.

Now, I wouldn't say it wasn't enjoyable in spots or that it was a complete waste of my time, but damn that made a lot of money that I just don't really think it deserved.