but yeah, I hadn't actually seen the trailer and was almost completely unspoiled and they just kept... doing things... and I just kept... waiting for it to be not so... and it kept not happening :(
If I disagree entirely with your opinion, I'm worried it's going to make me look like a colonial imperialist who loves capitalism, the military and hates people who do not share my skin colour.
But I do - I disagree entirely, and I'm getting genuinely unsettled that I've now seen and loved a film twice in one week that's almost certainly my favourite film of the year, and apparently it's stuffed to the gills with all this terrible stuff that I honestly can't percieve. In fact I feel the opposite in many regards - such as the military being there to make millions of dollars, and the film very clearly demonstrates to its audience that it's a bad thing. Surely that makes it the opposite of militarist and capitalist?
You are totally allowed to love it. It was visually beautiful, had well paced action sequences and I liked the use of language - particularly how the swearing felt very natural.
You are also totally allowed to disagree, I'll respond to your comment about it being militarist and capitalist if you don't mind although I'm also happy to not get into a debate about it if you'd prefer. Forgive me if I'm a little incoherent, there are far more articulate people out there who could probably say this better.
Avatar is set in a future where the dominant cultural values are still militarist and capitalist, human kind hasn't evolved past it and nothing in this movie says it's going to stop happening in the future. This isn't showcasing how bad these values are, it's assuming the human race has these values in the future and won't learn from them or grow beyond them, it says the status quo is the same and will stay the same - which is effectively endorsing them.
Further, allowing Jake, the adopted-but-now-most-talented-warrior to guide the
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I actually am desperately craving the discussion, I'm just so bruised and bloodied this year from stumbling around in online discussions about race/gender/disability/takeyourpick and finding myself positioned by others into apparently claiming something I'm not. But I really want to talk about it because the wildly different reactions are fascinating me (and often confusing me
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I thoroughly enjoyed Avatar last night. I miffed mildly at some character deaths, but otherwise barely noticed being far too happily wrapped up it the pretty and hawt. It has Sigourney Weaver innit. That made my year. The scenery was so breathtakingly gorgeous that after the first few minutes I stopped remember it was cgi. As for the story? Well from what I understand the story came second to the Scenery and Worldbuilding. Also I seem to lack enough empathy to give a shit about the apparent issues in it. Because I seriously wanted that bigger pterodactyl And the big kitty, definitely the big kitty. Flashy cgi, good guys won, bad guys lost, that all I can ask from a big budget movie. You want introspection and wise words on the state of humanity, then your better of sticking to indie films.
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but yeah, I hadn't actually seen the trailer and was almost completely unspoiled and they just kept... doing things... and I just kept... waiting for it to be not so... and it kept not happening :(
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But I do - I disagree entirely, and I'm getting genuinely unsettled that I've now seen and loved a film twice in one week that's almost certainly my favourite film of the year, and apparently it's stuffed to the gills with all this terrible stuff that I honestly can't percieve. In fact I feel the opposite in many regards - such as the military being there to make millions of dollars, and the film very clearly demonstrates to its audience that it's a bad thing. Surely that makes it the opposite of militarist and capitalist?
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You are also totally allowed to disagree, I'll respond to your comment about it being militarist and capitalist if you don't mind although I'm also happy to not get into a debate about it if you'd prefer. Forgive me if I'm a little incoherent, there are far more articulate people out there who could probably say this better.
Avatar is set in a future where the dominant cultural values are still militarist and capitalist, human kind hasn't evolved past it and nothing in this movie says it's going to stop happening in the future. This isn't showcasing how bad these values are, it's assuming the human race has these values in the future and won't learn from them or grow beyond them, it says the status quo is the same and will stay the same - which is effectively endorsing them.
Further, allowing Jake, the adopted-but-now-most-talented-warrior to guide the ( ... )
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It has Sigourney Weaver innit. That made my year. The scenery was so breathtakingly gorgeous that after the first few minutes I stopped remember it was cgi.
As for the story? Well from what I understand the story came second to the Scenery and Worldbuilding.
Also I seem to lack enough empathy to give a shit about the apparent issues in it. Because I seriously wanted that bigger pterodactyl And the big kitty, definitely the big kitty.
Flashy cgi, good guys won, bad guys lost, that all I can ask from a big budget movie. You want introspection and wise words on the state of humanity, then your better of sticking to indie films.
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It's very, very pretty!
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