I don’t have words.
The movie is just non-stop humans being absolute colonizer monsters and the people (and creatures) of Pandora, who want to live in peace, being forced to fight back (and kicking human ass).
The movie lives and dies by it’s visual effects and by god are they incredible. Pandora is just such a beautiful world, and Cameron lets you experience it in all its beauty and unity and peace before he shows the ugly human machines and weapons kill and destroy it. You feel the pain and the righteous anger when the Navi fight back. I was cheering for every human death of which there are many.
Is the story perfect? Nah. There are points where it’s cliche etc but I don’t mind that. There is a larger story about nature and colonisation and that’s what matters so much more. Pandora is a world that can fight back because the world itself is alive and connected and god just imagine if Earth was like that.
I’m definitely gonna see it again and I’m super pumped for the sequels.
When I was younger I thought the premise (exploring how aliens and humans would view eachother) of a lot of HFY was pretty interesting but lacking, so I started doing a little short story series on tumblr. Iirc I was trying to counter the chuddy homo-supremacy thing by making the characters have to cooperate and work with eachother while the human antagonists fail due to ego and infighting.
This was years ago, I only got a few chapters in and I've since lost the login creds for that account. :deeper-sadness: I may revive the idea though
That's a cool premise and I wish you could've finished it.