Poll: Avatar - Who did you root for

[Picosaurus]

Hell yeah I was siding with the humans. Cooler stuff, better motivation, better back story and better characters. The Colonel may have been one dimensional, but at least he had more character the Sully.

Agreed, the humans should have been the ones on top and I know this may be going too far but thinking about it the response from earth isn't suddenly going to become more reasonable they are going to get pissed and come back. If Sully had been less eager to strike back maybe he wouldn't have just doomed them to a larger response.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

The humans. The movie actually pissed me off a little bit. Not so much right versus wrong though. More about how the humans have much better technology but since the movie makes them seem evil, the alien equivalent to cavemen somehow prevaled. It made no sense, but hey the audience is happy! I wanted them to bomb the hell out of the Navi. I wanted those .50 cals to rip their blue flesh apart.

They definitely need to make a sequel where humanity comes back with a bigger army.

 

[David_G]

Rooting for the home team here, don't know why, I just like humans.

 

[Mad World]

In a way, I sort of wanted the humans to win. Maybe, it was because they had the awesome gunships and other technology (which I thought was cool). But that was just because it was a movie. Really, the humans were in the wrong; they attacked the Na'vi for their resources; and even if the humans did need it, I don't think that it (attacking the Na'vi) was justified.

The Na'vi - maybe - weren't technically human, but they possessed feelings and emotions, just as we do.

 

[Phoenixlight]

Okay wow there's been 29 views and no posts. can you PLEASE qualify your opinions.

There's a poll so we don't need to. I picked neutral.

 

[skywalkerlion]

I wanted the Humans to win soooooo fucking god damn much.
I absolutly hated the ending.

Glory to Humanity!

What she said.

Humans looked way cooler than the Na'vi too, in my opinion. How can you argue with the massive 5-foot-long-knife wielding 10 foot tall mechs they had?

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

It was the planet of a sentient species, and attacking just for a valuable resource is a dick move to me. When money's a higher priority than sentient lives, shit's gonna go downhill.

I'm pretty sure humanity needed it to survive. And besides, humanity offered them a peaceful resolution and the Navi were the ones who wanted war. They didn't even need it for themselves, they just believed in bullshit religion (the cause of more death and destruction than anything else in the universe) so the land was sacred to them.

I don't think what they did was wrong, that's how the world works. And in real life the superior technology would have easily won. If they kept resisting, genocide would have possibly occured. And there is not a single damn Marine that would turn on his country and the human race just like that.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

The Fire Nation.

Oh, wait, wrong Avatar . . . I don't care enough about James Cameron's new creation to take sides.

 

[park92]

why would they use jake???? That guy practically had the attention span of a 5 year old. if the humans had nukes then the na'vi would've been obliterated

 

[Redem]

I'm half convince that actually Jake Sully worked his way to become king of Pandora were he shall rule with an iron fist and essentially kicked the RDA out because they were the only one who could challenge him

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

I hated the movie but I have to go with humans.

 

[The Ambrosian]

On an emotional level I stayed neutral, but I believe the Na'vi are right and the humans are wrong.

It was never explained that humanity needed unobtanium to survive, only that it's really expensive stuff they can get rich on. On an entire planet there should be more than just one place where they can find unobtanium, but apparently they didn't want to make the effort of relocating to another side of the planet.

And of course, that is considering that there are no other places in the entire universe where you can get unobtanium, which frankly sounds far-fetched. If it's so damn rare, then I don't see how humanity would survive for long on that stuff.

Jake Sully isn't a jerk. Why should he side with the humans in this conflict when they are the bigger assholes? And why should they just let the humans get their will through? They'd probably start harassing and killing other Na'vi as they went looking for more unobtanium.

And who the hell can support the idea of the humans uplifting the Na'vi from their primitive society? Remember the words Manifest Destiny?

Pretty much sums it up. While watching it I guess I was neutral but thinking about it it seems the Na'vi where just defending their land and the humans where trying to steal from them for a profit reason.

 

[Blandman]

I sided with John Smith. I thought that Pocahontas and her people were just being incredibly selfish. The colonists didn't even mean to shoot that one Native! If they had just been more diplomatic, it could have worked out so well...Wait a minute.

I sided with the humans because that General guy (with the scars) was by far the best character. They set him on fire and he still kept going.

Also, with all that technology you'd think the humans would have some sort of...orbital bombardment capability, or missiles which could have been fired out of range of the Na'vi. Guess not?

 

[Dystopia]

None, I hated the film and thought it was incredibly overrated. However, if GLADOS were in it, I would watch it over and over again...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

in that universe, i'd probably end up siding with the humans (big ass robot rocket wielding motherfuckers...or big blue guys with sticks...) plus they are my own species. so it'd be really hard not to.

id be a cheap bastard too, i'd agent orange the fuck out of the planet floor, see eywa protect them from that.

 

[NEDM]

Humans. If the Na'vi were such a great race of peace and love and all things that we aren't, the the other tribes would have stepped in to help without jake sully having to quest for his epic mount. They clearly are just as hostile as "we" are, with each tribe having a standing army ready to roll in and save the day at the end. The Na'Vi Tree tribe could have gotten the /eyeroll... unobtainium from under their tree themselves and traded it to the humans. Heck if they Na'vi had mined it themselves, think of the labor costs the humans would have saved.

 

[craddoke]

Hurt Locker.

 

[hermes]

I would think the only people to root for the humans were just not paying attention to the movie, since it goes such a long way to show that humans are brutes, rednecks and greedy, while navis are pure, natural, proud and all around good that is almost preachy... (hypocrital preachy, that is)

 

[Jedoro]

It was the planet of a sentient species, and attacking just for a valuable resource is a dick move to me. When money's a higher priority than sentient lives, shit's gonna go downhill.

I'm pretty sure humanity needed it to survive. And besides, humanity offered them a peaceful resolution and the Navi were the ones who wanted war. They didn't even need it for themselves, they just believed in bullshit religion (the cause of more death and destruction than anything else in the universe) so the land was sacred to them.

I don't think what they did was wrong, that's how the world works. And in real life the superior technology would have easily won. If they kept resisting, genocide would have possibly occured. And there is not a single damn Marine that would turn on his country and the human race just like that.

The only reference I heard to them wanting it, was that it was crazy valuable. And we don't exactly invade other countries just to get diamonds, or other valuable resources, when the owners don't want to sell it. As for those Marines, it's blind obedience like that, that tends to fuck things up. They weren't out there for the government, they were out there as private security. They just did it for the paycheck, same as Jake at the start.