‘Avatar’ Contrarian Round Up: ‘The King of the World is Naked’
by Big HollywoodWith an 82% fresh rating, most all the Usual Suspects are gushing over ‘Avatar,’ but everyone knows that when you trash America you can bank the glowing reviews. So here are some contrarian voices not on Big Hollywood — others who had many of the same problems we did with the dull, cliched story and, in some cases, with the over-hyped visuals [Nolte review here; Kozlowski review here]:
“If Cameron wasn’t going to make a great movie with his rumored half-billion dollar budget, he could have at least given us an entertaining train wreck. But Avatar, which plods on for a punishing two hours and forty-two minutes, is more boring than bad. There’s no denying that the motion-capture 3D visuals are some kind of technical achievement, but after spending a while in the aquarium-like world of Pandora, I started to feel like I was staring at the world’s most expensive screensaver. The New Age-y rituals of the Na’vi put me in mind of dancing Ewoks, and the big battle scenes looked like outtakes from Attack of the Clones. Maybe that’s a little too harsh, but certainly Cameron does nothing with digital warfare that Peter Jackson didn’t do better in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Your mileage may vary, but to these eyes, Avatar looks like the emperor’s new clothes — and the King of the World is naked.”
“James Cameron’s love of technology is enough to sell Avatar to fans awaiting his first techno-feat since 1997’s Titanic. But will they understand the awful thing he’s done with it? Avatar’s highly-touted special effects depict an army from Earth traveling to Pandora, a moon in the Alpha Centuri-A star system, to mine rare ore from under its inhabitants, tall, blue-skinned creatures with tails called the Na’vi. These F/X show Cameron’s ex-Marine hero, Jake Sully (the great everyman Sam Worthington), taking part in a quasi-military program where he enters the alien society via a hybrid body (an avatar) made from human and Na’vi DNA. Cameron’s “fully immersive” 3-D technology is irritating to watch for nearly three hours. And then there’s his underlying purpose: Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt. …
“Cameron’s superficial B-movie tropes pretend philosophical significance. His story’s rampant imperialism and manifest destiny (Giovanni Ribisi plays the heartless industrialist) recalls Vietnam-era revisionist westerns like Soldier Blue, but it’s essentially a sentimental cartoon with a pacifist, naturalist message.”
“The CG characters are painstakingly rendered, but movie magic makers still haven’t found a way to make CG players look less like finely drawn cartoon characters. When CG-dominated films can create onscreen creatures indistinguishable from real-world humans and animals (without toeing the uncanny valley), a wall will come down. For this reason, Avatar remains visually impressive but not as groundbreaking as, say, George Lucas’ Star Wars, which pushed traditional special effects techniques to the next level.
“Unlike Lucas’ more playful science fiction epic, Cameron reaches for a heavy environmental message. Avatar is every militant global warming supporter’s dream come true as the invading, technology-worshiping, environment-ravaging humans are set upon by an angry planet and its noble inhabitants. But the film’s message suffers mightily under the weight of mind-boggling hypocrisy. Cameron’s story clearly curses the proliferation of human technology. In Avatar, the science and machinery of humankind leads to soulless violence and destruction. It only serves to pollute the primitive but pristine paradise of Pandora.”
“Anyone who has seen “Dances With Wolves” or “Quigley Down Under” or “The Last Samurai” will know the answer to that question.
“Some will be angered by the facile anti-business, pro-eco-terrorism plot Mr. Cameron has constructed, but that’s the least of the audience’s worries. Far worse is the utterly predictable — and, at 161 minutes, seemingly interminable — way in which the movie unfolds.”
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"With an 82% fresh rating"
Bought and paid for?
By the way, you'll notice that even in the positive reviews the underlying message is "go see it for the visuals".
Reminds me of my assessment of the New Order show I caught back in the 80s: "Ummmm, great light show." Johnny Lydon was right, though: Public Image Limited was the best band I saw that day.
The problem with Rottentomatoes is that there's very little granularity, a review is either fresh or it's rotten. So a movie that get's a lot of mediocre reviews can have a high rating as long as those reviews are just good enough to be counted as fresh. Which is probably the case with Avatar. I suspect a lot of reviewers are gushing over the technical aspects of the film to the point that even with complaints about the plot the reviews get counted as fresh.
Given it's politics we can expect that "Avatar" will soon be pushed by the NEA and other "progressive" groups as required viewing in our classrooms. Students can watch it right after "An Inconvenient Truth" and right before they drink the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
I'm not going to watch it, for two reasons. I live in an upstate NY back water region, and the are no IMAX theaters for hours.
