[central_va]

I’m sure I won’t like it.

[jimbo123]

[Travis McGee]

"It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message."

Great, just what our kids need.

[C19fan]

The Na'vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans.

Should slash and burn agriculture on a massive scale be considered "living in harmony with nature"? At least Mel Gibson in Apocalypto had the guts to show natives in a much more balanced light.

[ecomcon]

Hollywood can go straight to hell.

[C19fan]

Any bets on Cameron showing the child mortality rate and life expectancy of the Navi? Are they so special they do not have to worry about that.

[Viking2002]

When Big Fat Ebert likes a movie, that's the kiss of death for me.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I’ll wait for reviews other than those from Roger Ebert, thank you. If he raves about it, I’m sure I’ll find it detestable. And if he notes some lefty bias, I’m sure it’s a Communist Manifesto.

[Ballygrl]

With all the hype about this over the past few months I was going to see it, but when I went to the movies a few weeks ago and saw an extended preview? no way, the movie has a left wing agenda, if anyone doesn't know that, then just read this:

Link to Big Hollywood

[narses]

It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message. It is predestined to launch a cult.

Page Charlie Manson.

[BenLurkin]

Roger Ebert = notorious lefty.

Just my opinion of course.

[RushingWater]

The real Avatar -

[Ransomed]

Man what a waste. This thing does look gorgeous, it’s a shame that it’s going to be slanted and slanted in a boring way that has been done over and over. It’s too bad that something that has so much potential visually can’t be given an interesting and fresh story.

Freegards

[napscoordinator]

I am going to see the Blind Side this evening. I am looking forward to the movie. I heard it is phenominal. Plus I love Sandra Bullock.

[RobRoy]

I learned over a decade ago that the more Roger Ebert liked the story line of a movie, the less likely I was to like it. It got to the point where his “thumb up” on a movie at the rental store was a good indicator we would not like a movie.

[RobRoy]

>>The Na’vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans.<<

I wonder if he knows how savage the life of most American indians was. And as swell as that first line sounds, he needs to remember that this movie is a work of FICTION.

He reminds me of the vegan chick who turned her cat into a vegetarian, causing the cat to go blind.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977.

When I saw Star Wars in 1977 I thought it was stupid and boring. I still do.

[whd23]

In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans. Like them, they tame another species to carry them around--not horses, but graceful flying dragon-like creatures.

Idiot. The Spanish re-introduced the horse to the North American continent. Before the Spanish arrived the "natives" walked everywhere.

[FReepaholic]

...The Na'vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans...

Do they also resemble the Native Americans that attacked and enslaved other tribes of Native Americans?

[marktwain]

These movies may have intend a green and anti-war message, but they often have the opposite effect of what was intended. They end up glorifying courage, honesty, honor, and the defense of your friends and home. This all strikes at the heart of today's left, which relies almost entirely on lies, dishonesty, and the betrayal of the home to international power groups.

Showing a situation where most of the species want to eat you doesn't do a lot to indoctrinate anthropogenic bambiism in the young generation.

It may occur to many of the audience, why don't the people from earth just pay the natives for the mineral they want, if it is so valuable to travel across interstellar distances for?

I suspect young people will want all the high tech as well as the adventure, and much of the intended indoctrination will just end up being shed as so much water off a gortex lined boot.

Now that I am more sophisticated, I can look at the Heinlein novels that I loved so much as a youngster, and recognize the overt “progressive” message in them. But, I cued in on the honor, courage, and adventure, and ended up shedding the “progressive” messages.