skyjedi2005 said:

TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

Oh. So you're intepretting "Avatar" as an Iraq War analogy? I think that's stretching the material a bit.

Really? I have no doubt that Avatar was meant, by Cameron and most other people involved, to be an Irag War analogy.

No doubt whatsoever.

OK, I just read that Cameron make some remarks where he explcitly states that was his goal. But he sure did a piss poor job of it.

Everything the Iraq War is about is absent. Iraq is not based on some touchy-feely environementalism and a failure of two peoples to communicate. Even the staunchest opponents of the war wouldn't make that claim.

Now, if Avatar it was set in the Starship Troopers universe, and after the bugs destroy Buenos Aires THEN humans go invade Avatarworld as retribution, that would be a better analogy.

But just having a character say "there's some resource we want" and using the term "shock and awe" doesn't impart some kind of powerful political meaning into the film.

I declare "epic fail" if Cameron thought he had something relevant to say on Iraq.

You know what i agree with you. AVATAR as a message on the war on terror is one giant epic fail.

Yeah I don't really see that either. I think the whole "shock and awe" thing was just kind of thrown into there, but I doesn't really seem to work.