Vaj wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > >> Shemp will HATE AVATAR. He'll be sitting there in >> the theater trying to admire the film for *nothing >> more meaningful than making a shitload of money* >> and find himself sitting there watching the glori- >> fication of everything he most hates in life. And >> the presentation of most of the things he loves in >> life as the Neanderthal Thinking they really are. > > > I think Shemp will not only hate it, he'll spew a number of hate mails > on it, like he does to those who are pro-environment. Deep inside it > will work on his cognitive dissonance with his latent "Vedic" > programming. So much of what the N'Avi are into is Maharishi Vedic > living. And he despises that too.
There's also a bit of "tantra" in the film too. I saw it as sort of a space age "Dances With Wolves" with a bit of General Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" mixed in. Of course there will be one conservative who loves the film: Rupert Murdoch.
