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Hurt Locker vanquishes Avatar: patriotism triumphs over anti-Americanism at the Oscars
By Nile Gardiner
The Telegraph, UK
Monday, March 8, 2010
I'm glad The Hurt Locker triumphed over Avatar at tonight's Oscars.
Not only is Hurt Locker a far superior film -- with standout
performances, an intelligent and brilliantly executed script, as well
as three dimensional lead characters -- it is also a tremendously
patriotic film which pays tribute to the courage of American troops
serving in Iraq. For all these reasons I named it as one of the top
10 conservative movies of the last decade. The film won six awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), and Best
Original Screenplay.
I acknowledge that Hurt Locker has attracted a good deal of
controversy and has divided opinion in the States over aspects of
historical accuracy, and the debate will continue to rage. But I
believe it thoroughly deserved its Oscar wins, and that the powerful
message it projects about the US mission in Iraq and those who serve
in the American armed forces, is an overwhelmingly positive one.
Avatar is technically brilliant with the most sophisticated special
effects ever committed to celluloid. Its director James Cameron has
made some of the greatest sci-fi films in history and has been a
visionary and ground-breaking figure in Hollywood for over 25 years.
The film deservedly picked up awards for Visual Effects and
Cinematography , but was not deserving of a Best Picture win.
The acting in Avatar was mediocre, the storyline simplistic, and
frankly large stretches of the movie, while visually impressive, were
rather dull. In terms of sheer cinematic excitement, Avatar is not in
the same league as Cameron's earlier classics, Terminator and Aliens,
and less engaging than Titanic.
But what I found most jarring about Avatar was its overtly anti-
American and anti-military bias. As I wrote at the time of the film's
release in December:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100020721/avatar-the-most-expensive-piece-of-anti-american-propaganda-ever-made/
Avatar "is an intensely political vehicle with a distinct agenda. In
fact I would describe it as one of the most left-wing films in the
history of modern American cinema, and perhaps the most commercially
successful political movie of our time. While the vast majority of
cinemagoers will simply see it as popcorn entertainment, Avatar is at
its heart a cynical and deeply unpatriotic propaganda piece, aimed
squarely against American global power and the projection of US
economic and military might across the world."
Cameron himself has confirmed that in his mind, Avatar is in part an
allegory of both the war in Iraq as well as the wider War on Terror.
In an interview with The Times he declared:
"We went down a path that cost several hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
lives. I don't think the American people even know why it was done.
So it's all about opening your eyes."
"We know what it feels like to launch the missiles. We don't know
what it feels like for them to land on our home soil, not in America.
I think there's a moral responsibility to understand that."
Avatar cost up to $400 million to produce and market. In contrast,
The Hurt Locker had a budget of just $11 million. Avatar is in
essence a hugely expensive political statement against America's
leadership of the world, and the US-led war in Iraq. The Hurt Locker
is not an overtly political movie, but it pays tribute to the
tremendous bravery and sacrifice of American troops fighting in Iraq,
at a time when Hollywood has produced a slew of anti-war movies.
The Hurt Locker is a brave film that goes against the conventional
wisdom in an overwhelmingly left-wing film-making community, and
which struck a powerful chord with both critics and the American
public. The Hurt Locker was the clear underdog in this year's Oscar
contest, and its stunning win over a far larger adversary was a
triumph for an independent movie that celebrates the heroism and
dedication of American troops on the battlefield in the face of a
brutal enemy.
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MichaelW
is probably a better movie with better acting and that why it should win,
but as far as I am concerned the academy can take the their notions of
patriotism and stick it where the sun don't shine.
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anti-american, it's pro environment. Being opposed to Republicans is not
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MichaelW
Locker should win. There are too many clichees in Avatar. But protecting the
environment and the world against radical Republicans is clearly a patriotic
and bipartisan issue, and something people all over the world agree with.
