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Corrected entry: At the end of the big battle, the survivors are lined up and are leaving Pandora but to where? All the ships from earth will be full and it will take at least 5+ years for empty ships to arrive to evacuate the survivors.

Correction: Simple logic would state that any ship doing the Earth-Pandora run must have sufficient capacity to evacuate the entire human population in the event of a disaster - it would be insane to have a situation where any possibility of rescue would take five years to get there. A significant number of the base's military personnel, likely the vast majority, would have been lost in the battle, so the ship returning to Earth should have more than ample capacity to take all the survivors back with them.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: The missiles Qaurritch and his men use in the final battle are completely useless. If they have to fire in line of sight, why are the missiles constantly curving and flying all over the place? Line of sight works, but only if the missiles fly in a straight line, otherwise, hitting your target is dumb luck.

Friso94

Correction: The missiles are flying around the place because of the magnetic properties pf the mountains. Notice the missiles were moving around fine when they took down home tree. Line of sight is just the best chance they have of hitting anything.

XIII

Corrected entry: The exoskeleton walkers are designed to detect the hand and arm movements that their drivers make and replicate them exactly. However at the end when the Colonel is shot by two arrows, he grasps the second one with his right hand (palm-down), however his walker makes a grasp with the palm up. (02:24:00)

Nik Rolls

Correction: By this time the walker has suffered considerable damage. It is not unreasonable that some of the electronics and/or mechanical components of the system would no longer work correctly.

Guy

Corrected entry: On Pandora the animals do not have fur nor feathers. Still the Na'vi wear war decorations made out of feathers.

Correction: Just because we did not see any animals with feathers, doesn't mean they don't exist there.

wizard_of_gore

Corrected entry: The flux vortex in the Hallelujah mountains interferes with the radio instruments on the drop ship due to intense magnetic flux in the area. However it does not interfere with the Avatars, which are "remote controlled".

Correction: "Remote conrolled" doesn't necessarily equal "radio controlled" 140 years in the future. In fact, in the case of the Avatar program, it obviously does not.

Phixius

Wrong, magnetism bends frequencies including light or radio. The magnetic flux is powerful enough to interfere with remote control signals even if it's 140 or 400 years into the future.

Peter Santiago

You are assuming that they used electromagnetic waves to control avatars. Or that the vortex had equal impact to all frequencies.

Corrected entry: During the scene when Jake and Norm enters the link-pods for the first time, we see Max looking at images of their brain activity. Max then slides Jakes images onto a tablet with his right hand while holding it with his left, before he moves away. In the next shot, we see Max start to move away from the screens once more, and this time he holds the tablet with his right hand. (00:18:35)

Correction: Max was just flipping over the tablet. Not a mistake.

dux

Corrected entry: Grace is supposed to be dead, since she didn't make the transfer through the tree of souls. So, why is she holding a machine gun in almost the last scene when the humans are led to their ships to leave the planet? Look to the left side of the screen.

Correction: That's not Grace. She DID die.

dux

Corrected entry: In the Extended Edition of the movie, we have Tsu'tey's death scene in full near the end. Jake comes in and the whole scene plays out. but Jake is in his Avatar body. Not moments before, we saw the entire trailer holding the pods in which Jake connected with his Avatar body wrecked by Colonel Miles. So how did he reconnect with his Avatar body after that? It couldn't have been with that trailer, nor could it have been at the original base considering the company should still be inhabiting it and the scene seems to take place at most a few hours after wards.

Correction: The trailer was damaged, sure, but it wasn't totally wrecked - it still appeared to be, for the most part, structurally intact, for example. Slap a quick patch on the windows and any leaks (any installation designed to work in a toxic atmosphere is going to have repair equipment readily to hand) and it's not remotely unreasonable that at least one of the interface pods would still be functional.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Before decanting, the avatars have been maturing for six years in a sealed tank without consciousness, and yet the hair around their queue is in braids. Scuba-beautician?

Correction: It's not just hair in there, if indeed it is hair at all, and not one single Na'vi is seen to not have that "braid". Who's to say that whatever that appendage is doesn't simply grow in a way that resembles a human braid of hair?

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where they are trying to save Grace's mind and soul from dying by transferring them to the avatar, instead of Grace, Jake is on the ground with his mask on and the roots are crawling over him not Grace.

Correction: I saw this movie three times in IMAX and it is definitely Grace's body. It's hard to mistake a female body for a male.

wizard_of_gore

Corrected entry: The first time we see the Avatar in the lab, before Jake connects to it, Jake's Avatar is lying on a bed and it is making a move with its foot. (00:13:30)

Correction: Even though Jake's mind controls it, the Avatar is still an actual creature, with a nervous system. Muscle movements and twitches are to be expected.

wizard_of_gore

Corrected entry: A number of the animals on Pandora make the same sounds as the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. For example, the horses, sometimes, make the same sound as the Velociraptors, and at one point in the film the T-Rex roar is made by one of the animals (but I'm not sure which one).

Correction: This is one person's opinion, not trivia. The two movies were produced by different companies (20th Century Fox and Universal) and therefore obviously had different sound production.