Secondly, those special effects do make me nauseous.
I remember when Castle Wolfenstien came out, the first virtual reality shoot 'em game I saw. Greatest time waster at work I've ever seen. At one point we had the majorities of both software teams (hardware diagnostics – my team) and Operating System spending more than eight hours a day, 5 days a week playing it. The coffee machines had never been more deserted than when we were all playing.
But after a couple of hours, I was ready to hurl. I see no reason to repeat that feeling.
I'm not going to watch it, for two reasons. I live in an upstate NY back water region, and the are no IMAX theaters for hours.
Secondly, those special effects do make me nauseous.
I remember when Castle Wolfenstien came out, the first virtual reality shoot 'em game I saw. Greatest time waster at work I've ever seen. At one point we had the majorities of both software teams (hardware diagnostics – my team) and Operating System spending more than eight hours a day, 5 days a week playing it. The coffee machines had never been more deserted than when we were all playing.
But after a couple of hours, I was ready to hurl. I see no reason to repeat that feeling.
Yeah whats wrong with that? Avatars visuals are beyond anything that came before them. Avatar uses steroscopic imagery better then any movie ever has. How is this not an achievement that makes the movie worth seeing
Ill be seeing tonight. I hope the story matches the visuals. But unfortunitly I doubt it.
This movie no doubt has a carbon footprint the size of Montana. Cameron's mind-boggling hypocrisy is only exceeded by that of Al Gore and Obama.
2 hours and 40 minutes Long?
I thought Cameron was on board with Obama's "No Torture" policy?
It's about as realistic as an Inconvient Truth
LOL…. At least it's not 2 hours and 40 minutes of Al Gore and his "poetry"…..
Tape!
Hey Mr. Cameron, allow us to remind you that it's because of this "imperialistic" nation that you have been afforded the luxury of gazing at your navel and squandering nearly half a billion dollars on you indulgences. – Oh, and if we were all still living at one with mother earth like your beloved indigenous peoples, you'd be relegated to telling your fanciful tales on a cave wall with charcoal.
EdSki, I remember one summer afternoon, when after playing too much Wolfenstein at work I actually had to run to the bathroom to empty my stomach. I even get dizzy from watching game play capture on YouTube etc.
I'm not sure if I'll see Avatar, and all that 3D fuss is one of the reasons for my hesitation. Furthermore, I had read the treatment years ago, and from what I can see, the final product hasn't changed much—and that original story sucked big time: nerdy/naive/PC cr@p. Anyway, I won't have room to see the film until January, so I'll have enough time to decide.
Frankly, if all I cared about is being overstimulated with pretty colors and lights, I'd just veg out in front of a pinball machine for half an hour.
Just like "GI Joe" this year, the trailer tries to appeal to flyover country. If you didn't read anything about this movie and just saw the trailer that is out there now, you would think it is a good ol' fashion Marines-kicking-butt movie. Surprise to the true American who unfortunately gets blindsided watching this anti-American nature lovefest. If I do ever watch it, it will be at my home, on my tv, and a $1 rental from Redbox. And that is a big IF. Semper Fi.
Anyone else seeing the articles regarding the possibility that Cameron ripped off large parts of the plot from some old sci-fi book called "Call Me Joe?" Read the plot synopsis and then compare to this movie. Sounds pretty stinking similar to me (right down to the man in the wheelchair – a pretty *specific* plot point, I'd say).
Whoever owns the rights to "Call Me Joe" – please call me your attorney. I'll contact Cameron's people right away and ask: so, do you want to settle now or later?
the sinner,
Patrick
Oh, and these comparisons between "Avatar" and "Call Me Joe" are even more on-the-nose than those that led Cameron to settle out-of-court with Ellison regarding Ellison's two Outer Limits episodes and "The Terminator."
the sinner,
Patrick
That will never happen. It's either real, i.e. in-camera, or it's not. You can obscure the virtuality of it to some degree by creating a great character and having it portrayed by a wonderful actor (cp. Gollum in LOTR) or mixing the two realms with a sense of visual proportion and relation, as in Jurassic Park. But all of that still feels purified, only *almost* real, but at least relatable, compelling. But if complete sequences are produced in the computer, and if you have mediocre actors in you motion-capture suits, you'll have nothing. Zoe Saldana's CGI character is said to be outstanding, but that's only one character. Not enough.
