A unpleasant rant from me on the merits of Avatar:
Big, simplistic, beating you over the head with obviously allegory, exploiting clichés about how "primitive cultures" exist and function with a white saviour narrative, family orientated, and aliens explicitly designed cynically to be as analogous to life here as possible with big anime eyes to squeeze empathy out of people for extremely bland characters.
Set on a planet of science fiction screensaver 2005 backgrounds. Plus Disney gets a check out of it.
This being a franchise before a single sequel even exists because of a decades old gimmick, or indeed single worthwhile film either represents everything I loathe about modern filmmaking, and art by committee and I hope it is the Hindenburg disaster of the industry.
