[General Battuta]

Good to see you, Kazan. Not sure I'd generalize that far but, hey, gendisc. 

[Kazan]

hehe i know... there are many people who are able to enjoy it because it is awesome and don't over think it and bring race or politics in.. like me

[StarSlayer]

hehe i know... there are many people who are able to enjoy it because it is awesome and don't over think it and bring race or politics in.. like me

The humans were pirating content off Pandora's Internet, then decided to make a denial of service attack on their servers.  Wasn't that the obvious symbolism?

[Snail]

A few thousand tons of napalm and Agent Orange is what they needed.


And nukes too. A few of those wouldn't hurt. A bit of orbital bombardment would've been nice too, just for good measure.

[esarai]

I'm pretty sure several thousand Ikran and Na'vi, plus tens of thousands of wild Ikran versus a few hundred US Marines with agent orange would equal defeat for the marines.

And good luck getting authorization to use a nuke all the way out there.  I really doubt the president would find it prudent to drop a nuke just for resources.  It makes getting at those resources a frakload more difficult, if not completely impossible. 

[MR_T3D]

whatever happened to napalm?

[General Battuta]

It was a corporate mining expedition, not a bloody war.

[SpardaSon21]

It was a corporate mining expedition, not a bloody war.

Okay, so next movie, in order to get the unobtanium, we humans send in a bunch of Marines, and then we make it a war instead of a corporate mining expedition.

[Kazan]

yeah.. remember that all that "military" in that movie were Mercs.. Jake pointed that out in the first scenes of the movie.  I doubt they were authorized to have full military grade hardware

[General Battuta]

It was a corporate mining expedition, not a bloody war.

Okay, so next movie, in order to get the unobtanium, we humans send in a bunch of Marines, and then we make it a war instead of a corporate mining expedition.

Funny, that's exactly what we did in real life!

Hooray, genocide!

[SpardaSon21]

Unfortunately, you're right.  I can't think of a reason why we should conquer them, aside from "we need their resources", which isn't a very good reason.  If they were trying to expand throughout the galaxy and be a competitor for planets, yeah I'd condone a full-scale war.  However, chances are the inevitable sequel will contain a full-scale military assault to procure the vital supplies of unobtanium for Earth.  I haven't seen the movie, but from what I'm hearing the Na'vi have something Earth needs badly.

[General Battuta]

I dunno about 'inevitable sequel'. I'm not sure Cameron has ever actually done sequels aside from T2 (am I forgetting something?), and that wasn't back-to-back with T1.

[SpardaSon21]

Well this movie has probably made him a ton of money.  I think there's a good chance there will be a sequel.  I mean, there were a few loose ends at the end at that need answering aren't there?

[blowfish]

I dunno about 'inevitable sequel'. I'm not sure Cameron has ever actually done sequels aside from T2 (am I forgetting something?), and that wasn't back-to-back with T1.

Cameron has expressed a possible interest in doing two sequels if Avatar was successful, and I think it's pretty safe to say it was.

[General Battuta]

I've read as much, I'm just skeptical that he'll go right on to do them. Could be wrong, though.

Well this movie has probably made him a ton of money.  I think there's a good chance there will be a sequel.  I mean, there were a few loose ends at the end at that need answering aren't there?

His other movies also all made him a ton of money, though.

We'll see.

While I think it may be likely I wouldn't call it inevitable at all.

[Bobboau]

it has been stated that he wants a franchise, he wants this to be 'his Star Wars'

[Kazan]

it has been stated that he wants a franchise, he wants this to be 'his Star Wars'

only with a guy who isn't an idiot who panders to children running it

[Grizzly]

I wonder how you could make a sequal to that... Mabye another story set in the same universe, but not a continuation of the first.

Oh, and I saw it with friends. One of my friends has glasses, however, so she wouldn't be able to see it in 3D, so we watched it in 2D (Watching it in 3D would involve going to another bios in a different city anyway, which would be a bit of a chore for everyone). Some parts of the beginning didn't really work for me (Jakesully is the chosen one!) but later on I really didn't bother.

[Ransom]

For future reference, 3D works fine with glasses. You just wear the 3D pair over your normal ones.

[Bobboau]

yeah, I ware glasses and it was no problem