Seriously, a movie that needs to shatter box office records just to break even comes out next week and there is zero hype, a depressing large portion of the public are still deathly afraid of the commiepox and thus aren't likely to pack into movie theaters, China isn't the cash cow they once were (and they have state-mandated commiepox hysteria), and this one is going to be even more blatant than the first one with the sanctimonious environmentalism and white guilt bullshit. The only thing that could be worse is if Cameon demanded that theaters check if everyone has had all the needed clot shots to get in.
In colonial eras, those who worked with the colonists, who worked with the (very successful and more advanced) invaders, tended to get highly preferential treatment.
Why is everyone and their cousin part Cherokee, and not part Aztec? Makes you wonder...
In Canada, you hear about the Metis, you hear about the Iroquois... Aaaaand maybe the Inuit in modern era. And they were just called "raw fish eaters" (eskimo) as a formal name for centuries. Many of the other dozens of tribes? Didn't work with the English OR the French. Got wiped out.
The natives who live in the cities, suburbs, even rurals, have jobs on par with anyone else, preferential tax treatment, and good societal standing. The ones who live on reservations... Don't. Well, they have the preferential tax treatment, but can't take advantage of it with no money anyways. Very unfortunate.
If someone invades my country, and their technology is so much greater than ours that it looks like magic to me, and they inform me that my beliefs are wrong, they have different ones, and look, empirically provably working magic weapons and magic medicine... I'm taking the magic.
Maybe it's the postmodernist indoctrination that hits us so hard in public schooling, but... "culture" isn't that important to me as a holistic concept, only as a set of values to be evaluated in positives and negatives. If there's a clearly superior culture, I'll adopt elements of it, especially if it is also the culture of an invading force. Ironic that postmodernist public schooling brings me to a decidedly anti-"woke" position of "F your cultural sensitivities, get colonized", but that is the logical conclusion of that indoctrinated viewpoint.
And while you're at that just imagine the glee that your neighbours would be feeling as they team up with the evil colonisers to wipe out your murderous imagined Aztec/Lakota/Zulu ass!
It comes as no surprise to me that the man who made a disastrously expensive point for point copy of Dances With Wolves but In Space is creatively bankrupt.
I'd say they'd make it less subtle, but that would imply the first movie was subtle about it. I'd still expect it to be a hell of a lot more blatant in this one.
Good thing I practiced my surprised face for this moment.
Oh gee, as if I needed another reason to not see or care about "White man bad, in space! The sequel!"
Avatar: The Way of Waterworld.
Seriously, a movie that needs to shatter box office records just to break even comes out next week and there is zero hype, a depressing large portion of the public are still deathly afraid of the commiepox and thus aren't likely to pack into movie theaters, China isn't the cash cow they once were (and they have state-mandated commiepox hysteria), and this one is going to be even more blatant than the first one with the sanctimonious environmentalism and white guilt bullshit. The only thing that could be worse is if Cameon demanded that theaters check if everyone has had all the needed clot shots to get in.
Wait, it comes out next week? I thought they just started making the thing. I haven't seen anything about this movie outside of here.
They started shooting way back in 2017, though they were developing the concept since 2011. There is no way this is going to make its money back.
I just checked and my laboratory full of nerds had no idea it was coming out next week except for one guy
In colonial eras, those who worked with the colonists, who worked with the (very successful and more advanced) invaders, tended to get highly preferential treatment.
Why is everyone and their cousin part Cherokee, and not part Aztec? Makes you wonder...
In Canada, you hear about the Metis, you hear about the Iroquois... Aaaaand maybe the Inuit in modern era. And they were just called "raw fish eaters" (eskimo) as a formal name for centuries. Many of the other dozens of tribes? Didn't work with the English OR the French. Got wiped out.
The natives who live in the cities, suburbs, even rurals, have jobs on par with anyone else, preferential tax treatment, and good societal standing. The ones who live on reservations... Don't. Well, they have the preferential tax treatment, but can't take advantage of it with no money anyways. Very unfortunate.
If someone invades my country, and their technology is so much greater than ours that it looks like magic to me, and they inform me that my beliefs are wrong, they have different ones, and look, empirically provably working magic weapons and magic medicine... I'm taking the magic.
Maybe it's the postmodernist indoctrination that hits us so hard in public schooling, but... "culture" isn't that important to me as a holistic concept, only as a set of values to be evaluated in positives and negatives. If there's a clearly superior culture, I'll adopt elements of it, especially if it is also the culture of an invading force. Ironic that postmodernist public schooling brings me to a decidedly anti-"woke" position of "F your cultural sensitivities, get colonized", but that is the logical conclusion of that indoctrinated viewpoint.
And while you're at that just imagine the glee that your neighbours would be feeling as they team up with the evil colonisers to wipe out your murderous imagined Aztec/Lakota/Zulu ass!
colonization was objectively good.
I can't imagine that's a surprise to anyone. The main thrust of the first movie's plot was "Evil colonizers are destroying the environment!"
It comes as no surprise to me that the man who made a disastrously expensive point for point copy of Dances With Wolves but In Space is creatively bankrupt.
Wait, wasn't that the first film? This is just the same thing but with water!
William Wisher must’ve ghost wrote the entirety of Terminator 2 and gave ole Jimmy Boy half the credit.
Well actually I’m sure Jimbo wrote the bit with Sarah Connor’s feminist rant
I'd not be surprised. He likes to lift his scripts from actual writers.
This is a slow motion train wreck. I wonder how much money they can lose.
Disney bankruptcy would be nice.
It was always going to be this way.
I mean... did you see the first one? What did you think it would cover?
I watched it in theaters, and thought it was a neat summer flick. But "Dances With Wolves In Space" is probably an apt summation.
So... the same shit as the first one?
I'd say they'd make it less subtle, but that would imply the first movie was subtle about it. I'd still expect it to be a hell of a lot more blatant in this one.
I think Avatar is only famous for the meme of "Name one character's name from Avatar."
It was among the first, and probably the first really successful, CGI spectacle movie.
That's the default now so literally nobody cares.