REVIEW: The Beautiful & Moronic ‘Avatar’
by Tim SlagleI think every guy has done it at least once. Sure it’s shallow and in retrospect, we’re probably quite embarrassed. I know that every single one of us has dated a girl that is out of our intellectual depth; but we didn’t care, because she was so breathtakingly gorgeous. They say love is blind, but when it’s not, it can be incredibly stupid.
That’s what I thought of when I was sitting through Avatar. I don’t think there has ever been a dumber picture made. The plot is fairly easy to figure out, only slightly more complicated than a Scooby Doo episode. Once again American corporations are paving over paradise, all in the name of the bottom line. I’m sure that even children are going to know where it’s going within the first fifteen minutes.
Yet despite its overwhelming simplicity, it was hard not to be smitten, because it’s so aesthetically fantastic. The world of Pandora looks like a Rain Forest Café that was turned into a salt water aquarium. It is full of fiberglass animals, mossy trees, anemone and glowing jelly fish.
Everything on Pandora glows in the dark, even those ten-foot half naked blue people. I’m sure that no one will notice that the naked savages were played by African and Native Americans, since the film’s message is so politically correct. It has long been a tradition in Hollywood to let people of color appear naked in films, even after the Hayes code was passed.
Here on Pandora people have evolved to a point where they have an auxiliary USB cord growing out of their heads that allows them to jack up with animals before they ride on them. And if you haven’t seen the movie, yes, it is just as disturbing and uncomfortable to watch as it sounds.
Just like you might want to take a couple extra slugs of scotch before you take your glamour girl out for the evening, you might want to alter yourself before you go to see Avatar. That way you might more easily suspend any logical disbelief you’re going to encounter. Like why a helicopter cockpit that can take a fifty caliber shell, can easily be pierced with an arrow; or that people can be healed with group chanting and swaying (if that were true, no-one would ever need medical treatment at a Grateful Dead concert).
James Cameron claims to have written this film fifteen years ago, which would put it squarely in the middle of the Ecstasy craze. All the glowing colors, peace, and love, that exists on Pandora certainly seems drug inspired.
Then there’s those spaceships. Lots of spaceships and helicopters, and explosions. It is kind of a cross between 2001 and Die Hard. There’s anti gravity and machine guns, and hydraulic exoskeletons and holographic computer screens. What’s not to love?
I would highly recommend this film if you’re looking to go away for three hours. I would also recommend that you see it in IMAX 3D, where the peripheral encompassing screen and terrific 3D will make YOU feel like an Avatar. If you can turn of your brain for three hours, you won’t be disappointed.
You might even fall in love.
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No thanks. The movie may be beautiful, but the ideas are toxic. This site is dedicated to resisting the immature left culture that has been perpetrated on the country. The fact that a movie like this is so popular is deeply depressing to me. Advocating taking part in a movie that forwards that culture doesn't seem to me to be in the spirit of what's supposed to be happening here.
Exactly right, TS, this is the Supermodel of movies.
Liberals insert their ideology by wrapping it up in a pretty package. If you gift-wrap a turd, will it be more appealling?
Anybody who's spend 10 bucks to see this glorified Twilight Zone episode doesn't have a brain.
Tim Slangle! That was the funnest review I have ever read man. Great job.
Dude, I'm all outs stash right now, so I guess I'll have to pass!
Hyuh Huu! That guy sed "Turd". That's kewl.
Paging Mr. Freud……. Damn! Never mind , Mr.Slagle must reside inside my gray matter!!
I saw it today. I "hemmed and hawed" but because of the graphics, I went with my son and a friend (14 yr olds).
The "Dances With Wolves In Outer Space" description couldn't be more accurate. These Modern Liberals are so predictable.
I don't know exactly how to explain it, but it's funny to watch how Modern Liberals portray the victims (as there MUST be a victim). The primitives are celebrated because they all stand together in unison, have strong rituals, and have religious beliefs.
It just shows how twisted and how they (the Modern Liberals) are in some infinite loop of false logic. They HATE the rituals and beliefs of our country – the features that made it great.
