Jeffrey Overstreet reviews that sci-fi movie you’ve been hearing about:
The masterstroke of the original Star Wars‘ trilogy was its bold third-act subversion of audience hopes and expectations. Lucas made the villain we loved to hate into a redeemable human being, one who could be saved by grace. Avatar has nothing so bold or redeeming as that, nothing to discomfort audiences with the wild truth.
What begins as mythmaking devolves into political pulpit-pounding, a narrow-minded “war-for-oil” critique of recent and present-day American military interventions in the Middle East that sounds oh-so-2004.
From what I’ve read in the Christian reviews, you’ll love this movie if you hate white capitalists, soldiers, corporations, and did I say, white, capitalist soldiers? If you love goddess worship, hate humans and believe that only the innocent aliens can do good, act good, think good. then you’ll love this movie also.
Movies like this are how young people get indoctrinated into becoming progressives.
Those little aliens with the big eyes are soooo cute!
Speaking of Sf. Alan Jacobs has a good article posted online (at New Atlantis) about the ‘Culture’ novels of Iain Banks.