Comments on: Script Review for James Cameron’s Avatar Surfaces! http://www.scificool.com/script-review-for-james-camerons-avatar-surfaces/ The Latest Science Fiction Movie, TV, and Comic Book news. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:56:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: whitey http://www.scificool.com/script-review-for-james-camerons-avatar-surfaces/comment-page-1/#comment-7972 whitey Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:30:01 +0000 http://www.scificool.com/?p=1798#comment-7972 "Ass-raping colonist".................what history book did you read? Oh the new way to lie to the youth?? Or are you one of those losers who think you're indinguios to this land? To bad those Spaniard came here and kicked some A$$, oh ya what about Napoleon??? Then we White European came to finish and clean up the mess. Its called Sign of the time, it was the day and age to Conquer new lands..and its people if may be...get over the White where just mightier, smarter and over all more developed ten ANY one who stakes claim to America...If the mexicans, and he Indian were so mighty, then how come we won? Oh you must be one those Anti-Americans..however you're more than glad to ride the coat tales of American freedoms and all its right....you are a Anti-American, and obviously a bigot against White colonist. It's a good thing they conquered this land so you can spew your filth you scumbag who need to S/T/F/U!!! “Ass-raping colonist”……………..what history book did you read?

Oh the new way to lie to the youth?? Or are you one of those losers who think you’re indinguios to this land?
To bad those Spaniard came here and kicked some A$$, oh ya what about Napoleon???
Then we White European came to finish and clean up the mess. Its called Sign of the time, it was the day and age to Conquer new lands..and its people if may be…get over the White where just mightier, smarter and over all more developed ten ANY one who stakes claim to America…If the mexicans, and he Indian were so mighty, then how come we won?

Oh you must be one those Anti-Americans..however you’re more than glad to ride the coat tales of American freedoms and all its right….you are a Anti-American, and obviously a bigot against White colonist. It’s a good thing they conquered this land so you can spew your filth you scumbag who need to S/T/F/U!!!

]]> By: steven http://www.scificool.com/script-review-for-james-camerons-avatar-surfaces/comment-page-1/#comment-7799 steven Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:20:59 +0000 http://www.scificool.com/?p=1798#comment-7799 Just saw Avatar. I agree with the comment above. This is not preachy. What is wrong with a message? We are receiving messages from film all the time. This message is challenging the dominant paradigm, and this is good. Corporations still push people off their land for resources, and pollute, and will soon get carbon credits for planting mono crops in placde of the indigenous plants. I would have preferred more emphasis on the connections with the natural world being responsible for winning the war in the end, but this is hollywood appealingn to the teen audience while also providing an amazing amount of reverence and beauty on a diverse planet, like ours. Just saw Avatar. I agree with the comment above. This is not preachy. What is wrong with a message? We are receiving messages from film all the time. This message is challenging the dominant paradigm, and this is good. Corporations still push people off their land for resources, and pollute, and will soon get carbon credits for planting mono crops in placde of the indigenous plants. I would have preferred more emphasis on the connections with the natural world being responsible for winning the war in the end, but this is hollywood appealingn to the teen audience while also providing an amazing amount of reverence and beauty on a diverse planet, like ours.

]]> By: LariAn http://www.scificool.com/script-review-for-james-camerons-avatar-surfaces/comment-page-1/#comment-7773 LariAn Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:02:12 +0000 http://www.scificool.com/?p=1798#comment-7773 Well, Avatar has had it's first weekend and I've seen it twice (once in 2D and once in 3D). I see no "insensitive slamming" of disabled or overweight people in this movie; by contrast, one of the deserved slams is against the VA for not approving the operation to restore Sully's legs, the reason given for this is due to an alleged "bad economy". Another deserved slam is against the trigger happy jar-head types who see violence and destruction as the only true solutions to any problem, real or manufactured. What's wrong with just letting the Na'Vi live in peace? Because they have something humans want, so that justifies killing them all off if necessary so humans can take it. This is a reflection of actual human history, not fiction or "Hollywood preaching". People, wake up and realize that our way of life has been built historically on the destruction of others and lack of respect for other cultures. Contemporary concern for diversity is just that, contemporary. It didn't exist just 50 years ago, IMHO. Too bad, military-industrial warmongers, it IS your fault that the world is in the mess it is in. Own up to it! Well, Avatar has had it’s first weekend and I’ve seen it twice (once in 2D and once in 3D). I see no “insensitive slamming” of disabled or overweight people in this movie; by contrast, one of the deserved slams is against the VA for not approving the operation to restore Sully’s legs, the reason given for this is due to an alleged “bad economy”. Another deserved slam is against the trigger happy jar-head types who see violence and destruction as the only true solutions to any problem, real or manufactured. What’s wrong with just letting the Na’Vi live in peace? Because they have something humans want, so that justifies killing them all off if necessary so humans can take it. This is a reflection of actual human history, not fiction or “Hollywood preaching”. People, wake up and realize that our way of life has been built historically on the destruction of others and lack of respect for other cultures. Contemporary concern for diversity is just that, contemporary. It didn’t exist just 50 years ago, IMHO. Too bad, military-industrial warmongers, it IS your fault that the world is in the mess it is in. Own up to it!

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