It gets into the notion that Modern Liberals want to force everything to be "equal." I guess it's along the lines of the movie being a tool to teach people that America is "not so good." …just another vehicle for working to tear down success.
As I said, it's very hard to put a finger on what makes them tick. It's like trying to get on a merry-go-round that is moving too fast. For us normal people, there was no reason to make a movie with such a plot.
It is predictable, but only because we see the same story play out in history over and over again…people are greedy and don't want anything to stand in their way. Many will take what belongs to others if it means they are richer.
Hide your heads in the sand, but remember, you present a very good target when you do.
I agree with this assessment and add that it also was meant as a trashing statement against the military. The marines yelling "Get Some" as they shot down the NaVi. Then there was the Colonel. No Colonel I knew in the military was this brazen as to fire off rounds in enclosed spaces…he had marines who did this if needed which most of the time was never. Most Colonels I knew were so extra careful not to make waves because politicos with a James Ca-moron mentality were always ready to pounce on them as was the media. There were blatant attempts to add dialog that was supposed to be a slap at GW Bush such as labeling the NaVi as terrorists because they were gathering in large numbers then saying there needed to be a preemptive attack.
The special effects were great but the content of the movie sucked.
Is there any significance in the fact that Na Vi backwards spells Ivan? Just asking.
I have to say – I liked the film. One of the best 3-D films I have ever seen. Lots of good technology behind the movie. Yes at times predictable, but none the less entertaining. I bet it will gross more than Titanic. I took my family. Everyone enjoyed it. Different strokes I guess.
If it helps you to sleep better at night then look at it a bit differently – Imagine JC as a conservative. The invaders as either illegal immigrants or Democratic Senators… taking what does not belong to them so they can personally benefit off the sweat of others… then a Marine turning the tide.
The movie was good and will prove to be so by earning $2 Billion Globally.
I thought maybe I was watching a Mel Brooks movie as I was laughing my ass off for the last hour of this shlockfest. But Cameron truly has created an awesome alternate universe. It was worth my time and my $7.50.
Paul is dead.
"I think every guy has done it at least once. Sure it’s shallow and in retrospect, we’re probably quite embarrassed. I know that every single one of us has dated a girl that is out of our intellectual depth; but we didn’t care, because she was so breathtakingly gorgeous."
That doesn't work for me as a metaphor for Avatar. Avatar isn't merely a beautiful airhead of a movie, it's more like a beautiful manipulative b!tch. I've dated beautiful girls who weren't exactly intellectual powerhouses, but they were sweet, and I enjoyed my time with them. OTOH, I've had conniving gorgeous horror-show women get their hooks into me, and it was a miserable experience. Avatar was more like the second scenario for me.
I didn't take part in the movie, as TOK intimated above, but I did take a date(A Beautiful CONSERVATIVE young lady) to view it. We both agreed with Mr.Slagle in his article entirety , and then some!! What a beautiful movie aesthetically, what a total, moronic, banal, verbose, vitrolic, tripe-filled, piece of a crap of a plot with every EVERY lib/socialistic/progressive,tree-hugging/commie, facist/marxist/ anti- American cliched tripe to EVER come down the pike. BTW, I'm glad Grace(S. Weaver died and went to enwya(Hell?) ).
Not gonna go see it. No way. I'm sick of getting ball-kicked by politics. I can't even read a thread about Hulk vs. Thor without someone throwing in gratuitous conservative-bashing. I'm not paying hard-earned money to see a movie where I know I'm going get it repeatedly.
I figured as much, usually the more they build these things up, the bigger a let down they are.
I'll believe that when I see it… but if it's true I will commend him for it and it will be a stunning example of how charity should work. I hate forced charity… oops… I mean Socialism. If you feel so strongly about an issue then gather your team, create a movement, use your talents, and support your cause. Last time I checked Michael Moore was rich and still living in the U.S.A.
What you don't do is force people to be charitable, make them pay for what they are not responsible for, make them pay for what they don't believe in, or create a doomsday scenario where "we're all gonna die" if congress doesn't pass a law to force everyone to make a few Al Gore's rich. That's where I draw a line in the sand and load up the weapons.
