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Calling it now, Avatar will be a bust.

I plan to see it at least twice more.---I found it most enjoyable, to just look at.
 
Has anyone else noted the irony of it being liberal propaganda, yet is was released by FOX?

Just sayin'. :lol:
 
Skateguy said:
When I first saw "2001, a Space Odyssey", in "Cinerama", I thought I was seeing the future.
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Same here, but since I saw it in Berkeley, there was a decided haze wafting up from my fellow patrons so that the screen was almost obscured at the time.
 
Gardener said:
Same here, but since I saw it in Berkeley, there was a decided haze wafting up from my fellow patrons so that the screen was almost obscured at the time.
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Yes I remember well. We did good to get in the door, get buttered pop corn, and find our seats. the days of tripping the light fantastic.
 
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The whole plot, centers around a marine with out the use of his legs... he is sent to the planet Pandora, to help with an experimental "Avatar" program.
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No, actually the plot centres around corporate-military operations committing barbarity in the name of profit. The protagonist just helps to develop the plot.

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Now, why does he have to do this... well it seems these creatures, live on a plot of land that JUST HAPPENS to be the location of the most dense source of some mineral that sells for $20,000,000.00 an ounce... And our intrepid Marine, why, he becomes one with the natives, and realizes he must lead them against the EVIL Us Military, come to wipe them out for the greed of corporations that want that mineral.
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There was nothing in the movie to indicate that it was the U.S. military. We don't hear anything about earth other than it its nature is completely destroyed. "We destroyed our mother, now they have come to destroy yours."

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"Bows and arrows" against super high end military!
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People who know their land and its advantages very well vs. high tech people who are flying into a zone that dampens radar technology.

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The trailer was chock full of anti-military, anti-war... it's an anti-Iraq war movie, 8 years too late to have any meaning.
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Maybe you should see the movie, because it's about none of those things.

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I was so turned off by the trailer, I was compelled to post this.
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I was so turned on by the movie, that I was compelled to post this.

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I do NOT like being preached at in a movie. And cliched, tired old BS really gets under my skin. I won't watch movies that do that, EVEN IF I agree with the preaching. I want to be entertained, not beaten with a hammer about some political crusade the film makers demand I get.
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I thought the movie was a realistic example of how human values have taken a wrong turn. This movie portrays our future if we continue down this path. Corporatism must never be allowed to control military or our society will unravel, but it's already happening, so...
 
While I HATED the lefty politics of the movie, it was an extremely well-executed film.
 
****ing AWESOME movie. If you haven't seen it, Go. Now. It's a must see on the big screen, won't be the same on a TV set.
 
Orius said:
No, actually the plot centres around corporate-military operations committing barbarity in the name of profit. The protagonist just helps to develop the plot.



There was nothing in the movie to indicate that it was the U.S. military. We don't hear anything about earth other than it its nature is completely destroyed. "We destroyed our mother, now they have come to destroy yours."



People who know their land and its advantages very well vs. high tech people who are flying into a zone that dampens radar technology.



Maybe you should see the movie, because it's about none of those things.



I was so turned on by the movie, that I was compelled to post this.



I thought the movie was a realistic example of how human values have taken a wrong turn. This movie portrays our future if we continue down this path. Corporatism must never be allowed to control military or our society will unravel, but it's already happening, so...
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For a Women, I like the way you think--good job. :mrgreen:
 
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