Colonel Quaritch. Politely advises everyone if impending gas and to prepare while not caring for himself like a badass. Braces himself for a good standing firing position. Good shoulder position weapon tight to body. Proper iron sight alignment on target. Begins firing controlled bursts on target. Upon firing all ammunition in rifle, checks to ensure it is clear then quickly drawing sidearm. Again braces himself for a good sidearm position. Only after he has been a badass for long enough does he agree to breathe. Quaritch is a g
@@firstlast-wm3li imagine getting upset over fictional fake weapon in a comment about a fictional character were just enjoying for a moment. 😂 prob just graduated boot camp and now correcting people on the difference between weapons. 😂😂
@@shawnfinnegan64 Eh, it’s a minor detail, but he’s right. I checked and it’s actually an SMG. The guns in this movie are all bull-pups so I can’t really see the difference.😂
The atmosphere of Pandora is 18% CO2 and 1% H2SO4. Quaritch isn't just firing a weapon with superb accuracy while holding his breath, he's doing it while his eyes and nostrils are burning.
the H2S would make it largely impossible for people to be outside in normal clothes at all. It would also render all common terrestrial metals.... extremely problematic. I'd prefer to imagine its just huge CO2 and Xenon concentrations..... [also, at 1% H2S you won't smell it any more, it causes temporary anosmia at concentrations more than 150 ppm]
@@TY-PO I may be wrong, but I think he was even an ex Navy Seal actually, which makes him all the more badass :) Though not any less creepy. And I have no idea where I remember that from
Honestly, even though he is the villain of the movie, Quartich is actually pretty badass. Tbh, If the situation was different, I'd be happy to serve as a soldier under his command.
Honestly it's just a matter of framing, the movie tries REALLY hard to make him and humanity out to be just the worst people, but you have to keep in mind they are out there looking for this element because they need it to survive, while he may have a grudge against the planet and people he is doing his job, retrieving the rare element for humanity so we can survive. They even wait till they get confirmation that there is no way the na'vi will leave the tree behind, and while morally it isn't right to force them out, they tried to go the peaceful route and it wasn't gonna happen
The irony of this scene is Grace had taunted Quaritch in the scenes before saying “What are you going to do, shoot me?” Quaritch responded with “I can do that”
@@chaddaddywarden4349 in this movie especially yes But not in all of them In Apollo 13 for example the science people were actually very good characters
Don't want to be a smartass, but your accuracy doesn't increase if you hold your breath. Each second your body uses up oxygen in your blood, and the longer it happens, the more negative effects (muscles tensing up, slight tremors, eyelids involuntarily twitching) you will notice. Holding breath may be beneficial if you have already acquired sight picture and want to do a clean trigger pull - 2-3 seconds at max. But not what Quaritch did here. Him doing this was just being a motivated badass who decided to take risks to try and take the traitors out :)
Notice how Q announces “MASK ON” before kicking the door open? He isn’t even wearing a mask but he still cares about the safety of his staff. Throughout the movie he doesn’t give hardly any concern to his safety, while trying to save his species. He’s focused on one goal:Saving humans. Truly a wonderful subtly complex character.
@@supersaiyan3704 yes but he’s also a baddie and a manpuliator he and his men destroyed home tree leaving the navi homeless they are not savages they have children freinds and families and those trees are not just trees they are a network access globe and the navi can access it it brings back memories and happiness and the trees connect to us than just the Brian
@@joshcoyle3804 Oh well get fucked, should have let the humans have the superconductor that they need to power the level of resource production needed in order to prevent mass starvation and global genocide back on Earth.
@@trueblue6201 I did and but the navi are not savages they are kind and blue creatures and they have freinds children and family and babies and I won’t let the Rda destroy their trees they must not be destroyed and neytri cried when Quartich killed her dad
I never noticed how throughout the movie, Quaritch shows little to no regard for his physical health, many times he steps into Pandora's air without even worrying about his mask and when hes on fire he doesnt seem to care about it. These can be attributed to either 2 things, 1 because he's simply badass like that, or 2 and maybe canon, because this was never quaritch, but his human avatar, and hence why he didnt care about his physical health.
There are theories about this being true, and it’s confirmed that he’s reappearing as a Navi. However, this is actually Quaritch, and the Navi body is just his memory being placed into an Avatar.
it's not that he doesn't care. it shows his ability to concentrate and not lose focus under pressure. he takes care of the most important tasks in front of him and deals with his air supply or a little fire because he knows from experience it can wait a few seconds.
I also love how Quaritch takes a split second to check that his gun isn't jammed as opposed to being empty before he ditches it in favour of his pistol. And the way that you can see fragments of glass spalling off into the gunship's cockpit as the layers soak up the rounds. Little Cameron touches I feel that just ground the whole thing in reality.
The more I think about it the more Jake seems the evil one. Because he is potentially dooming billions to die due to his needing to get laid by an alien. The unobtanium used is used in atmospheric processors giving people breathable air on earth.
He didn't seem all that evil until the end. Where he just wanted to bomb them. Don't get me wrong I'm 100% with jake but the colonel before the end seemed very caring about his staff. And he was a badass. He was instantly ready to take care of and fix jake. And I think that says alot
I've always loved the little almost throwaway detail in this scene where the female soldier yells Gas Gas! " and makes what I think is the standard military hand gesture to warn of NBC attack.
