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leveymg

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7. Avatar's message was the reason there was an organized campaign to deny it the Oscar.

Reply to RZM (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 02:41 PM

Feb 2012

Technically and visually, it was a stunning, breakthrough film.

It's message was also powerfully anti-empire, and it showed how the private suits are really running the show. The real villain is the weasel RDC character, not the Gung-Ho General, who at least has the virtue of putting his own life on the line.

I'll agree that there was a cartoonish quality to Avatar, and I would have liked to see more character development. But, it deserved the Best Picture award. It was a far better movie than Titanic.

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Propaganda we pay for...in more ways than one [View all] SHRED Feb 2012 OP

Goebbels would be so proud MNBrewer Feb 2012 #1

"Medal Of Valor" is eerily reminiscent of the "Nation's Pride" film from Inglourious Basterds. Initech Feb 2012 #5

There's a reason that Hurt Locker got the '09 Oscar. Avatar had the wrong message. eom leveymg Feb 2012 #2

Avatar was also kind of, well . . . RZM Feb 2012 #6

Avatar's message was the reason there was an organized campaign to deny it the Oscar. leveymg Feb 2012 #7

Different strokes I guess RZM Feb 2012 #8

I would have liked the Hurt Locker's screenwriters to have done Avatar. Now, that would've been a leveymg Feb 2012 #9

And MNBrewer Feb 2012 #14

Entertainment can be Newest Reality Feb 2012 #3

It's nice to see someone has read the post-modernist canon. Propaganda works at the primieval leveymg Feb 2012 #4

You don't need pomo to know this. Every psychological theory acknowledges it. In private. saras Feb 2012 #10

Interesting thread. Quantess Feb 2012 #11

Well, they can't just rent the Philippine army like in the old days, Joe Shlabotnik Feb 2012 #12

The directors... JSnuffy Feb 2012 #13