Avatar's sole opponent

Steve Huntley, conservative columnist n the Chicago Sun Times, is the only person I know who didn’t like the movie “Avatar” (Op-ed Jan. 12, 2010). The primary reason, I would guess, is that his side lost. The advocates of greed, gluttony and aggression were unable to defeat a primitive people even though the invaders had vastly superior weapons. That happened in our war in Vietnam and is happening in our war in Afghanistan, so it is not a pie-in-the-sky ideal.
Secondly, Huntley didn’t understand many parts of the movie. When Jack Sulley fell hundreds of feet to the ground and got up unhurt like the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, it’s because Pandora is a smaller planet and has less gravitational force. Consequently, the people also can be and are taller and slimmer.
The invading mercenary army, led by a corporate executive, represents a society where only property is sacred. They are willing to damage their environment, go to any expense and kill any number of people, including their own, to get a rare mineral.
The primitive natives, on the other hand, are in tune with their environment and each other and can interact as one entity similar to the synapses and neurons of the brain.
If Huntley believes “Avatar” is the worst movie of the year, it has to be the best.