Yep you’re correct in that observation. I don’t know how many times I had to do gas drills and doing that motion. Seeing that in the movie was such a nice touch.
Scene always stuck with me. Love how he grabs that rifle and just gets on with business. I don't think I'd remember this scene as well if he'd masked up - it's what makes the scene effective and believable for the character. He may be bad ass or just supremely pissed off and acting impulsively.
Quaritch, showing in this single scene what a true brave hero for humans he really is 🤣🤣🤣 Literally didn't give his own life a second thought, risking his life by literally shouting at the tractors and only once they escaped and were too far away for him to shoot did he then think about his survival and put his mask on. Even though that only happened because his colleague ran up to him and have him the mask after he was finished shooting, otherwise he would have likely gone unconscious and possibility die if no one came to his aid. Yet just before running our the door he shouted to his colleagues "mask on" because he cared about their lives more than his own. Plus in the final battle scene when he's fighting Jake and naytiri in his amp suit he said "nothings over whilst I'm breathing", despite clearly losing the way, he was still determined to fight for humans and never give up, no matter the odds and risk to his own life. Oh and in avatar 2 he willingly comes back, having literally turned into the enemy in order to fight for his planet and his species, the real heroes, humans! Go Quaritch!!!! If that's not heroic than I don't know what it And lastly, before anyone demonizes me comparing humans in Avatar to our real life colonial history is missing one obvious point, the Na'vi are not indigenous human tribes from earth (although James Cameron did use them as inspiration for the film), but are giant blue aliens. In short the RDA was not mining resources on the land of being of the same species of different customs but of a totally different alien species not even from our planet. If you look at human DNA, we share remarkably similar DNA to several different animal species on this planet, yet the Na'vi biology is so dramatically different that it took humans several years before they could perfect the avatar program. In other words we are more similar to ants that Na'vi but no one gives ants a second thought when we pave over their colonies, build our homes, cities, etc. If you was an RDA worker on Pandora and this was happening in real life, would you side with the Na'vi over your RDA colleagues knowing that all of your family, friends, children, husband/wife is stuck living on a planet that is literally dying and your mission was humanity's last hope. Or how about if you was a human living on dying earth and you hear on the news 6 year later that the RDA got totally booted from Pandora, empty handed, no unobtanium because a couple of scientists and a former marine, Jake sully actually detected to the Na'vi and literally lead them to victory, teaching them all the RDA/human military secrets, weakness that can be exploited, etc. Without Jake Sully the RDA would have crushed the Na'vi in roughly 10 minutes, as it was Jake who brought the 15 clans together, got Ewya to unite the various Pandoran wildlife to fight the humans and even stole human military equipment. Jake Sully basically singlehandedly doomed the human race (20 billion people dead that's a lot of blood on one person's hands...) and left his own home planet to die. If you heard that on the news in real life you'd be all kinds of angry.... Jake= true villain, worse than Darth Vader. At least Vader turns good in the end. Not holding out any hope for Jake Sully switching back to the human side in later sequels seeing as he now has a Na'vi wife and children. Quaritch= hero
Exactly bro! What I like about Quaritch that if you're on his side he will give you the respect you deserve and will stay true to his word if he promises to reward you for your hard work. But if decide to betray him, he becomes your worst nightmare and will go through extreme measures to make sure you are eliminated and make your life a living hell. Quaritch treated Jake like his own, made a deal to return him his legs, and Sully just spat on all this and didn't even thank Miles, end up betraying Quaritch and all because of blue xeno pussy. Colonel should've killed their avatars when they came to destroy the Hometree, cuz the negotiations has failed and they don't need them anymore, and after destruction of Hometree return and deal with Jake, Grace and Norm, not just put them in custody. Enemies must be crushed lest they rise again. Unfortunatelly Miles paid with his life for his kindness and mercy. Now he returned as recom for revenge, and I really hope he won't turn and stays loyal to his cause by killing Jake and Neytiri. Also I like when in their fight on sinking ship Quaritch laughs just in Jake's face when they are trapped underwater, shows that he doesn't care at all about his death as recom even though he died as human, he is like: He-he-he, it's just us Corporal, I die but you're coming with me. Fearless as hell! Now when he speaks to Neytiri saying: I owe you a death! God, that anger on his face and hate in his eyes towards her is just fascinating. I wan't him to succeed in killing this "sweet" couple. I don't care how Jake dies, he is just a traitor which needs to be dealt with, but Neytiri made this personal for Quaritch, since she is the one that killed him. I expect him to catch her, then torture and mutilate her so hard and brutal, so she'd beg him to kill her, but Quaritch won't, her death must be slow and painful. Imagine how his knife pierces into her, tearing her flesh and scratching on bones. What a delight and pleasure Quaritch would have while doing this, hearing her painful cries. Music to my ears. Quaritch is a hero! For Humanity, RDA, SecOps and Project Phoenix! Oorah! Semper Fi🫡
Honestly if this guy wasn’t committed to the Avatar franchise then he definitely should be the role for General Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk in the upcoming captain America movie
@@TheNitroPsycho And you think Harrison Ford does?……You do know that the muscle mass from Lang’s role in the first Avatar was CGI right? But the background suits him strict military solider, ruthless, daring, impulsive, and vengeful…all the traits that would make a good Red Hulk.
