WIT AND HUMOR – A FUNNY SITE BY BOB WAYNE

Avatar lost the Oscar for some very good reasons. Yes, the movie was a technical marvel. It was graphically stunning and the 3D was seamless.

However, the plot was ridiculously predictable; the characters were one dimensional; the story line was another tired attempt at revisionist history; and the references to Little Big Horn were blatantly obvious.

There was nothing new about this story if you wipe away the sci-fi parts. Guy goes native and switches sides. Gee, didn’t see that one coming. What an original plot idea. It may have taken ten years to make the movie but the story and characters were writtin on a napkin at a bad restaurant.

Face the facts, people. A man with a club can whip two men with their bare hands. A man with a bow and arrow can beat ten men with knives. And an army of 2000 men with bows and arrows can beat 250 with rifles.

But bows and arrows are no match for machine guns and missles and the reality is, no matter how much you want to root for the underdog and hate the evil, one-dimensional, obvious cliche, military leader, the natives would have had their asses handed to them.

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