Reply #37: i just saw this movie yesterday. here is my synopsis:

[Soylent Brice]

it doesn't make the just US military look bad. these people were mercenaries. it makes european settlers, the us military, and these mercs for hire companies look bad.

i believe it was an attack on corporations, and blackwater/xe.

in regards to your observations regaring the religious implications, i think you missed the mark as well.

if you paid attention the movie you would see that they learned that the planet, all plants-animals-etc, are linked, literally. networked. basically a biological network allowing brain uploading. a bilogical version of the Singularity, if you will.

i would think anyone who may be alive when we achieve the singularity will claim a "religious experience" when that amount of information is available to every human mind. considering how "primitive" the indigenous were in the movie i could understand why they would claim Eywa as their deity. think of it as Gaia.

as an atheist, any religious aspect is hokey to me. religion is basically a way of explaining things that are unexplainable or not fully understood.

i understand the point you're trying to make. i'm just sad to see that with all the different things that could be discussed about that movie, i have yet to see it anywhere. the remote possibility of biological networking from person to person, person to animal, person to plant, and the blatant parallel between the company and it's mercs, and blacwater/xe - halliburton-esque seems to be muted by other nonsense.