First Review of Avatar Special Edition

brumgrunt writes "Den Of Geek has the first review of James Cameron's extended cut of Avatar. Its thoughts? 'As opposed to, say, the extended cuts of Aliens, Terminator 2 or The Abyss, the new scenes add little of particular note to everything we've already seen.'"

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Re:Big science plot hole

[JackDW]

I think it's quite reasonable that the Unobtainium mining project might have been running for a century or more. A huge amount of effort had been put into it.

What's really surprising is that the Na'vi learned English, but never bothered to try to understand what the humans wanted in all the time they'd been there. If the Na'vi had just bothered to figure this out, then some sort of arrangement could surely have been reached. The humans made every effort to communicate with the Na'vi, even dressing up as them with the avatars, but it was all for nothing, as the Na'vi refused to believe that humans would ever attack them.

That's something that really didn't sit right with me. The Na'vi understood about hunting; the idea that a predator kills to survive. Could they not recognise the humans as predators, the Unobtanium as prey, and themselves as "in the way"? Could they not respond in one of the obvious ways - compromise, negotiation?

As it is, the Na'vi actions basically condemned them to future attacks from the humans, ones that would be much more lethal than mining explosives and light gunships.