Academy Award Movie

I had watched a few of the Academy Award nominees like ShawShank Redemption, Precious, and Avatar normally I was going to speak about Shaw Shank Redemption but instead I would like to speak about Avatar. Constantly I hear that Avatar was overrated and wasn't a good movie; maybe story wise wasn't as strong as some of the others but it was an amazing movie to lose yourself in this fantastic world they had created. Plenty of bucks went into creating this movie and the visuals were just amazing; I honestly feel like people are bashing it because compared to the other movies it's storyline seems weaker because its a fiction movie. Instead of actually giving the movie a chance they are just automatically saying it isn't that great because realism isn't realy present in the movie. I think it was a great movie with amazing visuals and I could lose myself in that movie all over again.