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.
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.