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Wall Bangers from Avatar (film) include:

• The main character, being a sort of diplomat between the humans and the Na'vi who then joins the Na'vi for real, is told by his human bosses that if he can't get the Na'vi to move in three months, the army's going to have to use force. So, just to be clear - it would be in the best interests of both his Na'vi friends and his human bosses to try and strike a deal with the Na'vi people, or at the very least, warn them. Instead, for no reason, he just spends the entire time hanging out with the other Na'vi, enjoying the lush planet and his new athletic body, without ever telling anyone they have to move or die. Then, when the three month deadline is up, he pleads for the humans to hold off the attack. They tell him he has one night to try and evacuate the Na'vi before they come in using force. So, you'd think he'd tell the Na'vi now, right? Wrong. He spends the night fucking the leader's daughter under a sacred tree, never mentioning what's going to happen the following day. Then he gets all angry when it actually does.
  • On a smaller note, the hero says of Earth "there's nothing green there anymore". He seems to have forgotten that he fought in Venezuela, which was described earlier as "some mean bush", meaning there. Was. Lots. Of. Jungle.
    • That could just be a figure of speech. They tend to die out fairly slowly even if the circumstances that spawned them are no longer pertinent. Don't let your anger take the reins.
• The concept of Unobtainium. We never learn during the film itself why it's worth $20 million a kilo after being mined, processed, and shipped on a route that would take 5 years to make a round trip. It's not like gold, which we originally valued because it was pretty; it's an ugly grey metallic rock. If it's useful, then why it is useful enough to send people to a Death World would be useful to know. You have to explain why the valuable rock, the center of the conflict in the story, is worth shipping all those military craft over for...
  • Apparently there was a deleted scene where it was explained that it was used as fuel for fusion reactions, but it was cut because they felt not mentioning this tidbit would enhance the world a la the "scruffy-looking nerf herder" line from Star Wars. Unobtanium is the MacGuffin that drives the entire plot. Then again, if there was a need or clear-cut use for Unobtanium given in the film, then many more viewers would be Rooting for the Empire—we're only human.

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