I don’t have words.

The movie is just non-stop humans being absolute colonizer monsters and the people (and creatures) of Pandora, who want to live in peace, being forced to fight back (and kicking human ass).

The movie lives and dies by it’s visual effects and by god are they incredible. Pandora is just such a beautiful world, and Cameron lets you experience it in all its beauty and unity and peace before he shows the ugly human machines and weapons kill and destroy it. You feel the pain and the righteous anger when the Navi fight back. I was cheering for every human death of which there are many.

Is the story perfect? Nah. There are points where it’s cliche etc but I don’t mind that. There is a larger story about nature and colonisation and that’s what matters so much more. Pandora is a world that can fight back because the world itself is alive and connected and god just imagine if Earth was like that.

I’m definitely gonna see it again and I’m super pumped for the sequels.

  • hypercube [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    play Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri, liberal. (or just watch the playlist of all the secret project cutscenes on YouTube, it gets the point across without having to play an ancient strategy game)

    • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      "Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours— the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers."

      – Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Profit"

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In that game, late stage capitalism and techbro ideology kills off Earth and the survivors go to a new planet in Alpha Centauri to (mostly, factions vary) do a late stage capitalism with techbro ideology, but the planet fights back.