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tarheel91 said: I’m not going to lie. I really am annoyed with some people in this thread. So much of the criticism comes from people who looked at the movie far too shallowly. For instance:

“Man comes to appreciate the indigenous tribe and then witness how utterly evil and materialistic humans are.” A4Noob says this despite my explanation on the SAME F’ING PAGE explaining how it’s not that simple. It’s about imperialism. IMPERIALISM. This is not about humans or even capitalism in general. This is about imperialism.

Right. Because imperialism is such a current ordeal now a days that we need a huge budget film to revolve around it. This isn’t about capitalism? That’s pretty funny considering how the entire basis of the movie is on corporations exploiting the poor and impoverished, which seems to be the nucleus of all hollywood propaganda. Oh, and I laughed when they called it “unobtanium”, it’s real ironic. I already mentioned similar parallels like the Spanish invasion of the Native Americans. This is just beating the same dead horse like every other high budget film because script writers think it’s deep to be misanthropists.

tarheel said: “It’s imperialism, not ‘humans being super evil.’ As a member of what was the largest empire during the years of traditional imperialism, I’d expect you to know more about it. Imperialism was led by corporations like the one in the movie. They did what the corporation in the movie did to the Na’vi and Pandora to the native people of wherever and that land. See: Seminole Wars, West/East India Companies, Colonial Africa, etc. It’s something that still goes on in less direct ways (i.e. Iraq, Vietnam, etc.), and it’s something that most of us seem to accept pretty easily. What a lot of the stuff in this genre (Avatar included) tries to do is get people to see how wrong what’s happening is.”

For the life of me I don’t understand why you put Iraq and Vietnam in there. The only “imperialists” I would imagine were the Soviet proxies in North Vietnam trying to conquer South Vietnam. But putting that aside, why is the European expansion a couple centuries (and even earlier) a prevalent modern issue? It isn’t and to bring that kind of parallel to an advanced human society is just ridiculous. No one can take it seriously because of how facetious every moment is. Example: The Na’vi tree being burned to the ground with the general saying, “Good job boys”.

What would be realistic? The Na’vi tribes being at war with each other. Similar to how South American tribes committed atrocious sacrifices to their god, which honestly make your examples look like cannon fodder. Yes, we know about Colonial Africa, and British/American conquest of modern-day USA. But are people aware of the brutality that commenced between the Iroquois and the Algonquians? Are people aware of the Arab slave trade in Africa. Hell I bet even script writers of Avatar are completely ignorant of White Gold, yet they’re more than anxious to jot down the condemnations of North Americans / Europeans.

I’m not trying to marginalize what transpired to the indigenous in Florida or across N.A. But the story line was unrealistic and overused. Though, I’m sure that won’t stop the writers from earning an Academy award.