REVIEW: Jim Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Is a Big, Dull, America-Hating, PC Revenge Fantasy (SPOILER WARNNG)

Big Hollywood ^ | 12/13/2009 | John Nolte

[muawiyah]

“Dances with Smurfs” ~ watch it. Great way to save $10

[Armedanddangerous]

Im waiting for sherlock holmes

[muawiyah]

Reading “Dalgren” again has the potential of exceeding the literary value in Avatar apparently.

[OKSooner]

" REVIEW: Jim Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Is a Big, Dull, America-Hating, PC Revenge Fantasy "

I figured that out just from the trailer. Sigourney Weaver ain't gonna save it.

[Reagan Man]

Dhalgren, maybe?

[muawiyah]

Hard to tell. I lost my copy years ago.

Checked the spelling on the Internet and there are several complete with reviews (pro and con!) and multiple references.

It has been judged to be the dullest and least meaningful book in world history.

[Reagan Man]

[muawiyah]

Thank you.

Dollars to doughnuts(donuts) you haven't read your copy yet.

[word_warrior_bob]

http://avatarsucks.com/

[llmc1]

Exclusive raw-set footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZWdzfTjk0Q&feature=sub

[valkyry1]

“Avatar” is a thinly disguised, heavy-handed and simplistic sci-fi fantasy/allegory critical of America from our founding straight through to the Iraq War.

LOL!, talk about reading to much into something and an over the top article!

[brwnsuga]

Yeah, I saw it when I was a kid, but I am interested in how the special effects will look now.

[GOPJ]

Titanic worked BECAUSE it appealed to liberals and conservatives... rich and poor - young and old.

Maybe next time James Cameron can make a movie that ONLY appeals to old Ethiopians - and gives the finger to every other racial and age group... then be stunned it doesn't pull in the big bucks.

That said, I'll wait to see the movie - Cameron is usually entertaining and always worth the price of the ticket. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now - and hope he didn't really give half the people in the United States - the middle finger. Including me.

[GOPJ]

Does it not bother you to see such blatant hatred towards our world, our values and our people? (Along with a really preachy and predictable story.) How can you stomach giving money for propaganda directed against us?

Liberals are sooooo hateful. I wanted to like this movie - I've always enjoyed Cameron's movies. I was looking forward to seeing it. But if this is confirmed - and I guess it probably already is - guess I'll stay home. Did pre-world-warII Germans make films bashing Jews? I'll bet Jews didn't bother going to the movies back then either...

I feel sad.

[af_vet_rr]

If Sarah Palin sees Avatar and then sits down and actually thinks about what it’s saying (which is always a dicey proposition, I admit), she’ll hate this movie. Because Avatar hates her and her kind. Some righties will pretend to like it (”great popcorn flick! took my kids!”), but they’d have to be in major denial mode not to recognize that Avatar is much more MSNBC than Fox News. It really spits on the Fox News philosophy/worldview. If Cameron had for some inane reason put a Fox News-type character in the film, he/she would end up with a Na’vi arrow through his/her chest, trust me.

Are you aware that Fox News is a part of the company that is putting Avatar out and that let Cameron do whatever he wanted to do with it? Rupert Murdoch loves it, praises it, talks about how it will change movie making. Fox News has been hyping it for the last six months.

[af_vet_rr]

Liberals are sooooo hateful. I wanted to like this movie - I've always enjoyed Cameron's movies.

If you have seen his other movies, then you've seen Avatar. Every single one of them since the 1977s has revolved around humans, or human-like creatures in Avatar's case, getting screwed by technology or greed, which is pretty funny since he's usually on the cutting edge of film technology. He can make a good movie, but the plot in every one is still the same. He's a hack writer who knows how to throw out the eye candy and make the right casting calls.

Avatar is literally a rehash of Aliens - humans going somewhere to mine a planet for its resources and being attacked by non-humans. I'll be seeing Avatar and enjoying the eye candy, I'm not going to lie.

I'm also not going to join in on any protests or boycotts against Fox News over their promotion of it or their being a part of the company that made it because I have better things to do with my time. Actually I try not to watch Faux News these days so consider that my boycott of them.

[Prodigal Son]

Why do you care? I don’t need to justify my film/book/play/game choices to anyone. No freedom loving person would ask someone else to justify their film choices. It’s only the kind of person who enjoys being lost in the ‘group-think’ mindset that would ask someone else to justify what they like to read/watch.

I don’t care what you watch/read. As a free man, I cannot. It’s not my business. You want to go and spend your money on a film that’s you. Personally, I think anyone who owns and watchs television is a moron because television is obviously for the weak-minded. It’s trash. But I don’t ask people to justify to me why they want to watch it.

I don’t take it personally that they watch it. For example, if you want to watch Barbra Streisand movies while dressed in replicas of her evening wear, that’s you. It’s not my concern. What ever floats your boat. You know?

[Prodigal Son]

Dhalgren.

It has been judged to be the dullest and least meaningful book in world history.

Great book. Loved it. I'm glad the rest of the world doesn't like it- makes me like it that much more.

Best quote I could find about it was by Philip K Dick (from wiki).

"When Dhalgren came out, I thought it was awful, still do ... I ... threw it against a wall." Dick called Dhalgren "a terrible book" that "should have been marketed as trash. ... I just started reading it and said this is the worst trash I've ever read. And I threw it away."[11]

LOL, I love that quote! Dick is one of my favorite all time authors. It tickles me to no end to see that he hated the book when I liked it so much. To each his own. It's what makes life so cool- we each have to walk our own path.

Thanks you guys for bringing that book up. Read it the first time in about 1987-88 (somewhere in there). I reread it again in 2000. I might have to see if I can't find a copy of it and give in another peruse in the coming year.

[Darkwolf377]

While I dig the Roger Dean look of the movie, I've been burned every time I have paid to see a movie for the FX. I just get bored, and every review of the story and characters ends up apologizing for them or making the moronic point that you HAVE to have a cliched story in something this mega-huge, or something.

The folks really high to see this movie remind me of the people who like those Japanese hardcore cartoons, and animal-people sex stories. Cameron sounds like a jerk, and while people say 'Yeah, but his movies rock', I find his stuff tedious and childish. Imagine if someone with a Peckinpah or Kurosawa-like sensibility had these tools to make a movie. Their politics might not've been mine but they had more going on in their movies so one could ignore any disagreements there, which is the case with great art almost all the time.

Cameron's got the taste of a brat, and some of the things that turn him on are freakin weird. Endless battles? Well, I dunno--I'm in my forties, seeing stuff blow up just isn't that interesting to me anymore.

[Junior_G]

As a free man, I cannot.

Now that sentence is funny all by itself.

Personally, I think anyone who owns and watchs television is a moron because television is obviously for the weak-minded.

But the internet you're so fond of using is a haven for geniuses? Do you make a generous TV exception for your friends and family, or do you just consider them all to be morons? Seriously, television is only as highbrow or lowbrow as the channel you choose to watch. Your broad "everyone with a tv is a moron" statement is, well, pretty moronic. Furthermore, your rant about how what you watch is nobody's business kinda rings hollow when your introductory contribution to this thread was a statement announcing to everyone that you were going to watch Avatar.