IOnlySayMeanThings

IOnlySayMeanThings t1_j6or8su wrote

Lame is a matter of opinion. I don't agree that your/their explanations are good and correcting military to company does not really answer the point.

>You want them to be lame, so you don't think them through, don't call out a movie for your own fault.

Jake's motivations to me seemed unrealistic. Everything about the plot to me felt weak. I liked the first one, too. You asked people to elaborate in another comment and now you are obviously taking offense.

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IOnlySayMeanThings t1_j6oqbr5 wrote

Very easily though? I'd say if you go up against an Xenomorph and you are not an invincible videogame protag, you have over a 99% chance of dying. You mention the marker too. Aliens have eggs and there's a chance that if they ever reached Earth, our entire race could fall. They are not really a lesser threat, whether or not they like fire.

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IOnlySayMeanThings t1_j6okxv4 wrote

>He's toruk makto and was olo'ektan, he might have been the most powerful na'vi anywhere, as well as leading the insurgency, he was the most wanted to the RDA.

Yes, but that didn't seem to matter much at all in TWOW. It got him a place to stay. None of the forest people even went with him. He was just running away and completely abandoned the forest people. How was he so sure that they wouldn't be attacked? If he was gone, why not just firebomb the forest again? I just don't see the point of a revenge mission when they have larger objectives. Why not relocate and start your mining and resource operations in a less populated area of the planet and spread from there? I'd have thought the water people coming to Sully and being like "Hey, uh, we found Humans" would be more sensible.

>Also, they didn't spend probably more than a million hunting him, there was one drop in the hallelujah mountains and then they piggybacked on the tulkun hunting, basically a background operation.

a million? There was a whole team of avatars, clone badguy, travel to another system, which would still cost money even if they were paying somebody who was already going. They had plenty of gear. Here in real life, you hit $1 million very fast during a military operation. There's no way it was cheap.

>Your family not being part of a war is a very good start to not getting your family killed. He went to find the Metkayina in order to get his family out of danger.

So relocate your family temporarily and handle it? Instead of abandoning your new people and bringing the danger to a new set of unprepared people. Did he think they wouldn't find him? If they couldn't, they'd capture and torture forest people for his location. He had to know he couldn't just hide. As you said "He's toruk makto and was olo'ektan."

It just seemed to me like lame reasons for everything.

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IOnlySayMeanThings t1_j6nsgl4 wrote

I'm amazed anyone liked the second one. Pretty visuals are not enough for me and the complete lack of a cohesive message or story in TWOW was astounding.

Why is the Earth bankrolling a multi-trillion dollar revenge mission to kill a man who doesn't really even hold much power on Pandora?
Same villain? Really? Why would it be important to the mission to get the same guy? Expensive.
So, violence bad or violence necessary? Not sure of the message here. Sully seemed like he's suddenly anti-violence as an excuse to go find water people.
Often times the movies are "pretty" but feel like they were assembled in a Spencer's Gifts.

I could pretty much go on all day, but the more I think about the movie, the less I seem to like it.

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IOnlySayMeanThings t1_j6kdzi1 wrote

Pontypool! I'm on a kick trying to get people to watch it. Imagine being in a radio station as a zombie outbreak happens around you. Only they aren't zombies, just.... weird. Almost eldritch. I loved it.

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IOnlySayMeanThings t1_j4x1fao wrote

I thought it was one of the most genuine apologies of this type I have ever seen. It doesn't undo the act but it seems also shitty of her to call it a "fake apology" the whole time. She never stops sounding snotty.
I don't know what happened between the two of them, and I'm not saying Andrew does not deserve the accountability that he himself requested, but this seems like a terribly thought out response.

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