And that's why I visit Big Hollywood before every plunking down a single dollar to see a film. I want to know if I'm going to be sucker punched, have my consciousness raised, be propagandized or told what a doofus I am for believing in capitalism and liberty.
I posted this on another thread, but from what I've read (and admittedly I haven't read a lot about "Avatar" – even the reviews tend to be boring–nor seen it) "Avatar is about climate change nee global warming nee global cooling nee acid rain nee nuclear winter and Iraq. Someone correct me if I've misunderstood, but this is what I gather:
Bad Earthlings (Americans) have destroyed their planet (climate change nee global warming…) so have moved to Pandora to rape that planet, planetoid, moon or whatever it is (Iraq). The natives fight back (insurgents) so the big, bad Earthlings (Americans) send more killers (marines, soldiers) to kill more Na'vi (Iraqis). Unfortunately for the big bad Earthlings (Americans), a wheelchair bound fighter (when the caissons are rolling along) falls in love with Pandora's Fox and — that's usually when I quit reading a review. Somebody here can fill me in on the deep emotion of the film (as described by Cameron on Fox and Friends this a.m.) that left people crying as they left the theatre. Shades of the Valley of Eloi (oops, I mean Elah). Only question — why wasn't Jake Gylaanhaal or howeveryouspellit in the film?
Can someone explain why there are even fanboys for a movie that has yet to be released? I can understand going ga-ga over something that has a back story, like the next Star Wars thing or The Lord of The Rings, but until 12:00AM last night, Avatar was just an unoriginal idea rattling around Cameron's head. Why have there been so many dorks (hey, we can smell our own) over the last few weeks ready to draw pistols at dawn when someone has a contrarian thought about this film, like maybe it won't be the greatest movie ever, ever?
Sounds like yet another "been there done that" movie. Not interested in watching a piecemeal Liberal movie. So long Mr. Cameron… like Lucas you once made great movies but your 'comeback' isn't worth the ticket price. I am still mad I paid to see the last three Star Wars movies.
The only special effects of this movie that I will enjoy watching is the explosion and flames as Cameron's leftist sermon hits the rocks. And the niftiest part is that I won't even have to buy a ticket to watch. Woo hoo!
Capitalism and Environmentalism are fundamentally at odds. The Environment's problems do not come and go on the quarterly profitability pace that drives Capitalism. (maybe when they do then it will be possible that being environmental will finally be "profitable"… but then it will probably be "too late".)
Depending on your side of it… this will be an age old classic narrative, OR, a hackneyed trite overdone storyline (that just doesn't seem to go away.)
"Avatar uses steroscopic imagery better then any movie ever has"
how can you say that if you have yet to see the film? I saw it today. I was less than impressed with the 3D. The best I can say about it: "It did not annoy me."
As for the movie. Go see it for the visuals.
"why wasn't Jake Gylaanhaal or howeveryouspellit in the film?"
Because Sigorney Weaver was. Didn't need Jake.
Well, it must feel good to be on the same side as the esteemed Armond White
I guess not every movie can be "Norbit" for him…
I'm sure all those 70s movies depicting Vietnam veterans as crazy drug-addicted homeless losers didn't influence many peoples' perceptions of vets and anyone wearing a uniform. They all just enjoyed the storyline and the special effects instead.
the movie is barely out. the people giving it positives on rotten tomatoes are industry insiders and unemployed fanboys.
give it a few days to see.
i shouldn't comment. but looks like the resource "unobtanium" that's exhausted on earth is original script ideas.
NOOOOOO!!!! Quigly Down Under was AWESOME! And Quigly never *was* on the side of the bad guys. He didn't *go* native. He didn't have to be convinced that what was bad was bad. He just had to come to a point of acceptance that it wasn't a fight he could avoid. Not the same!
Anyone else see the irony in what is hyped as the most technologically significant movie of all time preaching that technology is bad?
At 76 years of age I don’t have any minutes to waste and certainly will not waste them on more of Hollywood’s garbage.
Semper Fi
And yet… it is capitalism that protects the environment… even if only because capitalists can AFFORD to protect the environment.
So which is more important? Protecting the environment with the resources available to us due entirely to the technology and wealth created by capitalism? Or the ideological purity of choosing the Environment over capitalism, even if the environment suffers?
Heh.
The really amazing thing over these last years is how profoundly disappointed certain people are when their romantic notions of the military (romance in the old fashioned meaning of the word) didn't turn out to be true.
They do keep trying, though.
