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Avatar 2009 A great anti-capitalism, anti-military flick
So Avatar is obvioussly the epitome of anti-capitalism, anti-military and pro-tree hugging movies. You have a giant corporation hell bend on mining ore even at the destruction of a tribal race and a Marine that loves the thought of war mongering before dinner. So if you watch this movie with the idea that it is a direct representation of the current corporation employing millions you will be greatly annoyed.
The only reason I went to see the movie is because I am a sucker for special effects. CGI is amazing and I love to see movies in 3D with amazing effects. As I watched the movie, I have to admit that it was a great story. I am not naive enough to think all corporations are driven by a moral code and not the dollar, and that there haven’t been any war mongering humans in the past?
I chose to watch this movie in a worse case scenario approach. If you have a corrupt entity (government or corporate) with an aggressive military force, you have the potential for a very big problem.
Just watch it to have fun. Believe me, it requires no thinking at all. It is a no brainer movie with a very basic boy meets girl… boy falls in love with girl… boy flies big dragon like thing to save the day kinda movie. Predictable in every way, but with amazing effects.
I don’t disagree, but to put a further point on it, it is “Little Big Man” remade.
Go find it on Netflix and watch it, if you don’t believe me, just replace Crabb with Jake, Custer with Nick Fury, and Sunshine with Neytiri – Only Sunshine didn’t die, Caroline (Sigourney Weaver) did.
Alright, added it to my queue. I think everyone realizes the big pull was the effects. I can’t tell you how many people I talked to said it was clearly NOT a thinking movie.
Thruout the film, I was momentarily messed up by most of the same things that were been mentioned here, overall, I overcame them as my expectations continued. Even the over zealous depiction of “corporate greed” or the over bearing were accepted as being a important section of the film.But there one little issue that (oddly enough, I guess) upset me. There was no way to go back and view it after, but I’m pretty sure that when the Colonel was killed, he took his hands off the robot controls, trying to remove the arrow/bolt. Yet, with the Colonel’s death, the robot TOPPLED OVER! I would have expected such a machine just to simply stop moving and stand there.