I don't want to see this film, but I suspect I'm going to end up seeing it just to bolster a suspicion I've had about it all along: that with the same budget and scope, they could have told a far more effective and interesting story -- one along the lines of, as you put it, "Mononoke" or "Nausicaa", where the bad guys are simply one of several factions who have an agenda. (AFAICT, there isn't a single character of the depth of, say, Lady Eboshi from "Mononoke" in "Avatar".)
Wouldn't "Avatar" have been more interesting if it had been, for instance, about how both sides have to find a mutual rapprochement to solve a much larger problem that threatens both of them? Like, for instance, the encroaching senility (or insanity) of the world-mind?
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Date: 2010-04-26 18:15 (UTC)Wouldn't "Avatar" have been more interesting if it had been, for instance, about how both sides have to find a mutual rapprochement to solve a much larger problem that threatens both of them? Like, for instance, the encroaching senility (or insanity) of the world-mind?