Avatar does not mention "Americans". In stead it draws up a few villains who
some Republicans (not all) feel remind them of themselves: Evil
money-grabbing capitalists who don't give a rat's ass about any one but
themselves. Like I said before concern for the environment is not
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The SP Sula Review
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Aaah Avatar. The epic saga of evil colonialists savaging the peaceful
indigenous inhabitants of...oh hell, does it really matter? It's
white Americans and we should all feel guilty for the brutality
wrought upon the Native Americans, Mexicans, and/or slaves. And yes,
this includes all white people, even if your ancestors were not here
during any of those periods. You're guilty no matter what. You're
white. You're automatically a bigot.
Or if you don't like the racist approach, you can go with the
plundering nature theme. That works just as well. The earth is
warming after all. Or is it cooling? That's right, it's cooling.
Wait. Can I use a lifeline for that one? Because honestly, I think
that's a trick question. Uh, you know what, I'm gonna go with the
earth is...spinning?
The problem is, it's all about as real as that stick figure you're
looking at.
I'm going to tell you a secret. A truth that James Cameron may come
to regret having unleashed into the world. But a truth nonetheless.
The secret? This film is not Dances with Wolves in space and the
imperialistic thematic underpinning is just window dressing; a hoax
to distract you from what this film really is.
While perusing review sites online, I found something astonishingly
disturbing. Cameron spent 17 million dollars on one single aspect of
the film. No, it wasn't creating Pandora. No, it wasn't designing all
of the military technology. 17 million dollars was spent on
developing his alien's breasts. Now why would the man spend the
budget of a small city's government on the non-mammary glands of a
glorified CGI muppet? Because in his own words:
"These breasts, they need to make every 13-to-17-year-old kid who
buys a ticket to this thing want to run home, still chubbed up from
having them bounce around his zit-pocked face for two hours in three
glorious dimensions, and touch himself with furious abandon. Then
come back the next day for another go-around." (Playboy Interview,
Nov 2009) [1]
And that, my friends, is what this movie was really about. Selling
sex to children.
To put it bluntly: Cameron wants your male child to spend the entire
film becoming aroused, go home with an erection, masturbate and then
come back to the theater and spend your money on another ticket so
that he can have another "go-around". Cameron was banking on these
sex organs to bring in repeat business. Does Cameron seriously intend
to turn theaters into the equivalent of under-aged strip joints? That
may be pushing it a little, but even he would tell you that 17
million was a small price to pay, considering this film has already
made 2 billion. Much of it, the very repeat business from the
children he spoke of and the result of his 17 million dollar
investment.
Now, I know what some are thinking. I'm taking this quote out of
context (if that's possible). I'm twisting this whole situation so it
will fit into some convoluted narrative. Unfortunately, I'm not. In
this part of the interview, he openly admitted to giving his
imaginary aliens human sex organs, [2] ones that serve no legitimate
biological function. His sole purpose for doing this was titillation.
This, along with other wanton sexist declarations have become quite a
controversy across the web. Not to mention, there was the notorious
sex scene which was edited out. Cameron readily confessed he did this
so he wouldn't lose his PG-13 rating and that under-aged crowd he was
so ardently targeting. However, if this film was intended to be kid-
friendly, why was a sex scene [3] written into the script in the
first place? Unless he had planned to market sex to kids from the
very beginning.
Avatar wasn't about slavery or Native Americans or the earth or
anything noble. It was about using those things as cover so that
James Cameron could make money off of the sexual arousal of children.
This is at best patently grotesque and at worst depraved and
perverse. When looking at this objectively, one must consider that
Cameron does, in fact, believe in the message of the film. And that,
perhaps, he took a horribly wrong turn in the selling of it. But, in
weighing the cavalier manner of his admissions, the calculation of
spending such an obscene amount of money for something so arbitrary,
and the intricate planning of sexual content, I concluded this was no
"wrong turn". I truly believe this man fully intended to do what he
did, because he saw a profit in doing so. I believe he didn't
consider that it was abusive because he is completely removed from
the accepted psychology that children are not, in fact, sexual
objects. And I believe that if confronted about his statements, he
will either lie, or simply won't care.