If I could put in a word for fan boys…
It could be that the hostility is partly due to not wanting to go into the movie with preconceptions. I can sympathize with that a little bit. I'd almost rather go to a movie I was excited about and be disappointed than to have to make this great effort to try to not let the discussions about why the movie sucks ruin that anticipation.
Good point, Synova. Compare the environment's health in poor countries vs. developed, rich ones. For all the hand-wringing and harangueing we do or receive over the environment, our air and water quality has improved very very nicely since the 70's. There are still issues (many Superfund sites to clean), but we address them and we are making improvements because we know that good corporate/business practices go hand-in-hand with good stewardship of resources.
There's a huge vein of irony running right down the center of this expensive, plagiarized cartoon.
"Capitalism and Environmentalism are fundamentally at odds" gee – great – wow.
Todays profundity brought to us by coggy, "the thinker".
Virtually all of the worlds true enviromental disasters can be traced back to COMMUNISM!
"Yeah whats wrong with that?"
It implies the story isn't worth seeing. And, believe it or not, cinema is a narrative from. I don't care how good a movie looks, if it doesn't tell a good story, it's not worth your time. You want great visuals, go to a museum.
from = form
"Depending on your side of it… this will be an age old classic narrative, OR, a hackneyed trite overdone storyline (that just doesn't seem to go away.) "
Not true. i've enjoyed many a great film with a crappy leftist theme. It hurts, but not enough for me to think it's overall hackneyed or trite, so long as it's well done.
Tall skinny people with the noses, ears, and tails of lions, golden animal-like eyes (didn't the preliminary artwork have vertical slitted pupils?), living an idyllic jungle existence, flying high in the sky and being one with the earth…
Is this a movie for furries? The human transformed into a half-animal being, exploring his true nature, reaching his true potential…
Okay, so the practically-naked natives aren't furry, they have blue skin. With stripes.
Hope this Cameron dude never gets the chance to stand on a stage with an award in his hand screaming
"I'm King Of Pandora ! I'm King of Pandora"
Isn't that orr stuff their looking for called … ahhh unattainable?
Stop linking to Armond White. Everyone who has ever read his reviews knows he is a race-baiting contrarion, albeit a very articulate one. He's a troll, plain and simple and you really shouldn't treat him as a legitimate film critic. It's not like he agrees with this sites agenda which, like all political websites, seem to review films on an idealogical level rather than one based on artistics merit. I'd hate to see this site turn into the bizarro Huffington Post.
I'm with you. Quigly was great. Quigly took on the Bad guys as soon as he identified them. He also made sure that the Aboriginal child was returned. He had no problem with Private Property Rights or Individual Freedom, he was a Cowboy for G*ds Sake.
I've found rottentomatoes tends to live up to its name rather well. The reviews tend to make good films out as bad while absolutely terrible films are lauded to the sky.
Regardless, I don't like films that rely too much on special effects. Special effects are bad per se, but if you build your film around -just- that, you usually end up with a mess.
I can't believe that Ewok only appears once on this page.
Just stop that now. That idea alone will give me nightmares!
I used to like movies that J. Cameron made but I will give this a pass for two reasons. The first is I am not impressed with 3D. To tell the truth I can not be as I am legally blind in my Right eye. The other reason is that too much of the movie is just CG. I have nothing against CG but it should never be the star. The best movies are those where CG is used to enhance the visuals and not supply the visuals. "I like The Lord of the Rings" triolgy because of the way that CG was used. Peter Jackson did not CG the Hobbits instead he used old fashioned forced perspective to give the Illusion that the Hobbits were smaller than the other Charectors.
You know, I'm going to have to agree there as well. Normally I hate westerns…. Actually, I always hate westerns. Quigly wasn't -that- annoying though… for a western…..
Anyway, Quigly was most definitely the good guy and certainly didn't go native.
I have and it is interesting. For me it brings home the idea that they want us to do as they say, not as they do.
Not a bad alternative… more exercise and less money!!!
"being anti-Capitalist" is 'all the rage' with the young leftist twerps of today!
Now we tell fanciful tales in megachurches led by preachers with 20 pounds of goop in their hair.
Poul Anderson, he's been dead for about 10 years, and I doubt his estate is really that interested in raising a stink (my mom was a collaborator with Poul on projects, and has said as much). The "Call Me Joe" comparisons have been discussed for months in Sci-Fi circles.
Now, if he had ripped off Harlan Ellison AGAIN (like he did with Terminator), that would be a different story.
