Anyone else root for the humans?

[Pwnzerfaust]

So I found myself hoping the humans would win from the first moment to the last. It's clearly not what was intended, however it was impossible for me to sympathize with the Na'Vi. I suppose it was because they weren't human--and I'm an unrepentant human supremacist.

I suppose it's not unusual for me to root for the so-called "bad guys". I loved the Empire in the Star Wars trilogy (the real one--pay no attention to the prequels, I prefer to pretend they didn't exist), and the same seems to hold true in Avatar. The humans were just superior in every way. Their technology was amazing, the characters were more sympathetic, the women were hotter...

The only downside was their atrocious failure to use proper military tactics. I suppose this is a failing that all the allegedly competent bad guys have in movies. Take my earlier example of Star Wars. The Empire, and the Stormtroopers themselves, are built up in early scenes to be these incredibly proficient badass killing machines. The opening scene sees them storming an incredibly tight bottleneck and absolutely slaughtering the defending rabble--er, excuse me, Rebels--with minimal casualties.

Later, however, as the heroes are running amok through the death star, they have similar accuracy to a 15th-century arquebusier.

A similar failing occurred in Avatar. Why in the world would the humans fly their gigantic shuttle so low and leave themselves so vulnerable? It's silly. They could have released the bomb from ten kilometers in the sky. Oh, you say, but their electronics were messed up! And that, my friends, is what old manual bombardier sights would be useful for. Are you telling me that in the vast database the main compound surely has, there's nothing to help them devise a non-electronic bomb sight using the myriad parts they have laying about?

Just fly your gigantic shuttle out of the reach of the Space Pterodactyls and drop the thing on the fancy tree. Boom headshot and the war's over, right? But no. In order to help the Good Guys win, they just have to be utterly retarded about it.

Honestly? I hope the sequel consists of the humans coming back with a solar sail ship loaded down with nuclear warheads, and that they threaten to glass the planet if Na'vi don't stop being uppity little girls--and then follow through when they inevitably resist.