If your new bride is blue, just borrow some unobtainium

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2009)

I rated this movie 3 out of 10. But it deserves at least an 8. I just wanted to protest. A nice movie, a good movie indeed. Very rugged. Flowing. I'm not being sardonic, I really liked it. But its simple, even naive. Simple characters, simple story. One less dimension in the movie, an extra dimension in script won't hurt anybody. A great opportunity wasted I guess. Many talented people, worked hard for many years. So I wanted some depth. I expected something more than a 3D action thriller. Dancing with wolves did have something fresh, something nice. Discrict 9 has xenophobia, racism, bureaucracy, cold corporate mind, and action, friendship, delicious aliens, effects and some gore. It was fresh and surprising and new. Avatar is just big, simple, nice.
I love American S.F. writers. Greg Bear, Theodore Sturgeon, and many more wrote books full of hive minds, planet sized intellects, and with some solid (fictional) science background too. Hall Clement's creatures, P.K.Dicks twisted visions, U.K.le Guin's poetic depth, they are truly amazing. SF opens ones mind. Good SF is also good philosophy, good literature, and it is always good for me. They are hundreds of amazingly disturbing, mind boggling, incredible books out there, but no one dares to touch them. I guess they are too complicated. Ot they prefer not to ruin them, yet.
The story is, an evil, extortionist, capitalist, militarist world company decides to rape a magical planet with good scenery, full of half naked, very long legged girls, (all of them happen to love long walks in the woods, and on the woods, paragliding and horseback riding). But handful of humans seeing the error of their ways decides to lead them to an all out war against invasion. Their strategy consist of throwing things and ramming if possible, shrieking when all else fails. Not very Clausewitzian, and it does not work. But this planet has a hive mind, an alien Gaia, (which has perverse vision of evolution, very fond of feathers and lights, has a touch screen planet-wide, with built in internet). I don't know why but I can picture Mrs. Eywa knitting very bright colored sweaters. When Gaia intervenes it does not intervene gracefully or subtly. Great number of assorted colors of claws, jaws and horns settle the score.
Ecological message, "do not bomb the mother nature, she bites"
Political message "our foreign policy won't change soon"
Mineralogical message "unobtainium does grow on trees"
Military message "use ballistic missiles, drop something from orbit, do not catch arrows"
Possible Na'vi extinction cause "headache, tailache and combinations"
Conclusion "If your new bride is blue, just borrow some unobtainium".