Wow....this movie has all kinds of insane idiocy.
I just finished watching Gran Torino for the first time today.
They should have cited the Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London and invoked eminent domain.
We went to see “The Blind Side” yesterday. I highly recommend that movie. That was the first time in memory that we left a movie and my husband did not say “that sucked”. He liked it too. Bring some Kleenex.
Best description I read so far was Dances with Wolves meets high tech CGI.
I have no compelling desire to see this one.
LOL.
You had me at “unobtainium”
My liberal friends loved it but sometimes a movie is just a movie.
“Dances with Elves,” AKA, “White man bad, blue elf good.”
I’m reminded of a book about life in the Soviet Red Army, in the bad old days of the 1980s or so. The troops were shown propaganda films of the Evil American Army in Vietnam. But the propaganda showings did not go according to plan. Every time they showed the Huey’s and Cobras doing air assaults, the Russian soldiers cheered wildly. “Kill the mujadeen!” they all screamed in solidarity with the heli-borne American grunts!
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Great review. I have not the slightest inclination to see this piece of ****. And I’m an SF fan, too!
But unfortunately, it seems to have done very well at the box office, despite Podhoretz’s sensible take on it.
$77 million for the opening weekend, and that was probably down a bit because of the weather. Not record setting, but pretty certainly well enough to make a good profit. Ugh.
The producer doesn’t want you to think so critically! You’re supposed to sit there and be entertained, while you put your critical thinking on hold and allow the “anti-White” / “America is an imperialist” thoughts to slip into your subconscious.
I don’t really care what the symbolism is in this movie - it’s a great movie. Very enjoyable and a monumental achievement in filmmaking. Any movie like this is going to be examined for what analogies it supposedly attempts to make - think of Star Wars and all of the comparisons of the Empire and the Rebels to various political groups. However, taken as what it is - a movie - Avatar is fantastic.
At the end, I made sure to explain to my son that the portion of the movie that dealt with the mother tree/life force was all bogus. My brother did the same with his 9 and 6 year old girls (who also LOVED the movie, by the way).
Kind of sounds like Fern Gully for adults to me.
MAN is in the forest...
Just one more anti-American Hollywood product I won’t be supporting with my dollars.
That unfortunate and deliberate choice of name, will live in infamy!
LOL, ouch.
Oh yeah, that fiber optic hair plug was a laugher, but I really liked those mechs.
I’m hoping they make a Mechwarrior movie, they could base it off of a game or the multitude of novels out there.
I would love to see a movie about Mechwarrior mercenaries hopping from planet to planet getting into and causing wars.