My cynical mind made me give up on big movies entirely, and i totally assumed Avatar was of no interest, also Cameron seems kind of a dick. So when I listened the latest Chapo i thought they were gonna mock the movie, and i was confused for about the first 30 mins till it finally hit me, they are actually serious about this movie. Very weird experience and i really should go watch it now.
If its true that Avatar is about America doing 9/11 against the rest of the world every day, then we need much more of this.
It is genuinely impressive how they got away with the US bad message in this movie. It is also impressive how this movie made so much, but no one remembers anything.
They weren’t even all that subtle about it.
That seems standard for Cameron, though. All of his movies that I can think of off hand have some kind of anti-war/anti-imperialist message in them, aside from maybe Titanic.
Yeah I'm not sure why anyone on the left would hate on it. It's literally about some chauvinist guy being radicalized and helping a bunch of indigenous people kick out the American (the actors are Americans) imperialists. And it is also very entertaining.
White savior seems to be one complaint.
Boring seems to be the other.
i caught the last half of it a while ago in the furhouse discord
i remembered almost none of it
that was my 3rd viewing