You hit on a very important point. They love the unity, cultural uniformity, and spirituality of their indigenous victims, but show them a Christian congregation living, working, making a community, and they screech in horror. It's really unhinged.
Yes, it has played out. Not quite so colorfully and the natives tended to burn their enemies alive over the course of days, but yes, it played out when the stronger warrior came along the weaker was pushed aside. It's happened all over the world, not just here or in Europe and not just with Western peoples applying the pressure. Ever heard of the Mongols?
Funny, it's like a hologram spelling out "Zinncompoop" appears over your post. I imagine you've learned a lot about American/Western history with zero context being applied to the various events. Life will always blindside you if you view the world that way. Just a piece of advice. Read something besides pop scholarship and you'll see the richness of human history alongside the brutality.
I really can NOT stand the way the Na'Vi look. It reminds me of the Jar Jar Binks design. A sort of, throw a bunch of junk out there and see what sticks. They give me the willies. I couldn't watch a whole movie with them all over it.
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Good. More people should think like you.
"No Colonel I knew in the military was this brazen as to fire off rounds in enclosed spaces…"
Which might be a good indicator as to why this particular fellow isn't IN the military anymore, something which everyone seems to miss…
For the most part, "primitive tribespeople" have their social, economic and political roles defined for them at birth, by tradition and necessity. I'm not sure why leftists would admire that.
Part 1 of 2: Now that we're into this a bit, I can explain it more. The reality is they celebrate the victims cultural beliefs only up to a point. And that point is when whatever group we are talking about becomes successful, sustainable and, really, a threat to Modern Liberalism itself.
Modern Liberalism is about forcing everything to be "equal". They use words like 'fairness", "justice" and "equality', but they go much deeper. First, who doesn't everything fair?? Who doesn't want justice? But this is not what they want.
They want to ensure everything is "equal" and they'll do it by force. In fact, they have to treat people unequally in order to force things to be "equal." So right out of the gate, they create tension.
Part 2 of2: The whole purpose of Cameron's storyline is to attack and undermine our great system. See, it's successfull and Modern Liberals cannot have that.
Think about the inner cities: decades and decades of Modern Liberalism and they won't adapt to help the people. See, they don't care. Their overriding goal is to force things "equal" and this is why our argumehts about how to make things better and that their ideas suck never work with them.
It can never work with them. No matter how much we try to point out what is better and no matter how sincere we are, they will never get it – they can't.
candy coat a turd and it will appeal to most shallow minded Americans …. look what it did for the Democrats in Washington with Obama!
Dude! Don't tell me about the cinematic virtues of this film, tell me about the important stuff: James Camron's Perfect Animated Breasts that he took 3 years to develop! From all the hype I'm expecting to see an Oscar presented for the Best Supporting D Cup In An Animated Role.
There's no hiding heads in the sand. Your point about greed is valid, but why do I need James Cameron to dramatize something that's patently obvious to anyone over the age of 13? Hello? Grown-ups here. Familiar with human behavior. People greedy – check. Got the message a long time ago. Hearing it again won't make me deal with it any differently. That's the trouble with "message" movies. Everybody's heard the message already.
How many schools and hospitals could Cameron have built on American Indian reservations for $300 million dollars? How many injured or disfigured Iraqi and Afghan children could he have provided with medical care, reconstructive surgery or prostheses? How many healthy ones could he have put through college? Instead, he makes a cartoon.
Certainly, Avatar will change the technology of moviemaking forever. It won't do squat for the environment or the "victims" of American capitalism.
Replace one letter and you get Nazi – with whom the Na'vi share much the same mythological constructs regarding the oneness of man and nature. blood, soil, race and primeval forests.
A+ for its cutting edge technology. F for a screen play that could have been written by a high school senior who wears a Che t-shirt 24/7.
Good breasts are worth the wait.;)
A couple things bothered me about the movie…
1) How can internal combustion engines function in a non oxygen environment?