Some haters said the colonel is bland , but who cares , the guy is a bad ass villain that feels like a treat , he is lifting weights the first time we see him, he drinks coffe while killing na-vi and doesn’t care He doesn’t care that he is not breathing , like he is the most cartoon villain and he owns every scene he is in
He is NOT bland haha. He is GENERIC, but not bland at all. He's the average of every tough military loyalist stubborn bastard bad guy you ever saw, but he's LOADS of fun doing it, I love him.
I loved this scene when I was a kid. I was just 8 years old when I first watched Avatar. This scene here, I pretended I was running with them to escape the enemy!
Trudy should of waited to power up the samson until everybody was on board.. when she started it up.. it immediately alerted the operations room and then Quaritch acted... while jake and grace were still trying to get on... resulting in Grace getting shot..
You know a movie sucks when instead of rooting for the alleged “good guys” you root for the “bad guy” who in the case of this movie, was actually the good guy.
@@darthrevan1812 Human civilization and race will go extinct if they don't have resources to sustain themselves (Earth's already dried up it's supply of metals, minerals, and ore). They don't really care if you call them "invaders" because they were fighting for their survival.
Ik it’s kind of a nitpick but they technically aren’t marines, I mean they are in the sense that they served in the Corps but in this movie they work for a company called Sec Ops, making them more like PMCs
Personally I hate the film because a guy betrays his species because he got laid and fights against his species, dooming millions to death. The element unobtanium was used to create superconductors needed for not only travel and general energy, but atmospheric processors that gave people on earth breathable air. His shortsightedness doomed millions of not billions to death.
😂Kind of simplified his motivations with a straw man. Humans instead of negotiating properly or finding somewhere else decided to steal resources from another planet and then decided to attack said planets locals and sacred sites. They literally had no claim to the planet lmao. Humans as a civilisation decided to doom their own planet
@@novacaine_ your argument is a strawman argument. They were there for years and when Jake was tasked with that exact negotiation he never once brought it up until an invasion force was under way. They were literally there for decades trying to negotiate. And the loss of one home tree to save billions of people is a no brainer. Had Jake done his job, maybe they could have actually had an understanding. Instead he played in the woods, got laid, and never communicated what was necessary. He betrayed both species for a piece of ass.
@@slc308 Not you trying to rationalise genocide lmao😂. The planet was not theirs to do anything with, full stop. It doesn't matter how long they were trying to negotiate, the planets resources were not theirs to mine or take. The native population didn't even claim ownership, they lived in harmony with the planet which is why the planet was still good and healthy whereas earth was a crumbling mess. Again you are straw manning Jakes motivation to 'ass' 😂 ffs
@@novacaine_ how many really died? 1 or 2. Maybe 5. They were driven from it by gas first. The tree was destroyed. That's not genocide. Meanwhile Jake and his refusal to do his job set them on this collision course and potentially killed billions of humans, which would be genocide.
@@novacaine_ again, the lack of genocide and years of negotiations to acquire what they needed was all in good faith. Jake was just happy he got to use his pecker again and that's why he didn't do his job and why he betrayed his species and committed more to genocide than the colonel ever did. You're just unhappy you're white savior has been shown to be a selfish asshole who did both sides a disservice.
True dat. As if a Mega Corporation and Human Government couldn`t nuke the place from Orbit and let Robots do the Mining. Or do it clean via a genetically modified bioweapon which only kills the Locals, but not Humans. Like common, he did not think this trough. Neither side is completely bad or good. Modern Civilisation is greedy and traditional ones savages. Barbarism will aways be there, this Movie just was black and white with zero nuances. Ironically their little revolt may have doomed them to certaindeath if this were not a simple hollywood story but the real world...See every colonization ever.
2:24 can someone give me a name of that gun sound effect? I heard it first in the 2 LEGO Indiana Jones games, but I don’t know the actual name of that gun fire sound.
I always found it odd how that rifle/smg/pdw thing Quaritch is shooting seems to lack any form of sighting system, can't make out any form of usable iron sights or optic.
So I understand that there would’ve probably had to have been SOME time to do pre-flight checks both visually and physically starting the ship But like, could Trudy have just waited like 1 SINGULAR minute when the rest of them were boarding the rotorwing before she decided to fire up the engines and essentially paint a very loud “HEY IM ABOUT TO FLY OFF WITH MULTIPLE CAPTURED POW’S” Target on them Just seemed like a very small yet simple common sense thing I don’t get in this part. (And yes I know they were on camera but at least maybe there was a shot the camerawoman wasn’t doing her due diligence before a blaring “UNAUTHORIZED ENGINE START” probably got here to look right at them.😂😂
They should’ve rigged all that equipment on that ship to blow. I wish Trudy and them thought their breakout throughly. Even when they came for kiri they should’ve removed the tracking device off the plane
RDA Operator: Colonel, sir. I got a situation here. Quaritch: What now? RDA Operator: It’s Samson 1-6. Unauthorized engine start. Quaritch: Those little cunts!! 😡
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Colonel Quaritch. Politely advises everyone if impending gas and to prepare while not caring for himself like a badass. Braces himself for a good standing firing position. Good shoulder position weapon tight to body. Proper iron sight alignment on target. Begins firing controlled bursts on target. Upon firing all ammunition in rifle, checks to ensure it is clear then quickly drawing sidearm. Again braces himself for a good sidearm position. Only after he has been a badass for long enough does he agree to breathe. Quaritch is a g
A real sigma male grindset
It's not a rifle, it's a submachine gun, but good try.
