I think Avatar is a great movie it shows and example about how someone need to use someone elses resoures in order for them to survive, and dont care about the others. The avartars show how much they care about the enviorment when the others dont

If the west continues on this path of supporting green policies of renewable, low carbon, global warming, anti science ideologies the west will be like the third world in a generation. This is what this film promotes. A de-industrial back to nature. Tribal people have a life expectancy of not much more than 30 years. Is that what you want?

I do think it was great that the female pilot took a stand and all and died doing it. And yeah, I think the environment is important to save. But did anyone ever think that the reason she killed her fellow American soldiers was because they were killing other innocent people? I don't really think she decided to kill her friends just because they were burning the forest. While I obviously don't think that burning down this amazing environment for some financial gain is acceptable or right, I.... More

Avatar is a great film. And like all powerful cinema it is going to be propaganda like it or not. In this case it supports the environment. If you aren't Mother Nature's good buddy, you will probably be upset. That's what happens when you make choices in life. I personally feel that the Pandoran science and ethos presented in Avatar are pointing us in the right direction, one we have to follow if we want to both remain alive and ethical. This, I'm sure, scares lots of folks. But it shouldn't..... More

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AVATAR not only beautifully demonstrates our perverted relationship to nature but also suggests it is our lack of spiritual relationship with nature that is at the root of the problem. As I mention over and over again in my book HONORABLE ANIMAL, the lack of conscious connection to our instincts has created many problems for the human species. Our lack of communion with ourselves outpictures as a lack of communion with our natural origins. Mesmerized by technology,.... More

Film Review of AVATAR from an Indigenous/Dine' Perspective

by: Arlene Bowman arlbow49@yahoo.com

Viewed the AVATAR December 29, 09 at the local theatre for $10.00 Canadian dollars. I liked the animated effects a lot, but the story line, written and directed by James Cameron, which the film review "When Will White Men Stop Making Movies like Avatar" points out, "whites need to stop remaking the white guilt story, which is a

I have yet to see Avatar, and i was really wanting to for a while, then i seen the shameless McDonald's tie in for the movie - if it is supposed to be about environmentalism they have kinda missed the mark there.

What the writer of this piece failed to comprehend (and what was made perfectly clear in the film) was that these were mercenaries for hire, some of whom were ex soldiers. In other words, she was shooting at Blackwater-style hired guns engaged in genocide.

In my opinion her actions were humanistic, ethical, honorable and valid in context.

This is relatively sensational headline with strong implications, which led me to read the article. As I finished reading, I realized that the question was not answered: is Avatar radical environmental propaganda? It would be great to read an article that breaks it down even further--is it radical, and is it propaganda, and if so, why/how?

I'll call it "The Lowered Drawbridge." It's a story about how a really anti-military president, in the future, harshly condemns the US military, and after thoroughly stripping our armed forces of any teeth, basically throws the doors wide open to the rest of the world. Hollywood rejoices, until massive amounts of enemies attack the US, and there are no combat or aircraft elements available to fight back. We could have five
onitesnof watching Hollywood be burned to ashes just like what.... More

This is my personal reflection on Avatar and the link to reality. Read on:
http://wchinner.blogspot.com/2009/12/must-watch-movie-before-2009.html

In wars, as far as I have heard most of the time, soldiers do heroic acts to save his or her fellow friends lives not explicitly to save a country or to save freedom. The question is... will each of us on an individuall basis fight our own army (gun aiming at us) to save our friends?

just saw avatar and had the exact same reaction as the author of this article. all i can hope is that kids seeing this movie hundreds of time in a row will awaken to its real message. hopefully, they won't all just rush to buy the video game.

I think the enviornmental references are extremely obvious and so are the US military ones, but I think the film is also about people fighting for their land against arrogant and greedy foreign occupiers. "This is our land" is a cry you can hear in Palestine everyday and all over the world where people are occupied and oppressed. Palestine was a beautiful place where people lived in harmony with the land, before Israel came along and installed walls, alien settlements and a huge occupying army..... More

The main drama of the movie is not about the depiction of a real army or of a former one. It is an artistic and fine description of the western society who behaves very immature ruling the nature. The "hot princess" define us in simple words: people with strong heart but ignorant like a child who cannot comprehend how we are linked to the web of life.

I'd like to point out that nowhere in this movie was it even implied that a.) the "military" presence on pandora was completely American (there is a sense that America still exists in one form or another at that period) or that b.) they represented anything more than a private security firm composed of former military, again - not totally American.

I wouldn't read into this movie folks, it's a major hollywood blockbuster, made possible by deforestation and the destruction of our planet..... More

Also, did you notice that the equipment that was chewing up the forest and mining the planet was a bucketwheel? It's the same beast that is chewing up the ground and exploiting the oilsands near Fort McMurray. Hmmm...

Regarding "Try to imagine a major Hollywood blockbuster in which a U.S. Army pilot hijacks a Marine Corps Blackhawk helicopter to shoot down fellow U.S. choppers in order to protect indigenous people fighting to save their rain forest from U.S. oil interests. Don’t think that could happen? Think again. It just did."

No it didn't. The crew was not military but former military, now hired guns, who are willingly exploiting the new planet for personal gain. The movie is not about.... More