Blah blah Avatar, 3D sucks blue cat people DAE no cultural impact?? Can you remember any character names??

but seriously it was bold as fuck for someone like James Cameron to make something so blatantly anti-US-military at a time when literally the entirety of Hollywood was united in jerking off American imperialism. It was not the least bit subtle and that makes it all the more impressive that Cameron was able to make a pointed takedown of Iraq-era militarism on such a scale.

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I totally agree that Avatar is pretty based, but I think Hollywood at the time was actually moving away from being pro-military. This is because people were pretty sick of the Iraq war and it had been revealed to be predicated on lies. Two years earlier Shooter was released, and that was all about how corrupt the government and the military were (the Chapo episode about it is great). Obviously that didn't last, perhaps not even up to the release of Avatar, but considering the script was written in 2006, it would make sense for the film to get caught up in the anti-imperialist tide.

    • wombat [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      this was the same year The Hurt Locker won Best Picture, Hollywood hadn't moved away from shit

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This. America, fuck yeah! Had run its course by 2009 and everyone was now a libshit huffing Obama's dank gas. This is when every dem who voted for the war was suddenly always against it. It was a super safe time to put out a movie like this because everyone figured Obama was gonna end the wars.