[Freedom'sWorthIt]

So how would nineteen year olds respond to this movie? (niece who wants to see this thing...here for Christmas).

[dr_lew]

I think anybody who has an inclination to see it will respond well to it. It’s just the sort of thing you’ll like if you like that sort of thing. It even broke through my curmudgeonliness at times ... it’s that good.

[aruanan]

It was a beautiful movie with a good story. I see so many (and many of them had not yet seen the movie) claiming that it was a movie made to bash America and capitalism, etc., etc.. Such folks are moronic blowhards eager to find anything they can use as a reason to bloviate about politics. All the humans in the movie weren't evil. Some of them were. Some of them weren't. Most of them, just like in real life, went along with whoever happened to be in charge over them. One guy on another thread wrote about how the movie was attacking the "predominate white culture." Ha ha ha. As if! The predominate culture on this planet was blue, not white.

What the movie does a very good job of showing is the danger of people with power taking whatever they want from wherever they can get it because they need it more than whoever they're taking it from. We could say that this is a direct attack on the current American federal government, but it probably wasn't done for that purpose. It was just a story idea of what happens when a powerful group moves in to take what doesn't belong to them and what those who were invaded do to fight back.

The story moved along well. The world created was one of the most beautiful I've ever seen on film, though I didn't see the 3D version. The main characters avoided the Uncanny Valley effect. I wonder if Sigourney Weaver demanded that her avatar's face look much more human and much more like her own face.

[Secret Agent Man]

Don’t worry about aruanan. He’s ticked off if anyone complains about Avatar, apparently he’s spending all his time finding FR threads about it and harassing anyone woh criticizes it. I actually think he is James Cameron.