idk about betray humanity. second movie made it pretty clear that the humans weren’t there for the good of humanity - it was to profit off (and destroy in the process) Pandora’s natural resources for the benefit of a few rich billionaires
Would’ve been interesting if the whale blubber they were harvesting in the second movie cured cancer instead of being some luxury, “it makes you look young” juice.
It makes it more accurate though for them to kill a multiton animal for an ounce of proteins
Just like killings rhino’s for their horns, so they can make their pps hard
Anything organic like would be more efficient to synthesize after it’s discovery. If the writers said it can’t be synthesized, it would just be the writers pushing a false dichotomy. Very few things can’t be synthesized and the things that can’t, are harvested responsibly, like horseshoe crab blood.
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The suffering is the point
Wow who would have ever seen that coming
“Wee need wahle brains!”
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I was goong to say it was more a tech demo since they made the insta-CGI machine for it. But then he went and made a second one about abandoning your home, getting your new one in the same trouble, and whales.
That’s how I saw it, a tech demo for the cgi and the 3D TVs that everyone now has.
I saw the second one and literally don’t remember anything about whales. So that’s how much I paid attention.
Proof that graphics matter more than anything else😔
A lot of movies are shallow. This one just rubbed people the wrong way because it was pro environmental.
It’s either that or people are salty these movies are so successful… But then again, I never see people complaining about how shallow the latest Transformers or Fast & Furious or Jurassic World movie is yet it’s all I see whenever either Avatar movie is mentioned.
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How can people who didn’t like the Avatar movies not simply drop it after a while. Their dislike isn’t that it’s shallow. If that was it, they’d have moved on. It’s something else. Their hate has the same kind of vibe as people complaining about “wokeness” in other movies. Hell, I still hear people complaining about the “bad science” and “unrealistic villains” of Captain Planet, but praise 80’s Transformers.
I very much enjoy the first movie. I have watched it several times and still enjoy going back to it. I absolutely agree the plot is puddle-deep, as you said, and it makes no attempt at all to disguise its analogies (“unobtanium”), but it’s mastery is not in the story itself but the way in which it is told. It’s almost operatic in the amount of time it spends within each story beat. The second film failed to do a lot of the things I loved about the first one and was very forgettable.
Missing the last two points:
> Would do it again
> Did nothing wrong
REJECT MODERNITY, EVOLVE
