Quote Originally Posted by BG-57 View Post
How did these movies get lumped together? They are completely different in storyline, tone, and message. The only similarities are they are intended as mass entertainment.

On the subject of inspiration for Avatar it also owes quite a lot to both Dances with Wolves and Dune.
POCAHONTAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can see the similarity with Dances with Wolves, but Dune? Maybe the movie, but not really the novel.

And people got post-Avatar depression because they linked the harvesting of unobtainium with many of our activities and realised that humans are harming the planet!!!!! In related news, water is wet.

So yeah, I would (and I don't want to sound mean) consider those people ignorant. Most of us are already aware of this fact and have dealt with it. But it must have come as quite a shock initially.