Visually magnificent...contains "anti-industrial" and anti-military concepts

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2011)

Most of the people who see Avatar commend it for the visually magnificent delivery it sustains, with great clarity, from the beginning to the end. Nobody can doubt that.
The battle scenes are glorious and it is full of action. Character development is superficial, with no more than a "minimum" drawing of the characters, as was intended by the writers. The idea was to have a beautiful film, which they do.
Nobody seems to see the irony of an anti-military, anti-corporate, anti-development, anti-technology, anti-business film...which could NEVER have been made without (some of) those very features.
The Unibomber, Ted Kacynski would have loved the film, since it probably feeds into his manifesto brilliantly, and is far more creative than his rant.
This is not to reject the necessity to save our planet. But all animals require energy to exist. A return to the ancient world of Pandora would be a trade-off that very few of us would accept.
Pandorans have beautiful teeth, but if something goes wrong with them, there are no dentists to repair them, no surgeons, no doctors. Death comes quickly and without preparation in Pandora, often with great violence.
I know it's just a movie. I loved it. But please take it with a grain of salt. If you need treatment for a serious disease, you will never receive it on "Pandora." Of necessity, those inhabitants will be forced to place you out in some beautiful field..to die a painful death, or be attacked and gored by wild animals.
Pandora is not aptly named at all. I don't want to live there, no matter how beautiful it is on the wide screen. You can cheer at the end, like I did, but I might have chosen to go back home...even if "invited" to stay. sanjosemike