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DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN AVATAR
"Ag(w)aia" by James 'if fit ain't 3hours long, it ain't a movie' Cameron. Just got back in from the 8pm gold lounge session at ACE, Midland.
It's the story of the industrial-military complex protecting the capitalistic interests of shareholders out to strip mine a socialist culty commune world of hunter-gather semi-nudists who like their skin Blue.
How are they a socialist cult?
They clearly are an organised culture with a class system ruled by a royal family of sorts.
It's more about private companies hiring mercinaries with no boundaries to strip mine and destroy a paradise, where they don't stop to think about anything other than the greed and beauty and the true value of the place which can't be measured in dollars. Also the inherant racism and justification for evil acts for profit.
It's kinda like a CGI version of the Danish riot police mixing it with blue painted protesters at Hopencagen.
No not really at all. That comment makes no sense to the context of the films plot.
If you've seen the original Dune movie, you've seen this as it's the same old same old but instead of "fremen" in stilsuits riding worms, you've got CGI blueskins (sporting facial art that is oh so last year's wilderness look) riding flying lizards.
Except it's way more interesting and better made than dune. That's a very dated movie.
The big mystery of the movie was why Ripley got quite graphically personal with a couple of fags, and why there was no warning prior to the start of the movie screen, about her sucking on them.
I thought on-screen cigarette smoking was verboten these days ?
Nopes and there's a context. It's used as a device to help illustrate frustration and stress with the situation at hand. Also these things are different when not in a contemporary context. The same way it's ok for mad men to have them smoking constantly.
You're not going to give a crap about any of the characters, all the machinery type technology has been done before, and the whole "poor little persecuted communists must be able to strike back and win" shtick is too badly timed what with all the trouble, misery, and expense their ilk are busy trying to inflict upon the real and sane world at the moment re: AGW alarmism, Hopencagen, and all those corrupt commie pigs with noses in the trough in the U.N.
While the characters took a step back at times to the very pretty pandora, you do give a crap about them, the Na'vi and what they're fighting for. You understand Jake's journey as a beaten depressed man, escaping into a fantasy paradise world.
Meh to the industrial-military complex and the beauty of their weapons, and Meh to the minority fringe group ideologically driven scientific-technological elite-wannabees who side with the commies (just like we are seeing re: the fringe minority and 'consensus' driven colluding scientists whose corrupted science currently has the ear of the IPCC rather than the Real Science from many tens of thousands of scientists who say otherwise), and Meh to the blue-skinned creation worshipping marxist technology rejecting animists ... especially since it always leads to the same thing.
To be clear it's a private company with mercenaries. It has nothing to do with the IPCC or climate change, you are just blinded by your anti-environmental thoughts and ideologies to actually understand what is at play in the movie. The movie is not an analogy for global warming or anything. Yes it's pro environment, but that's not a bad thing you know.. strip mining forests, destroying the homes of the people who live there with no regard to their rights. The film is more in line to colonisation of the america's, africa, india, australia ect. Where those coming in had no regard for the native "savages" and just wanted profit.
So you're against the fact that the native's are religious? As someone who themselves uses religion to pick and chose what to believe about the world around them, that is rather odd. Or is it the simple fact that you take offence to these primitive beings relying so much of religion and ritual, or that they aren't the right religion?
What about the Na'vi is technologically rejecting??? They were against more advanced people destroying their homes and their way of life. Were the humans in independence day, "technology rejecting" because they didn't like more advanced technology destroying them?
In fact the Nav'i enjoyed a lot of technology, just not up to modern standards. They were a primitive people and it's that kind of attitude towards them, that is what the films message and references to the history of the human race that the film was talking about. It's a shame that you're too blinded by these to understand these subtleties and how they relate to your own world outlook.
Just because people are less advanced, don't believe in what you believe in, doesn't make them sub human. Even if they aren't human. They still deserve to be treated as such, and not used, abused, killed and murdered.
I fail to see how an anti genocide, anti racism message is bad.
Revolution, War and Bloodshed.
Meh, Meh, and Meh.
All things that make for good films!
Anyhoo, can hardly wait to take numba1son to see it so we can explore the whole lefty politics of dancing and envy it provides, as well as have a laugh together at the New Agey tree-hugging "every living thing is a part of god" anti-Judeo-Christian religion it is pushing.
How is the film anti-judeo-Christian? Once again I think you're reading things in and blinded by your own issues to understand the film. There was nothing of the sort. Except the people weren't christians. The who Aywa thing, was specific to that planet. Yes there was an underlying environmental mother earth vibe to it, the film did not take place on earth. Nor did it claim pandora was like earth.
Pandora was special. On Pandora, plant life had electrical properties and so the forrest worked like a giant organism. All in tune, with the plants acting like neurons, all interconnected to form some sort of network of nature interconnected. The planet itself acted as one joint eco-system, and just because the Na'vi being primitive people worshipped the planet because of some of the results of this, is not anti-Christian.
The film was science fiction and the idea of a planet with the plants being interconnected to form some kind of intelligence is nothing new.
How ever the film does not take place on earth. It's an alien world. I kind of think actually having the thing is a big of a heavy handed approach, but it's an old sci-fi idea and makes the planet and it's life more alien and different to here ON EARTH.
Then we'll prolly get the xbox 360 game of the movie and team up to blow up some virtual renewable resources while flying cool looking but no doubt realistically inefficent helicopters.
I was curious about the game, but it's not meant to be that great. Meant to be ok though, might be fine for the causal gamer though.
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