Corrected entry: In the scene where the Na'vi are attempting to move Grace from her human body to her Avatar body, after she has died and one of the Na'vi moves to check for life in her Avatar, you can see her eyes flitch even though she is supposed to be dead.

Correction: People DO twitch immediately after death.

She's been dead a while. The dead don't twitch their eyes.

She was still connected to Pandora's neural network. It is possible that this can cause some muscle movements. Body tissues don't die instantly after person's death.

Corrected entry: At various times in the film, Jake makes video logs. His 1st is dated May 19th, at approx. 17:09, his 12th is dated May 30th, at approx. 21:32, and his last (98th) is dated August 24th at 19:10. All in the year 2154. At no point in the film are we made aware of the lenghth of Pandoran days and/or nights. Pandora orbits a gas giant, Polyphemus, along with other moons, and Polyphemus orbits the sun, Alpha Centauri A. It's therefore highly unlikely that a Pandoran day (including the night) will be anywhere close to 24hours, which will subsequently affect the lengths of Pandoran weeks, months, years etc. Even if "earth-like" time, days and months were imposed to try and keep a sense of nomality it would never work.

Correction: Just because they are working on Pandora, doesn't mean they have to adopt the Pandoran calendar and time measurements. They are only "visitors" so they would keep in time with their own time/calendar system and report back to Earth using these measurements. There's no reason why they would have to keep time with Pandora's system.

MovieFan612

Corrected entry: In the sequence where the Navi try to upload Grace's human body to a Navi, you see Jake looking down on the two bodies. But in the next shot, he suddenly turns into Norm Spellman's avatar. (01:54:45)

Correction: That's because that is Norm Spellman's avatar. He is standing next to Jake.

Brad

Corrected entry: When Jake is running from the Cat like thing, when he jumps through the tree's he has no gun, has it again, no gun, has it. Falls over and drops the gun, gets back up with NO gun in his hands and runs under the tree with nothing in his hands. Then has the gun to shoot it again under the roots of the tree.

Correction: Jake has the gun in his left hand most of the time during this scene, but at no point does he not have the gun until after the thanator rips it from his hands.

tavenger5

Corrected entry: In the final fight after the Dragon Assault Ship is destroyed and crashes to the ground, Quaritch faces to his left in the AMP. In the next shot, it shows inside his cockpit in which he is actually facing his right side. In the next shot, it changes back to Quaritch facing his left.

Correction: Quaritch is turned left and then looks over his right shoulder as the Dragon crashes. The interior amp suit shot he is still facing to his right. The next shot, also still right - then he turns left and walks away.

tavenger5

Corrected entry: Shortly after Jake woke up in the spaceship going to Pandora, he opened a locker with his name on it, yet it was marked "Sully T." instead of "Sully J."

Correction: It's made very clear that he's a last minute replacement for his twin brother, Tommy Sully, so that would be his brother's name on the locker. They either didn't have time to change it, or just didn't care.

Xofer

Corrected entry: In the first exterior shot of the starship at the beginning of the movie, it is facing the wrong direction. It must have been facing backwards (away from Pandora) to decelerate from cruising speed, and would also need to be facing backwards for its upcoming orbital insertion burn. Turning the ship forwards between deceleration and orbital insertion would waste fuel and accomplish nothing.

Dusso Janladde

Correction: Nothing about anything happening there is something that has ever actually occurred. So to say the hows, whats, and whys are not factual or logical is ridiculous.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Spoiler, if you haven't seen the movie, please don't read this: At two points in the 3S version the skin of the Navi isn't blue, but white. They both happen after the attack of the humans. The first time this occurs is when Neytiri falls from a big rhinolike native animal and she's trapped underneath. You can see her leg moving, however that leg isn't blue. Further to the end, when Jake becomes a Na'vi for real, Neytiri's hand touches his face. Again, it isn't blue but white.

Correction: The Na'vi have iridescent skin. In the two scenes you are referring to Neytiri's skin is lit by 'sun' light making it appear a very light blue, not white.

tavenger5

Continuity mistake: When Jake first gets into the "syncing" device and he says, "This is cool," Grace's hands are already on his leg. In the next shot she reaches for his legs, where he replies, "Don't, I got this."

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Jake Sully: Look, at first it was just orders. And then, everything changed. Okay, I fell in love. I fell in love with the, with the forest, with the Omaticaya people, with you. With you.

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Trivia: During the final battle, Lyle Wainfleet's AMP Suit gets knocked down and crushed by a charging Hammerhead Titanothere. Wainfleet utters a Wilhelm scream just before he's crushed. (02:21:05)

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Question: Does this movie take place in the same universe as ALIENS?

Answer: No. The Alien franchise, which kicks off in the year 2122, depicts a human civilisation in possession of faster-than-light transport and multiple interstellar colonies. The civilisation seen in Avatar, the majority of which is set in 2154, do not appear to have FTL travel, as they take six years to travel to the Alpha Centauri system, a distance of approximately 4.5 light years.

Tailkinker

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