Poll: Avatar - Who did you root for

[rokkolpo]

Well it's a choice between civilized humans, or primitive aliens. Who's going to work out better in the long run? The humans can advance and progress, the blue things will simply stagnate. Therefore, the humans deserve the resources.

purest bullshit i ever heard.

so all intelligent people on earth should get all the money,
because the poor cannot get out of their vicious circle of poverty and their money would never be used for anything but food and homes.

is that what your saying?

 

[Valkyrie101]

Well it's a choice between civilized humans, or primitive aliens. Who's going to work out better in the long run? The humans can advance and progress, the blue things will simply stagnate. Therefore, the humans deserve the resources.

purest bullshit i ever heard.

so all intelligent people on earth should get all the money,
because the poor cannot get out of their vicious circle of poverty and their money would never be used for anything but food and homes.

is that what your saying?

The Na'vi aren't trapped. They just choose not to advance, unlike poor people who often can't.

So the progress of all intelligent life should be permanently stalled because the aliens want to live like hippies? Is that what you're saying?

 

[doodger]

The human. The naavi were hippies.

 

[NickCooley]

As soon as I started watching it I knew I'd be supporting the humans. They were so cartoon character evil that I was waiting for the shitty hippy scenes to end so I could see what Colonel Stalin Hitler Pot McNastypants would do next. There's also the fact I don't like a movie to tell me what I should think, It was so ridiculously over engineered so everyone would cheer the Navi. I'm surprised Cameron didn't go the whole hog and slap in some subliminal "LOVE THE NAVI" frames.

 

[rokkolpo]

Well it's a choice between civilized humans, or primitive aliens. Who's going to work out better in the long run? The humans can advance and progress, the blue things will simply stagnate. Therefore, the humans deserve the resources.

purest bullshit i ever heard.

so all intelligent people on earth should get all the money,
because the poor cannot get out of their vicious circle of poverty and their money would never be used for anything but food and homes.

is that what your saying?

The Na'vi aren't trapped. They just choose not to advance, unlike poor people who often can't.

So the progress of all intelligent life should be permanently stalled because the aliens want to live like hippies? Is that what you're saying?

the humans were by no means permanently stalled, not even for a brief moment. they'd just find another place to raid, most likely another country on earth.

also the na'vi did not live as hippies. it was the point of evolution where they were at that exact time in their evolutionary cycle. it is impossible to see if they would stay this way or go a different path.

but otherwise yes, humans should fuck off if the na'vi would choose to live like hippies.

proggression does not permit one to do awful things. need for money does not permit stealing it from someone else.

 

[Nouw]

Humans. Why? Because I haven't seen them that badass for a long time. Damn it reminded me of Starship Troopers.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

didn't see the movie so Im neutral.

 

[bubba145]

Humans i was rooting for them the ending was way to cheap.

 

[x434343]

I went with humans because all the liberals in my classes were all "Humns bad Navi gewd." Asking why, their only response was, "look at wht tey don." What, they need unobtanium? Well Unobtanium's use could make or break humanity's motive. What does it do? "It's worth mony." I get that, why do the humans want it? "Its worth mony." OK, how about you fill in the blank: Uranium powers nuclear power plants, gold is used in circutry, unobtanium is used _________. "ITS WORTH MONY YOU STOOPID PERSON."

So I assumed Unobtanium is used to fuel the spaceships so that it cuts travel time down by 3/4s. Simply because I hate those stupid Strawman Liberals.

(NOTE: When I say 'liberal' or 'strawman liberal' here, I mean people who are liberals because they hate Republicans or because they think we're more discriminatory now than the 60's. Meaning, people who are exceedingly stupid and also liberals. Not Liberals who are stupid. Take no offense.)

 

[Legend of J]

The humans due to the fact...i was human first lol.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I went with humans because all the liberals in my classes were all "Humns bad Navi gewd." Asking why, their only response was, "look at wht tey don." What, they need unobtanium? Well Unobtanium's use could make or break humanity's motive. What does it do? "It's worth mony." I get that, why do the humans want it? "Its worth mony." OK, how about you fill in the blank: Uranium powers nuclear power plants, gold is used in circutry, unobtanium is used _________. "ITS WORTH MONY YOU STOOPID PERSON."

So I assumed Unobtanium is used to fuel the spaceships so that it cuts travel time down by 3/4s. Simply because I hate those stupid Strawman Liberals.

(NOTE: When I say 'liberal' or 'strawman liberal' here, I mean people who are liberals because they hate Republicans or because they think we're more discriminatory now than the 60's. Meaning, people who are exceedingly stupid and also liberals. Not Liberals who are stupid. Take no offense.)

I consider myself highly liberal and I was rooting for the humans all the way through for partially that reason. The people you are describing sound more Hippie Liberal than anything else.

