I see district 9 as Love or Hate the movie, its a weird movie, weird story, and made by weirdos, its style is somewhat new, the news camera approach is good, but stands only for some part of the movie and not really a full news flash movie, it could have been taken another level, and it was forgotten.
The story is cool, could easily be taken as real.
Avatar ir... well... for me I think is the first movie with a name impossible to translate, as it itself avatar is known as incarnation, and is really what the movie is about, presented in such way... touching...
Its the best movie i've seen so far till now, a very hard mark to break in many aspects, and believe me, i'm forgetting it is 99% CGI.
BTW, i don't really go the cinema watch drama/romantic/other regular 1 cam stuff, that I can see at home in my tv, the effect is the same.
Avatar, as me and Vogon noticed in Terminator, have no effect at home.
I just sorrow the fact IMax and IMax 3D in europe only serve.. nothing.
For those who didn't had a chance to see a movie on a screen with... 1 square km, believe, its breath taking!