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.
Honestly, Chapo's cultural takes are deeply infuriating and I really dont want to listen to this episode. Avatar's anti-colonial messaging is chauvinistic, muddled by stripping any kind of agency from the Na'vi and centering the movie around a white savior. Its politics arent any more radical than something like Winter Soldier, and these contrarian dipshits only like it because Avatar is deservedly being relegated to the dust-bin of the cultural memory for being boring. They'll bitch and moan about liberal Hollywood sickos all the time than suck off the biggest power broker in the fucking industry for making the apotheosis of a white guilt movie that allows him to feel good about being one of the richest capitalists in the world.