by Tdarcos » Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:32 am
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 2:22 pm
Avatar was terrible, however.
Tdarcos! Didja see Avatar?
Yeah, I also saw Cinema Sins "Everything Wrong With..." roast of the movie. I'm trying to remember what was the point of the movie. Extract metals from the planet. Fair enough. In the story: the Na'vi without powered weapons defeat and drive out the earth forces.
Probable actual scenario: So, gas the residents and any foliage and strip mine the place. The natives try to uprise, saturation bomb the shit out of them. Which meant, in the real world, the movie lasts 15 minutes, with the Na'vi conveniently genocideed out of existence.
Seriously, there is no way a pre-metals (or pre-gunpowder) civilization can defeat a fully technologically advanced civilization. In
Star Trek: The Next Generation a human colony was on a planet and not noticed, but the planet was ceeded to Sheliak Corporate, who wants the planet for colonization, and the Enterprise needs to move all 15,000 colonist or the Sheliak will remove their corpses. They don't want to go, they can fight if necessary. Lt. Commander Data gives them a demonstration, by using a hand phaser he destroys the water supply, poining out that he is one android with a hand weapon, the Sheliak have much more powerful weapons and can use them from long distances. "You will be killed without ever seeing your killer's faces."
Short of the Na'vi busting into the Earth Forces HQ and capture the command officers, holding them as POWs until the other side sues for peace, I can't see them being able to beat earth military forces.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=132723 time=1669756933 user_id=3]
Avatar was terrible, however.
Tdarcos! Didja see Avatar?
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Yeah, I also saw Cinema Sins "Everything Wrong With..." roast of the movie. I'm trying to remember what was the point of the movie. Extract metals from the planet. Fair enough. In the story: the Na'vi without powered weapons defeat and drive out the earth forces.
Probable actual scenario: So, gas the residents and any foliage and strip mine the place. The natives try to uprise, saturation bomb the shit out of them. Which meant, in the real world, the movie lasts 15 minutes, with the Na'vi conveniently genocideed out of existence.
Seriously, there is no way a pre-metals (or pre-gunpowder) civilization can defeat a fully technologically advanced civilization. In [i]Star Trek: The Next Generation[/i] a human colony was on a planet and not noticed, but the planet was ceeded to Sheliak Corporate, who wants the planet for colonization, and the Enterprise needs to move all 15,000 colonist or the Sheliak will remove their corpses. They don't want to go, they can fight if necessary. Lt. Commander Data gives them a demonstration, by using a hand phaser he destroys the water supply, poining out that he is one android with a hand weapon, the Sheliak have much more powerful weapons and can use them from long distances. "You will be killed without ever seeing your killer's faces."
Short of the Na'vi busting into the Earth Forces HQ and capture the command officers, holding them as POWs until the other side sues for peace, I can't see them being able to beat earth military forces.