I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
ConcernedAmerican wrote:
I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
Brainwashed? In what way?
Seriously curious... I haven't seen the movie. I got it DVR'd tho... will be watching it soon.
ConcernedAmerican wrote:
I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
Uhhhh....yeah. OKaaaayyyyyy.
I know. Those chicken military people with all their guns and machines protecting them from actually having the courage to connect with another culture. It was shameful.
It's a pretty god awful movie. A 2 hour long guilt trip that simple minded people will try to apply to their lives.
You more of a Steven Seagal type of guy.....
simple wrote:
It's a pretty god awful movie. A 2 hour long guilt trip that simple minded people will try to apply to their lives.
As an ex-military guy with hazardous duty experience, I thought it was just an entertaining visually impressive, classic, good guy saves people from bad guys and wins the girl story. Did I miss something?
I watched it on a plane, so perhaps I missed some of the "cinematic experience," but I thought it was mindless dreck - some pretty special effects, but a predictable story and uninteresting characters. Not on my "must see it again" list.
I saw the obvious correlation - foreign invaders of an obvious nationality, ruthless, with massive fire-power and advanced weaponry attacking inoffensive, innocent indigenous natives, armed with bows and arrows?
USA and the Middle East come to mind?
I just watched it for the first time recently. For all the hype around it I was unimpressed.
you need to watch it in 3d in a theater to get the experience, it ill just be another cheesy scifi movie otherwise
overanalyzation is whats ruining this country, not a top grossing movie (which I hate btw)
ConcernedAmerican wrote:
I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
1. That movie sucked.
2. The movie is a result of our culture, not a cause.
Visually, it is an unparralleled work in terms of computer animation. As a drama, it falls into a pretty lame Hollywood pattern of triumph of the little guy.
But, I do agree with the OP. I have had a lot of trouble getting my kids to understand the benefits of imperial domination of indigenous cultures since they watched that movie. And I was hoping they would grow up and work for Blackwater as security in a Nigerian oil field. Damn pinko Hollywood.
The key thing to note was that the people fighting were not the US military, they were a private military force backed by a monopolistic company. Why would anyone feel that it is somehow wrong to show that such company, wielding such power could be corrupt? They were more akin to Hitler's SS then to the proud men and women of the US military
ConcernedAmerican wrote:
I watched it last night on HBO for the first time. It made me sick thinking that children are being brainwashed by this movie. We are turning our once proud people into a nation of cowards.
simple-minded ex-marine wrote:
As an ex-military guy with hazardous duty experience, I thought it was just an entertaining visually impressive, classic, good guy saves people from bad guys and wins the girl story. Did I miss something?
I saw it in 3D at the theaters. This movie was discussed at length when it came out. I don't think it was meant to be Gone With the Wind. It was everything you described, mainly, a simple story with entertaining and impressive visuals (at least in theaters and with 3D). People like the OP who don't understand it was hailed for its visuals and nothing else are the retards.
IF you haven't seen it with IMAX or 3D effects, then the movie just plain sucks.
Alf Shrubb wrote:
innocent indigenous natives, armed with bows and arrows?
USA and the Middle East come to mind?
Middle East?!? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! Those are the LAST people to come to mind when thinking of a peaceful indigenous population as shown in the movie.
The 12 years of sanctions orchestrated by the US on Iraq between the first and second Gulf Wars, was responsible for a million unnecessary deaths of innocent civilians, mainly women and children.
I thought the movie was pretty obviously a reference to imperialism in the Americas. Rich foreign invaders, spiritual natives with primitive technology.