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Originally Posted by Stare At The Sun
Saw it last night, my thoughts are as follows:
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Whilst the movie does require suspecsion of disbelief, I have to say that you sound quite the bitter technocrat. There are a few things that can be explained easily enough, if only to stir you up a little to peek outside the box.
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Originally Posted by stare at the sun
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Pandora is supposed to have low gravity, and its supposed to weaken the strength of people. As noted by the constantly working out Colonel, and the withering frame of Jake. Yet the Na'vi were atleast 10 foot tall and clearly stronger than humans. Seems odd that they had "carbon fiber" bones as well. As that is, as far as I know, not naturally occuring.
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As far as you know, there are no other sentient races either. your post exhibits a very biased frame of reference. Hey, I share the sentiment with 90% of all time-travel stories, but its all theoretical. Did you dismiss Evolution because it had silicone-based lifeforms? As far as I know, that's not naturally occurring either. =/
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Originally Posted by stare at the sun
Spoiler: Really, I can actually suspend my disbelief of other things, like the islands that floated yet had water constantly flowing off of them. If this was caused by the metal they were mining, which is what I imagine most people would say, why were these not mined? As they obviously had a very high concentration.
Other questions, what the hell was that metal even used for? 20,000,000 dollars a kilo? What the hell does it do? If the answer is "float" that's pretty lame.
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I might have missed it, but I didn't pick up that the metal's quality is that it floats. The sample was on a suspension pad on the guy's desk. It didnt float by itself. So I saw no connection between the mountains and the metal. In fact, the geek says "no one knows why it floats" when they fly there.
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Spoiler: The absolute biggest problem I had with the movie, is the idea that the natives, who's most advance weapons were bows and arrows could have stood a change against an absurdly more advanced society that can clearly travel faster than the speed of light.
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You may have missed it, but the natives choose a low-tech way of life. Spoiler:
They are clearly more "advanced" than humans in various ways. If you want to look at it another way, they most advanced weapon is that they can call upon their gaia to drive every organism on the planet. Pretty awesome stuff, if you ask me.
The above also explains your issue with the ending. Spoiler:
Do you want to fight a whole planet? In any case, its not over. Cameron said that he wants a trilogy.
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Spoiler: Lets just be realistic here, helicopters do not move slower than birds.
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There was a bird vs chopper race? where? The birds had an aerial manoevability advantage. Those did not look like Rooivalk attack helicopters to me.
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Spoiler: Where were the jets? Simple question. Where were the tanks? I absolutely loathe this
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Where were the runways? The issue of radar is secondary. They were still busy building the first road through THE JUNGLE, which you may have missed, is over terrain that tanks cant cover. And why would they fly in tanks? They weren't flying out to war. They are private mining company. The use of a multi-purpose chopper makes more sense.
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Spoiler: Second, the "bombing mission" to destroy the holy site of the Na'vi was not accomplished by bombers, like it would of been done in world war 2, vietnam, korea, iraq, etc. NO NO! We're instead going to get pallets of TNT, attach detonaters to them, and wheel them out of a freaking cargo hulk that moves at roughly 13 MPH.
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Again, its a mining company. Not a war campaign. The "bomber" looked to me like the mining transport. Its built to carry stuff, not for fighting. Ditto for your call for all other sorts of ballistics. Private company nukes? Hmm, I guess nation-states sold out to companies in 2154.
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Spoiler: Sadly, I didn't even really disagree with what the evil giant corporation was doing. They apparently offered everything they could, and the Na'vi were having none of it. I have no empathy for the natives.
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Go you little colonialist go!