Some of the angles that people are attacking this film on are incredible, anti-Christian, pro-Environmental, well, yeah but so was Pocahontas!
It mirrors many other real life and fictional tales of conquest and exploitation and the destruction of the native population.
In times like this I oft feel like quoting my favourite novel:
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Originally Posted by H.G Wells, The War of the Worlds
"And before we judge them [the aliens] too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"
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So, yes, it's a bit preachy, and yes the storyline is predictable and most of the so-called plot twists could be seen coming a mile off, and it certainly aimed to bring a fair few Vietnam elements into it, but then again if you're fighting a native species in a forest then there's bound to be elements of 'nam ringing in it, and perhaps that's what has got some of these people all stirred up. However, at the end of the day, the lead character, the protaganist in this story is a Marine, one of my favourite characters, the girl chopper pilot (Trudy Chacón) is a Marine and she's on the 'good side'. So it's not so much Marine vs Nature, it's Humanity vs Humanity vs Economy vs Nature.
Plus, I love the name of the mineral "Unobtanium" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium )
And the human mechs and gunships are pretty darn awesome too!
Although...can you say Orca?
