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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5082840" data-attributes="member: 58197">It's a common misconception because Cameron skates over that aspect of the movie so fast it's very easy to miss. Furthermore, all available evidence on-screen indicates that the corporation has fairly free access to Earth military resources--we see marines and battlemechs and gunships everywhere--and that their concern with PR is fairly limited; the evil executive dude says (IIRC) that the one thing shareholders like even less than genocide is a poor quarterly report, which suggests that the corporation is both willing and able to commit genocide if it comes down to it.So, it's not at all unreasonable to ask why the corporation isn't going to just come back and bomb hell out of the place. I gather James Cameron posted a whole huge reference online explaining the backstory in detail... to which I can only respond that if your movie needs an online reference to fill in all the plot holes, you need to work on your script some more.The special effects were indeed stunning, though, and IMO could have carried the movie across the finish line by themselves if they hadn't had quite so far to carry it. Memo to Cameron: When you have two hours' worth of sheer technological "wow," do not make your movie three hours long.(Also, was anyone else EXTREMELY creeped out by the sexual subtext of this movie? Apparently, among the Na'vi, men get to choose the women who will mate with them and the women get to shut up and take it... and the process of bonding with your mystical winged steed is more-or-less-literal rape. Gaah.)</blockquote>

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