Comments on booming back: Dances With Smurfs

@inessentials: I think you are right, it is clearl...

2010-01-12T18:28:32.061Z

@inessentials: I think you are right, it is clearly we who are at fault for not accepting that guardian angels watch over us like an apparent 55% of all Americans. Please don't liberate us, we'll try and buy more stuff. ;)

@Felix interesting (and in hindsight completely obvious, bit of a d'oh moment there on my part for missing it) observation on body vs Avatar. I'm waiting to see someone deconstruct it through a Baudrillard lens a la 'Simulacra and Simulation', though its interesting to note that he wasn't too impressed with the Matrix's take on his ideas.

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Interestingly enough George Monbiot rather liked Dances with Smurfs, but then as a friend so eloquently put it "George Monbiot can rev up and fuck off on every topic extant or yet to be thought of. The Julie Burchill of the environmental movement and just as charming"

The Pope, however,
is not a fan

I loved Avatar! I had some questions about the use...

2010-01-08T09:09:14.215Z

I loved Avatar! I had some questions about the use of disability in the plot and the whole issue of the body and the Avatar was very interesting; I was constantly anxious throughout the film about where Jack's real body was in relation to his Avatar and this reminded me of the matrix and other films that have dealt with disembodiment and virtuality...

I also thought of Lovelock's theory of Gaia, and I thought the massive seam of rock buried under the hometree was more akin to the seam of Uranium deposited underneath aboriginal lands in Kakadu National Park - Wiki article on Alligator Rivers.

I thought the mash-up of Aboriginal beliefs, Native-American Indian styling, Zulu-meets Maori costumes etc. to be clumsy and New-Age-esque; however taking off my cynical hat for a moment, I was genuinely moved by the beauty of the belief system on Pandora.

For an anti-military film there was an awful lot of gun porn!

Loved your description of the soundtrack; couldn't have said it better myself, but to be honest, none of this got in the way of me having the best experience at the Cinema that I've had in ages!

I wasn't as turned off by Sam Worthington'...

2010-01-06T20:05:32.536Z

I wasn't as turned off by Sam Worthington's performance, perhaps because he is the viewer's avatar, the one we live through in the film, and thus needs to be blank to let James Cameron's MESSAGE wash over us.

/mood shift/

"Rarely has one nation been so out of step with the rest of the world." That's because we are leaders here in the US of A. We don't follow others' marching orders. We call the shots. We set the beat. So really, everyone else is out of step. Now, fall into shape or prepare to be squashed as we make the world safe for Haliburton.