Posted on 12/11/2009 2:27:38 PM PST by TruthHound
The political import of Avatar -- and there's no waving this aspect away because it's right in your face start to finish, and especially in the third act -- is ardently left. It is pro-indigenous native, anti-corporate, anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. Iraq War effort, anti-U.S.-in-Afghanistan (and anti-troop-surge-in-that-country, or strongly against the thinking of President Barack Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal), anti-rightie, anti-Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld, etc.
Yes, it's very teenaged adolescent in its super-imaginative wacko visions and exuberant energy levels, but politically it's pure Che Guevara (more the Motorcycle Diaries or Che-in-Cuba version than Che in Bolivia), Naom Chomsky, Hugo Chavez, Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal, Oliver Stone, etc. Cameron is an earth-hugging lefty from way back (the flagrant despise-the-arrogant-rich current in Titanic being but one example) so this should come as no surprise to anyone. I for one am cheered and heartened.
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When you pay for a product, you are voting for it. I will not be paying to see this movie in any way, shape or form.
I, nor my children, ever saw Pocahontas either.
The trailer cried out: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FIGHT OFF WHITE MEN AND MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
The CGI looks unbelievable, I can shut my mind off for overt liberalism (hell I love brain dead movies), but I’ll wait til my Father in Law buys it for DVD
"Just relax and let your mind go blank. That shouldn't be too hard for you."
The South Park guys knew the story before the movie was released: thus Dances with Smurfs.
did you check the casino?
That was more sad than funny.
Who is the author? A wacked out 80’s valley girl. lol.
Oh I am not seeing this movie as I have absolutely no interest and that was even before this article.
He'll make it back, perhaps in foreign ticket sales alone - they eat that anti-US crap up.
What they haven't quite figured out is that their garbage keeps working against the US, even when their guy is in office. In 12 months of foreign policy work, Obama has got bupkis to show for it precisely because of the prevalent anti-American sentiment that has been propagated by Hollyweird for eight years.
We have been seeing the SRM promote this movie for several months. That alone, is enough to convince me that this movie is left wing propaganda. This movie will win all the “awards”.
The first couple trailers tried to mask it, but I saw the full latest trailer in the theaters this weekend, and thats when I finally figured out what this crapfest was all about.
Yep. Corporations want precious mineral on the planet. The blue people live where there is the greatest concentration of it on the planet. Corporations send in the military to wipe them out.
As I watched the full final trailer, the political agenda of the movie came clear. That if Cameron is going to make all the hundreds of millions back, he has to make sure he uses the formula to sell just as many tickets outside the US.
That formula being, “Lots of cheap shots at conservatives, corporations, military, while ramming a anti-american, leftist-marxist agenda down your throats to please the euros and 3rd worlders.
Oh my...words escape me. Has society really come down that low? “Can we even assume that interspecies interaction will be heterosexual?” Pathetic.
I am shocked it is left wing.
Shocked I tell you...
Oh, I’ll see it, all right, at SOME point — in a manner that minimizes the revenue to its producers.
I had the same reaction to the preview when I saw it.
At some future date I will pay $1.00 for the DVD at a yard sale.
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