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Posted on 12/21/2009 1:27:57 PM PST by AreaMan
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.
Haven’t seen the movie. I can’t remember where I saw the reference - not original with me - but someone nicknamed the movie Dances with Smurfs. Says it all. Probably spent almost as much time, money and film as Costner did.
Ignore this at your own (and our collective) peril.
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).
I’m the same way. I can watch anything without getting too upset about politics.
Kind of sounds like Fern Gully for adults to me.
That’s correct actually. But what do you think one should do in response? Not read Shakespeare because you aren’t a Monarchist and so forth?
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.
That movie was a gem. For every 100 movies that come out of Hollywood, there IMHO is only one worth watching (spending our valuable time) and remembering long after we've seen it (in a good way).
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LOL, aways has, and always will, that is why they call it fiction.
Interesting end, huh?
When my grandson is twenty no one will be watching Avatar and Apocalypse Now will still be compelling.
Star Wars had all kinds of hokey new-age/quasi-Buddhist themes but they were not the message of the movie.
In fact most of the sci-fi critics that hated Star Wars was because it was fluff and mindless or a space opera, pretty much that it had no message and was just entertainment.
Yes, all art pushes a world view but this one pushes it HARD and without subtlety. The message is what Mr. Podhoretz and others clearly see on the screen and in the story.
Actually the liberal guy in my office said the technology was mindblowing, but the story was old and worn. I was pretty surprised he went that way on the story.
“What they didn’t tell us is that Avatar is blitheringly stupid; indeed, it’s among the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen. Avatar is an undigested mass of clichés nearly three hours in length taken directly from the revisionist westerns of the 1960s-the ones in which the Indians became the good guys and the Americans the bad guys. Only here the West is a planet called Pandora, the time is the 22nd century rather than the 19th, and the Indians have blue skin and tails, and are 10 feet tall.”
I’m going to see it for the visuals only, but my God this is the weakest plots I’ve ever seen! And the acting in the trailer would make Jar Jar Binks blush!
And Pandora? What the hell type of amateur sci-fi writer name for a planet is that?
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