Seen by millions to generate millions of dollars by humans cheering for their own demise? Now that’s how to get ‘em to do stuff not in their best interest. See movie plot outline.
CAUTION spoiler effect if you still want to see the movie…neighbor went see it, walked out when reference to Nazis was heard.
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Bill, thanks for the post. I won’t be going to that movie on Christmas. I had dinner with some friends last night, and they indicated that they intend to go. After reading your post, I just texted and invited them to my church and over to my house afterwards, to join us for dinner, fireplace, and the lovely tree on Christmas.
I hope they will accept 
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Seems to be an example of predictive programming and propaganda for the transhumanism (eugenics) movement.
My neighbor lived several years in a commune during his younger years in the 70’s. He experienced and acknowledges the cult phenomenon.
Your friends are blessed to have you around.
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I don’t really see Avatar as “transhumanist,” although a lot of the humans are definitely seen as the enemy of the Na’vi who are not human.
The newspaper review of this movie was really brutal, I was excited to see this but not as much after reading that (They call it “like dances with wolves, only dumber,” ouch)
Cool printed color pictures though so at least there is that.
True to form “the sequel is rarely as good as the original”. I can’t help but see these types of movies as conditioning the viewer to accept the freakiness of gene alteration. Creative poetic license is one thing, producing movies to provide shock and awe is another. Though I remember as a child the thrill of watching scary movies. Guess we’re still children.
A lot worse is Cameron’s “Alita, Battle Angel,” released 2019, this is a world of cyborgs instead of transhumans. I’ve heard him mention in interviews they considered launching this movie first instead of Avatar in 2009, but that proved to be a lot more popular in the mainstream.
The main genetic manipulation part is with these remote-controlled avatar bodies, that is some frightening black-magic.
The extended addition of original Avatar has a completely different opening scene with a classic bar-fight on earth, Jake gets thrown out of the bar into an alley and then his wheelchair thrown on top of him, right before the suits come to offer him money to go work for them in space.
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I think the last movie I saw in a theater was A.I. in 2001. Perhaps the reason movies don’t have much of my interest is because when I was a teenager I was a projectionist at our local theater. The movie film arrived on metal reels in metal cans that I loaded into machines with electric arcs for light projection located in a small room at the back of the theater. Nothing was real about them.
My hometown theater never had new-release movies until months after they were initially released because they are a lot less expensive then.
A cool theater on capitol hill in Seattle is the Egyptian, this is the same building as the fine-arts studios for the college there. I believe they only show non-mainstream foreign/independent films there.
Yeah same with my hometown theatre. Eventually I saw all the major movies from late sixties to early seventies because I had to as a projectionist.
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Kinda ruins the “dreaming” effect when you have hurry up and splice the film and restart it, éh? Not conducive to popcorn and socializing.
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When the film in the projector broke while being projected, which was not uncommon, the boos and heckling at first bothered me.
I learned to quickly pull down enough film to retread and start the movie again. Most movies were 5 to 6 reels of 20 minutes each.
Somehow I managed to do my school homework assignments in between change overs between the two projectors. I got pretty fast at loading the film reels. Since we had two showings each evening there was plenty of time to watch movies and do homework.
One of the benefits was free concessions, all the soda, popcorn and candy I wanted and free admission every other weekend when I did not work. Good gig and paid way more than minimum wage!
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So much different than newer theaters, where sometimes there isn’t even anyone there to make sure the projector is working correctly. I remember one movie I went to at a big theater with a lot of screens where the movie started playing but the projection was split in the middle with what was supposed to be the top half being projected to the bottom, and bottom half projected to the top of the screen.
At first no one commented, but then after a few minutes the whole audience started chanting “fix the screen!” “fix the screen!,” and eventually someone heard that and fixed the projector.
These days I don’t even want to go near one of those huge Omnimax mk-ultra projectors.
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