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By: George "B" Romero

George "B" Romero — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:51:10 +0000

Avatar was a piece of cinematic trash. A bright and shiny yet poisoned apple filled with the wormlike vitriol of the far left and extreme environmentalists. Avatar is execrable stuff.

By: TheSeventhBlake

TheSeventhBlake — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:57:22 +0000

Speaking personally I don’t think that you’ve even begun to scratch the surface on how insulting this film is to humanity.

For a start there’s the fact that this is James Cameron pissing on all human developments from the creation of fire to the technology which helped to render high quality Na’vi nipples so he could get large audiences to watch his film.
Then there’s the fact he tends to totally ignore the fact that the alien species is a totally stagnant society which will never grow beyond cavemen level technology, and by denying the humans Pandora’s resources they may well have just committed large scale death and famine from the economic backlash.
Perhaps even outright genocide of the human race.

Still, it’s good to see that someone didn’t miss the hidious plot because Cameron tried to distract them with shiney CGI.

By: neocon is bad

neocon is bad — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:32:20 +0000

The main message of Avatar was a statement made by one of the character: There is something we need from a certain land(country), we vilify its people, make them enemy and attack them.
Isn’t that what was the Bush administration tactic in Iraq.
If you agree till me please who are evils?

By: Das

Das — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:04:40 +0000

The movie was a wide-open firehose torrent of cliche. E.g., to compress character construction we have IMMEDIATE CONFRONTATION, as in:
“You numbnuts, no brain, military, beast cripple.”
“You brassy, sassy scientist, feminist, chain-smoking brainy broad.”
Only cheap movies indulge in that kind of thing. But Cameron Picked up on it early going back to “Alien.” Anyone notice? Space sleep and then wake-up and then all the IMMEDIATE CONFRONTATION!

BECASUE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THAT IS HOW TRADESMEN AND WORKING MEN AND WOMEN AND OTHER NON-SCREENWRITING, NON-CREATIVE PEOPLE TALK TO EACH OTHER!

In reality anyone who has entered the world of hazardous or difficult work in exotic locations knows that working people, tradesmen and soldiers are capable of enormous tact and diplomacy. And you usual do not arrive on site in the first place unless you have the game together. Few people just stumble into a big-boys world. But, sigh, we’d hate to discard our stale Hollywood cliches. That would be to expose our empty minds.

(p.s. XO from Dragon Palace in Seattle! Dim sum forever!)

Including a liberal, softhead look back at the superior technology vs close-to-nature peoples game of 1492-1878

By: Sig

Sig — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:03:12 +0000

Not to beat a dead horse, but this amused the hell out of me. Change a few nouns, cross off a few words, and Disney's Pocahontas becomes James Cameron's Avatar.

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By: Earl

Earl — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:04:45 +0000

If you want a WONDERFUL 3-D experience without the angst of having to worry about the content, go see A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey! This is going to be a Christmas classic — we really loved it!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:38:16 +0000

Just wanted to point out that unobtanium is an actual term used in engineering and R&D to describe a material that either does not exist or is very difficult to obtain. Check it out on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

Otherwise the movie was so clichéd, predictable and adolescent that it in a way it almost undermines its own message. It was as if it was written by a 14-year old.

What I found so offensive is not so much the message (I’m used to that from Hollywood now), is that supposedly Cameron thought this up 14-years ago, worked on it for the last 4-years, and, to date, this is the most expensive movie ever made; and this is the best he can do. The best he can offer is a really cool looking movie with a weak and predictable story. You know all you need to know in the first 15-minutes. Cameron does not deviate one bit from the classic liberal Hollywood clichéd myth of the noble savage, former military and evil corporations.

What would have been “controversial” would be to analyze the human characters more and what motivated them beyond the standard one-dimensional clichés and provide the emotional conflict to make Jake’s defection to the Na’vi more difficult. Out of 1000+ mercenaries, only one pilot had an issue with what was essentially an unlawful order? Come on!

Good sci-fi requires the viewer to accept certain things that are impossible by today’s standards (ftl travel, laser guns, aliens, etc). In order to do that, the characters should be believable, have depth, motivations, etc. This movie required the viewer to accept too many unbelievable things about the characters in addition to the setting to be considered great sci-fi. It should have been shown in the summer, because that is what it is; a summer popcorn blockbuster.

Y had some great comments on this film which I agree with.

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