@@firstlast-wm3li imagine getting upset over fictional fake weapon in a comment about a fictional character were just enjoying for a moment. 😂 prob just graduated boot camp and now correcting people on the difference between weapons. 😂😂
@@shawnfinnegan64 Shaddap, nitwit.
@@shawnfinnegan64 Eh, it’s a minor detail, but he’s right. I checked and it’s actually an SMG. The guns in this movie are all bull-pups so I can’t really see the difference.😂
The atmosphere of Pandora is 18% CO2 and 1% H2SO4. Quaritch isn't just firing a weapon with superb accuracy while holding his breath, he's doing it while his eyes and nostrils are burning.
The h2s was bad writing on camerons part. High concentrations of h2s will kill any life. Plus that means the whole planet smells like bad farts.
@@Mike-jv8bv any TERRESTRIAL life
the H2S would make it largely impossible for people to be outside in normal clothes at all. It would also render all common terrestrial metals.... extremely problematic. I'd prefer to imagine its just huge CO2 and Xenon concentrations..... [also, at 1% H2S you won't smell it any more, it causes temporary anosmia at concentrations more than 150 ppm]
Sulfuric Acid in The Atmosphere? Lmao!!
@@Mike-jv8bv life as we know it* pandora is a whole different planet not native to our solar system
I just love how badass the colonel is firing without a breathing mask. That’s totally badass
Totally
Totally bro
That was the best part of the movie.
Dude… totally
yeah totally
2:33 I love how Quaritch gives a nod of "thanks".
I noticed he has the same purse lip expression his avatar has
Blain Cooper: I ain't got time to bleed
Colonel Quaritch: I ain't got time to breathe
It's funny cause Stephen Lang starred in another movie called don't breathe
@@lululenox And he’s also a badass ex-marine there as well. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just Quaritch if he got the chance to retire.
4:29 mask on
@@deltonwilliams2454 GAS! GAS! GAS!
@@TY-PO I may be wrong, but I think he was even an ex Navy Seal actually, which makes him all the more badass :) Though not any less creepy. And I have no idea where I remember that from
I still don't understand how Cameron and Lang manage to make Quaritch literally the most badass one dimensional character.
He simply built different
@@TY-PO literally in the second one.
So true. Reminds me of Mr T in Rocky 3, so one dimentional but its the best damn dimention possible. Stephen Lang is a fuckin boss
Not one dimensional anymore...
Honestly, even though he is the villain of the movie, Quartich is actually pretty badass. Tbh, If the situation was different, I'd be happy to serve as a soldier under his command.
xeno loving bastard. The ol Colonel here is a hero and did the right things for humanity.
He was the hero
@@chaddaddywarden4349 facts have been spoken.
Honestly it's just a matter of framing, the movie tries REALLY hard to make him and humanity out to be just the worst people, but you have to keep in mind they are out there looking for this element because they need it to survive, while he may have a grudge against the planet and people he is doing his job, retrieving the rare element for humanity so we can survive. They even wait till they get confirmation that there is no way the na'vi will leave the tree behind, and while morally it isn't right to force them out, they tried to go the peaceful route and it wasn't gonna happen
@@SteampunkCreeper Underrated Comment
The look on Quaritch's face, he is very pissed that one of his own pilot betrayed him.
nice actor
Yeah, No Shit!
And not just any pilot, one of his most senior pilots. One who he trusted to personally fly him around Pandora. That's a tough betrayal to stomach.
@@CoDWiiPS3Gameplay So trueee.....
@@CoDWiiPS3Gameplay Karma if anything tbh
The irony of this scene is Grace had taunted Quaritch in the scenes before saying “What are you going to do, shoot me?”
Quaritch responded with “I can do that”
Why did she say that to him?
I swear, the scientists are the most unlikeable lead characters in any movie ever.
@@chaddaddywarden4349 in this movie especially yes
But not in all of them
In Apollo 13 for example the science people were actually very good characters
@@divoulos5758 I'm specifically referring to just this movie
@@TheProtagonist2020 They argued when it came to the Navi sacred place and the Hometree.
I love how he yells “MASK ON” before kicking the door open that’s a bad mannnnn right there
I ain’t got time to breathe…
@@TY-PO
Avatar: 2009
Starcraft II: 2010
coincidence? I think not
I love how when he puts the mask on he doesnt gasp, just breaths in deeply with a pissed off sound
Because the actor wasn't actually holding his breath.
@@Former_Halo_Fan they could’ve made him sound like he was out of air.
I love how Quaritch angrily throws the file, grabs the gun of the soldier kicks the door and shoots.
Makes sense, his accuracy improves because he held his breath while shooting from a far distance…
Colonel Miles Quaritch is physically how look a US military mayor (a old mature bodybuilder grandpa who acting rude all the time.)
Don't want to be a smartass, but your accuracy doesn't increase if you hold your breath. Each second your body uses up oxygen in your blood, and the longer it happens, the more negative effects (muscles tensing up, slight tremors, eyelids involuntarily twitching) you will notice. Holding breath may be beneficial if you have already acquired sight picture and want to do a clean trigger pull - 2-3 seconds at max. But not what Quaritch did here.
