Your flatmate sounds like he's going to be a barrel of laughs.

Oh well. I couldn't find the "evil". Well the "humans" were a bit evil destroying that tree but somehow I doubt that was the evil referred to. I dunno its a good movie. Spoiled by all those ads - next time I will watch it on dvd.

SOB

Life_goes_on wrote on Apr 16^th, 2012 at 10:28am:



But he'll go to hell if he fills your hole.  Hommersex is a sin.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Apr 15^th, 2012 at 7:36pm:



I watched Avatar on DVD.

I just saw Avatar as a morality tale, set in an imaginary locale.

It was mildly 'engaging'.

And i enjoyed watching it.



I'd rather watch Avatar, rather than many of the programs served up on free TV in the evenings these days.

e.g.
Soaps and 'reality TV' types of programs,  ......i'd rather watch paint drying, rather than watch the usual offerings, on TV of an evening,
OR, preferably, read my bible, and meditate upon what i had just read.                  

Well, the obvious messages were environmental, moral,  and a clear message that we should try to understand and respect other cultures.

I have a lot of affinity with that movie. It's a very commercial "blockbuster", but it still sends a shiver down my spine. Not only that, it's a voice against corporate bullying and cultural intolerance.  I just hope that the people who saw it are motivated to press for action on global climate change.

As for me, I'm seriously contemplating making an appointment with It_Is_the_Light  to fix my DNA tomorrow so I can hop on the next interstellar  bus, and migrate to Pandora.

Who knows, maybe blue is the new green 

OK, it's basically a Hollywood action movie and it's a load of fun, but this time round, the macho action men don't win in the end.

muso wrote on Apr 17^th, 2012 at 9:17am:


Yeah. Not sure so much about environmental issues - yeah it was a tree but the tree was thier life. It was (imo) more about actually learning something about a culture before trying to change/destroy it. Those "destroyers" didnt want to hear that the tree was integral to the life of those ppl - all they wanted was their dollar. IMO it was the early settlers of Australia (and other coutnries) all over again.

SOB

The plot wasnt what impressed me most about the movie. the programming and effects were. The technology to make that kind of environment and those characters movements were so real.

SOB

I thought the movie was great in that it was something new in a very stale Hollywood of re-runs and dredged up 'old' stories like marvel comics.
In truth, the plot was based upon the Pocahontas legend.
It was pro-environmentalism. Which is ok. But also Anti-Militarianism. Which didn't go down to well with a lot of 'powerful' Americans and thus it was quite coincidental that a movie that earned the industry something like .05% of what Avatar made got the nod at the Academys.
Yep - The Hurt Locker. To me a boring 'episodal' piece of Military propoganda if ever there was one. Coincidently directed by Cameron's Ex-Wife.

I found the movie 'visually' great - a real work of ART and I enjoyed it for what it was. The plot was tame, but you wouldn't want to over-complicate the audience to much with such visual newness and a intricate plot.

I always find Cameron's movies 'Daring' in that he likes to break new boundaries with film making. Hell, he even beat that aviator Richard Branson in a race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (13km underwater).

Think of a people who farm and garden and then suddenly have the military kick you off the land for something else that another group of people want like 'gold'.

...its a movie about someone being mugged by someone else.

***** Stars

...loved those bioluminescent scenes. I have a black-light blue for my daughter.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Apr 18^th, 2012 at 8:35am:


- because the humans were disrupting the ecology.  Eywa is like "Gaia". Apart from the "religious" overtones, it's a very powerful ecosystem that regulates life on the planet.  It contrasted a society that was closely entwined with the environment with one that just wanted to exploit it.

Did you notice how the environment of Pandora- all the plants and animals turned against the aliens (humans)?

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Apr 18^th, 2012 at 9:58am:



The implied warning is that "Gaia" (the Earth's ecosystem) will have its revenge on mankind too.  Maybe the Earth's "immune system" will remove humanity as an undesirable infection? Google "Geophysiology"