[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lighthouse', 'I')nteresting what people see in that movie.

I found it an eye-candy without any deep meaning at all.

The plot was rather boring and left to many things unexplained.

How was the Avatar controlled by the humans? By radio control? How were the control inputs received, etc.

[andersboulanger]

It always interesting watching different groups or organizations react to contemporary works of art. The pope condemns avatar for promoting "worshiping nature", he also didn't like Da vinci Code. Salmon Rushdie's book gets banned and the Ayatallah puts a hit out on him. I think art is there for us to see our own reflection and learn from it. The rest is all commentary.

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lighthouse', 'H')ow was the Avatar controlled by the humans? By radio control? How were the control inputs received, etc.

[Hawkcreek]

Ok, I'm an old guy and I thought the movie was great. I have been a science fiction reader since I was 13, and this is the first science fiction movie I have ever seen that engaged me as much as a good, hardcore science fiction novel. Yeah, I saw it twice. First time in over 40 years I have paid to see a movie twice. I won't mention what the last one was.
The thing I have always liked about SF is that it tries to make you understand the "what if" scenario that the author is asking questions about.
What if we could download our minds into a new body when the old one starts falling apart - how would it change our attitudes?
What if we built a new society in a low gravity environment - what would be different?
Some people look at those "what ifs" and learn about their own society, and think about why we do things that we do.
Others feel uneasy looking at those alternative possibilities because they don't like to think the the absolutes in our society could, or ever should change.
But if it cost a half a billion dollars, I consider it better spent than a lot of things I know of - like trillion dollar bailouts to the rich.
I know I felt like it was good value for the money I spent.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lighthouse', 'H')ow was the Avatar controlled by the humans? By radio control? How were the control inputs received, etc.

[zoidberg]

Uh guys its a complete rip off of Pocahontas. They literally just changed the names. It has NO deeper meaning because it wasnt written for this period. We can just draw analogies to anything we want.

Likewise nothing has to make sense either because its a movie based entirely on visuals.

All in all I liked it. I tried 3d but those things give me a headache. And it was 3 hours gawd I was sick of sitting in the theater at that point. I'll enjoy the BluRay that comes out later on my own entertainment center.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zoidberg', '
')It has NO deeper meaning because it wasnt written for this period.

[Roy]

Having just seen it on Saturday I'll add my 2 cents.

I don't think the movie was 'anti western' per se, but it did portray resource grabbing by a more technologically advanced society in a poor light.

Even though my ancestors and I have benefited from a similar strategy I still think it is wrong. After all, it wasn't my choice to do what was done. I have done everything I can do in my life to oppose the current campaigns. I voted, I protested, I wrote letters to editors, and have talked to everyone I know about it. None of it had any effect.

The visuals were great and I enjoyed the movie for what it is, a science fiction movie with great special effects.

To say the movie is anti western is a stretch.. It's like watching a movie about a rapist, then taking offense to the idea that the movie portrayed the rapist in a bad light.

If I'm not a rapist, I don't make any value judgments other than to agree with the premise of the movie.

If I go on a rant about how the movie is anti-rapist, then maybe I, in so many words, admit I'm a rapist and I do not wish to be portrayed in a bad light -- ie in a truthful fashion.

I see the war supporters, left and right -- they are many, in this country as the group who is offended by this movie.

They don't want the masses (possibly even themselves) to understand the true nature of current US military actions around the world and they themselves refuse to admit the truth of the matter as they find it rather unpleasant.

Bravo Mr. Cameron!

Enjoyable movie and so what if it hurts some peoples' feelings? If they admit it hurts then they should be questioning WHY IT HURTS. NO?

Instead they criticize Cameron and his film as being anti-western. That is a common debate tactic displayed in the US MSM every day on every channel. If you don't like the message, attack and discredit the messenger.

[zoidberg]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zoidberg', '
')It has NO deeper meaning because it wasnt written for this period.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zoidberg', ' ')Avatar is not an anti-western so much as a pro-money by amazing the masses project. That is the motivating idea.

[umbrarchist]

It is curious that so much of Avatar is the same, if not derived from, a 1957 novel by Poul Anderson.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')ameron may have borrowed some of the key aspects of his tale from author Poul Anderson.

Reader Goldfarb pointed us to Call Me Joe, a novella written in 1957 by Golden Age science fiction writer Poul Anderson. Many fans of Anderson suspect that the story was an important influence on Avatar, and some are calling for Anderson to be credited on the film. And it's easy to see why.

[zoidberg]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zoidberg', ' ')Avatar is not an anti-western so much as a pro-money by amazing the masses project. That is the motivating idea.

[mos6507]

The plot is truly incidental, eh? Truth is stranger than fiction.