Him doing this was just being a motivated badass who decided to take risks to try and take the traitors out :)
@@Kai9456Jojo you're wrong. US military mayors don't look as badass as Quaritch. They look more gay tbh
Notice how Q announces “MASK ON” before kicking the door open? He isn’t even wearing a mask but he still cares about the safety of his staff. Throughout the movie he doesn’t give hardly any concern to his safety, while trying to save his species. He’s focused on one goal:Saving humans. Truly a wonderful subtly complex character.
Ofcourse. He’s an officer and a commander.
@@supersaiyan3704 yes but he’s also a baddie and a manpuliator he and his men destroyed home tree leaving the navi homeless they are not savages they have children freinds and families and those trees are not just trees they are a network access globe and the navi can access it it brings back memories and happiness and the trees connect to us than just the Brian
@@joshcoyle3804 Oh well get fucked, should have let the humans have the superconductor that they need to power the level of resource production needed in order to prevent mass starvation and global genocide back on Earth.
Saving his species? You need to rewatch the movie.
@@trueblue6201 I did and but the navi are not savages they are kind and blue creatures and they have freinds children and family and babies and I won’t let the Rda destroy their trees they must not be destroyed and neytri cried when Quartich killed her dad
Colonel Quaritch was honestly the most interesting character in the entire movie.
I wouldn't be surprised if Cameron came up with the 'humans can't breathe the air on Pandora' thing JUST for this scene.
I never noticed how throughout the movie, Quaritch shows little to no regard for his physical health, many times he steps into Pandora's air without even worrying about his mask and when hes on fire he doesnt seem to care about it. These can be attributed to either 2 things, 1 because he's simply badass like that, or 2 and maybe canon, because this was never quaritch, but his human avatar, and hence why he didnt care about his physical health.
So you mean the Colonel was a blue monkey the whole time and his human body was actually his avatar?
Seeing how long he's been in the military he's probably trained to hold his breath for around 5 minutes
There are theories about this being true, and it’s confirmed that he’s reappearing as a Navi. However, this is actually Quaritch, and the Navi body is just his memory being placed into an Avatar.
Well, actually is the other way around. He's badass as hell.
it's not that he doesn't care. it shows his ability to concentrate and not lose focus under pressure. he takes care of the most important tasks in front of him and deals with his air supply or a little fire because he knows from experience it can wait a few seconds.
I also love how Quaritch takes a split second to check that his gun isn't jammed as opposed to being empty before he ditches it in favour of his pistol. And the way that you can see fragments of glass spalling off into the gunship's cockpit as the layers soak up the rounds. Little Cameron touches I feel that just ground the whole thing in reality.
Stephen Lang is just a solid actor bro
I also love how a door simply keeping the humans alive on the other side can easily be kicked down by the Colonel
Man doesnt skip leg day
@@jaydenshepard7928 lol true
It doesn't mean the door is poorly made - it simply stood no chance against colonel
I feel like they should have had an airlock in between that door.
That should be an emergency escape door for quick escape.
badass colonel
I wish many movie general be like this, talk big but can still backup with their skills
The character may be one dimensionally drawn and portrayed to be evil but at least they made him a bad ass too.
Don't think he was evil he was just doing his job and is a badass at it
The more I think about it, I think none of the characters here are evil (well, Selfridge maybe). It's just about two sides fighting for a place
The more I think about it the more Jake seems the evil one. Because he is potentially dooming billions to die due to his needing to get laid by an alien. The unobtanium used is used in atmospheric processors giving people breathable air on earth.
He didn't seem all that evil until the end. Where he just wanted to bomb them. Don't get me wrong I'm 100% with jake but the colonel before the end seemed very caring about his staff. And he was a badass. He was instantly ready to take care of and fix jake. And I think that says alot
@@lululenox wel he didnt realt follow orders that wel though
I've always loved the little almost throwaway detail in this scene where the female soldier yells Gas Gas! " and makes what I think is the standard military hand gesture to warn of NBC attack.
Yep you’re correct in that observation. I don’t know how many times I had to do gas drills and doing that motion. Seeing that in the movie was such a nice touch.
Welcome to Gas Chamber Training 101. You hear "Gas" three times, then...mask on.
Cameron knows how to make a badass villain like Colonel Quaritch.
and T-1000 from terminator 2
Quaritch: 1:59 MASKS ON!
Soldiers: *Why do I hear boss music?*
GAS! GAS! GAS!
Scene always stuck with me. Love how he grabs that rifle and just gets on with business. I don't think I'd remember this scene as well if he'd masked up - it's what makes the scene effective and believable for the character. He may be bad ass or just supremely pissed off and acting impulsively.
2:11 the moment grace got shot
Yeah Cameron really have attention to details you can see how bullets getting closer to her and when she got shot.
alternate title: the main hero tries to stop some tree hugging traitors from escaping.
Even if I think killing the na’vi is wrong, I would never betray my own race
The best part is when the guy comes with the mask and the badass Colonel is like “oh thanks, I forgot I need to breath”.
2:32 "WHAT?!... Oh, yeah. Breathing."
