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Anti-American "Avatar" – A Movie To Miss
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Posted on 01/09/2010 2:43:32 PM PST by MindBender26

Anti-American "Avatar" – A Movie To Miss

We saw Avatar last night, and it is an amazing motion picture in two ways.

Technologically, it is brilliant. It breaks all previous barriers between live actors, animation and computer-generated graphics. Each scene on the distant moon Pandora is more beautiful than the next. The alien animals and foliage are markedly different from what we see on Earth, but not so different as to be impossible to accept. Even the 3-D effects are used brilliantly. There are no flaming arrows or cannon balls shot at the audience as was the norm when 3-D was first introduced into action pictures 50 years ago. When it’s appropriate for a butterfly-like creature to appear floating in the foreground, seemingly so close you could touch it, it quietly appears, then floats off screen.

Avatar is so technically perfect it is impossible to visually differentiate between the live actors and the computer generated characters. You can’t tell the difference between what a camera actually saw and what existed only in the minds of the producers… and on some Hollywood hard drive.

But, pardon the pun, the story is another story.

It is simply another horribly boring and predictable repetition of a story the far-leftist Hollywood crowd loves to tell again and again. American industrialists oppress beautiful but poor 3d World (in this case, 1573d World) natives in order to line their pockets with obscenely obtained riches, while they destroy the indigenous people and their glorious environment.

It’s Apocalypse Now, Syriana, Aliens, Michael Clayton, Alien, The Good Sheppard, The Borne Identity-Supremacy-Ultimatum, and a hundred other contemporary Blame America First movies all over again. It has all the overused stereotypical characters, with no attempt to disguise them.

First we have Jake Sully, the former Marine. Has to be a real red-blooded American with a name like “Jake,” doesn’t he? In case you might forget he was Marine, he wears his Eagle, Globe and Anchor t-shirt everywhere. Jake is the uneducated combat-wounded paraplegic brought to the distant moon Pandora to establish sort of a telepathic link with the wonderful natives, the Na’vi People. The only reason dumb Jake is there is because he has the DNA of his accidentally killed Ph.D. twin brother.

Jake and the other exploiters from Intergalactic Mining purpose on Pandora is to destroy the environment while mining all the $20,000,000 per kilo Unattainium. Yes, they actually called it that. Oscar-winner Al Gore probably wanted them to name the rare raw mineral Bushium, but he can’t have everything.

The Pandorian natives, the iridescent blue Na’vi, are simply wonderful in every possible way They run through the forest nearly naked, fly on the backs of giant birds, are armed only with bows and arrows, say prayers for the game they kill to eat, and they all live in a huge tree two miles tall.

Even better, the Na’vi have a telepathic link to all living things on Pandora. They have some sort of Mr. Spock Vulcan Mind-meld thing going with the trees. Whenever someone is going to die, a 1000 creatures that look like a cross between butterflies, pine cones and jellyfish float down to take their departing spirits up to the Big Retirement Village in the Sky.

Among the Na’vi characters, there are, of course, the wise old father-chief of the tribe; mom who doubles as the head shaman; the young warrior, heir to the Chiefdom who is betrothed to the female lead but loses her to our Marine. Of course, the young warrior sees the errors of his aggressive ways and dies trying to save his people, with a few verses of the Na’vi version of Kumbaya on his blue lips. It’s Little Big Man, The Last Samurai, and Dances with Wolves all over again.

Of course, the Na’vi are all beautiful, as beautiful as blue humanoids can be, and to help with the graphics, are always 9/10 naked.

Just to ensure complete compliance with the anti-American story line, the villain is a retired American Colonel, complete with a buzz cut, scars and a bad attitude. In the climaxial scene, the Bad American Colonel leads his flying saucer forces against the peaceful Na’vi, burning down the two mile tall tree house in the process.

Why? Because the tree sits over the mother lode of Unattanium. Even Stevie Wonder could see that coming.

Entirely predictably as well, Jake rallies to save the Na’vi, almost dies, and of course, is saved by the shaman, gets the blue girl… and a couple million dollars when the movie moves into reruns on TV.

There is so much more that is so bad, but it hurts to go on. It was three hours, $15, and a whole lot of bad temper wasted.

Great Unwashed Obama Voters will see it as a civics lesson. They will love it.

If anyone is winning to give me good odds, I’ll bet, that within 24 months, at least two dozen people will rename themselves the Na’vi, paint themselves blue, and establish a commune in Northern California, within driving distance of Nancy Pelosi’s district.

And of course, they will apply for Stimulus Money as an oppressed minority.


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To: Carley
If I am not mistaken the movie is doing better abroad than here in the US

As of January 8th,

Fueled by word-of-mouth, it's doing phenomenal both domestically and internationally, exceeding all expectations and second only to Titanic in the list of all-time highest grossing films.

Once again, the studios have learned not to bet against James Cameron.

21 posted on 01/09/2010 3:15:48 PM PST by Drew68
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To: MindBender26

>Even Stevie Wonder could see that coming.

hehe.


22 posted on 01/09/2010 3:15:50 PM PST by ROTB (Public Option vs. Insurance: Armed men at my door demanding payment vs a "bill")
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To: wendy1946

Rent Paranormal Activity. Done on a 10 dollar budget and is scary as hell.


23 posted on 01/09/2010 3:18:57 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: MindBender26

District 9 was worth a watch on DVD!!!