People need to be educated about Evolution and the dangers of Climate Change brought about by corporate exploitation and male/female breeding and consumerism. America is free from the Bush Regime and this is a shinning time of learning, reform and progression. Avatar however, didn't get the message. It presents a future that ignores Evolution and assumes that the "male/female" split would be the norm on other worlds with other cultures. Today we are saying NO to that narrow-minded view and YES to diversity.
The progressive community is very excited about how the events of December 18, 2009 will unfold. There are many blogs and websites talking about the Avatar protest tomorrow and there is every reason to expect a significant turn-out. This is a wonderful opportunity to show non-progressive America the beauty and diversity of the human being.
I would like to remind everyone that ANYONE can take part in today's protest. You don’t have to be gay or lesbian. You don’t have to be transgender or bi-sexual. You can be simply curious or open-minded even if you consider yourself to be straight.
These protests will be non-violent and non-confrontational. Our intention is not to intimidate but to educate. That said, there may be incidents tomorrow. This is will most likely happen in what’s called Middle America. If you live in a U.S. state that failed to vote for President Obama last year, PLEASE BE CAREFUL. If people are hurt tomorrow it will serve as a reminder for the inherent need for Universal Health Care in America. Health Care is a basic human right. If anyone is hurt tomorrow, I am sorry for you and I hope you will be well. But you can play a role in helping President Obama provide all peoples with access to health care.
We only ask that people please respect our right to free speech and our freedom of expression. Some of us will stand up during the film. Others will sit down in theater lobbies. There is no reason why this should bother you or be a cause for confrontation. This is an opportunity for non-progressives as well: Open your minds and take the first step to being a rational and tolerant person. You can always watch Avatar at a later time or buy the DVD if you wish.
STOP THE AVATAR MOVIE: http://stopavatarmovie.blogspot.com
$500,000,0000.00 thats a lot O global warming!!!
All I know is: The only thing that will keep me from seeing this film is the possibility that the effects will make me nauseous. I am intrigued. And I like Sam Worthington (is that is name – ? – 'everyman' from Terminator Salvation). If it's boring or preach, oh well.
What gets me is the comparison to Dances with Wolves: I'm certain that I'm not the only person who adored that movie. Whatever its partisan agenda (if that is, indeed, what some people take issue with/the reason for comparing it to Avatar), it was great film. If Avatar shares many attributes with Dances, then it's sure to be better than this article would lead me to believe.
Na'vi…?…? Isn't that brand name of some automaker's overpriced navigation package?
I'll wait and buy a Chinese knock off on the lower east side.
Don't forget that te aliens can also be (native americans) as well as (iraqis). It just depends on which aspect of white guilt you want to focus on whilst watching the movie.
The movie is easily worth a viewing, but it's 75% because of the effects being so spectacular, and only 25% because you might enjoy the story (maybe more like 90% / 10% ). I enjoyed it, but there were a lot of eye-rolling moments, not to mention the juvenile portrayal of the Navi (they were so transparently Indian it was embarrassing).
If you don't like special effects extravaganzas, just re-watch Dancing With Wolves, then follow it immediately with The Last Airbender episode about the swamp. You'll have the idea down.
Hey Now old school pinball machines rock!
Babylon 5 used state of the art CAG that set a new standard for television. How is this not an achievement that makes the show worth seeing? and it still got canceled.
If a show sucks, all the pretty in the world isn't going to help. Like Megan Fox, pretty but horrible is just horrible that's pretty.
Hopefully, this means that the concept of making movies MAINLY for FX and CGI has jumped the shark.
I'm not going to see a Dances With Wolves ripoff set in space. I don't care how "ground-breaking" Cameron says it is, CGI characters and effects are just advanced cartoons. The one reviewer was right, until they can come up with some way to keep it from looking like Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse, it's NOT ground-breaking…..
Saw it today in 3D at a killer THX Certified theater. The effects are almost marvelous and almost awesome, but nowhere near photo-realistic, and the story was stolen lock, stock, and barrel from Dances With Wolves. The story, "the military industrial complex is evil" was a club with which this viewer was bludgeoned nearly to death with by Cameron, and Dances With Wolves was better, if for no other reason than that the acting wasn't filtered through the 3D CGI effects, which rendered any nuance of performance impossible to perceive.
Cameron has been on this arc for a long time: Technology was evil in Terminator, the corporation was evil in Aliens, but this time his stolen story telling is so ham-fisted that it doesn't work on any level… unless you are a brain-dead libtard who hates everything that made America great and that keeps us free.
Rotten Tomatoes is overrun with knee-jerk leftards. WTF do you expect? They wouldn't know an uplifting story if it was blue and flew in on a red pterodactyl to open the Pandora's box of their minds.
