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To: Philo1962
Cameron has a habit of making 3-hour epic movies that are visually stunning, but have plots that fail miserably.

The plot didn't fail. This should be obvious if you had bothered to watch the movie.
59 posted on 12/19/2009 9:59:48 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan; BradyLS; flair2000
The plot didn't fail. This should be obvious if you had bothered to watch the movie.

Okay, we get it. Based on all of your comments, you think this was the greatest action movie since Spielberg made Saving Private Ryan. But I'm not so sure that you read the commentary of James Cameron as quoted in The Times, posted by Freeper flair2000:

The Times:

Cameron said yesterday that the theme was not the main point of Avatar, but added that Americans had a “moral responsibility” to understand the impact that their country’s recent military campaigns had had. “We went down a path that cost several hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. I don’t think the American people even know why it was done. So it’s all about opening your eyes.”

After the Na’vi homes collapse in flames the landscape is coated in ash and floating embers in scenes reminiscent of Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. Cameron, who was born in Canada, said yesterday that he had been “surprised at how much it did look like September 11. I didn’t think that was necessarily a bad thing”. Referring to the “shock and awe” sequence, he said: “We know what it feels like to launch the missiles. We don’t know what it feels like for them to land on our home soil, not in America. I think there’s a moral responsibility to understand that."

Also, I think you may have missed Spielberg's remarks after Revenge of the Jedi. And the elegant evisceration of that partisan left-wing Hollywood slant by Freeper BradyLS:

Post by BradyLS

So you see, others can recognize that while the film was a masterpiece of animation technology, the plot was so burdened with left-wing partisanship that it sucked.

No, I haven't seen it. But my comment referred to previous cameron films I've seen. Unless he talks the left-wing talk and walks the left-wing walk, he'll be blackballed in Hollywood (or, at the very least pigeonholed) by the likes of Spielberg, Rob Reiner, Lucas etc.

99 posted on 12/20/2009 5:25:53 PM PST by Philo1962 (Iraq is terrorist flypaper. They go there to die.)
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