Okay, maybe I have a little more to say about Avatar
As I've probably mentioned, good movies and bad movies - for me - have one similar point: I dwell on them. The key difference is with a good movie, I find more reasons to like it. With a bad movie? I find more reasons to dislike it. Guess which one Avatar falls in? So on this sunny Memorial Day, I will pour out my thoughts
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Well, Jake was a Marine. You know how they are.
And why was everything so slow? Where were the supersonic fighter-bombers?
They didn't think they'd need them, so they left 'em home. Fighter-bombers would have been wastefull given the original mission. The mission changed and they didn't have time to ship a fighter squadron. The Colonel may have been a dumb-ass in a lot of ways, but he clearly heard the expression 'Improvise, adapt, overcome' at some point in his career.
What would be to stop the mining corporations to just send weapons inescapably capable of winning the war?An ecology with networked predators and prey doesn't just happen - it was built. How or why we don't know. Perhaps the Engineers have the means to keep it from being nuked ( ... )
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I disagree about not needing supersonic fighter craft. They're used constant in earthly imperialist conflicts. They're useful for softening up the enemy before sending in the ground attack aircraft and infantry, not to mention relieving troops pinned down by ambush or the fortunes of war.
But I definitely understand the last part, hehe. I wanted to like Avatar, too, I just couldn't because it was brutally stupid.
About the possibility of Pandora having been engineered . . . well, I wouldn't say that. Sure, a networked planet seems improbable to us, but who knows what direction life on alien worlds will take? We just don't know enough about life to know what it'll look like on alien works. ;)
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