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I saw Avatar also...here is my review. minor spoilers, but nothing you haven't seen in the trailer which contains 95% of the plot.

The evil American Corporate Empire strikes again, this time in James Cameron's delusions. Don't get too close to Cameron as you might catch White Man's Guilt syndrome.

Here's a plot hole. If we are so advanced that we can transfer our consciousness to new genetically engineered species and colonize planets light years away (and thus can travel near the speed of light), I'm pretty sure we'd be able to figure out how to replant a forest on Earth and money would no longer exist since resources would be virtually unlimited. We would in effect be gods.

We would be able to reconstruct chemical compounds with our virtually unlimited energy and would have no need for mining gold/oil/space rocks on Pandora. Furthermore, if we were this sophisticated, then surely a bunch of stone arrows would not be able to defeat our intergalactic spaceships. If we really needed these rocks then the human heroes/traitors of this film are in fact committing human species wide genocide because a bunch of natives don't feel like moving a few miles.

Hypothetically, let's say they defeat our ground forces, we can still annihilate them from orbit. Alternatively, why not release a toxin genetically engineered to disable the Navi and then transport them somewhere else. No killing! We could also probably figure out how to regrow the big tree.

Avatar (aka, Dance's with Smurfs) is a parable of the conquest of the Americas--a sci-fi fantasy retelling of the story of Pocahontas--except that the Natives win this time. The irony of Cameron's folly, Avatar, is that only in the world of Avatar is there a god to justify the righteousness of the natives in their claim over their sacred land...if not for this righteousness then out of respect for the mythical "Balance". Since these are fake concepts of ignorant fools, I see no reason why we shouldn't take the damn rocks. Although, the annoying thing is that in this ultra technologically advanced future we would have no need for these rocks in the first place. So, the enemy/conflict in this film is a straw-man.