I like he actually hit someone, nobody ever hits anything when they fire at someone driving or flying away! 🤣🤣
Quaritch, showing in this single scene what a true brave hero for humans he really is 🤣🤣🤣
Literally didn't give his own life a second thought, risking his life by literally shouting at the tractors and only once they escaped and were too far away for him to shoot did he then think about his survival and put his mask on. Even though that only happened because his colleague ran up to him and have him the mask after he was finished shooting, otherwise he would have likely gone unconscious and possibility die if no one came to his aid.
Yet just before running our the door he shouted to his colleagues "mask on" because he cared about their lives more than his own.
Plus in the final battle scene when he's fighting Jake and naytiri in his amp suit he said "nothings over whilst I'm breathing", despite clearly losing the way, he was still determined to fight for humans and never give up, no matter the odds and risk to his own life.
Oh and in avatar 2 he willingly comes back, having literally turned into the enemy in order to fight for his planet and his species, the real heroes, humans!
Go Quaritch!!!!
If that's not heroic than I don't know what it
And lastly, before anyone demonizes me comparing humans in Avatar to our real life colonial history is missing one obvious point, the Na'vi are not indigenous human tribes from earth (although James Cameron did use them as inspiration for the film), but are giant blue aliens.
In short the RDA was not mining resources on the land of being of the same species of different customs but of a totally different alien species not even from our planet. If you look at human DNA, we share remarkably similar DNA to several different animal species on this planet, yet the Na'vi biology is so dramatically different that it took humans several years before they could perfect the avatar program. In other words we are more similar to ants that Na'vi but no one gives ants a second thought when we pave over their colonies, build our homes, cities, etc.
If you was an RDA worker on Pandora and this was happening in real life, would you side with the Na'vi over your RDA colleagues knowing that all of your family, friends, children, husband/wife is stuck living on a planet that is literally dying and your mission was humanity's last hope.
Or how about if you was a human living on dying earth and you hear on the news 6 year later that the RDA got totally booted from Pandora, empty handed, no unobtanium because a couple of scientists and a former marine, Jake sully actually detected to the Na'vi and literally lead them to victory, teaching them all the RDA/human military secrets, weakness that can be exploited, etc. Without Jake Sully the RDA would have crushed the Na'vi in roughly 10 minutes, as it was Jake who brought the 15 clans together, got Ewya to unite the various Pandoran wildlife to fight the humans and even stole human military equipment.
Jake Sully basically singlehandedly doomed the human race (20 billion people dead that's a lot of blood on one person's hands...) and left his own home planet to die. If you heard that on the news in real life you'd be all kinds of angry....
Jake= true villain, worse than Darth Vader. At least Vader turns good in the end. Not holding out any hope for Jake Sully switching back to the human side in later sequels seeing as he now has a Na'vi wife and children.
Quaritch= hero
facts
Exactly bro! What I like about Quaritch that if you're on his side he will give you the respect you deserve and will stay true to his word if he promises to reward you for your hard work. But if decide to betray him, he becomes your worst nightmare and will go through extreme measures to make sure you are eliminated and make your life a living hell. Quaritch treated Jake like his own, made a deal to return him his legs, and Sully just spat on all this and didn't even thank Miles, end up betraying Quaritch and all because of blue xeno pussy. Colonel should've killed their avatars when they came to destroy the Hometree, cuz the negotiations has failed and they don't need them anymore, and after destruction of Hometree return and deal with Jake, Grace and Norm, not just put them in custody. Enemies must be crushed lest they rise again. Unfortunatelly Miles paid with his life for his kindness and mercy. Now he returned as recom for revenge, and I really hope he won't turn and stays loyal to his cause by killing Jake and Neytiri. Also I like when in their fight on sinking ship Quaritch laughs just in Jake's face when they are trapped underwater, shows that he doesn't care at all about his death as recom even though he died as human, he is like: He-he-he, it's just us Corporal, I die but you're coming with me. Fearless as hell! Now when he speaks to Neytiri saying: I owe you a death! God, that anger on his face and hate in his eyes towards her is just fascinating. I wan't him to succeed in killing this "sweet" couple. I don't care how Jake dies, he is just a traitor which needs to be dealt with, but Neytiri made this personal for Quaritch, since she is the one that killed him. I expect him to catch her, then torture and mutilate her so hard and brutal, so she'd beg him to kill her, but Quaritch won't, her death must be slow and painful. Imagine how his knife pierces into her, tearing her flesh and scratching on bones. What a delight and pleasure Quaritch would have while doing this, hearing her painful cries. Music to my ears. Quaritch is a hero! For Humanity, RDA, SecOps and Project Phoenix! Oorah! Semper Fi🫡
Honestly if this guy wasn’t committed to the Avatar franchise then he definitely should be the role for General Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk in the upcoming captain America movie
If he could get back into this shape then hell yes but he's in his 70's, he's fit but doesn't have the muscle mass like this
@@TheNitroPsycho And you think Harrison Ford does?……You do know that the muscle mass from Lang’s role in the first Avatar was CGI right?
But the background suits him strict military solider, ruthless, daring, impulsive, and vengeful…all the traits that would make a good Red Hulk.
Colonel Quaritch
Secret hero of the movie.
