01-21-2010, 11:47 PM
Quote:Maybe I'm shallow but I liked it. The story does follow the same lines as a lot before but name something recent that doesn't. <_<My biggest complaint is it followed more modern stereotype lines: Scientists = good, military = bad, natives = ultra treehuggers. At least the story gave a good reason for the last of those 3.It's not that the protagonist wins and the antagonist loses, or that the love interest and the hero fall in love, or whatever. Those things are pretty much bog standard, and as much as I prefer them to be tweaked, they're not going away.
As for things like the protagonist falling in love, the antagonist dying in some glorious way ect ect. That's what makes the movie good. Not that you don't expect it but that you want to see it out. It would be a horrible movie if the protagonist died, the natives were enslaved or wiped out, and the world was stripmined. :D
What I object to is that the same stupid characters follow the same stupid story, whenever "native" people are involved. The chief is always the same chief, wearing a different headdress or tattoos. The love interest is always the same girl, maybe with different skin colour. They don't even bother to give them a separate personality beyond what is absolutely necessary to keep the plot going - they're fixtures in the room labelled "tribe".
Stories *by* indigenous groups are amazingly varied and interesting; is it too much to ask that stories *about* them deviate from the stereotype by more than a few inches in any direction?
-Jester