I thought the movie was great in that it was something new in a very stale Hollywood of re-runs and dredged up 'old' stories like marvel comics.
In truth, the plot was based upon the Pocahontas legend.
It was pro-environmentalism. Which is ok. But also Anti-Militarianism. Which didn't go down to well with a lot of 'powerful' Americans and thus it was quite coincidental that a movie that earned the industry something like .05% of what Avatar made got the nod at the Academys.
Yep - The Hurt Locker. To me a boring 'episodal' piece of Military propoganda if ever there was one. Coincidently directed by Cameron's Ex-Wife.

I found the movie 'visually' great - a real work of ART and I enjoyed it for what it was. The plot was tame, but you wouldn't want to over-complicate the audience to much with such visual newness and a intricate plot.

I always find Cameron's movies 'Daring' in that he likes to break new boundaries with film making. Hell, he even beat that aviator Richard Branson in a race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (13km underwater).

Think of a people who farm and garden and then suddenly have the military kick you off the land for something else that another group of people want like 'gold'.

...its a movie about someone being mugged by someone else.

***** Stars

...loved those bioluminescent scenes. I have a black-light blue for my daughter.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Apr 18^th, 2012 at 8:35am:


- because the humans were disrupting the ecology.  Eywa is like "Gaia". Apart from the "religious" overtones, it's a very powerful ecosystem that regulates life on the planet.  It contrasted a society that was closely entwined with the environment with one that just wanted to exploit it.

Did you notice how the environment of Pandora- all the plants and animals turned against the aliens (humans)?

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Apr 18^th, 2012 at 9:58am:



The implied warning is that "Gaia" (the Earth's ecosystem) will have its revenge on mankind too.  Maybe the Earth's "immune system" will remove humanity as an undesirable infection? Google "Geophysiology"