12/03/2009

Avatar the movie: I know one movie that I am not going to see

I love Science Fiction and I have put up with some SciFi movies that have a strong environmental theme, but this one sounds just too much in your face environmental ideology:

It is the 22nd century and Earth has run out of its natural resources. It is now little more than a desert, without vegetation, wildlife or minerals.
But a newly discovered planet, Pandora, is a lush, exotic world which possesses everything we need, so a ruthless mining corporation hatches a plan to strip it bare and save the Earth while making billions for themselves.
'To sum it up, it's about ecology and greed,' says Sigourney Weaver, who dyed her hair red to play a botanist in the film. 'It took me a while to grasp what I was getting into, but then I realised no one has ever made a fantasy film like this before.'
Cameron himself is convinced cinema-goers will want to see it at least four times - hopefully quadrupling its box office potential. . . .


The earliest movie reviews have not been very positive, but the producers say that they don't think that the movie reviews will matter.

Some critics say it's a 'horrible film' - overinflated, hard to watch and ridiculous. There are also complaints that the Na'vi just don't work cinematically and that it's all a shade absurd. But Leo Barraclough, of the entertainment industry magazine Variety, says he doesn't think such brickbats will affect its commercial appeal. 'It is one of the most anticipated films of recent years and I don't think it will much matter what the critics say. . . .


Of course, James Cameron took more than a few liberties with history in his movie Titanic to make a leftist point (e.g., have the lowest class passengers being locked into their section of the ship while the boat was sinking).

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2 Comments:

Blogger The Right Guy said...

Even the moon has minerals. I guess these people never read about The Conservation of Energy or the Conservation of Matter.

12/03/2009 10:11 PM  
Blogger Angie said...

Wait until you see what Guy Ritchie did to Sherlock Holmes.

12/04/2009 9:14 AM  

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