On a less ranty but semi-agreeing note, I enjoyed the movie a lot, but I still felt it was preachy and a little one-sided in favor of the Na'vi viewpoint. But humans are bastards so often in science fiction (going back as far back as the equally anvil-dropping The Day The Earth Stood Still, that this didn't really put me off the movie. Old school sci-fi always paints with a more black and white brush to get the point across, and Avatar struck me as an inherently old-school sci-fi morality tale. Just like The Princess and the Frog was an old school Disney musical. And I enjoyed both, in spite of noticing things that were to be expected fairly early in (Avatar's green message and that half the plot twists are telegraphed within the first ten minutes of PatF.)
Observing the movie is preachy does not automatically disparage the effort represented by the entire production. It merely notices something which is part and parcel of the film itself and doesn't omit it from the statement of opinion out of fear it'd raise contention. It's when one assumes that a negative opinion infringes on their space that these sorts of disagreements break out.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
Observing the movie is preachy does not automatically disparage the effort represented by the entire production. It merely notices something which is part and parcel of the film itself and doesn't omit it from the statement of opinion out of fear it'd raise contention. It's when one assumes that a negative opinion infringes on their space that these sorts of disagreements break out.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."