Comment on Avatar repeated on multiple blogs:
I'll Netflix it, I don't want to give Cameron $XX dollars for liberal propaganda.
My response:
If you don't see it in 3D you are missing out on most of the spectacle. How Cameron makes 3D an integrated part of the visual as opposed to a mere gimmick is the whole point of the film and the real industry game changer. If you don't want to spend the money, fine, but by "sticking it to Cameron" you are, in essence, missing the movie entirely.
Further:
I don't understand the "lib propaganda" issue people are raising/whining about. It's not a Michael Moore screed, just a movie designed for entertainment. The "enviro/noble savage" story has been a part of American fiction since the late 1900's, James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" from 1896 ring any bells?
So, us rugged individualists are reduced to whining about what is a decades-old, oft used, utterly toothless part of the national gestalt by this point? Why now, after dozens of identically themed movies since the dawn of film, most if not all meaningless in any grand or petit scheme? Cause Barry's in the White House? Cause the commie's tried once again to foist a "global threat" off on us?
If so, it seems kind of a petulent, if not pathetic, response to my way of thinking. We should be better than this; as in so many other areas, going off on minor BS non-issues makes us look idiotic and costs us credibility when the real fights come up.
Cameron didn't put it in the film as any sort of "call to arms" or real proslytization, even if he did, so what? It is simply one of the dozens of extant, trite, convenient, cut-and-paste plotlines just there to hang visuals on, like "unlikely youth becomes a savior" or "emotionally reserved person learns to love again after meeting woman/dog/child"
Tell yourselves "it's just a show, I really should relax".