Posted by
Corthell on Monday, December 21, 2009 7:05:02 AM
I am a fairly avid reader of
WND and read the review of "Avatar" by Ted Baehr and Tom Snyder. I thought come on, can't a movie just be a movie and we not have to think there is some propaganda at work here?
So I went to watch this movie with an open mind on Saturday at the local IMAX. Waiting in the snack line for 15 minutes to buy over-priced movie munchies was rough. How do we pay so much money for soda anyway?
The special effects for the movie were phenomenal. When the main character links into his avatar, the movie really takes off! I was completely amazed at what I was watching. But then the propaganda that James Cameron intended for the audience made its way clear.
"Unobtainium" for a $20 million a kilo mineral. Why not just call it "nevergonnagetium" or "overpriceium"? I mean come on, how many millions were spent on writing this movie and that was the best they could think of?
And use of quotes like "shock and awe" and "fight terror with terror" quickly made me realize what I was watching. I was actually surprised they didn't name the commander of the military George W. That would have been just perfect. Oh and when the commander gets his in the movie, the audience at the Brooklyn theater actually clapped.
Cameron took a great movie and ruined it with this propaganda nonsense. I was so upset by that. The movie message is basically:
1. Stealing land from tribes, kind of like the settlement of the U.S. against American Indians;
2. Convincing soldiers to fight in a foreign land as occupiers for nothing more than the needs of corporations, like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are portrayed;
3. Making it OK for soldiers to have conscientious objections against the mission and turn against your fellow soldiers and attack them, kind of like what the left wishes our own military would do;
4. Last but not least, a utopian society that lives among nature and does not use any modern luxuries, basically the whole goal of the green movement to get the masses to live like that.
I was so disappointed by this movie.
Special effects: 5/5
Plot: 2/5
Thanks for ruining a great movie, Cameron.
-Emil Shakov