Now, it's not that I'm naive or that I haven't noticed our children
are being targeted by these people in so many ways. But I have
nephews and I suppose this one hit home. Hard. I see men like James
Cameron and Roman Polanski profiting, while our children are
sexualized. Hollywood rails about global warming, while under the
table, they're hooks sink even deeper into our kids. And we still
haven't been able to change the dialog to a subject that actually
matters; like child trafficking or sexual predators. Of course, our
children don't actually rate concern in Hollywood unless a director
can make a buck off them.
Maybe if parents started demanding refunds for their children's
tickets to this film, Hollywood might get the message. Although, I'm
guessing they will only raise their proverbial middle finger at us
and give Cameron the Oscar. After all, they did it for Polanski.
Beth Haper
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Posted by The SP Sula Review on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
[1] http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/movieline-explores-james-camerons-exhaustive-search-for-the-perfect-alien-breasts.php
[2] http://www.globalshift.org/2009/12/dances-with-discrimination-on-avatar-racism-misogyny-and-disabled-prejudice/
[3] http://gawker.com/5445955/if-avatars-sex-scene-was-cut-for-its-pg+13-then-tendril-sex-is-as-obscene-as-the-penis-kind
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By Edward Hudgins
The Atlas Society
December 24, 2009 - James Cameron's new film Avatar is loaded with
fresh, eye-popping special effects, all in a new, cutting-edge 3-D
that sets the standard in cinema technology. It is also loaded with
tired, mind-numbing leftist clich�s embedded in old, reactionary
themes that set a new low for political propaganda.
The plot as avatar
An avatar is, originally, the embodiment of a Hindu god. Today the
term also refers to an embodiment or personification of some
principle, attitude, or view of life; online it's a graphic image
that represents some person or thing. Cameron's movie is filled with
avatars, but not just the strange, hybrid creatures to which the
title refers. We also see them in the silly, subtle-as-a-brick-to-
the-head parallels that he makes between current events and his
imagined world. Let's turn to the story. (Warning: Spoilers ahead!)
The planet Pandora, a beautiful, verdant jungle paradise, is an
avatar for anywhere the American military might show up. It contains
the costly and rare substance Unobtainium, an avatar for oil, which
is critical to the Earth's economy. The private company Resources
Development Administration, an avatar for Halliburton, has set up
operations to ravage the planet to extract that substance. The
problem is that this planet is inhabited by ten-foot-tall blue aliens
called the Na'vi, living in primitive, pre-technological conditions.
The company employs a private army, an avatar for Blackwater as well
as the American military. As is explained, "Back home they fight for
freedom. Here they're hired guns for the corporation." The
mercenaries are led by the evil Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who
gives cartoon villains a bad name. He's gung ho simply to clean out
the "savages" by force, an attitude avatar representing how Cameron
and his ilk see American history and foreign policy. See, it's the
evil military-industrial complex in your face!
The company's administrator on Pandora says that the corporation's
investors would prefer to avoid the bad PR that they'd garner by
killing off all the Na'vi, but they're even more concerned about
avoiding a bad balance sheet. See, capitalism leads to killing!
The corporation has made half-hearted attempts to win the hearts and
minds of the Na'vi by teaching them English and setting up schools
and roads for them. How white of them! But it hasn't worked. Still,
it would be better to figure out what the "blue monkeys" (see,
Americans are racist!) want and somehow to get them to leave the
potential prospecting property.
Mind to body
Enter the scientists. A team led by Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney
Weaver) has mixed human and Na'vi DNA to produce avatars. These Na'vi
bodies can be operated by the human whose DNA is used. The human's
mind is linked to and controls the avatar as the human rests on a
techno-bed to which he or she is wired. Humans can't breathe the
atmosphere of Pandora, but their avatars can. So perhaps an avatar
can re-contact the Na'vi, who aren't very fond of the nasty, callous,
heartless American...err, sorry, Earthling--soldiers who tend to gun
them down at the least imagined provocation.
Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a crippled ex-Marine who volunteers
to operate an avatar. His dual mission is to look for a peaceful way
to move the Na'vi out and to provide military intelligence to the
evil colonel for the probable removal of the Na'vi by force.
Pandora living paradise
Jake is thrilled with his avatar body, which allows him to walk and
run again on healthy albeit alien legs. But he becomes lost in the
jungle and captured by the Na'vi who, rather than execute him, decide
to show him their ways in spite of their suspicions about this
"dreamwalker," this demon who's part human and somehow controlled
from afar.
You can predict the rest of the story from here. Jake goes native in
an interplanetary Dances with Wolves. Here Cameron can't offer a
parallel with the real targets of America and its military today.
After all, Islamists are bloodthirsty fanatics who will chop off your
head for having ideas that differ from their own primitive
superstitions, who treat women like chattel, and who see it as the
height of virtue to blow up other people's children. Cameron instead
gives us (in the Na'vi) a cross between how he imagines American
Indians and tribes of the rain forest to be. Much more sympathetic!
Jake wins the trust and respect of the Na'vi by passing all the
challenges required to be a warrior. He is declared one of The
People. And he falls in love with the Na'vi woman who helped him
along his path.
One with the world
In the process, Jake learns about the Na'vis' religion and their
unique relationship to their world. When they hunt and kill an animal
they thank it for its body as its spirit goes to Eyra, their god.
When they ride or fly on the backs of Pandora's fantastic fauna, the
Na'vi must entwine special nerve threads at the ends of their long
hair with those of the animals in order to form a mental and
spiritual bond. They also can entwine their nerve hairs with a tree
that allows them to hear the memories of their ancestors. They are
literally one with nature!
The Na'vi talk incessantly about flows of energy. And there's the
Tree of Souls at the center of their world. The scientists who
created the avatars find that it has a strange, unexplainable flux
field around it. Can you say, "May the Force be with you?"
Needless to say, the military moves in with helicopter gunships and
heavily armed infantry to lay waste to the forest and the Na'vi. So
the Na'vi, lead by Jake in his avatar, unite with other tribes and,
like the army of primitive desert "Fremen" in Dune or the teddy-bear
Ewoks in Return of the Jedi, use their command of the environment and
its animals to beat the evil masters of technology. In the end, the
Na'vi load the captured Earthlings onto their ships to send them back
to their dying world on which all that was green has been destroyed.
Savage myth
In Avatar Cameron perpetuates the enduring, seductive, yet morally
false myth of a Garden of Eden or lost paradise inhabited by noble
savages. This myth has done no end of harm to humanity. In modern
times, it found its voice in Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
In the eighteenth century the Enlightenment had dragged Europe out of
the Dark Ages, setting individual happiness as a legitimate moral
goal, showing that the human mind could understand the movements of
the planets and the biology of the human body, and discovering ways
to produce the material means for prosperity. Then Rousseau stood
before human progress and shouted, "Stop!"
He argued that in the state of nature humans were governed by two
instincts: self-preservation and pity for others. We thus lived in
idyllic harmony with our fellows and our world. But when we started
to think, to use our minds, we worried about the future. That's when
all the trouble began. We sought private property to give us personal
security. In the process, we became selfish and put ourselves as
individuals in conflict with others. We created creature comforts
that cut us off from our natural world and our natural selves.
Civilization was the enemy of our virtue.
This, of course, is moral nonsense. A look at primitive peoples from
the prehistoric to the original inhabitants of America to the odd
jungle tribe today shows brutality, superstition that leads to
ostracism and murder, and institutionalized human sacrifice along
with the occasional "respect" for animal spirits. And, in fact,
virtue consists in disciplining our appetites and urges, in the light
of reason, toward our individual well-being, which will also lead us
to respect our fellows and deal with them based on mutual consent.