He’s dead
@@TheProtagonist2020 miles quaritch he will return Avatar The Way of the water in his navi form
Some haters said the colonel is bland , but who cares , the guy is a bad ass villain that feels like a treat , he is lifting weights the first time we see him, he drinks coffe while killing na-vi and doesn’t care
He doesn’t care that he is not breathing , like he is the most cartoon villain and he owns every scene he is in
He is NOT bland haha. He is GENERIC, but not bland at all. He's the average of every tough military loyalist stubborn bastard bad guy you ever saw, but he's LOADS of fun doing it, I love him.
can't believe he's back 😂
2:00 Mask On
>>Woman: GAS! GAS! GAS!
@@TheProtagonist2020they got the signal for gas right to her flapping her arms that's what we use in the Army.
I loved this scene when I was a kid. I was just 8 years old when I first watched Avatar. This scene here, I pretended I was running with them to escape the enemy!
Then you got me out here pretending to pilot an AMP suit with Wii controllers as a kid🤣
I hold my breath until Quaritch wear the mask
Funny, I used to pretend that I was shooting with the Colonel.
I love Trudy so much. She deserved to stay at the planet alive and well.
They needed to make room for more characters I guess:/
@@TY-PO along with her or maybe Dr. Grace.
She went to Eywa too. For helping to save Pandora.
traitor like the rest of them
Trudy should of waited to power up the samson until everybody was on board..
when she started it up.. it immediately alerted the operations room and then Quaritch
acted... while jake and grace were still trying to get on... resulting in Grace getting shot..
Yeah I thought that too. They should've got everyone on first, then started up.
Either way, Quaritch was gonna hit his shots. Grace ran out of plot armor…
I love how there’s absolutely no lock on that door that could potentially kill everyone
Its not like it opens into a vacuum. As long as you have masks at hand its unlikely to actually kill anyone. Mans clearly just doesn’t skip peg day.
Lmaoooo
That should be an emergency escape door for quick escape.
James can't put this scene in and not making me root for the Quaritch
Avatar: Colonel Quaritch
Avatar 2: General Quaritch, good work sir 👏
The look of disgust on the Colonel's face 😂
"You gonna shoot me?"
"I can do that."
Why did she say that to him? Makes no scene.
Shut your Pie Hole
What an EPIC. My favorite scene? Seeing Sigourney Weaver running in an Action movie. Just floored
Love the gun designs in this movie. Looks something straight out of Halo.
Grace: Or what Ranger Rick?!? You gonna shoot me??
Quarritch: I can do that
Also Quarritch: after 2:06
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Grace was shot just like (spoilers so read at your own risk) Neteyam. They were both shot while trying to escape from the bad guys.
You know a movie sucks when instead of rooting for the alleged “good guys” you root for the “bad guy” who in the case of this movie, was actually the good guy.
It’s a choice between what’s right and wrong: And you must do what you feel is really right, of course.
2:07-2:24 Someone at Hasbro has to make Nerf blaster replicas of those RDA guns.
Sir, we've got a situation here... reminds me of Austin Powers lol
what he should have said in the end: "get some scorpions in the air and blast them out of the sky!"
When you look at the big picture and realize that Quaritch and the humans are actually the good guys.
Of course, you will not support another race than yours
No humans are the invaders
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@@darthrevan1812 Human civilization and race will go extinct if they don't have resources to sustain themselves (Earth's already dried up it's supply of metals, minerals, and ore).
They don't really care if you call them "invaders" because they were fighting for their survival.
Colonel Quaritch Hero of humanity.
Fucking badass. I really need Quaritch to put that batshit crazy Neytiri down in part three...💪🍻
Love the colonel.
2:00
When you find a treasure goblin, but you know your party is noobs.
Probably would have been a good idea to get Jake and everyone loaded on the ship and then start up before alerting the control room 🙄
You mean alerting?
@@QuanTrietLOL 😂
@@Cesare-Borgia yup
Lol also did that control room not later look at the footage to see the inception dream chemicals guy help them escape
I was expecting this comment
Quaritch doesn’t take any prisoners alive.
If I was working there I'd be worried that a door keeping the oxygen in room could be kicked open so easily.
Especially with Quaritch as your CO! haha
I like how fast the female marine reacted to them stealing the gunship. Almost instantly.
Her screen lit right up and she was ready
Ik it’s kind of a nitpick but they technically aren’t marines, I mean they are in the sense that they served in the Corps but in this movie they work for a company called Sec Ops, making them more like PMCs
Personally I hate the film because a guy betrays his species because he got laid and fights against his species, dooming millions to death. The element unobtanium was used to create superconductors needed for not only travel and general energy, but atmospheric processors that gave people on earth breathable air. His shortsightedness doomed millions of not billions to death.
😂Kind of simplified his motivations with a straw man. Humans instead of negotiating properly or finding somewhere else decided to steal resources from another planet and then decided to attack said planets locals and sacred sites.
They literally had no claim to the planet lmao. Humans as a civilisation decided to doom their own planet
@@novacaine_ your argument is a strawman argument. They were there for years and when Jake was tasked with that exact negotiation he never once brought it up until an invasion force was under way.
They were literally there for decades trying to negotiate. And the loss of one home tree to save billions of people is a no brainer.
Had Jake done his job, maybe they could have actually had an understanding. Instead he played in the woods, got laid, and never communicated what was necessary. He betrayed both species for a piece of ass.
@@slc308 Not you trying to rationalise genocide lmao😂.
The planet was not theirs to do anything with, full stop. It doesn't matter how long they were trying to negotiate, the planets resources were not theirs to mine or take.
