[1776 Reborn]

“The artistry is beyond beautiful; it is stunning. This is the first movie that I can truly say takes true advantage of 3-D. The problems is, the story is utilitarian at best. There is 2 1/2 hours of cutting edge cinematography, and not one minute of cutting edge drama. As a science fiction movie, it achieves its goal; as a story telling vehicle, it falls just a little bit short.”

Ouch, 2 1/2 hours! Better take a 12 pack and a stadium cushion.

[rstrahan]

It’s all about the imagery, not the story. Same imperialist vs good-guy natives crap rehash. The technology is greatness, and I’ll see it, but only once, just for the visuals.

Now, maybe they’ll do Dragonriders of Pern or some other story that actually has action and a good story.

[driftless2]

Scripts are everything. If a movie, book, or other medium as such does not have a decent story line and good writing, it fails.

[Tublecane]

“As a science fiction movie, it achieves its goal; as a story telling vehicle, it falls just a little bit short.”

Science fiction IS storytelling, you boob.

[InvisibleChurch]

Is this a movie where I did something wrong again?

[aruanan]

This was a beautiful movie. Attempts to characterize it as a retelling of white imperialism are just cheap political hits. The movie uses popular myth about the noble savage to good effect. Let’s face it, the people mining that planet for “unobtanium” were mostly just a-holes. Anyone want to seriously maintain that Cortez and the rest of the conquistadores were Christians trying to bring the light of Jesus to the ignorant savages? This was a classic good guys fighting against the bad guys. So what that most of the bad guys were humans? After all, right against wrong should prevail no matter the species.