There are noble and virtuous individuals in primitive as well as
advanced societies. But there's nothing noble about ignorance of
one's world. There's nothing noble about the impotence over one's
world that comes from one's ignorance. There's nothing noble about
being unable to build adequate shelters against the forces of nature,
produce adequate food against famines, or discover adequate medicines
against illness.
It is the height of irony -- to say nothing of hypocrisy�for Cameron,
the master of movie-making technology, to have as the theme of this
movie the utter evil of technology.
Talk to the trees
In Avatar, Cameron helps the modern environmental movement continue
to morph into a new religion of Gaia worship that, disguised as a
love for nature, is anti-human in its essence.
This new cult treats "nature" itself as a conscious, living entity at
odds with and morally superior to human beings. Of course, a strong
counterargument is that the world itself, the environment itself, is
not a conscious entity. Only we humans are self-conscious, living,
breathing creatures with free will who must choose to act and to seek
values. Human life is our standard of value, and to survive and
flourish we must make use of the materials of our world.
In Avatar, Cameron gives us a sci-fi version of the Gaia
superstition, showing the Na'vi living in an animate and conscious
world, in which animal and human minds can join, in which we can talk
to the trees as we would with our friends and family. Of course,
that's not the reality. That's not the world. But powerful images
like those in Avatar have nothing to do with reality. Unlike rational
arguments, they can create and reinforce deadly ideas in a culture.
If you want great special effects and an action-packed popcorn
thriller, you'll certainly enjoy Avatar. But hopefully Cameron has so
overplayed his hand with his politically correct plot that audiences
will leave the comfort of the theater with an appreciation for
technology and no desire to flee to a jungle or support the sort of
public policies that would reduce our civilization to savagery.
- - -
Hudgins directs advocacy and is a senior scholar at The Atlas Society, the center for Objectivism.
For further reading:
Edward Hudgins, "Star Wars and the politics of republics." May 21, 2002.
http://www.atlassociety.org/cth--511-Star_Wars_and_politics_republics.aspx
Edward Hudgins, "Star Wars: Are the Sith Selfish?" May 25, 2005.
http://www.atlassociety.org/cth--1610-Star_Wars_Are_the_Sith_Selfish.aspx
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http://www.atlassociety.org/cth-43-2267-Avatar.aspx
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James Cameron's depiction of Americans as vile oppressors practically
invites terrorists to take up arms against the U.S.
By Carol Gould
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/author/carolgould/
pajamasmedia.com
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Much has been written about the movie Avatar [1], but I think I have
a unique perspective, inasmuch as I write from the region of the
world Bat Ye'or calls "Eurabia" [2] and the city Melanie Phillips has
dubbed "Londonistan [3]."
I have seen the film twice now and can categorically report that it
is a vicious polemic against the United States and a blatant hate-
fest against the brave men and women who serve in the United States
Marine Corps. It is also an invitation to worldwide terrorists -- not
just Muslim radicals but anyone and everyone who hates that "Great
Satan," the USA -- to take up arms and defeat America at all costs.
Am I overreacting? Well, here is why I have come to this conclusion:
Right from the start the figure of the commander is a stereotype of
the ruthless Marine who will eat his grandmother for breakfast. He
has no regard for the Na'vi people depicted in the movie and cares
not a jot if they are annihilated and their habitat is destroyed.
What I find objectionable about this scenario is that it generates an
atmosphere throughout the film of bias: that the graceful, simple
Na'vi are the victims of a brutal American assault and that they
ought to try to kill every last one of the Marines. You may say,
"Well, can you blame them if their habitat is being napalmed?" Many
will say they cannot be blamed. But what disturbs me about James
Cameron's scenario [4] is that his depictions of most Americans are
of a species of humanity so extreme and so vile that other nations
and peoples should take up arms against them.
