Evolution, Immunolgy and Religion in James Cameron’s Avatar

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by mathoda • 17 years ago

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enneff2• 17 years ago

The most ridiculous part of Avatar was that the humans would give up and go home. More like they'd unleash some nukes and just take the unobtanium home.

kungfooey• 17 years ago

That was the single largest plot hole of many others.

"Nuke it from orbit."

ghotli• 17 years ago

I'm sure they'll nuke it from orbit in one of the sequels.

danteembermage• 17 years ago

I don't think that solution was practical from a PR standpoint. You can tell in the film that they are always on pins and needles about building schools, offering them medicine, whatever it takes to get the goods AND come off as the nice guys. These are not government operatives, they are corporate mercenaries and it's likely any over-the-top violent action would get their colonial charter pulled and their mineral license revoked by Earth-side government.

A little strip mining in a remote location is probably not going to get anyone excited. Ticking off the savages enough to get them to launch a full scale invasion is going to throw up a bunch of red flags for the Amnesty International of 2200. Nuke them from orbit would be off the chart unacceptable. Perhaps they were autonomous from earth enough to do it and then have severe repercussions after the fact, but it didn't really look like smashing home tree had much support from the ground staff at the first anyway. With the colonel dead who would push that button?

alexgartrell• 17 years ago

I think chemical/biological warfare is MUCH more likely. "Unobtanium" can't get sick.

enneff2• 17 years ago

I agree totally. I wasn't putting too much thought into the actual method, I meant "nuke" in more of a colloquial "mass murder" sense.

cubicle67• 17 years ago

Well, at least they didn't let George Lucas get his hands on it...

dmlorenzetti• 17 years ago

I beg to differ. If you can get past his bad-language-for-its-own-sake style, the Filthy Critic has a great review-- great in the sense that his review is both a thoughtful critique of the movie, and an entertainment in its own right: http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/avatar.html

By framing his review as an argument between himself and his nephew, he acknowledges what he sees as good about the movie, but also brings to bear his trademark criticism of Hollywood storytelling. Even when I disagree with his assessment of a movie, I often find Matt's reviews thought-provoking as well as amusing to read.

nreece• 17 years ago

Recently someone posted this nice little summary of the Pocahontas: http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3867/poca2u.jpg

Evolution, Immunolgy and Religion in James Cameron’s Avatar

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