James Cameron's new movie, "Avatar", is quickly becoming the biggest box-office movie in history even surpassing his previous number one movie, "Titanic".  I've seen the movie in IMAX 3-D and it was a great time.

I can't say it was my favorite movie of the year but I will be spending the money to see it in 3-D yet again.  I was amazed at how good the Na'vi looked up close.  He really has evolved the CG technology.

My biggest complaint, and this really disappoints me, was the score.  I'm a big James Horner fan and he's written many Oscar winning scores over the years, and I own most of them.  When I heard he was writing the music for Avatar I was excited.  But after hearing the score, I was really let down.

I'm a huge movie score fan and that's pretty much what I own, just movie scores.  But I felt James Horner missed the boat with his themes for Avatar.  The main theme was a direct rip off of his own Titanic theme.  Anyway, this isn't what I wanted to talk about.

Ok, I'm not usually vocal about my feelings when I read something like this, but what really pisses me off are these Right Wing idiots who have criticized the movie and being "anti-military", "anti-American" and a tree-hugging movie.  Some have said it's anti-Black, and anti-Corporation.

I must have watched a different movie than what they watched.

I thought the movie was about a corporation hiring a group of mercenaries to force indigenous people from their land so the Corporation can steal a mineral from the natives by force that doesn't belong to them all the while not caring how they decimate the natives land or how many natives are killed in the process.  Meanwhile, boy meets girl.

These "idiots", and I use the term idiots with all the respect it deserves, just can't watch any movie without injecting their political views into it, or worse, trying to read any political under tones that might be between the lines.

Anti-American?

How is this anti-American?  Is it because Americans just happen to be the nationality of the mercenaries hired to carry out this mission?  Or the nationality of the people in the corporation leading the mission?  I guess this right-wingers didn't notice the many characters (who are Americans) who are part of this mission, turned on their own, to side with the natives?  Of course then didn't, because they see just what they want to see.

Anti-Black?

I'm at a loss here.  Is it because it happens to involve white folks and... er... blue folks and not black folks?  Then following that line of thinking, should white folks be angry about Tyler Perry's Madea movies because he admits that he makes his films primary for Black audiences.  Wow.  Get a life!  Try not to make everything an issue about race.

Anti-Corporation?

A corporation just happens to be the institution organizing this little affair, so obviously that says this film is anti-Corporation.  Corporations are generally the character used in films to be portrayed as such, that doesn't mean that the film maker feels all corporations are this way. 

What if it wasn't a corporation but just a filthy rich individual who wanted the mineral for himself?  Would this suddenly be an anti-rich person movie?  Sheesh.

Anti-Military?

Did you see the amount of military hardware in this film?  It was really cool!  James Cameron is all about neat military hardware, just look at Aliens.  Many of those machines are his design. 

This is a story about advanced-technology taking what it wants from the technologically-challenged.  Notice I didn't say "the strong taking from the weak", because we saw that the Na'vi are not weak.  Put boths sides on a level playing field and I'm sure the blue side would win.

So anti-military and tree-huggers... hmmm.  So I guess it's bad to like trees?  Especially ones that are over a 1000 feet tall and have taken probably 1000 years to get that tall?!  Why is it good for the military-force to reduce that giant tree to tooth picks?  Why is it bad to hate the people responsible for doing it?

If you wanted to level my house because you wanted some rare and valuable mineral under my land, I would do everything in my power to stop you.  And I don't see why people should think better of you, than me.

Conclusion

Just watch a freakin' movie as entertainment and if you can't, get into a different business because you're not doing anyone any good.