Evidently Canadian Cameron is a liberal who does not wish to take
into account the good the United States does in the world. He wants
only to see the worst of the nation. He reminds me of the British
journalist Polly Toynbee [5], who on a recent BBC television
broadcast condemned the American Constitution as a "disaster." She
portrayed the current American Congress and Senate as a kind of mass
dictatorship, which was bizarre coming from her, as she is such a
left-winger. Getting back to Cameron: he sees the United States as an
agent of pure evil, and except for the characters of the scientist
(Sigourney Weaver) and the Marine (Sam Worthington) who falls in love
with a Na'vi lady, they are all despicable murderers.
Screen International [6] noted in its December 18 issue the banal
dialogue and storyline, reminding readers that the plot involves an
effort in the year 2154 by humans to mine a rare mineral on far-off
planet Pandora in order to save the world from death by global
warming. (Natch.) I am grateful to Screen International for this
explanation because, despite twice viewing the film in comfortable
and well-projected circumstances, I had no idea what the story was
about. That is the sign of a mediocre screenplay. I do know that I
watched lots of brave Marines being slaughtered in the stereotypical,
liberal cant that tells young audiences that America is the Great
Satan.
Some will feel my interpretation of this film borders on the
paranoid, but as I was committing these thoughts to paper I received
a telephone call from a neighbor who related a significant anecdote.
He told me that a couple of his acquaintance -- educated young
professionals -- had just returned from a visit to the cinema to see
Avatar and that the film had upset them so much that they had fallen
to the floor to pray. I asked him why and he said they felt they had
just seen the work of the Devil and that the message of hatred of
America is so sinister that they felt they had to say a prayer for
the health and long life of the United States. My neighbor also
reported that he had been following the demographics of Avatar and
that it is apparent that cinemagoers from emerging countries in the
remotest corners of the earth are flocking to this motion picture.
Is it possible that the spike in terror attacks and attempted ones --
the Danish cartoonist [7], the CIA assassinations in Afghanistan, the
Detroit bomber [8] -- is at least partially a result of a passion
inspired by the worldwide Avatar mania? I would venture to say that
the message of the film is so overwhelming -- that America can and
should be quashed for good -- that it cannot but powerfully influence
impressionable minds, most particularly in the Muslim and third
world. At the second screening I attended there was applause near the
end of the film and, from snippets of conversation I clocked on the
way out of the cinema, I heard comments about the way white Americans
treated the Native Americans, slaves, Vietnamese, and Iraqis. It is
rare to see observant followers of Islam at concerts, opera,
musicals, theater, or movies (I do not mean this in a disparaging way
-- it is not de rigeur, as my veiled Pakistani neighbor tells me, to
attend such events when I invited her to My Fair Lady), so I did
register that there were groups of young Muslims (I know because the
females wore head coverings) who seemed to be having an enormously
joyous time at Avatar.
This motion picture is a disturbing epic that in my view instills in
audiences a deep hatred of America. As I finish this piece the United
Kingdom has raised its terror alert level [9]. Is Jim Cameron the
reason? How long is a piece of string? My view? His childish polemic
against the U.S. is dangerous and I truly believe the rise in
worldwide incidents may be in direct correlation with the wide
proliferation of this film. It will be loved by many but I still
think it is pure evil.
- - -
Carol Gould is the Philadelphia-born author of Don't Tread on Me:
Anti-Americanism Abroad [10], Spitfire Girls [11], and A Room at Camp
Pickett, a play about her mother's experiences as a WAC in World War
II; she has just completed films about black GIs and GI babies. Carol
has been a panelist on BBC's Any Questions?, hosted by Jonathan
Dimbleby, and is a commentator on Sky News, Press TV, the BBC World
Service, and Five Live.
