You are totally allowed to love it. It was visually beautiful, had well paced action sequences and I liked the use of language - particularly how the swearing felt very natural.
You are also totally allowed to disagree, I'll respond to your comment about it being militarist and capitalist if you don't mind although I'm also happy to not get into a debate about it if you'd prefer. Forgive me if I'm a little incoherent, there are far more articulate people out there who could probably say this better.
Avatar is set in a future where the dominant cultural values are still militarist and capitalist, human kind hasn't evolved past it and nothing in this movie says it's going to stop happening in the future. This isn't showcasing how bad these values are, it's assuming the human race has these values in the future and won't learn from them or grow beyond them, it says the status quo is the same and will stay the same - which is effectively endorsing them.
Further, allowing Jake, the adopted-but-now-most-talented-warrior to guide the military-I've-got-a-bigger-dickflying dinosaur-than-you battle didn't demonstrate that militaristic battles/values are bad, it demonstrated you'd better have a representative of the American military on your side because their way is still The Way.
If you're going to tell a story about human failings, say something interesting, don't just say it's embedded in our culture and always will be. We already know fear that. If I thought this movie was supposed to be a depressing tragedy about the inherent evil of human nature I could maybe make a case for that but I doubt it.
Watching this movie was an interesting experience, I felt a growing wave of pain/shame/embarrassment/regret as the movie progressed. I felt like I was watching someone talking proudly about something deeply offensive with absolutely no self-perception, I was nearly in tears when Jake jumped to a bigger pterodactyl.
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You are also totally allowed to disagree, I'll respond to your comment about it being militarist and capitalist if you don't mind although I'm also happy to not get into a debate about it if you'd prefer. Forgive me if I'm a little incoherent, there are far more articulate people out there who could probably say this better.
Avatar is set in a future where the dominant cultural values are still militarist and capitalist, human kind hasn't evolved past it and nothing in this movie says it's going to stop happening in the future. This isn't showcasing how bad these values are, it's assuming the human race has these values in the future and won't learn from them or grow beyond them, it says the status quo is the same and will stay the same - which is effectively endorsing them.
Further, allowing Jake, the adopted-but-now-most-talented-warrior to guide the military-I've-got-a-bigger-
dickflying dinosaur-than-you battle didn't demonstrate that militaristic battles/values are bad, it demonstrated you'd better have a representative of the American military on your side because their way is still The Way.If you're going to tell a story about human failings, say something interesting, don't just say it's embedded in our culture and always will be. We already
knowfear that. If I thought this movie was supposed to be a depressing tragedy about the inherent evil of human nature I could maybe make a case for that but I doubt it.Watching this movie was an interesting experience, I felt a growing wave of pain/shame/embarrassment/regret as the movie progressed. I felt like I was watching someone talking proudly about something deeply offensive with absolutely no self-perception, I was nearly in tears when Jake jumped to a bigger pterodactyl.