Posted on 12/21/2009 2:17:36 PM PST by Bob017
Since I am a certified sci-fi geek and most science fiction movies are quite bad this habit unfortunately forces me to watch a large number of bad movies. It’s one of my little perversions. I have just watched the most expensive B-movie ever made, the US$ 237 million Avatar by director James Cameron, famous for having produced films such as The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Titanic. Briefly summed up I would say that while it is visually spectacular, as is everything Mr. Cameron makes, Avatar has to be one of the most anti-Western and especially anti-white Hollywood movies I have seen in a long time.
The hero is the U.S. Marine Jake Sully who has been sent to the planet-like moon Pandora because humans desire the mineral resources found of Pandora, which is inhabited by a race of tall, blue-skinned aliens, the Na’vi. They have a non-industrial civilization technologically inferior to ours but apparently spiritually richer and in perfect ecological harmony with the natural environment. The hero predictably falls in love with the native culture and connects with a native girl.
“Going native” is in itself not an original theme; it resembles Dances with Wolves, only with aliens instead of Sioux. Neither is the preference for pre-industrial civilization, which was after all shared by a good man such as Tolkien in his The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien had personally experienced the meaningless horrors of trench warfare during the First World War and this naturally affected his view of industrialized society. What is different about the movie Avatar is how it portrays whites as a bunch of raging monsters, something which Tolkien never did.
Basically, the white characters are portrayed as brutal, greedy and insensitive beasts who rape the environment and destroy other cultures with a smile in the search for profit. The main antagonist is the white Colonel Quaritch, a brute who hardly possesses a single positive character trait. The final climax of the movie is when he screams “How does it feel to betray your race?” to the protagonist while he is trying to murder him. Although a few of the white characters such as Jake Sully are portrayed in a more redeeming light this is only because they totally reject their own civilization and join the other team in the fight. In other words: the only good whites are the ones who utterly turn their backs on their own destructive and evil culture. As reviewer Armond White put it, “Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.”
Of course, back in the real world whites are among the most self-critical and least ethnocentric people on Earth, and have been so for a long time. Whites are also disproportionately represented in the environmental movement whereas many “diverse” Third World peoples couldn’t care less about the environment. But why let the truth get in the way of making a good anti-white movie? The fact that quite a few among the predominantly white audience cheered for this movie shows that anti-white hatred and stereotypes have become so widespread and accepted that most people cannot even see it, least of all whites themselves.
Protestants, Messianic/Orthodox Jews & Devout Catholics,
Bible-reading,
GOD-fearing/ worshipping,
gun-bearing,
game-hunting,
hard-working,
log-splitting,
fur-wearing,
child-bearing people.
I hope this is not a surprise to anyone.
I don’t agree with the whole “white” argument here. The movie was about as anti-America, and anti-Bush as you could get. Visually impressive for sure, and fun as long as you didn’t care about the whole plot and dialog. I openly laughed at several lines because they were so blatant. It was a fun movie and I definitely talked to my kids about it before & after we saw it.
I recently saw a promo for this crapfest on TV. It is an anti-capitalist screed. It is slickly packaged anti-capitalist and anti-industrial poop.
Haven’t seen it so I can’t poo-poo it. A review I read likened it to a “Sci-fi Dances with Wolves” where the soldier goes native.
Yeah, but the actors are only slightly more animated than Kevin Costner.
Sci-Fi ping.
Having been a long-time fan of James Cameron, his infantile perception of the Military and Industrialization has the naivety of a ten-year-old girl (apologies to intelligent 10-year-old girls everywhere).
Technically, the movie is flawless. Cameron & his team put forth considerable effort in realizing a technical marvel of movie-making.
Unfortunately, he did not spend very much effort in story, plot, pacing, dialogue, and character development. James Horner's music score was 'phoned in' and Cameron's amateurish direction of the military characters is laughable.
In summary, New Line Pictures gave $300 million to Peter Jackson who gave us 9 hours of 'Lord of the Rings'. In the context of ROI, New Line invested very wisely while 20th Century Fox did not. In the context of repeat-viewings, Jackson gave us our money's worth while Cameron did not.
'Avatar' is emotionally top-heavy, intellectually void and won't match "Titanic's" success.
The greedy corporate interests mining the planet included characters who were white and non-white humans. The creepy comment regarding race had to do with 'human' race not white. The indigenous people of the planet worshiped the nature around them and the planet as their deity... much like Al Gore LOL! BUT also like many primitive cultures on this planet have done. This is a work of complete fiction. It was very interesting to watch the animation and 3-D technology.
If this was trying to indoctrinate someone - it did a poor job of it. Avatar is not a 'deep' movie and no contender against the likes of Tolkien. Avatar is enjoyable escapist fiction.
Oh, and I agree with a critic’s published negative assessment: “Avatar is the World’s Most Expensive PC Screensaver.”
Evil white men.
Technology.
The Marines.
Business.
The West.
Good little noble naked blue savages.
Sounds like Copenhagen. Or Washington DC.
Hehehe my sentiments exactly. Hollywood has gotten paid for me to watch a release in a theater twice in my life, and I didn’t personally pay either time. The last time was over ten years ago. That’s my personal commitment to not supporting them. Same for television. My life is perfect enjoyable without having watched anything but TCM for years. I’m ready to get rid of the TV altogether now because even TCM is flaunting its bias in less and less subtle ways. Not to mention they’re showing too much crud from the late 60s, the 70s, and beyond. I don’t care how they try to spin it, those are NOT the era of classic film.
Its definitely a paen to white libs, call it liberal’s white supremacy. This anti-white shtick has become a self parody though, that frankly won’t last long. Out in the world this self-flaggelation will look to be silly self congratulating and little else.
Are we to defend and emulate such?
While I respect your opinion, James Cameron begs to differ, as does his fellow leftist Sigourney Weaver. As do many leftist reviewers who are cheering it for the same reasons cited here.
Those concerns were sufficient to convince me not to pay the full-fare ticket, anyway.
'Avatar' is emotionally top-heavy, intellectually void
Is Barack Obama perhaps a Hollywood avatar?
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