Screenrush Article "Why has Avatar been Forgotten"

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Cyvaris

Thoughts?

Disappointment, had I not expected this.

Avatar is many things, but one of the most important things is a commentary on the brutally, almost unbelievably wrong and ugly things going on in the tropics (especially the Amazon basin) right now.

And I would be remiss if I did not point out that this is a separate problem (or maybe a sub-problem) of the dystopia shown in the beginning of the extended cut. We are racing towards that world, and it has not slowed down. Cameron's made some enemies, but he's not really a bad guy, and he wanted to show people how bad things could get and what kinds of things we have already lost (Pandora being the idealized unspoilt wilderness-planet with a thriving ecology) so much of.

Personally, Avatar reminded me of my own identity, and even improved my health; within a year of seeing the movie I lost about 80 pounds, and my diet now features reduced meat consumption, vastly reduced processed foods consumption, and greatly increased consumption of organically-grown produce.

So I'm disappointed that so few people really "got it", but I'm not surprised.