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[samvara]

Avatar was unbelievably pretty; the 3D effects were gorgeous and well integrated although I now have a pounding headache.

The movie itself was composed of the most humiliating, colonial, imperialist, sexist, capitalist, racist, militarist montage I have ever seen. I haven't felt the urge to walk out of a movie in years but I hung in there hoping miserably for a magical fix that didn't come. I am embarrassed on behalf of the human race.

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[ironed_orchid]

I actually heard of it through watchiing Bones, and then marsianer and I had a whole convo about it where I was thinking of Avatar: the last Airbender and he was thinking of of the James Cameron movie, but apparently both are racist so we were both right.

[samvara]

*g* Airbender appears to have been utterly whitewashed and Avatar has cast black people as blue people playing 'noble savages who need the uneducated marine to save them'

[ironed_orchid]

Yup. Both fail at race politics.