The greatest 'text' I have ever watched would have to be Avatar, directed by James Cameron.
Avatar is about a former marine, paralysed from the waist down named Jake Sully. Jake finds physical freedom on the Pandora planet, in a body modeled on the native Na'vi, created by the scientists working there. This new body of Jake's is called an Avatar, and is not paralysed.
Originally, Jake was only helping another scientist in his Avatar body to collect samples in the unfamiliar world around him. However, Jake could only live in his Avatar form when the scientists chose him to, and the rest of the time he was still paralysed. A colonel soon approaches Jake and tells him that they can reconstruct his human legs on one condition: he must earn the trust of Na'vi living there, so he can inform and vacate the Na'vi from their Hometree, so the humans can bomb the tree down and acces the unobtanium below it.
Eventually, after forming a relationship with Neytiri, Jake's Na'vi mate, the rest of the Na'vi population, and the Hometree itself, Jake decides to help the Na'vi fight against the humans, and prevent them from reaching the unobtanium. A war breaks out, and with the help of the Spiritual tree Eywa, the Na'vi win against the humans. The humans are then sent back to earth.
Soon after this, Jake becomes a Na'vi forever, and cannot transfer back to his human form.
While analysing the film, I noticed that its plot was very similar to The Last Samurai and Pocahontas. In short, all three of these films have outsiders being accepted into another race or species. Its plot is relatively predictable, but still keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The things I like best about Avatar are the amazing special effects, and the genres of the movie: thriller, fantasy and romance.
All in all, Avatar has a 'WOW' factor which I have never experienced in my 15-year-old life of movie watching. This 'WOW' factor is contributed mainly to today's excellent technology, and how it affects this film so well.
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