[1] http://www.screendaily.com/awards/avatar/5009278.article
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Eurabia-Euro-Arab-Axis-Bat-YeOr/dp/083864077X
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Londonistan-Melanie-Phillips/dp/1594031444
[4] http://tomshone.blogspot.com/2010/01/james-cameron-and-politics-of.html
[5] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/18/gutless-planet-future-copenhagen-leaders
[6] http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/avatar/5008859.article
[7] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/04/danish-cartoonist-axe-attack
[8] http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/disconnected-dots/
[9] http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/22/terror-threat-raised-uk-severe
[10] http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDont-Tread-Me-Anti-Americanism-Abroad%2Fdp%2F1594032394&tag=pajamasmedia-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
[11] http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FSpitfire-Girls-Carol-Gould%2Fdp%2F0099534673&tag=pajamasmedia-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
More at:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/avatar-is-heaven-for-america-haters/
MichaelW
much sex in the film, however. You can dowload porn from the internet for
free. Alhough, i have never seen porn in 3-d .........hmm. I wonder if
that's coming next?
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MichaelW
"Is it possible that the spike in terror attacks and attempted ones --
the Danish cartoonist [7], the CIA assassinations in Afghanistan, the
Detroit bomber [8] -- is at least partially a result of a passion
inspired by the worldwide Avatar mania?"
Avatar is not about the war on terror. It's a fictional story set in outer
space. It's main subject is the environment. People in Afghanistan will
never see it. They either don't see movies or they like Bollywood films. The
aliens in Avatar are not muslims. The villains in avatar are not
Republicans, even though the simililarity seems to bother you.
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RichA
> What is this asshole conservative comment about patriotism. I agree that it
> is probably a better movie with better acting and that why it should win,
> but as far as I am concerned the academy can take the their notions of
> patriotism and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Avatar was an anti-American screed from an ex-hippy. It deserved not
to win.
Anonymous Infidel - the anti-political talking head
> Locker should win.
>
> There are too many clichees in Avatar. But protecting the
> environment and the world against radical Republicans is clearly a patriotic
> and bipartisan issue, and something people all over the world agree with.
>
> Avatar does not mention "Americans". In stead it draws up a few villains who
> some Republicans (not all) feel remind them of themselves: Evil
> money-grabbing capitalists who don't give a rat's ass about any one but
> themselves. Like I said before concern for the environment is not
> anti-american. It is humanitarian and bipartisan.
polluted the environment? [And you watched it]
You're just as bad(if not worse) than those imaginary radical
Republicans you insanely rant about. [Why do you hate mother earth and
humanity?]
trotsky
Exactly--just like it deserved 1.5 billion or so at the box office.
ArmyOfDorkness
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Over 2 billion and still climbing
carl
Hamilton before he married Kathryn Bigelow. James and Linda have a 17 year
old daughter name Josephine Archer. Remember they made two movies.
Both Terminater movies..with the Governator.
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harmony
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> political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British
> television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News,
> and NPR.
>
> Hurt Locker vanquishes Avatar: patriotism triumphs over anti-Americanism
> at the Oscars
>
cathryn, cameroon's ex-wife, taught him a lot.
harmony
well, there are 2 billion muslims. but we all know islam is wrong.
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
trotsky <gms...@email.com> posted:
Have you looked at where Avatar ranks in terms of the number of
tickets sold instead of the box office dollar value? Also, it has
been widely reported that many Avatar fans are returning to see it
multiple times.
and/or www.mantra.com/jai
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and
> > political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British
> > television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News,
> > and NPR.
> > Hurt Locker vanquishes Avatar: patriotism triumphs over anti-Americanism
> > at the Oscars
> cathryn, cameroon's ex-wife, taught him a lot.
An ex-wife winning over the ex-husband in Hollywood? Who'd have thunk it!
carl
Don't forget Linda.
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trotsky
Is that bad?
lorad
> First I agree that a well acted drama with good actors such as The Hurt
> Locker should win. There are too many clichees in Avatar. But protecting the
> environment and the world against radical Republicans is clearly a patriotic
> and bipartisan issue, and something people all over the world agree with.
