Very entertaining, but too much propaganda for my taste

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2009)

When it comes to using a movie to convey his underlying beliefs, James Cameron is about as subtle as Mel Gibson.
First of all, the villain in this movie is a CORPORATION. This has been a common trait of many Hollywood movies in the past few years: The International, Michael Clayton, The Corporation to name a few. Hollywood is becoming more brazen in its attacks on capitalism, and this movie is no exception.
Avatar has all the stereotypical bad guys that liberals love to attack. There is an evil military general who represents George Bush (he literally starts spouting off about terror by the end of the movie). Then there is a greedy CEO who is wiling to kill an entire civilization in order to obtain a fancy mineral, which we all know represents OIL.
But Cameron is not satisfied with attacking, and terribly stereotyping, his political enemies. He also wants to promote his own socialist and environmentalist ideologies.
The inhabitance of Pandora, the "Na'vi", represent the innocent poor people who are being exploited by the greedy rich people (aka American capitalists). The Marxist undertones in this film are truly disturbing. The environmentalist propaganda reaches an absurd height when George Bush (opps...I mean Colonel Quaritch) bombs a bunch of trees that are sacred to the Na'vi (aka the "NAIVE" - an insult to aboriginals).
What's so sad about this movie is that the Na'vi obviously represent some kind of African tribe, but the people in Africa actually hate environmentalists because they are trying to limit the selling of their natural resources; the only way their countries will ever get out of poverty.
I would have really liked this movie if they had just kept the liberal politics out of it. The visuals in this movie are amazing and the CGI is cutting edge. Unlike Attack of the Clones and other movies that have extensively used CGI, the characters and environments in Avatar look real. Unfortunately, this movie is a form of liberal indoctrination, which is why I can't stand watching it.