When I will go see Avatar

[spookyevilone]

When Satan and Hitler are leading a snowball fight in Hell.

I'm Native American. I sat through Pocahontas once, while babysitting, and that was one time far too many.

Until a white man moves to a res, gets accepted by the tribe, rises up against the unfair conditions of life on a res, takes up the sword of broken treaty defense, and leads a rebellion against the U.S. Gov't and wins, I have no desire to see any movie with that plot.

At this time, movies like that Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves, Thunderheart, etc., are nothing more than white folks' guilty consciences re-writing imaginary history to pat themselves on the back and feel good about how yeah, that's how things would go down! Except that at no point in history has that ever gone down. No minority uprising has ever been lead by a white man.

It's making bank because it's pretty. Not because of the plot. I'm capable of watching movies with no plot - I have sat through every movie Vin Diesel and The Rock have been in - but I refuse to pay to see this movie because I absolutely do not want to enable Hollywood churning out 20 more movies with the exact same crappy plot as Avatar.

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

It's Dances With Aliens, basically. And I won't go see it either. I don't care how pretty it is.

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so I gathered from the previews. I hated that movie the first time around.

[zippyfish.livejournal.com]

Okay, but more importantly, are you actually going to watch The Rock as the Tooth Fairy?

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

I would absolutely watch that movie. I may drink myself sick doing it, because any plot that silly is going to demand a drinking game. Especially if there is any chance at all of a pink tutu happening.

[neko038.livejournal.com]

yeah this movie was not one to see for the plot just for it being pretty, but in general not my favorite of his, could have been done better.

[makhsihed.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.

I went and saw Avatar before I knew anything about the plot. Beautiful world. Lovely worldbuilding. Great rendering and graphics. Awful plot that I ranted about for weeks afterwards.

I'm glad people are talking about the issues with it more and more now. When I first saw it, almost no one was.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I think what disgusts me the most is that the damned thing may well be the first SF Best Picture winner. And there are SO many films before it that are 3,000% better.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Because of course the blue dudes couldn't possibly competently rebel on their own. *headdesk*

(Yup, saw it, where's my brain bleach?)