Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar and “Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out”

Re:Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar and “Turn On, Tune In,... by kiba on Monday December 28, 2009 @06:55PM (#1019698)

I would imagine that the limited resource on earth would sell for an incredibly high price before getting depleted. Thus Earth would become a conservationist society, careful not to waste resources or produce too many humans.

It is hard to imagine that the incentive for space travel to find new source would be outraced by extremely fast usage of resources.

Plus there are asteroid belts to mine, and probably tons of them in the system that that Avatar is occupied.

From my political perspective, this is mostly a libertarian film that pit a peaceful tribe who rightfully homestead the island against a fascist corporation that was granted evil government privilege.

Though I can't help but think that most people will think this is about environmentalism and planting tree and that greedy evil free market corporation ruins everything.

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Re:Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar and “Turn On, Tune In,... by pchristensen on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @10:42AM (#1020600)

Now let's not let realism get in the way of a good movie! Every story gets a few points where you suspend belief, then the rest has to make sense in that context. For this one, let's say that it's an exotic material that has only been found on Pandora. Unrealistic, but so is the fact that the aliens are humanoid shaped.

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