24 posted on 01/09/2010 3:19:02 PM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards,com)
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To: Pharmboy

Great Minds.........

:)


25 posted on 01/09/2010 3:26:42 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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To: MindBender26

Perhaps we can can a sequel.

We can call it “Messiah”.

It will be about mysterious being that comes out of nowhere, won’t really tell anyone where he is from and gets most of the world to look for a worthless substance called hopeandchangium.

An intrepid tribe called Te’parti sees through his facade and tries to warn the rest of the world to no avail.

After some time, most of the world realizes it has been duped, becomes angry and are led to victory by a good looking hunter from the north named Pa’lin.


26 posted on 01/09/2010 3:27:42 PM PST by Molon Labbie
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To: verga

You are so right. It was “Pocahantas” or “1492” absent the Spanish to blame.


27 posted on 01/09/2010 3:28:12 PM PST by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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To: SatinDoll

I’m so sorry to hear that, I was hoping this might be the one movie without the not so subtle bashing of anything remotely right wing, conservative or Republican. I should have know better, Merle Streep is a tree hugging liberal of the first order. HW just can’t help themselves, they crap on everythibng they make.


28 posted on 01/09/2010 3:32:45 PM PST by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: MindBender26

I want to see it in the theater just because, BUT...

...I plan on borrowing the 3D glasses of a friend who already paid to see it. Then I’ll go to the theater and buy a ticket to a movie I’d rather support and just go into Avatar instead.


29 posted on 01/09/2010 3:36:43 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: PeteB570
I’m with you. Too many get their panties in a bunch over a movie....enjoy it.
30 posted on 01/09/2010 3:37:01 PM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 81)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Every killing scene involved white males killing others.

What's wrong with that?

It might inspire some weasel to watch his mouth.

31 posted on 01/09/2010 3:40:00 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: MindBender26

I’ll wait for the BT version.


32 posted on 01/09/2010 3:48:28 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: wendy1946
The two best movies I’ve seen recently could have been made with a camcorder and a budget of a few hundred dollars, i.e. Slumdog Millionaire, and Gran Torino.

Gran Torino is one of the best movies I've seen in years. What a pleasure to have a movie built on dialog instead of yet another special-effect / explosion laden mess (not that I have anything against action movies if the effects serve the story but are not *the* story).

33 posted on 01/09/2010 3:57:11 PM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: verga

Our 20 yr. old son calls it a remake of “Ferngully”.


34 posted on 01/09/2010 4:04:31 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: MindBender26

The first half was breathtakingly beautiful. Pandora is amazing. I saw it in 2D and would like to see about 30 or 40 minutes of the first in 3D someday.

It was cliched to the extreme if you want to nit pick. The greedy industrialist pawn guy that I thought the Aliens got in Aliens came back to life as a greedy capitalist pawn in this movie.

The colonel started out as a good old crusty tough guy stereotype but ended up wicked. The use of a handicapped hero who is therefore willing to take any form (see Captain Pike, Robocop, etal) ... okay, go there.

The weird and wonderful scary creatures (Lucas wished he’d thought of)) ... they started the whole romance because Our Hero annoyed them and they would have killed him but for the intervention of our heroine girl, who promptly despised him for causing innocent creatures to die. You knew right then this would be a big romance.

But these creatures disappear off Pandora, never to be seen again until the Final Battle, which reminded me of the awful final battle in Star Wars with the nasty little Ewoks taking arms.

I was very uncomfortable during the battle. Not sure why. For one thing, it went on forever and was boring. For another thing, even flying birds and really ugly big creatures could not logically defeat the arms the Bad Guys (us) possessed.

I resented the emphasis on using Marines as I couldn’t help thinking ‘those marines are saving your sorry butt, James, so you can make millions on this movie.

Very little was really explained ... why they couldn’t get the stuff peacefully, what efforts they had made, etc.

But, it is really beautiful and if you don’t think too much, you will enjoy it.

Too long, though.


35 posted on 01/09/2010 4:18:49 PM PST by altura
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To: SuziQ
Our 20 yr. old son calls it a remake of “Ferngully”.

Yeah didn't think of that one.

36 posted on 01/09/2010 4:32:22 PM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: 6SJ7

Then again, there has to be some sort of a prize for happy endings. My candidate would be the final scene of Apocalypto where the white men come in ships to put an end to all the cannibalism and devil worship...


37 posted on 01/09/2010 4:58:28 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: MindBender26
Yeppers...for all the propaganda that you and all the others have pointed out, I am still glad I saw it in 3D at the local multiplex. The CGI effects and art design were stunning.

While this left wing digital screed was bad, WALL-E was much much worse. The latter was propaganda aimed at kids, envirowacko hooey that reinforced the same lefty crap-phony messages that they get in school, through television, video games, etc. etc.

I was sputtering mad after that CGI agitprop and emailed all my friends and family and told to NOT take their kids.

38 posted on 01/09/2010 5:09:08 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Drew68

Hard to deny the talent of many of these lefties...for example, there is no one in the Hollywood crowd that I detest more than Alec Baldwin, yet I think he is a brilliant actor. He can do heavy drama and is quite adept at comedy (30 Rock, e.g.).


39 posted on 01/09/2010 5:15:52 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: pepperdog

everythibng=everything! I guess I skipped spell check.


40 posted on 01/09/2010 5:18:34 PM PST by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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