"But everything about the story, the setting, the dialog, and the parts that aren’t purely visual is awful. It’s actually worse than Dances with Wolves in terms of cultural imperialism. Like so many other “white guy goes back to nature” movies, it posits that the best native is in fact a white guy gone native. He was raised in the offending culture so he understands how it works, but he’s also able to learn the native culture almost instantly, become an accepted member of that culture, become a better native than the erstwhile best native (usually a young, hot-tempered man), and lead the natives into battle, either showing himself to be an honorable leader or dying valiantly in the attempt. It’s a bunch of racist hoo-haw, even if we’re dealing with made-up blue Gumbys."

"Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."