So, I went to see Avatar tonight...
...and I must admit, I enjoyed it. But there were some things that bothered me, not just the paternal/colonialist motif that's got the internet up in arms (I'm not going to talk about that, it's all been said)... more plot holes.
1) Why did pretty much all the large animals except the Na'vi have six limbs?
2) Why didn't anyone else think of jumping on the giant red pterodactyl's back before?
3) Why was Jake such a pathetic general? Has anyone bothered doing a head-on cavalry charge against artillery since Germany crushed Poland in WW2? If the Na'vi were so tricksy at hiding in the woods, surely 'sniping' with bows and arrows which can go through body and machine armour would be better than a headlong rush through a forest with plains-trained horses?
4) If the planet had decided to save them, couldn't it have done it before everyone except the main characters were dead?
5) If they were going to drop the bomb and expect it to hit the target, surely a bloody great space shuttle would have landed in pretty much the same spot with pretty much the same effect?
6) If you've got the technology to cross light-years worth of space and put human minds in fake bodies (which don't die when those minds are ripped out), can't you come up with a better way to get minerals other than open cut mining? Then you could preserve the pesky native settlement and their tree and still get your 'unobtanium' out. I hear good things about sinking shafts.
That's it for now. Like I said, I enjoyed it. And one of the things I liked the most (stupid as it may sound) is the way the wood splintered when people were shopping at trees or fallen trunks or whatever. Looked very realistic. There was definitely a lot of attention to detail, as I'm sure all my med-orientated friends realised when they noted the paralysis-associated wasting of Jake's legs.
1) Why did pretty much all the large animals except the Na'vi have six limbs?
2) Why didn't anyone else think of jumping on the giant red pterodactyl's back before?
3) Why was Jake such a pathetic general? Has anyone bothered doing a head-on cavalry charge against artillery since Germany crushed Poland in WW2? If the Na'vi were so tricksy at hiding in the woods, surely 'sniping' with bows and arrows which can go through body and machine armour would be better than a headlong rush through a forest with plains-trained horses?
4) If the planet had decided to save them, couldn't it have done it before everyone except the main characters were dead?
5) If they were going to drop the bomb and expect it to hit the target, surely a bloody great space shuttle would have landed in pretty much the same spot with pretty much the same effect?
6) If you've got the technology to cross light-years worth of space and put human minds in fake bodies (which don't die when those minds are ripped out), can't you come up with a better way to get minerals other than open cut mining? Then you could preserve the pesky native settlement and their tree and still get your 'unobtanium' out. I hear good things about sinking shafts.
That's it for now. Like I said, I enjoyed it. And one of the things I liked the most (stupid as it may sound) is the way the wood splintered when people were shopping at trees or fallen trunks or whatever. Looked very realistic. There was definitely a lot of attention to detail, as I'm sure all my med-orientated friends realised when they noted the paralysis-associated wasting of Jake's legs.