Lazy sloppy science and writing, they can travel light years for some mineral, but they cannot fix a broken spinal cord/brain, they can grow clones of alien human hybrid but they cannot fix a spinal cord, they can travel many light years, but they cannot do underground mining with minimal impact???
Heck even a late 1800’s prospecting company could dig a freaking mineshaft. Also with today’s tech they could min under the Navi village they wouldn’t even notice! Plus in our own solar system the asteroid belt contains craptons of gold platinum ect, why mine this planet in a gravity well when the system’s asteroid fields may be easier pickings????
Again, why can’t they fix the poor protagonist’s spinal cord, maybe because in this future they pass the health care plan he is still waiting for treatment......
I am concerned the aliens weren’t “alien” enough.
If they looked less human and therefore less connection to humans would it have the same “emotional impact”? The current aliens are nothing more than heavily anthropomorphic version of blue skinned humanoid types who have exaggerated “baby features” ie. big eyes and small noses, which are specifically designed to evoke more of an Emotional response to the viewer. If they looked more like the bugs from starship troopers it would be harder to make the film, but any decent filmmaker could do it and even make it better because of it. This just reeks of laziness in writing and storytelling.
If I want to watch a much better and more intelligent film, I will rent “Enemy Mine”.
“MAN is in the forest.”
The concept of a pregnant man is more intelligent?
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Wasn’t Unobtainium the same material used to build the boring machine in the “The Core”?
And herein lies the real-world tragedy of this movie: crossing of the "uncanny valley", only to have critics completely miss the triumph of doing so and complain "the aliens aren't alien enough."
In Avatar computer-generated major characters and scenery rendered in such believable comprehensive detail that, unlike The Polar Express and other near-photorealistic renderings, the entire sense of "computer generated" has been shed completely. Until now, rendering virtually live-action movies has suffered from the "uncanny valley" effect, where the computer-generated content is so nearly real yet lacks ... something ... which bothers viewers yet they cannot quite articulate.
I recommend the Wired article exploring the achievements of this long endeavor. The anticlimax Avatar will suffer is born of director Cameron's success in shifting the industry to make this success possible; if it's perceived as only marginally better than other all-digital virtual-live-action 3-D movies, that's because those other movies were in large part made possible by the drive to create Avatar.
I saw this movie before...it was called Dances with Wolves.
Well played. Never even considered the fact that they can clone but can’t fix a spinal cord. Haha.
“The current aliens are nothing more than heavily anthropomorphic version of blue skinned humanoid types...”
I bet Tiger would hit one.
Sorry.
Let us now praise Philip Deidesheimer.
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV
- Lou Reed
“Again, why can’t they fix the poor protagonist’s spinal cord, maybe because in this future they pass the health care plan he is still waiting for treatment......”
- This. I just downloaded the trailer as Im a big Cameron fan (the director, not the liberal). First thought went through my mind..why the eff cant they correct his spine??