2) Water is a by product of photosynthesis/respiration cycle, and there is a lot of water on Pandora…but no oxygen to breathe?
3) Pandora is a moon around a gas giant. Therefore the moon is the equivalent of a ball of space trash, so 'unobtanium' should be just floating around in the system's asteroid belt or Oort cloud…or heck OTHER moons of the gas giant.
Oh my I have to agree, I hate to say it but I was lured into watching this crap because of all the reports of the look of the film. Well I could have saved money and just went to the regular show since none of it was innovative or spectacular looking. Other than the first night scene where we got big glowy plants, nothing stood out. Nothing came at me with or zinged by my head. The story was boring and predictable and I think they almost lifted either the music or the speech of Braveheart.
Just a note, this was NOT a military operation. All of the men were mercenaries, paid for service by the company including the Colonel. Hence why none of them seemed sympathetic to the natives or rebelled other than the female.
And the Walrus was… well you get it!
Except for the repulsive idea of enriching Cameron, the movie is quite spectacular… and harmless. Just inoculate yourself beforehand by knowing that it's liberal pap. Then prepare to really enjoy it.
There are liberal teenagers who know Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine is full of himself/sh*t and just enjoy the concert.
Shel – many episodes of Twilight Zone were intellectually challanging, it was one of the finest shows ever on TV. An unfair comparison.
The author of this piece is right on. EVERYTHING GLOWS IN AVATAR. Sitting there looking through my 3D glasses as I crossed my legs and was surprised to see my white socks on my feet glowing in the dark like neon socks and it seem fitting that it was just like in Pandora. Now that what I call innovative.
Exactly, best unintentional comedy I have ever seen.
Mad Magazine is in a quandry however since the actual dialogue of the movie far outweigh anything they could write to parody it. "oh mystic trre of life they killed the mother of their planet" That speech was pure comic genious.
Excellent point, and one I heartily agree with…
However, if you want to pirate it, I think I'll just be over here, watching the rhododendrons grow…that's a nice one there…
I wouldn't put this with "Twilight Zone"…
More like a "Captain Planet" on LSD…Ted knows what I'm talking about…tell 'em, Ted…
I knew Columbia had low standards, but come on, don't give it all up right away…
I think the idea behind the breathers was not to supply oxygen but to filter out impurities. CO2 for instance is actually toxic in quantities from 5 to 10% of the atmosphere. This is the reason for CO2 scrubbers in a space ship. It is not that O2 gets used up it is that exhaled CO2 gets accumulated making the atmosphere toxic.
As for unobtanium, since there is not element with that name and a dense atomic element heavier than say plutonium would be definition be so radioactive nothing should be able to live there especially humans who are not resistant to radiation it would more likely have to be a molecule and not an element. Perhaps it is the waste product of the Tree of Life, who knows. The movie makes no attempt to explain any of this probably because none of the writers passed their grade school science classes. I do like how the 20 billion dollar an oz unabtanium rock sits unguarded on some bureacrats desk as a conversational paperweight. That was well thought out.
Fanboy alert…!
Probably went to the theater wearing a Stormtrooper outfit from "Star Wars"…
Hanzo…
Like Kirk said to Bones in "Wrath of Kahn"…"Don't mince words, Bones. What do you really think?"
ROTFLMAO!
A +1 to you!
Didn't someone here call Avatar a "beautiful screensaver" ? : )
Careful…
Cameron wants you to look at the pretty pictures…don't think about the story…
Repeat until you're as vapid as the lefty trolls are…
Any one of a number of Japanese Hentai does a better job…for a whole lot less…
Yeah, and it took a whole two weeks to make back the production costs. The rest (less marketing and residuals) is pure profit. So we can expect many, many more nice-looking life-wing diatribes in the years to come.
But we must not complain that leftists make anti-military, anti-western movies. They're leftists. What we must do is assemble our own talent and resources to create our own beautiful libertarian films. And for those of you who cry, "Can't be done – Hollywood will stop you!" I say baloney – why didn't they stop 300, or Pursuit of Happyness? It can be done. Who wants to write an epic 3-D hard-sci-fi interstellar adventure in the spirit of Heinlein?
