After seeing Avatar, Mark over at Libertas et Memoria comments that he cheers for the humans in movies that pit mankind against other species.

If I see a movie and it’s aliens vs. humans, I’m rooting for the humans. Sorry, that’s just the policy of Libertas et Memoria.

I have to agree with Mark on this one which is why i was cheering for the Na’vi. You see James Cameron only bothered to write one of the species in his move as human and that was the Na’vi. So in point of fact, to cheer for the Na’va was to cheer for the humans because they were the ones written to be human. This is similar to District 9. Those creatures taken from their ship and forced to live in ghettos were written to be the humans thus i cheered for them over the monsters that looked like humans but didn’t behave like humans.

Just because the monsters in your movie look like humans doesn’t mean they are human. Its just means you weren’t interested in writing a screenplay that accurately depicts humans and instead you relied on writing humans as monsters so you could make some lame and untrue point about humanity. If you want to make a point about humanity you better take the time to actually write the humans as human otherwise your lesson about humanity is wasting my time since you are making a point about monsters and not humans.

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