Avatar is an amazing film

Rebuttle to pro's arguments- Responding to 1- Although box office can be a good indicator of a good movie, it does not necessarily mean the movie is good. For example, Ice age dawn of the dinosaurs received a box office of $887,773,705 but rotten tomatoes gives it a 45%. Also many of the rated best movies of all time have received a small box office. For example, the Shawshank Redemption, which received a 9.1 rating on Imdb.com, only received a $28,341,469 box office. From this we can conclude that box office is not proportional to how good a movie is because in some cases it isn't. Responding to 2- AS for the ratings, it is easily possible that their ratings were boosted because of the cg in the film. It is likely that audiences would leave the theater thinking about how great the cg in avatar was and decided to go because the cg looked amazing. Although the sophisticated cg could be used by my opponent against me, cg alone cannot prove the quality of the movie. It is more personal taste that i find plot more important than cg. Responding to 3- I will suggest that the theme of environmentalism in the movie is paradoxical. The human race is clearly flourishing and is expanding . The humans are also developing substantial technologies such as the technology which could fix Jake Sully's spinal cord problems and develop the sophisticated avatars. The paradox is that the writers of the film suggest that humanity is flourishing and doing perfectly fine, in fact, better than ever without the environment (Because Jake Sully says that nature was destroyed on Earth) even though the director's intent is clearly to show the importance of environmentalism. Responding to 4- When we find other sentient beings in the galaxy, i will agree that this promotes a xeno cultural understanding. This movie could be considered unpatriotic on the other hand, because it attempts to show humanity as evil, cruel, and bent on destroying everything beautiful. Rebuttal to Rebuttal- 1. Let us remember that this mountain must contain a sizable chunk of iron in the center for the mountain to be affected by the magnetic field, thus adding to the weight of the mountain because iron has a significantly higher g/mol than regular silicates. Think about probability now; The strength of the magnetic field would have to exactly equal the strength of gravity. What are the chances that this has happened? On top of that, if the magnetic field exactly counteracted gravity, gas giants have a powerful magnetic field (of course not powerful enough to lift mountains) and would constantly move and push away the mountains. We never see the mountains move at all. If the movie was realistic, these mountains would be flying around erratically as the magnetic filed changed. On top of this, the magnetic field would have to be super strong. The magnetic field of earth, which is relatively strong, could never float one of those mountains. The internal magnetic fields of Pandora would need to be at least a thousand times stronger because of the vast weight of the mountain. This is why we have no floating mountains on earth. 2. For their to be enough water to form a waterfall coming off the mountains, a large storm would need to constantly be raining on these mountains. However, no such rainstorm is constantly raining on these mountains. 3. The movie says that if the Na'vi stronghold with their god tree thing was destroyed, the Na'vi would become broken and scattered because they would lose faith in their nature god. Thus, a fast, explosive bombing run to annihilate that spot would destroy the na'vi morale and send many of their soldiers fleeing. This would have also have stopped their nature god from sending the animals to finish off the humans. And it would be ridiculous to make a jet that could not travel quickly and at high altitude. THe jet was the thing all of the gunships were trying to protect and did in fact exist. The jet is also the ship which carried the daisy cutter bombs. 4. For starters, we must remember that this movie is done in the future and thus the Kevlar would be more sophisticated and thus stronger. Also, Because the humans knew that the enemy used arrows, humans would have most likely used "multi-threat armor" which protects from piercing attacks and bullets. Plus we have to remember that in the film, the arrow got stuck in the kevlar and clearly did not penetrate far into the human. THe humans would have experienced a flesh wound and survived, not fallen down dead immediately. 5.You're right about the blind firing, it would have been stupid except right in the beginning when hey could have killed a couple of guys. AS for the snipers, the humans had radar and thus could see where the enemy was. You wouldn't have to look around much with a high magnification scope. Plus the scopes could be thermal and they could see the enemy from a long ways away. Plus many Na'vi were mounted and thus would have been much easier to spot. 6. The fact that the animals have carbon fiber bones doesn't matter too much because a significant amount of the animal is not bones. The humans were using machine guns and had an overall high percentage chance to shoot through an area without bone protection. Also, calibur doesn't represent the power of the gun. Its a ratio of m/s to calibur. The large guns the goliaths were holding and shooting with likely were .50 cal machine guns with 3500 m/s, easily enough to kill an animal with thick hide. I bet the goliath's machine guns were also equipped with fmj rounds or armor piercing rounds so that they could deal with animals bothering them at the mining sites. 7. A bunker buster penetrates reinforcement and strikes the foundation of an object. It would have annihilated the foundation of tree and taken it out very quickly. Running out of characters so i won't talk about the other points which aren't too significant. I would also like to point out the plot hole of carbon fiber as bones in this film- carbon fiber is made by pyrolysis of synthetic polyester fibers is used to reinforce plastics to form advanced, lightweight composite materials. THe pyrolysis for carbon fiber is between 1500-3000 degrees celsius. For this to occur naturally, the carbon would need to sink below the surface of the planet, form into strands the way industrial machines do it, send the carbon down far under the surface towards in the deep mantle of Pandora and then send it back up as a low percentage graphite compound through some volcanic action. Thus, the carbon fiber would not be found abundantly on Pandora because carbon fiber is made synthetically. This is also why it is not abundant on earth naturally. Ultimately, my opponent tries to defend a scientifically improbable situation. excuse some of my poor grammar as i did not have too much time to write this with school. Finally I would like to thank con for engaging in an interesting and provocative dialogue with me. Sources- http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.imdb.com... http://www.rottentomatoes.com... logic and reasoning