I saw this last night with the kids (7, 9 and 10 yo).
It cost us $50 to see it in IMAX and 3D. Pretty expense, but I’d say it was worth it.
The movie was good science fiction in it’s purist form. Visually stunning. Good story line. Uses believable technology. As a fan of the computer game ‘Myst’ I especially appreciated the plant life on Pandora. ‘Myst’ uses the same idea that it is all connected and the luminescence/reaction to touch/etc.
Yes there was the Gaia worship element, complete with actual scenes of worship. I tried to tell myself that this was how the residents of another world might act with all the connectivity, so that I could enjoy the movie (if I didn’t it would’ve bugged the heck out of me). There was a pro-hunting message in there as well, with caveats though.
My issues are:
- where did the natives get the guns that they used at the end of the movie?
- it will be all too easy for people to take a political view on the movie rather than appreciate it as good science fiction.
>>My issues are:
- where did the natives get the guns that they used at the end of the movie?<<
They had gone back to get the female doctor’s body and I assumed they collected the communications devices and guns then.