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.
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).