animalsandmonsters:

ieatcatlitter:

jlamere:

generic1:

langer:

Not because it lacks any meaningful character development (which it does), not because its plot is laughably flimsy (which it is), and not because it is little more than a big-budget remake of FernGully, but because it is yet another example of b-grade Hollywood moralizing, of not very smart people with typically superficial good intentions offering Americans an insidiously shallow civics lesson along with their 64-oz Cokes and shrink-wrapped boxes of Butterfinger Minis.

American audiences have long preferred to buy their cultural sensitivity on the cheap, and Avatar is no exception here. Cinema regularly lures its viewers into an empty sense of mea culpa by safely buffering any requisite admission of guilt with the distantiation of history, of fairy tales, or of good old fashioned exaggeration. Our collective sins are pointed out for us in a way that doesn’t demand we see those same sins in ourselves, because in any theatrical contest between Good and Evil ticket sales will only ever cover production costs if while being asked to root against our own image we’re allowed to remain reasonably convinced of the implausibility that we ourselves could ever individually be as evil as these representations suggest.

It’s the uncanny valley of morality …

… And this is why we cheered on a bunch of dwarves and elves and talking trees, because the two white dudes dogging them commanded an army of orcs instead of an army of Blackwater contractors.

In the case of Avatar the bad guys again look just like we do, they wield the mighty hammer of the military-industrial complex just like we do, and they speak the language of colonialism just like we do. Yet in a country where anything short of full-throated support of the military is verboten we’re exonerated for rooting against these former Marines because they’re conquering a make-believe planet populated with make-believe aliens in a make-believe time. We’re allowed to cheer for this oppressed people because the missile strikes come from futuristic gunships and not from Predator drones. And we can safely criticize this fictional military because it takes its cues directly from its heartless capitalist overlords, while ours only receives its heartlessly capitalistic direction through the more familiar proxy of a popularly elected commander in chief.

and it looks fake as fuck

Everyone keeps asking me why I don’t want to see this film and the reason is because James Cameron is going to get his old limp dick royally sucked for giving birth to this deformed special effects abortion of a movie. Seriously, just give him the Oscars now and save us all the pain and embarrassment of watching it on TV.

What you’re missing in your hugely judgmental analysis of Avatar is that it’s just a movie. It’s a movie with the same purpose as all of the other movies out there, it’s out there to make money.

Yeah, I realize that it’s a social commentary. I love it. Yeah, it’s not perfect. But what is? Show me some type of perfect social satire. Right, there isn’t any. If they produced  movie that was just an honest analysis and footage of the ‘war’ in the Middle East…NO ONE WOULD FUCKING WATCH IT. If James Cameron wants to put together a 500 million dollar movie and at least include a plot line that draws parallels and makes people think, then good for him. Yeah, he’s not going to be 100% forward with it because, despite what people think, the people with the big money in Hollywood are conservative. Because in this society it’s bad to make a clear concise statement against the government. I’m glad it’s in the medium that it’s in. This way, more people will expose themselves to it and think about it.

There are always going to be pissy, judgmental shits like you people who will hate things simply for the hype, hate things because they aren’t perfect and don’t fall nicely into your categories of good and bad. It is possible for things to have positive and negative aspects, you know. Get over yourselves.