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I wonder how much...


J.C. and the Avatar team paid to keep this movie quiet.

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why should they ?

I mean this movie was not even close to avatar, and im not an avatar fan boy.

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you don't think they tell a Very similar story?

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So does pocahontas, dansing with wolf and so on.

its not an original story

HAI I faceroll mah keyboard when posting

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Similar yes, "very similar", no because the motives behind the human invasion were different in each movie. This allows the audience to decide quickly the right and wrong in Avatar and not so quickly in Terra.

In Avatar, the humans involved represented a small fraction of humanity while in Terra it represented all of humanity. An in this whole there were people who would exterminate the Terrians without hesitation, but there were also people that respected life. Siding with the Humans or the Terrians was not a cut and dry decision here.

In Avatar, the question is whether a superior species should be able to do anything for financial gain. While the majority see no problem with this, only a small group opposes them.

In BfT, the question is whether a superior species should be able to do anything for preservation of the species. In this case, the governing body clearly understands the respect that life deserves. It is the rogue military head that does not see a problem wiping out many (perhaps all) species that inhabit the planet. Regards, SagaH

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This movie could have been a low budget testing ground for Avatar maybe they wanted to see how well the public responded to the genere yes theres pochahantas its been out awhile but these movie are diffrent the fate of entire races hang in the balance not just one tribe. another movie similiar to this was outpost in fact in that movie the humans attacked a planet and killed most of the native creatures there. This movie was as good if not better then avatar as far as storytelling goes Avatar makes up for it in CGI and explosions and sexy blue alien girls.

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