In other words, it's a clone of the "Star Wars" series, right? Where is Frank Herbert when we really need him?
"Many will take what belongs to others if it means they are richer."
And you'll notice this can also pertain to those behind you.. Actually, liberals blatantly advocate it as justification for redistribution of wealth.
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I took the Na'vi to mean the word "native." As in they had the only right to be there and we (evil military types) were only there to rob them of their commodity. Then again, I havent seen it, just read about 20 reviews of it.
Laughed thru the review.
Have the EXXON-Mobil report sort of publication and the back cover describes the current technology that enables them to drill horizontally up to 7 miles if they have a good reason to not want to site a drill straight down – not disturbing the locale is one.
ANother commentator already mentioned this – with all that tech,how come they didn't just land a hundred miles away and drill under the unsuspecting locals who cared less about the substance anyway? Put up a teepee and a pretty garden over their super high tech futuristic drill and install a caretaker whose job was to schmoozle with the locals, tea and biscuits whenever they came by. Nooo. totally jack up a non-problem to bash the usual stereotypes.
BTW. Stallon's last Rocky (in Burma) was actually low-key positive to mercenaries as very useful guys – heros- in the right circumstances.
I won't see it as It doesn't possess anything that attracts me. I don't like sci-fi, computer-generated visuals do nothing for me, and the story line is not unique. In fact, I couldn't be more sick and bored of it.
Well Avatar had good acting. The same can not be said about Star Wars. Especially the last 3. Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen should have been prosecuted and served time for their bad acting.
I haven't seen the film and don't want to. When it came out, I was rooting for it to fail, not only because of its ideology, but because it's an obvious ripoff of an old Poul Anderson story ("Call Me Joe"). But the film is already a monster hit. I think this proves two things: 1) audiences are not deterred by left-wing polemics as long as the special effects are cool, and 2) most people are profoundly stupid and will overlook any deficiencies in plot, characterization, and logic as long as they are given pretty things to gape at.
Just two good reasons to avoid most contemporary Hollywood products. Fortunately there's a lot of great stuff from the past. I watched "Stalag 17" (1953) tonight, and I'm willing to bet there is more intelligence in one frame of that movie than there is in the entire two and a half hours of "Avatar."
My ten year old nailed it..he whispered to me- It's Pocahontas without Pocahontas!
I understand what you mean by Twilight Zone… not the classy series itself but the code or idea of it – out of sync, an unreal reality. Good use of them there glasses!
Tim, the 3D zooms over the audience could be compared to an amusement park ride, a rollercoaster where you hold on until the next zoom and don't think about anything else. Can make one sick at the tummy.
Yeah… Whether we like it or not. I didn't see it but How the World Works brought up an interesting point in his review: Think of the Navi as being a planet's owner, and humanity came along to steal the Navi's own, property, natural resources. It'd be like if the USSR invaded Saudi Arabia for their oil.____No I'm not insinuating that America invaded so-and-so for oil or blah blah blah.
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Well just the other week I saw this (sorry, had to see what all the fuss was about) and everything you have heard about this film is 100% correct.
The effects were distracting and overly cartoonish, the plot was extremely predictable and you can guess how it ends within the opening 10 minutes, and worse yet, throughout the course of the movie you are force fed the most ham-fisted obnoxious preachy far-far leftist/environmentalist/socialist/hippie hogwash you could ever imagine.It truly combines the two elements that have alienated so many users on here from the current movie scene. SFX being emphasized over real story telling and a blatant leftist agenda that labels anyone who disagrees a bigot and a hate monger.
Now if anyone wants to see a sci-fi flick about giant blue people that is actually, you know good, check "Savage Planet/ La Planete Sauvage". An extraordinarily inventive and well crafted 70's animation classic that was created as a veiled critique on the Soviet occupation of easter Europe and packs a strong anti-communist message. Support a real classic, not Cameron's hate-filled leftist wet-dream.
