Dan #fundie

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[regarding Avatar]

Negative - This in 3D is incredible greatest eye experience in moves ever. But the crowd's don't comprehend the point of this move is the destruction of what truth. Gaia Worship is what at the heart of this move. Gaia Worship the modern vision of Pagan Religion and the Green movement,Global warming all related to each other. Avatar's planet Pandora is always called mother their God. Also, Liberal overtones like the military bad. Also they have the military calling the Avatar peoples as terrorist which is another liberal way of saying in the real world the military calls good people terrorist. The move used the term shock and awe and we know that term related to President Bush. Those that don't understand the truth of scripture lack knownledge to see truth and a lie.
My Ratings: Moral rating: Extremely Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 5
—Dan, age 50 (USA)

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old comment by Brain_In_A_Jar

The green movement is not synonymous with nature-worship. There's a world of difference between treating the planet as some kind of sentient force and simply not wishing to stand upon and breathe the cumulatively discarded filth of past and present generations of a greedy, callous, short-sightedly inefficient and wasteful mass of humanity that has the arrogance to declare it need not stoop to consider such things.

As for your outrage at a few unpleasant reflections of the Bush administration's foreign policy, I would suggest that people who have wilfully made themselves abhorrent in countenance and manner in order to better serve themselves have no right to then take offence at the existence of mirrors.

old comment by MK

Well yes, the movie is an obvious, ham-handed allegory for Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Haliburton, Blackwater, and some other things. So what? Does the truth really hurt that much?

"in the real world the military calls good people terrorist"

What would you call a bunch of men following a charismatic leader who conduct a surprise ambush on soldiers while they're celebrating Christmas Day?

No, you would not call them "terrorists" - you'd call them "George Washington and his Revolutionary Soldiers" because that's exactly what they did.

And what would you call men living in hiding, sneaking around an occupied city, conducting sabotage to thwart the occupying soldiers, outright murdering soldiers whenever and wherever possible to "liberate" their land?

In Iraq of 2003, you'd call them "terrorists." In France of 1943, you'd call them "freedom fighters."

Perspective, Sparky. You lack it.

old comment by The L

The funny thing is, I enjoyed Avatar because of the implication that all life is sacred. The movie never said that Pandora was worshiped as a god, or that the moon (Pandora is a moon orbiting a gas giant, not a planet) was alive to begin with. On the contrary, the lifeforms ON Pandora were linked in an unusual way using the mind-melding organ called a helu. In this way, the accumulated memories of the Na'Vi could be passed on to future generations and to other tribes in a heartbeat. The researchers in the movie say so, in nearly the same words.

However, the movie clearly does NOT imply that the military is evil. (Major Spoiler Alert!!)

The Na'Vi choose to go to war rather than back down, and this choice is portrayed as noble. Sully is an ex-Marine, and his military training enables him to lead the Na'Vi to victory. That said, the military is not perfect in the movie, just as it is not perfect in real life. Sometimes, compromise is called for rather than force. During those situations, the military is of better use escorting diplomats and the like than blowing everything to hell.

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