>
> Avatar does not mention "Americans". In stead it draws up a few villains who
> some Republicans (not all) feel remind them of themselves: Evil
> money-grabbing capitalists who don't give a rat's ass about any one but
> themselves. Like I said before concern for the environment is not
> anti-american. It is humanitarian and bipartisan.
>
to be the funniest movie that they had seen in a year.
They laughed uproariously at one scene showing a GI jumping the
perimeter to go running through Bagdad streets claiming that that was
the so unreal as to be ludicrous. NO ONE leaves secured positions.
RichA
And Romans used to love the gladiatorial games, and most Germans
supported the Holocaust. Next.
trotsky
What?
Anonymous Infidel - the anti-political talking head
> to be the funniest movie that they had seen in a year.
> They laughed uproariously at one scene showing a GI jumping the
> perimeter to go running through Bagdad streets claiming that that was
> the so unreal as to be ludicrous. NO ONE leaves secured positions.
tears...Because the movie was boring as hell. [Hollywood really is
incapable of making a good movie anymore]
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"carl" <cstan...@bak.rr.com> posted:
>
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > In article <4b956b55$0$26722$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
> > "harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
> >
> >> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
> >>
> >> > Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and
> >> > political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British
> >> > television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News,
> >> > and NPR.
> >
> >> > Hurt Locker vanquishes Avatar: patriotism triumphs over
> >> > anti-Americanism
> >> > at the Oscars
> >
> >> cathryn, cameroon's ex-wife, taught him a lot.
> >
> > An ex-wife winning over the ex-husband in Hollywood? Who'd have thunk it!
> >
> > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Linda was before Kathryn.. Linda has a 16 year old daughter with James.
> Don't forget Linda.
Nice movie title: "Don't Forget Linda".
If a horror film, what would she use, an axe or a machete?
harmony
> In article <4b957fc2$0$12449$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
> "harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
>
would kirastanism make a good point too?
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"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > In article <4b957fc2$0$12449$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
> > "harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
> >>
> >>
> >> "trotsky" <gms...@email.com> wrote in message
> >> news:jN2dnQ-9DIknlwjW...@mchsi.com...
> >> > On 3/8/10 6:30 AM, RichA wrote:
> >> >> On Mar 8, 3:17 am, "MichaelW"<michaelhenrikw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> What is this asshole conservative comment about patriotism. I agree
> >> >>> that
> >> >>> it
> >> >>> is probably a better movie with better acting and that why it should
> >> >>> win,
> >> >>> but as far as I am concerned the academy can take the their notions
> >> >>> of
> >> >>> patriotism and stick it where the sun don't shine.
> >> >>
> >> >> Avatar was an anti-American screed from an ex-hippy. It deserved not
> >> >> to win.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Exactly--just like it deserved 1.5 billion or so at the box office.
> >> >
> >>
> >> well, there are 2 billion muslims. but we all know islam is wrong.
> >
> > Good point.
> would kirastanism make a good point too?
Another valid point; the hits keep coming from harmony ji!
Michael Turner
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> A discussion here:
>
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466251/posts
>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
Ahh, Mr. Stevens, your agenda becomes clearer now.
The Free Republic is hardly an objective news or discussion source.
It is a hard-right lunatic fringe group, and does not particularly
merit citation.
Anonymous Infidel - the anti-political talking head
> On Mar 8, 1:47 am, use...@mantra.com and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr.
>
> Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> > A discussion here:
>
> >http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466251/posts
>
> > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> > Om Shanti
>
> Ahh, Mr. Stevens, your agenda becomes clearer now.
>
> The Free Republic is hardly an objective news or discussion source.
> It is a hard-right lunatic fringe group
spamming on it. [God forbid they let one group go without their
fascist intolerance of free speech]
Chaos out of Order
pseudodoctor.