As a die hard conservative you people shock me. How about just watching the movie for what it is. Everyone says Dances with Wolves ( which is just like Malick's NEW WORLD, The Spanish in South America, Alexander The Great going North, The romans' going further north). It is a popcorn flick with amazing visuals, dreaming of another planet. There is no policital agenda, Cameron didn't sit down and say how can I write an anti-right story to embolden a liberal cause. I've seen it twice and not once did I think he was pushing an agenda. With anything, if you look for it you will find it. Lets not be like the radicals who site scripture for their crusades/jihads. If you think this story is the liberal hollywood crowd pushing agiasnt the right then you missed the whole story which is simply escapist fun.
"There is no policital agenda, Cameron didn't sit down and say how can I write an anti-right story to embolden a liberal cause."
1) there is a political agenda
2) you don't know Cam did NOT sit down and say … blah blah
3) even you are right on the last, he did a pretty gawdam good imitation of it
besides which if I had to guess you are a lib anyway.
Richard – fool / tool
1. movies typically have good guys and bad guys
2. the moviemaker wants you to root for one or the other
3. Avatar has good guys (beautiful, sensitive, nature-loving natives) & bad guys (American corporate greed-mongers and American military)
Hmm – message or "popcorn escapist fun"? silly boy Richard
These are the same people that believe the "global warming" nonsense.
I'm not sure why leftists would admire that.
Perhaps because it looks a hell of a lot like communism — you need only to squint slightly.
It's amazing how something made for pure entertainment becomes so warped in the brains of so many insecure internet politicians. If you don't want to have a good time at the movies then that is your choice so I would advise you not to go, but for those of you who did watch this film then please don't come here and pretend like you didn't like it. The only political message in a fucking fantasy movie such as this is only what you decide to make it.
If you look at the bare plot there is absolutely nothing morally controversial about anything going on. A bunch of people want to destroy the homes of others for their own gain and end up facing the consequence of trying to take by force something which doesn't belong to them. The whole movie echoes messages of respect and the pitfalls of arrogance, something we all need to be reminded of every once in a while. The mark of a good movie/book to me is one that makes you sad when it has end, believe me this does that to you.
See the problem all this time wasn't that movies had no stories coved up by big expensive effects.
It was that the effects weren't expensive enough.
As a die hard conservative you people shock me.
Speaking as a die-hard liberal, I'm disgusted by the Daily Kos.
Let's not be facetious — the line between official military operation and private-contractor business does seem to be a little blurred in this film. Our hero is seen wearing a USMC T-shirt more than once, just for one example.
Greedy people who want nothing to stand in their way, who spend billions on propaganda to corrupt people's minds, censor dissent, and cause the death of hundreds through their negligence….
Oops, sorry, you probably didn't originally mean democrats.
Nothing mortally controversial except that the death of humans is awesome, pantheism is the only real religion, and native races are just genetically better then everybody else.
Public school has trained you well to ignore all this.
Did you not hear in the movie where he is referred to as Colonel Quaritch? I listened closely.
From what I observed he was head of a military attachment assigned to the corporation, not private security.
As it is my initial view still stands. If this guy was as "hair trigger" as shown in the movie he never would have been a Colonel.
James Cameron claims to have written this film fifteen years ago…
Did he mean fifteen years ago or when he was fifteen?
Of course i went to see this movie with all the "great" effects. Once again Hollywood put the leftist twisted view on things. Here is what i took from the movies plot. Americas bad…..other countries good.
I am so darn tired of this plot. Why could they not have made Americans the good guys? Maybe Americans could have gone into Pandora and cured a disease and saved this race from annihilation … Just on another note. The war cries made by the Pandorans were the same sounds i heard in a Arab documentary i watched on television. Maybe this was hollywoods war for oil ideas they had about Iraq….
You're absoultely right. Which is why James Cameron is donating every last dollar of profit from the film to the oppressed peoples of the world whose lands and wealth have been stolen from them.
Did anyone else notice that one of the helmeted pilots of the big battleship resembles a political figure we all know? Just curious.