The native population didn't even claim ownership, they lived in harmony with the planet which is why the planet was still good and healthy whereas earth was a crumbling mess. Again you are straw manning Jakes motivation to 'ass' 😂 ffs
@@novacaine_ how many really died? 1 or 2. Maybe 5. They were driven from it by gas first. The tree was destroyed. That's not genocide.
Meanwhile Jake and his refusal to do his job set them on this collision course and potentially killed billions of humans, which would be genocide.
@@novacaine_ again, the lack of genocide and years of negotiations to acquire what they needed was all in good faith. Jake was just happy he got to use his pecker again and that's why he didn't do his job and why he betrayed his species and committed more to genocide than the colonel ever did.
You're just unhappy you're white savior has been shown to be a selfish asshole who did both sides a disservice.
Aw, didn't realize the colonel's revolver cylinder doesn't move.
It’s hard to notice, but it does. He moves the gun as the cylinder rotates, and I didn’t catch that at first.
Trudy help her friends to escape the base
"Yeah, you know what that is. DOWN." Bad bitch Trudy and all her glory. Rip:/
There should be a case study on this guy for badassery!
Lang should be the next Ross in the mcu since we lost William Hurt
Did Hells gate really not have any sort of anti air weapons to shoot them down with? Especially since the Na’vi were known for using flying creatures
Quaritch doesn’t seem to care much about breathing.. Almost as if he isn’t human…
But rather a human *CLONE* of the _real_ Quaritch?!!!!! 🤯
are you saying the Na'vi don't breath?
Joe theinfant that really makes sense I mean the technology they are using is very advanced maybe it was possible to make a human clone like him.
I feel that second to last shoot is what caught grace
Colonel is smart. He's not breathing while shooting his enemies.
He has no time to breath in this situation, this is a Pandora rule !
The reason i rewatch this because there are 2 Mountains in white snow
I was bummed about Grace's death
I really hate the Protagonist he betray Mankind...
True dat. As if a Mega Corporation and Human Government couldn`t nuke the place from Orbit and let Robots do the Mining. Or do it clean via a genetically modified bioweapon which only kills the Locals, but not Humans. Like common, he did not think this trough. Neither side is completely bad or good. Modern Civilisation is greedy and traditional ones savages. Barbarism will aways be there, this Movie just was black and white with zero nuances. Ironically their little revolt may have doomed them to certaindeath if this were not a simple hollywood story but the real world...See every colonization ever.
Me too buddy.
I wanted to see Quaritch speedload his revolver.
Make it auto
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG
Only One Person Got Shot 😂😂😂
I love Trudy and the rest of them
The scene reminded me of Terminator 2 and classic Cameron so 👍👍
2:24 can someone give me a name of that gun sound effect? I heard it first in the 2 LEGO Indiana Jones games, but I don’t know the actual name of that gun fire sound.
It's a navy revolver
@@lordbry470
I mean the sound effect for that gun.
@@alejandrovelez6358 It’s a stock sound effect. It’s used for literally everything.
@@MarcoGamer640Productions2012
Well yeah, but I can’t find it anywhere despite being used anywhere in games and movies. I need a source. :(
Likeable badass
DAYUM, son!
Quaritch was just trying to save the human race 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I always found it odd how that rifle/smg/pdw thing Quaritch is shooting seems to lack any form of sighting system, can't make out any form of usable iron sights or optic.
I liked the 2 winged Helicopters
At which point does Grace get shot?
I don't miss that
Quaritch is the true hero
R.I.P
1:19 wait so there's no camera's recording this escape? If there were cameras they'd know that Max was involved
Yeah he's the villain... But you ask any service member, if they had a CO like this.... They would follow him anywhere...
So I understand that there would’ve probably had to have been SOME time to do pre-flight checks both visually and physically starting the ship
But like, could Trudy have just waited like 1 SINGULAR minute when the rest of them were boarding the rotorwing before she decided to fire up the engines and essentially paint a very loud “HEY IM ABOUT TO FLY OFF WITH MULTIPLE CAPTURED POW’S” Target on them
Just seemed like a very small yet simple common sense thing I don’t get in this part. (And yes I know they were on camera but at least maybe there was a shot the camerawoman wasn’t doing her due diligence before a blaring “UNAUTHORIZED ENGINE START” probably got here to look right at them.😂😂
They should’ve rigged all that equipment on that ship to blow. I wish Trudy and them thought their breakout throughly. Even when they came for kiri they should’ve removed the tracking device off the plane
2:32 The red man in the lower right corner is obviously not wearing an oxygen mask
he is rubbing his eyes
Good eye
How does the oxygen masks works
Hey Kalki Avatar!!
He kicked the door... wow.
Dont they seal the door? Its supposedly air tight inside right?
And he just kicked like a bada55.
Wow... just wow
I wish Trudy didn't die
Yeah, Me too.
@@TheProtagonist2020 Grace too but if it wasn't for Eywa looking into Grace’s memories then Jake would have lost everyone
@@hayleyyeager8008 Grace is back in the sequel albeit in a different form.
RDA Operator: Colonel, sir. I got a situation here.
Quaritch: What now?
RDA Operator: It’s Samson 1-6. Unauthorized engine start.
Quaritch: Those little cunts!! 😡