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looks good-plot story really sucked


I am sick and tired of every idiotic film that depicts people destroying themselves. The whole idea reeks. This culture terraforms two whole planets, ie very advanced, yet still destroys all three planets. Puleeze give me a break. Otherwise the movie was nicely done with good performances and nice score. All they really needed was a good story.

EL

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How old are you?
I am guessing no older than 20 years old.

For people who have live longer than you, we remember the times that Earth, was plentiful, it was greener, and it certainly wasn't as bad as we have it now. Species are dying around the world at alarming rate - so this movie isn't wrong, WE ARE DESTROYING OURSELF. Uncontrolled consumptions at massive scale, depletion of the natural resources, its only matter of time.

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Right, and more we'll be and more we'll destruct. To stop destruction of the earth you got to convince 6 billion people to think the same way, which is impossible, humans will be able to think the right way when it'll be far too late, when humans will be only a fistful.
Vulcans won't come to visit us, humanity is too dumb :-/

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People who are over 20 thousand years old, like myself, remember the time when the Earth was heavily forested even in the Middle East, until primitive cultures invented agriculture and used slash-and-burn techniques to clear land, turning the Garden of Eden into a desert. The people of the Americas, being 10k to 20k years behind, were starting to use the same methods in their primitive agriculture. Fortunately we stopped them before they could destroy 2 continents.

Of course, I wouldn't expect you to know of anything from the time before you were born, but perhaps if you are 30 you can remember when the naturalist David Attenborough said that we "have not been able to eliminate a single species of [insect]". If you are 150 you would know that Darwin found varieties of beetles that only existed within a radius of 100 to 200 feet, easily eliminated by clearing an acre. Anyway they naturally evolved by the time they migrated that distance, which was his point, and varieties didn't exist for long. But those "varieties" were not called "species" until about 20 years ago when someone realized the political benefit of claiming that hundreds of species are eliminated every day.

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<<<For people who have live longer than you, we remember the times that Earth, was plentiful, it was greener, and it certainly wasn't as bad as we have it now

I remember that also. And most of the damage in later years were done by far leftist liberals.

I remember when you used to be able to go to the beach without it being littered by pop bottles because back then, pop bottles were glass and people would return them to the stores for the nickel or dime refund, which the companies would then reuse the glass after sterilizing it.

Then the far leftist liberals required all pop to come in plastic bottles, and since people couldn't get a refund on them because the stores won't give refunds on them, instead of returning them to the store, people just started throwing them on the ground and beach when they finished drinking it.

I can slso tell how replacing paper towels with air hand dryers also made things worse for the enviroment.

And several other things far left liberals did making things worse for the enviroment under the phony guise of it being "better for the enviroment".



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I remember when you used to be able to go to the beach without being
littered by pop bottles because back then,pop bottles were glass and
people would return them to the stores(...)
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There's always stupid people who'd rather break glass bottles in the
streets than to return them for money at a store.

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i agree with you, there are some things the environmentalists made worse, there is an exellent documentary on the subject by channel 4 called 'what the green movement got wrong'. it was a fascinating and illuminating watch, for someone who cannot remember the so called greener days.

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It seems that the cynics who belittle mankind always forget, that despite our current flaws, we've also never before in human history made such an effort to conserve and respect our environment, and try to find new eco-friendly ways looking after/living with it. We've only had our current burst of technology for little over a hundred years... give us a chance to get used to it!

The myth of the Noble Savage at one with nature, is exactly that. Early man was as guilty of deforestation and manipulation of his environment as we are. More so even. He just didn't have the ability to do it on our current scale. The difference is, we're actually learning and changing ourselves gradually. Are we a long way from getting it right? Sure. But we're trying.

On Battle for Terra... I actually rather enjoyed it. It's like Avatar's mature adult sibling lol! Better production design (even if they didn't have the budget for especially detailed CG), better characters, better plot, even a more original soundtrack, I think. :-) However, I was really annoyed with the 'Humans destroyed all 3 of their worlds' angle. It would've been much better to say that something like our sun unexpectedly going nova had destroyed our worlds, or a similar disaster. Rather than the usual 'all of mankind are constantly evil warmongering self-destructive idiots'. The warmongering general would've been fine then, as he was only one against the human council who didn't want to proceed that way.

Human's ain't perfect, but I hardly think we could come together enough to colonize and terraform two more worlds, only to blow our species to extinction. It doesn't make sense, and goes just that little bit too far in the 'We're saying mankind are horrible evil destructors' propoganda.

Otherwise, not a bad film though. It was made pretty well, considering its obvious budget limitations.

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<<< am sick and tired of every idiotic film that depicts people destroying themselves. The whole idea reeks. This culture terraforms two whole planets, ie very advanced, yet still destroys all three planets. Puleeze give me a break


yeah, just like the awful movie Avatar.

We can all see where most Hollywood movies are leaning these days.



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