That's only for terrorists. He never said anything about not torturing American citizens!
Save the $1, wait til it's broadcast – and don't be ashamed to switch channels if you get bored.
Garmin produces the Nuvi line of portable GPS systems.
From what I've read about this movie, your protest will be more entertaining than this movie and its space varmints.
P.S. Health care is not a "basic human right". You have no "right" to other peoples time, labor and property. Health care is a service. It is not free, nor should it be.
Saw the movie today, and I have to say it's a cinematic spectacle that's worth a look. BUT, I would not worry about anyone walking out of the theater with a newly found deep commitment to fighting the military-capitalist complex. Yes, the story is jammed with every lefty cliche about the military, corporations, noble savages communing with nature, but the simplistic granola message is just too stoopid and contemptuous of its audience to really stick. It's also nothing but a fig leaf for the joyously, orgasmic spectacle of military whammy-bammy that Cameron invites us to exult in at the end.
The pseudo-pacifist message is shredded by the end sequence carnage, which zapped every viewer in my screening down to their reptilian inner-cortex, as they cheered for every on-screen marine getting the ass-kicking they so obviously deserved. The peace lovers in my screening tasted blood and they loved it. Peace and love, my ass.
I liked Dances with Wolves as well. Part of the point is why do Dances/Wolves again? Or do it as sci-fi? That's what turned me off on this film, as a sci-fi fan, was that the story isn't original and the plot of the marine falling in love with the native just isn't an exciting story for me. Even if it were favorable to capitalism or the military I still would not care to see it.
And we already know Cameron's message. We know we have to be stewards of the Earth and use resources responsibly, and we know Native Americans were treated unfairly and poorly.
Sorry, Cognitive Dissociative, environmentalism is only possible under capitalism. It is a luxury good which subsistence societies can't afford. One has to have an economic surplus to dedicate actively or reserve passively to the environment: peasants have no such surplus, and will always place their meager survival ahead of Gaia.
Amazon deforestation is not being driven primarily by ranchers, you know.
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It means it got positive reviews, but that doesn't mean they were all four star reviews. Check out the average grade. Anything over 6.5 out of 10 is considered positive. Heck, it may very well be entertaining, but that doesn't mean you'll want to own it on dvd. There's a degree of "good".
While pondering the arrival of Avatar, I thought back to the evil corporation sub-plot in Aliens. I think the reason that it wasn't controversial and didn't bother many people is because it was such a minor part of the movie. That movie was about Marines fighting with Aliens. Burke's betrayal for the sake of "profit" was so small that I imagine most people have forgotten it.
"but looks like the resource "unobtanium" that's exhausted on earth is original script ideas."
Burn!
Someone please tell me this is a parody.
/facepalm/
I saw it yesterday, and yes, the story is trite and a bit overdone as far as the evil corporate desires. But the movie was amazing to watch, and kept you involved from beginning to end. And personally I like the Gaia theory to a certain extent – I think our Earth responds to external (i.e. man-made) effects on it, not in a sentient way but in a physical, Darwinian way. Definitely worth seeing, don't worry about any 'message', and you must see it in 3-D in a good theater.
Had a few thoughts on this, here's a link to my blog since its a bit long..
http://thedumberox.blogspot.com/2009/12/avatar-an...
What a load of craps. Stop wasting your time with your nonsenses and grow the f**k up!
The human race will evolve nicely without your "We-are-the-world-Kumbaya" crap, thank you. Now get with the program, young lady!
In this crazy world, this could be real.
Avatar measures up to its considerable hype and fills its nearly 3 hour length, yet its reprehensible politics and high-toned B-movie story suggest it’s likely to go down in history as little more than technical triumph.
Avatar’s worldview starts where the HuffPost’s leaves off.
Call it HuffMeth: Left wing whack – 3D tweaked.
Avatar’s whole rape and pillage ethos went out with Nam yet looms like a Deathstar in Hollywood’s tragically hip worldview.
At its nadir – former US Marines destroy a civilization’s iconic tower by shooting missiles into its base and then watch it topple – it becomes clear that we’re now in an obscene world in which 9/11 has become fodder for popcorn propaganda. Cameron – nothing if not brilliantly calculating – must figure that this is how you entice global audiences to buy tickets for the privilege of jeering Americans.
Full WikPik review at http://www.wikpik.com/movie_reviews/2125-avatar
this is a great article about the avatar! http://www.moneyteachers.org/Deadmanmusings8.htm
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