 

[DementedSheep]

Humans weren?t out there for their own survival at all. It was never as far as I can recall suggested that they needed the mineral only that it was valuable. The only reason they were there was to mine. The mercenaries were being hired by the mining company and the scientist were just piggybacking.
As for the whole "humans offered them allot" thing. Yes they did but the Na'vi didn't want. You can't force them to except your way of life. They were perfectly happy the way they were. Plus considering that in return they were suppose to let the humans mine the shit out of their planet and destroy what the Na?vi consider sacred it?s not surprising the refused.
It?s not like they refused to have anything to do with humans the word go. Grace started a school remember? and many were happily going along with that until things went sour with the mining company.

That said I didn?t like the movie that much. Special affects were awesome but the story was a bit shallow and to black and white. I think Princess Monoke is a much better example of that sort of plotline. Where both the humans and the forest spirits in this case were as bad as each other.

 

[x434343]

I went with humans because all the liberals in my classes were all "Humns bad Navi gewd." Asking why, their only response was, "look at wht tey don." What, they need unobtanium? Well Unobtanium's use could make or break humanity's motive. What does it do? "It's worth mony." I get that, why do the humans want it? "Its worth mony." OK, how about you fill in the blank: Uranium powers nuclear power plants, gold is used in circutry, unobtanium is used _________. "ITS WORTH MONY YOU STOOPID PERSON."

So I assumed Unobtanium is used to fuel the spaceships so that it cuts travel time down by 3/4s. Simply because I hate those stupid Strawman Liberals.

(NOTE: When I say 'liberal' or 'strawman liberal' here, I mean people who are liberals because they hate Republicans or because they think we're more discriminatory now than the 60's. Meaning, people who are exceedingly stupid and also liberals. Not Liberals who are stupid. Take no offense.)

I consider myself highly liberal and I was rooting for the humans all the way through for partially that reason. The people you are describing sound more Hippie Liberal than anything else.

Well I live in a suburb of Los Angeles called The Peninsula. Basically 5 cities on a peninsula. The people inhabiting it are either upper-class or the high end of middle-class. I'm the borderline middle-class type. The people supporting the blue catpeople are any mix. Just a rundown of a few.

-One hates America because he's Mexican and America is too big or something along those lines. And I don't care, except he pointed at my big American flag belt buckle once and started ranting about how America is Hitler or some shit like that. He's also supportive of Liberals because "Republicans are evil."
-One thinks Barack Obama is the best president ever because he's black. Regardless of policies or shortcomings, he's perfect. I shit you not.
-One convinced the Drama class board, which I was on, to do an event 'for charity'. About a day before the event, this person said that we needed to get noticed and filmed so that Barack Obama would notice us and we'd get medals. Not shitting you again.
-One doesn't understand why many people loved Ronald Reagan. After outlining a dozen or so policies and the fact he revived national spirit, she says, "Besides that, why's he great?" Go figure.


That's just a taste of the meld you get in this higher-up society. People who are liberals not because of an allegiance for a cause or a perception of wrong in society, but to be noticed or because they hate Republicans.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well the humans were definately dicks when it came to treating the Na'vi properly. I mean there is an entire planet and they decide that they HAVE to go for the unobtainium deposit under the Na'vi's home? Seriously that's just greedy. I understand that they humans did try to negotiate with the Na'vi and give them medicine and knowledge, but still did the humans really need that particular unobtainium deposit? No not really.

That being said I can't really root against the humans. I wasn't hoping they would win the entire time like my one friend who I saw it with, but I was pretty happy to see that they properly showed that humanity would kick the Na'vi's blue asses even when outnumbered. I didn't like the Deus Ex Machina during the fight though (The planet decides to fight against the humans, WHAT THE FUCK?).

Plus if the Colonel was anymore badass my head would explode.

And for all the people who were rooting for humanity remember this: the humans may have left for now, but you can bet they'll be back. And with a proper army this time too...

Avatar 2: You Mess With the Bull...

 

[RandomWords]

humans, I'm one of them...but I would take out the assholes running the place, everyone else is fine.

 

[glimmrang]

Sorry, I have to stick with Glados. Because is pretty cool and explores and if you paid close attention, you would see that would win for reals while both humans and Na'vi would of lost, and in the sense was working with Glados

 

[Chunko]

Why did everyone root for the Na'vi?

Because the humans were imperialistic, greedy pricks. They wanted to destroy the Na'vi land and take whatever that thing was just to sell it for money. That is like watching District 9 and siding with the douche before he has his change of heart... err... grows a heart...

Obviously not wanting your world's economy to crash and forcing everyone to live in squalor is greed.

Ok, so going by what you are saying, if the American economy plummets due to lack of oil, it is perfectly ok for them to go off and kill everyone in another country and destroy their homes just to get that oil? Yes, putting your WANTS for something to sell over someone elses SURVIVAL is greed.

Well they didn't want to kill the Na'vi the humans wanted to sort things out peacefully. The Na'vi were the agressors.

Would you steal food to feed your family?

 

[Chunko]

The movie is geared to make you sympathetic to the Na'vi at every turn, in fact with everything they portray I thought it was pretty much impossible to root the humans; guess I was wrong

Unless the movie was crap.