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The Avatar

The Avatarpolitical, social and its cultural message could be summarized as follows:

1. Our understanding of other cultures and peoples lives is only a perception

No matter how closely we resemble or how far we differ from each others’ biology, our understanding of another culture is only what are told and hear about that society and its people. This attitude was evident in almost every human character occupying sacred land of the Na’vi, known as Pandora.

2. Reality of a society is only understood if one lives amongst the people of that society, even as an “Avatar”

The main character of the movie, Jake, did not possibly understand, the natives ways of life, their costumes and what they value until he was forced to live as an Avatar amongst them. He not only fell in love with, princess of the Omaticaya, Neytiri, but also with simple but rich, extraordinary and precious lifestyle that the natives possessed. This change of attitude was very clear when, at one point Jake mentions something to the effect of “Dream and reality has been changed” for him; implying that his real life is now feels like a dream and his life as an Avatar is what feels like reality.

3. The “aliens” may look ugly to some, but to themselves they are beautiful

Beauty, attractiveness and love are all relative terms and subjective. They have to be viewed within the context of their application.

4. They love their children too, even ugly aliens in The Avatar

Yes, the “aliens”, the “enemies”, the “foreigners” and the “backwards-always-crazy” people of the far land love their children too.

This reminded me of Sting’s famous “Russians” song , except I would put it this way:

“The Russians, surely, love their children too”

Watch the “Russians” here and remember that “There is no such thing as a winnable war, it’s a lie we don’t believe anymore”

5. Political and materialistic motives are real incentives behind invading and occupying armies

Surprisingly Hollywood and Cameron show that this is true even on planet Pandora.

See history of Colonization of Africa, America, India, and Australia. Drawing parallel between the recent wars of Iraq, Afghanistan and the struggle of the children of Palestine are very easy.

6. Freedom fighters are not “terrorists”

This is another evident message of of the movie; when the natives of Pandora, start defending themselves by attacking humans’ massive military planes and gunships with their spears, bow and arrows. They gather together, while marching forward to push the enemy out and away of their land knowing that many of them are bound to get killed.

7. Self-destructive pride prevents one from accepting the truth

This was the case for Colonel Miles Quaritch, the head of the mining operation’s private security detail. His pride did not allow him to put his arms down even when everything was over and the humans had lost the war.

He died fighting for his pride.

8. One who stands for justice and truth, even against his own people, is not a “hater” or a “self-hating anti-republic”

Jake in the end proves this.

Once he saw the truth about life on Pandora, his conscious forced him to fight along side the native na’vi and against his own occupying people. He did this because “It Was the Right Thing to Do”

“They send us a message that they can take anything they want, and we will send them a message that “this, this is our land” – Jake, the Avatar

9. The oppressed will eventually prevail over the Oppressor

This is the reality of the universe, the balance of justice and peace, as close as our neighbours and as far as Pandora’s planet in the movie The Avatar.

10. Do not judge Avatar by its trailer

I did, and I was wrong.

Though the trailer of Avatar made the movie appear as another “3D” propaganda product for war mongering and nationalistic slogans, its content and its message was to the contrary.

The message of Avatar was of peace, independence, love, liberation, freedom and self-sacrifice; a potent dose of wake up caffeine to the occupying forces and their supporters.

The reality of Avatar was fresh and an awakening.

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Ice Age 3 - Scrat

Anyway, My fiancée and I rented a blue-ray disk of Ice Age – Dawn of the Dinosaurs from the Blockbuster and watched on a Sunday evenin.

The addition of the lady Scrat was a nice touch, and the producers finally decided to put more Scrat scenes in the movie… I mean lets face it, without him, the movie would not even be nearly as funny or interesting.

There was another surprise character in Ice Age 3 though, which  showed some love to the old crew – Allie, Manny, Sid, Diego, Crash, and Eddie

The new character who courageously saves them in many occasion is actually a one-eyed weasel-like animal named Buckminster, or as he’d like to be called “Buck”.

Ice Age 3 - Funny Scrats

But before we were able to watch it, I had to go through an hour of firmware upgrading for my blue-ray (Samsung BD-P1500) player, because apparently the Ice Age 3 blue-ray had to be played with the newest software technology.

Yes, what should really haven taken only 10 minutes, did take me around an hour, but that was mostly becuase of Samsung’s poor web support -

First of all, the manual does not completely tell the user how to upgrade to the new firmware using CD or USB drive… It refers you to the online “Upgrade Manual” – which, haaah! I had problem downloading from their website.

Even if you knew how to do that – I figured out how simple it was later on – downloading the new firmware was a huge problem… their site would constantly return an error message that this file does not exist, until I was finally able to get through, I don’t know if I can call it low bandwidth or not, but I got through it and however slowly downloaded it.

Anyway,

Top 7 reasons why I liked Ice Age 3 – Dawn of Dinosaurs:

1- The graphics under the Blue-ray, hi definition technology were fantastic

2- The 3D movie  was funny more than half of the time

3- Addition of that sexy female Scrat and the Scrats’ developing love story

4- That “Buck” character was pretty smooth – I liked him

5- Took long but I finally upgraded my Samsung PD-1500 Blue-ray player to 2.5 firmware

6- After watching it we decided to get a larger than 50″ hi-definition TV – YES!

7- And an HD box – YEP!

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Listed Hollywood movies have brought in $100 million or more in sales.

1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Released year 2002)

Big Fat Greet Wedding

2. Runaway Bride (Released year 2002)

Runaway Bride

3. My Best Friend’s Wedding (Released year 1997)

4. Wedding Crashers (Released year 2005)

Wedding Crashers

5. Four Wedding and a Funeral (Released year 1994)

6. American Wedding (Released year 2003)

American Wedding

7. Sweet Home Alabama (Released year 2002)

Sweet Home Alabama

8. In & Out (Released year 1997)

9. The Wedding Singer (Released year 1998)

10. Father of the Bride – Part II (Year 1995)

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