am i the only one who was going for the humans in AVATAR

[Azure-Supernova]

Well if Jake hadn't been a fucking turncoat then the movie might have ended with peaceful negotiations. I wasn't siding with either race until they converted Jake and he near enough acted as the troll that set off a flame war between the two.

 

[Redingold]

It's a little difficult to root for the humans due to the lack of quality explanation as to why they need to relocate or eradicate an entire city of blue monsters to get at that McGuffin. If it was some sort of energy source for a Earth that recently ran dry of fossil fuels, or something that could "clean up" radiation for a post WW3 Earth, they'd be people you could sympathize with.

But no, it's just supergold and therefore worth the cost of a military invasion to get. It's not even at the level of mustache twirling evil, it's just the "corporate greed" archetype that has been played out a million times.

No, it really was an energy source for an Earth without fossil fuels. Kinda.

http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Unobtanium

From the first paragraph: Humans mine unobtanium to save the Earth from its energy crisis; bluntly put, they need it for their survival.

 

[Evil mr dave]

Perhaps its because i'm a warhammer 40k player but the whole movie all I was thinking was "We should totally just light Endor's (or what ever the planet was called) atmospher on fire before the smirfs can become a threat".

so, yes, you are not the only one.

 

[Harlemura]

i think it may be becuse the humans always win

The answer to any question, ever, that begins with "am I the only one" is always "no".

I think it's more of a figure of speech to emphasize how few people seem to share his view, rather than an actual question.

Bringing the topic back round to on...
I ended up siding with the Na'vi, pretty much just because the film was telling me to. Humans bad, Na'vi nice, you like Na'vi now.
And because I'm a bit dumb, I just rolled with it without questioning it.

 

[Vault Citizen]

It's a little difficult to root for the humans due to the lack of quality explanation as to why they need to relocate or eradicate an entire city of blue monsters to get at that McGuffin. If it was some sort of energy source for a Earth that recently ran dry of fossil fuels, or something that could "clean up" radiation for a post WW3 Earth, they'd be people you could sympathize with.

But no, it's just supergold and therefore worth the cost of a military invasion to get. It's not even at the level of mustache twirling evil, it's just the "corporate greed" archetype that has been played out a million times.

Apparently some of the out of movie material says that the mineral they are mining for is starship fuel, needed to get humans off of earth and onto a new planet that is habitable (as Jake said at the end of the movie in Avatar the earth is dying)

 

[warprincenataku]

See a planet ripe for the picking, cleanse it and take what's rightfully ours.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Which humans? The fire nation?

I hate those guys. Except for Iroh and Zuko... I enjoy them muchly

...

Think you got the wrong end of the stick here, mate.

OT: I didn't really root for either, seeing as I didn't feel all that involved in the first place. I just sort of... watch it.

 

[Sarge034]

There was really only one human I rooted for in that movie.

The Colonel.

O NOES!!! Ninjas have infiltrated this thread.

OT- How can anyone not root for the Colonel? He radiates bad ass. No joke... People have died from over exposure.

 

[Alon Shechter]

As a man who highly prefers nature to humans...
Really, fuck the Na'vi.

 

[Kilo24]

I rooted for the humans. If they won it would have meant the first bit of originality in the movie in a way that did not involve funny glasses.

 

[Lord Kloo]

I think lots of people liked the humans, just because they had epic machinery and weapons..

But also the last act where the humans get their ass kicked in combat and then get shoved off the planet kind of reminded me of the first landing in Starship Troopers when they get ambushed..

"I say we pull out and nuke this shit pile from orbit.."

It will be nice if in the 2nd Avatar movie the humans come back with the full power of the Earth military and just screw the hell out of the Navi..

 

[Zeema]

i was hoping for Death Star to blow up the planet or Gundamm Wing to blow it up

would have made it interesting

 

[AJM]

I wanted the 3rd faction to win known as the protoss

 

[captaincabbage]

first off, I know I've been ninja'd for this, but YOUY ARE NEVER ALONE.

Secondly, I know you're not alone in wanting the human to win because I was wanting the same thing.

Okay, fair enough they're giant cat people who would hand your arse to you in hand to hand combat, but last time I checked a bow and arrow doesn't have a higher rate of fire then a minigun.

 

[captaincabbage]

There was really only one human I rooted for in that movie.

The Colonel.

O NOES!!! Ninjas have infiltrated this thread.

OT- How can anyone not root for the Colonel? He radiates bad ass. No joke... People have died from over exposure.

What was his military title again? Colonel Badass McBadass? Also, I think he's had those scars from birth. He was just fighting his twin in the womb for the right to survive.

 

[captaincabbage]

Well if Jake hadn't been a fucking turncoat then the movie might have ended with peaceful negotiations. I wasn't siding with either race until they converted Jake and he near enough acted as the troll that set off a flame war between the two.

*HE Missiles and fire arrows* A literal flame war.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

There was really only one human I rooted for in that movie.

The Colonel.

O NOES!!! Ninjas have infiltrated this thread.

OT- How can anyone not root for the Colonel? He radiates bad ass. No joke... People have died from over exposure.

What was his military title again? Colonel Badass McBadass? Also, I think he's had those scars from birth. He was just fighting his twin in the womb for the right to survive.

Another vote for "I was rooting for the Colonel". Man, that guy was badass. And he overacted like there was no tomorrow which made him even more fun.

 

[dslatch]

think back 300 years the natives = Navi and Europeans = humans as go humans because we need a new place to live, now you blue people go gamble and make low quality smokes for me not to enjoy.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

But they DID try peaceful negotiations, that's why they sent whatshisname in the first place, but whathisname sort of forgot about that.

His name was whatshisface, get your facts right please.

The answer to any question, ever, that begins with "am I the only one" is always "no".

Am I the only one that's me?