What's fun is comparing this movie to Aliens. In that film, we send marines to a planet that is controlled by Aliens. Except there, even though the marines have genocide on their minds, they're the good guys. So what's the difference?
Have you read any of the interviews with Cameron were he specifically states he had a political agenda in making this film? Is this a rhetorical question?
I think you meant Rambo – not Rocky.
but for those of you who did watch this film then please don't come here and pretend you didn't like it.
<B<Wow</B>, your thinking process is really warped. Accordin g to you, everyone who has seen this movie must like it because you did. Bizarre.
Cameron himself acknowledged that the film implicitly criticizes the Iraq War. And please, the whole environmental movement is hugely political.
I think the real fantasy of it all lies within your head.
The VISUALS of Avatar were absolutely breathtaking, one of a kind, and in this respect, Cameron has set the bar VERY high for the next few years for any big budget Hollywood production.
The STORY of Avatar was OK, and there were moments/scenes that i liked very much, and that moved me.
The MESSAGE of Avatar, however, is what everyone here, myself included, has a problem with.
I came away from watching this movie thinking that Cameron may not simply hate America, but the entire human race, as well.
SPOILER.
The end sequence when the humans are all being marched back to their spaceship, with the narration, "The ALIENS were sent back to their planet which they had already destroyed…"
This is EXTREME left-wing environmental clap-trap.
This is one of the funnier troll reviews I've read. It does the same things all the other trolling critics do – pretending to misunderstand plot points, use political correctness as a double standard to attack the film, etc, but with an amusing right wing slant! It even does the typical bets-hedging at the end, indicating that the critic doesn't even have the courage of his convictions! What's not to like? 8/10.
I was never too keen on Star Wars eps 1-3 – just not my thing… So no storm trooper uniform…
Also, I did not wear my US military uniform. I have been serving for the past 22 yrs. First 12
in military and the last 10 as a civilian. What have you done for your country lately?
Case in point…a McDonalds tie-in with a environmentalist agenda movie…
Guest, you don't HAVE to be this kind of stupid…roll along a bit before opening your mouth…
As soon as I saw the blue skin and long braided hair in the promos I knew I would never even rent this movie. And the long faces. One thing you gotta give Indians and hippies, they can be a lot of fun in real life, but almost never when Hollywood shows up.
I admit, I went to see Avatar. I gave in to peer pressure. A good friend and the wife wanted to see it, despite my warnings to the contrary, so I relented.
I had to chuckle when I read the metaphor used by the article's author. I couldn't stop wondering why, with the multiple millions spent on the latest in CGI rendering technology, we couldn't have had a little blue cheesecake with larger than an A-Cup. I mean, come on! Large-breasted alien women are a staple of good science fiction! There's no respect for tradition.
Sorry to burst your bubble, Dima. I did see them movie, and it did suck. The story was on the level of one of those picture books with the really stiff cardboard pages, intended for infants. No amount of CGI can make up for that, not that they didn't try.
I have seen the previews of this rubbish and it looks like the type of film the would cause even Helen Keller to walk out of the theatre!
Yet another propoganda piece marketing the idea of the noble savage verses the ignoble westerner.
Granted I don't favor greed or environmental destruction but the idea that only western civilization has done this is a continually false message. And the solution isn't to become nudist pagan survivalists.
It is always weird to me that the hollywood crowd is always down on western civilization but is so much in favor of socialized medicine which could not exist without our modern technology, big drug corporations or a military/police backed government to enforce it..
The people you seem to care about are victims of anti-capitalism. Check it out. All the major cities are and have been under Democratic control for decades, ditto most of the so-called blue states. New York City broke out of the mold with Giuliani and became viable again. The rest of the country can do the same, but not by continuing the poverty pimping policies of the left.
My 14-year old summed up "Avatar" in two words:
EPIC.
FAIL.
Yep, he's my son!
What have I done for my country lately? Hopefully cancelled out everyone of your lib votes in every election.
No, it still stinks to high Heaven, although a pretty package though.
Paul McCartney ala the Beatless(pun intended)
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