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.
The movie ends with the blue people marching the humans back onto a spaceship to send them back to Earth. Not sure you can get a better image than that.
tfw no huge blue cat person gf. anyway it's a good movie and you should watch it, even if the ending is lib
Avatar is an ok version of dances with wolves I guess. Don't worry about it if you haven't watched it, there are better movies out there.
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.
no one remembers anything.
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
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.
C'mon I feel like I've already explained to everyone how I'm 47.3% Maoist
is that the phase of radicalization where you've been persuaded maoism is the correct line but you don't want to do the red guards austin shit
You're not missing anything. It was very pretty and very stupid.
It's cool when they kill imperialist troops but all the space Pocahontas stuff sucks balls. Big blue ones. It really is as shit as you remember
Listening to the review made me want to re-watch it a bit. I didn't think it was that great the first time though.
Man I fuckin loved that film when I was a kid. I'm gonna go watch again rn
Watch Aliens it's better.
I haven't haven't seen Avatar but I'm pretty confident.
Blue people movie silly, airbender show incredible. Watch Avatar: the Last Airbender
