>Not only was it projected from a mile away, it would've been
>gloriously refreshing to have a movie like this without a
>"villain" mucking things up. They were facing about a hundred
>different types of interesting adversity without One-Note
>Greedy Human Archetype making an appearance.

Perhaps the cynical bastard in me wanted to see more human conflict after Caine's "We melted down bullets to build humanity's last hope" speech on the scafolding.

But in hindsight you're right...cutting him out would have made a stronger movie.