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.

  • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I mean... it's also basically just dances with wolves with blue body paint, and an extremely white saviour story. so I wouldn't go around calling it 'based'

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      People who were 10 when Avatar came out are now talking about how it was deep and it wasn't them just being young and naive

      • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        it is funny seeing people say redditors have no ability to analyse the themes and symbolism in a text, and then overlooking the VERY OBVIOUS point that the aliens are noble savages based on native Americans, and need a white man to save them, and it's a racist movie

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It may be white savior, but I can't help but love that the message of the movie is "frag your commanding officer".

        • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          From what I remember Kevin Costner is chillin' by himself in the wilderness and a local tribe watches him playing with a wolf and they let him hang out with them. But doesn't the tribe get forcibly relocated at the end of the movie? And Kevin Costner goes with them? I don't think he saves anybody (technically he saves himself because he was suicidal at the beginning of the movie).