[mos6507]

James Cameron's "Avatar," Peak oil subtext? I've been waiting for this.$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;So certainly it is about imperialism in the sense that the way human history has always worked is that people with more military or technological might tend to supplant or destroy people who are weaker, usually for their resources," says Cameron. "We're in a century right now in which we're going to start fighting more and more over less and less. The population ain't slowin' down, oil will be depleted - we don't have a great Plan B for energy in this country right now, notwithstanding Obama's attempts to get people to focus on alternative energy. We've had eight years of the oil lobbyists running the country.

[Leanan]

From this review of the movie:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')arth is apparently in an energy crisis and the mining of a rare mineral called unobtanium may be the only thing that can save it. Unobtanium can only be found on Pandora and unfortunately the largest Na'vi village, a tree the size of the Empire State Building, rests on the greatest deposit of the mineral on the planet.

[Plantagenet]

Any movie with 7 foot tall blue-skinned alien babes wearing fur bikinis is OK with me.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'B')TW, I wonder what the total carbon footprint was of rendering Avatar... Oh, the ironies.

[frankthetank]

Unobtanium-sounds like Thorium, but is most likely oil

That Na'vi village sounds like Iraq or Afghanistan ....

Hollywood isn't very creative these days. I heard this movie was very expensive to make... I'd rather go see "The Road" If they would actually play it at theaters.

[mos6507]

The na'vi culture sounds nothing like iraq or afghanistan, unless you think iraq or afghanistan are like the amazon rainforest.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')he na'vi culture sounds nothing like iraq or afghanistan, unless you think iraq or afghanistan are like the amazon rainforest.

[Ayame]

Yes the story is more akin to the amazonians being driven off their land and killed in clashes because big business wants to mine their land for oil. Of course the amazonians are not blue or 10 feet tall and don't live in trees.

[rangerone314]

Well they might not be blue or live in trees, but going back to Star Trek (or earlier) science fiction uses disguises (sometimes thinly) current events by masking them with fantastic elements...

[mos6507]

Ah, James Cameron the environmentalist.

Would you like fries with that?

When you have a movie that costs a half a billion dollars, I guess you have to do what you have to do.

Maybe Avatar-themed harp seal hunting is next?

[Rod_Cloutier]

I saw it tonight and this film (in 3D), blew me away. James Cameron has another blockbuster, like Aliens or Titanic.

From a cultural perspective he has included cutting edge knowledge about what a habitable alien world actually might look like, with its own ecology, atmosphere (unbreathable by humans), and lower gravity. Forget that every planet that Kirk and Spock beam down to has the 'perfect' enviroment of breathable air, tolerable near Earth gravity, ect, this film sets the stage for what an actual landing on an alien planet might be like.

Cameron must also be familiar with James Lovelock's Gaia theory. An alternate world's Gaia lifeforce plays a major role in exterminating the Human invasion of its biosphere. Borrows a little too heavy on 'the dragonrider's of pern' novels from the 70's, and the plot was a little too predictable.

A firm warning about destroying our own home world, there's no place else to go, not now, not ever.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Repent', 'I') saw it tonight and this film (in 3D), blew me away. James Cameron has another blockbuster, like Aliens or Titanic.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'N')ot so. In both cases liberal communistic Hollywood effete drug-taking Jew liberals are responsible for such endeavors so they all waste too much energy.

[Cloud9]

Great flick. Don't spend too much time looking for meaning where there is none. Sort of like Dune in a forrest.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', ' ') "Unobtanium"!

[Narz]

I'd like to check this one out.

Kind of ironic, they seem to be in cahoots with McDonalds. I heard the movie mentioned in an ad of theirs.

[bratticus]

Another "White saves the Non-whites" movie.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')e all need--American, white, black, Indian, Russian and Chinese, etc.--to develop a sustainable, steady-state-energy, and carbon-neutral industrial system now, while we have the energy left to switch over.