Didn’t want to donate to the cause so I bit torrented it.
What a steaming pile of liberal angst.
This reviewer on IMDB hits the nail on the head:
Honestly, I lost my faith in Cameron when he made Titanic. Avatar looks to put the final nail in his coffin. When I saw the preview I knew it would be a PC propaganda piece for eco-guilt and left-wing politics. I also knew there was no hope in seeing the dorky looking Alien Smurfs with their suck caveman weapons get wiped out. Now that would be a movie worth seeing! Sorry but I cannot root against the human race (especially with all the cool military tech), call me biased.
The whole idea of some primitive alien race using nonsensical fantasty inspired creatures that look like eco-dragons to defeat a high-tech army is the pinnacle of stupidity. It is like some teenage boy lacking testosterone came up with the plot. Lets see, lets combine fern gully, thundercats and the smurfs for the good guys and lets make the bad guys “greedy” corporate humans hell bent on “destroying the planet” in their unsustainable need for energy to fuel their capitalist consumerism. The only thing that can save the planet is the primitive zen/native American/tribal beliefs in eco-harmony. Spare me the lecture on your economic illiteracy Cameron.
The crappy video game for this should be hilarious, especially with all the kids confused why they cannot play with the cool robo-mechs with machine guns and instead get to be “Dorky Smurf”, decked out in loin cloth armor, armed with a biodegreadable bow and arrow! Controls will include a button for “tree planting”, “eco-meditation”, “recycling your weapons” and “low carbon footprint” (you walk lightly and hardly breathe).
What a waste of CGI. Apparently Cameron spent millions getting Smurfette’s breasts “right”. How hard is it to get them right? Just make them big! Maybe next time he can spend as much time on a real plot where you can actually root for the human race? Nah, pushing left-wing propaganda is more important than entertainment. Right Cameron? Sadly this movie will appeal to eco-pacifists who have been brainwashed that we are destroying the planet and the human race is evil.
Maybe because I am human I have a problem with being considered evil but hey that is just me.
I don’t believe the whole human race is being treated as evil in this movie: just those trying to mine on that Planet. Please note: in any movie with bad guys, the bad guys are more than likely humans....
Don’t think this movie is put out as a liberal screed.
Great post. Yeah Cameron like Lucas and the others are megolmaniacs who will make sure they save the world while selling tons of crappy plastic toys.
Sort of makes me respect someone like Coppolla (even though he is a bit of a lib) a lot more for The Conversation, Apoc Now and to a lesser extent the godfather. To his credit he had Milus co-write Apoc Now with him so it was lib and warrior writing the script.