Why was Quaritch the only likable character in Avatar?

I think we can all agree that Quaritch was one of the few good qualities of the movie. The problem is that he is clearly the "villain" of the story. Why did Cameron write his main baddie as such a likable guy? Did Cameron screw up by hiring based Stephen Lang for the part?

Because he is logical.

He had charisma while the main character had none. It's also hard to make the audience side against humans.

I think it is more that he is the most logical thinking of the characters. He knows the stakes if Earth doesn't get Unobtanium. Hell, he has probably fought in the inevitable Resource Wars before Unobtanium was discovered. If he has to kill some tree hugging aliens to keep his world from tearing itself apart, he'll do it.

He was the only one who thought for himself. The rich bad guy, the Avatar team, and the blue cat people were just tropes.

Don't even remember the movie, but was that really what was at stake, all I remember is "le evil company wants resource"

I mean, is it really that big of a deal to remove some tree hugger aliens to save your species?

Unobtanium solved Earth's energy crisis which is why it was so damn expensive. Yeah, Ribisi's character only looked at the profit side of it but Quaritch knew what the political and military effects of not having Unobtanium would be.

>American
>Likable

Try again

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I know he never said it, but he should have

someone post Quaritch's image with how they will still sail the stars don't have it right now

thanks lol off by a couple of seconds.

>tfw you realize an autist wrote better dialogue than based Cameron

I feel like he's saying this to black people.

I could see him saying this to Africa since most of the countries there can't get their shit together.

this. aussies have like zero charisma on screen. i think thats why they keep getting cast in leading roles. because they are just thoroughly bland and can be used by the producers to push whatever agenda they have without overpowering the screen

Because Stephen Lang is a great actor.
I wish he was given a big speech related to something like this one. I feel like it really would've reinforced his character.

But everybody would have sided with the bad guy

It would end up being like Law Abiding Citizen

Because Cameron's a full blown liberal. The white devil is bad!

>Why did Cameron write his main baddie as such a likable guy

its almost like a good villain is relatable and not just a cartoon character.

I get more of a hippy vibe from Cameron, not so much Ctrl-Left

because he was played by a good actor

There was a response to this that was equally great, but it never gets posted

It wasn't great, it was basically a shitty copy paste job that doesn't make half as much sense

No, I know which one you mean. That one was retarded, I mean another, older one.

nope there isn't you fucking liberal

The only thing Quaritch did wrong is being a stupid fucking jarhead with less tactical sense than Colonel Sanders.

At what point in his officer career did he learn that it's a good idea to:

Deliver a bomb on a low altitude, slow moving (so slow his ground troops can play escort, another bad idea in itself) cargo plane. An ideal bomber flies higher and faster than it's probable interceptors. If Quaritch can build a bomb, he should be able to build a guidance system for a high altitude craft.

Sending his ground troops to escort a bomber. As stated, if a bomber is slow and low enough to need boots on the ground to protect it, you're probably doing it wrong. A wiser use of infantry would have been to hit from multiple directions to divide the enemy's attention so the makeshift bomber will have fewer opposition. Also, if the jury rigged bomb explodes after crashing before reaching the target, it would destroy his own forces.

Flying in broad daylight, despite probably having the advantage of radars and NV shit over glow in the dark primitives eyeballing it.

At the end of the day, none of that matters considering that he had the ultimate high ground with a god damn spaceship in orbit. A navy officer would have just dropped a few KKVs on the target and called it a day.

Because writers.

I can't think of any other argument to refute the first images logic. Nothing matters more than the will of self-preservation, sacrificing your own safety for someone else(especially an alien) goes against everything evolution has put us through for millions of years to end up here, today.

They keep casting aussies because we are the only English speeking country that produces white actors under 45

A hippy wouldn't spend millions apon millions on entertainment that has a huge carbon footprint, but has no intrinsic value to the planet.

I doubt he anticipated Sully being able to rally the Na'vi the way that he did.

Because the magnetic field. He needed line of sight. Pay attention.

>aussies
>white
90% of you are muddled with maltese, greek and italian shit tier genes
hardly what i would call "white"

>Orbit
>Line of sight

uh oh here comes Sup Forums

Truth hurts, I guess.

I can see you can't read.

There were little touches

Remember how legitimately excited and affectionate Quaritch got when he found out Sully's surgery was approved?

Why was that scene even filmed if not to make Sully look like a backstabbing asshole?

They explicitly stated they had to be close due to weird planetary phenomena. You may not like it, but that's just the way it is.

If they are shit tier genes, then what does that make mexicunts, west africunts or pakuntstani?

Quaritch kicking open the door to the control tower is my favorite event in any movie ever.

There is no way he should have been able to kick that door open.

Because he was the only genius to have cloned himself so he could avatar his own body and not die

>You will never see Quaritch proud after crawling out of a rat hole with the blood of blue niggers dripping off your knife

Because he is handsome with muscular tones

>Why did Cameron write his main baddie as such a likable guy?

If you think he's likable you didn't pay attention to the plot of the movie and just like him because he's le tough army dude.

Are you saying that there had never been an asteroid hitting Pandora because magnets?

The original version of it is about black people.

Is that some Solaris shit?

Well that's just like, your opinion man

probably problems with accuracy
like they'd be able to launch the bomb or whatever but it'd get thrown off course and just fuck things up

>just fuck things up
>implying Quaritch should have a problem with carpetbombing the general area until you can just pick up Unobtanium on the surface.

Hell, KKVs don't even need to be explosive. Just dropping non-ferrous rocks from orbit can smash a city.

Also, remember that in WW2, they dropped bombs from over 15,000 ft with just a gyroscope and pen and paper.

Why would they really care about accuracy? They have volume

Fuck. When he gets in the robot suit and then casually puts out the fire in his arm.

So bad ass. I was rooting for him. Traitor to your own species...

this is all because american healthcare is so poor that even the future still refuses to give out basic healthcare for free

Cameron already confirmed he'll be back in the sequel, so maybe he realized it.

How can he be back if he died?

Avatar Quaritch confirmed with a Lion mane riding one of those manticore things?

>what is a clone?