twesterm said:
What I actually found funny was that this mineral is so valuable it's worth it to have a gigantic milatary force present at all times but they just leave? I'm sorry, but James Cameron doesn't know how to write an evil inhuman corporation. It's pretty obvious they don't give a crap about the planet so just say the natives attacked (which they did), they defended. Fly your fancy ships higher than their mounts can fly and napalm the planet. Movie over and my version would take less than an hour. James Camaron problably believes the Native Americans could beat the modern American milatary, that's the real problem with hippies trying to villainize giant corporations. That corporation wouldn't build a mech with a giant knife, they would build a mech with a mini-nuke or just have ballistic missiles they fire from the other side of the planet, or missiles they just rain down from orbit. |
Now this isn't true. The one thing that Cameron did was figure out the logistics of the military-industrial operation.
It costs an enormous amount of money to transport anything from Earth to Pandora - I think it's in the rannge of hundreds of thousand of dollars per pound. All the machinery you see outside of the drop ship is manufactured on-site using ra materials mined from Pandora. The oly things they bring are stuff they absolutely have to, like microchips that can't be produced in that environment, or explosives that would be necessary for mining.
They didn't use orbital bombardment because they didn't bing the necessary weapons payload for i, because doing so would have been prohibitively expensive. That part made perfect sense.
