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Tyrannical on 15 December 2009



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

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MontanaHatchet on 15 December 2009
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:

Liberal Porn of Doe-eyed nature lovers killing Marines

Damn that tricky James Cameron.

I hear he also made up the story about the Titanic because he wanted to depict upper class white conservatives being killed a homosexual liberal glacier on welfare. We should create a boycott against Cameron.

James Cameron confirmed that this is environmentalist propaganda.

 

It's a MOVIE. I don't  give a fuck about the subtext of the movie. If it's a good movie then it's a good movie.

This is the same crap that a lot of conservatives started with Wall-E. It's kind of pathetic.



 

 

CommunistHater on 15 December 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:

Liberal Porn of Doe-eyed nature lovers killing Marines

Damn that tricky James Cameron.

I hear he also made up the story about the Titanic because he wanted to depict upper class white conservatives being killed a homosexual liberal glacier on welfare. We should create a boycott against Cameron.

James Cameron confirmed that this is environmentalist propaganda.

 

It's a MOVIE. I don't  give a fuck about the subtext of the movie. If it's a good movie then it's a good movie.

This is the same crap that a lot of conservatives started with Wall-E. It's kind of pathetic.

CAMERON: And how that tends to destroy the environment and so on. And here they are doing the same thing on another pristine planet that we've done here on earth. So it's a way, sort of looking back at ourselves from this other world and seeing what we're doing here.

This view of Pristine Planets without Humans is the earth cult.  Is a volcano or forest fire pristine.



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MontanaHatchet on 15 December 2009
CommunistHater said:
MontanaHatchet said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:

Liberal Porn of Doe-eyed nature lovers killing Marines

Damn that tricky James Cameron.

I hear he also made up the story about the Titanic because he wanted to depict upper class white conservatives being killed a homosexual liberal glacier on welfare. We should create a boycott against Cameron.

James Cameron confirmed that this is environmentalist propaganda.

 

It's a MOVIE. I don't  give a fuck about the subtext of the movie. If it's a good movie then it's a good movie.

This is the same crap that a lot of conservatives started with Wall-E. It's kind of pathetic.

CAMERON: And how that tends to destroy the environment and so on. And here they are doing the same thing on another pristine planet that we've done here on earth. So it's a way, sort of looking back at ourselves from this other world and seeing what we're doing here.

This view of Pristine Planets without Humans is the earth cult.  Is a volcano or forest fire pristine.

He has a legitimate point about the environment. I'd hardly say humans have destroyed the earth (nowhere close), but there are a lot of human actions that are negatively affecting the environment. The fact that the environment isn't a bi-partisan concern is one of the saddest things about politics. Do I call every movie with war that depicts soldiers in a positive light conservative propaganda? No, because I don't really give a shit. And neither should you.



 

 

TheThunder on 15 December 2009

It's the first movie Cameron did since Titanic right ?



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Final-Fan on 15 December 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
CommunistHater said:
MontanaHatchet said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:
axumblade said:
CommunistHater said:
Liberal Porn of Doe-eyed nature lovers killing Marines

Damn that tricky James Cameron.

I hear he also made up the story about the Titanic because he wanted to depict upper class white conservatives being killed a homosexual liberal glacier on welfare. We should create a boycott against Cameron.

James Cameron confirmed that this is environmentalist propaganda.

It's a MOVIE. I don't  give a fuck about the subtext of the movie. If it's a good movie then it's a good movie.

This is the same crap that a lot of conservatives started with Wall-E. It's kind of pathetic.

CAMERON: And how that tends to destroy the environment and so on. And here they are doing the same thing on another pristine planet that we've done here on earth. So it's a way, sort of looking back at ourselves from this other world and seeing what we're doing here.

This view of Pristine Planets without Humans is the earth cult.  Is a volcano or forest fire pristine.

He has a legitimate point about the environment. I'd hardly say humans have destroyed the earth (nowhere close), but there are a lot of human actions that are negatively affecting the environment. The fact that the environment isn't a bi-partisan concern is one of the saddest things about politics. Do I call every movie with war that depicts soldiers in a positive light conservative propaganda? No, because I don't really give a shit. And neither should you.

I had actually thought CH's posts were a joke, because it was so ridiculous.  But as for the question he forgot to put a question mark on, you're looking at it from the wrong perspective.  Forest fires (for example) are parts of a natural cycle that is self-sustaining, e.g. the forest generally grows right back.  Pine cones are even adapted to take advantage of extreme heat so that the seeds inside can take advantage of the opportunity for growth, or so I vaguely remember hearing once.  On the other hand, if humans come and cut the forest down and build a shopping mall, the forest is gone.  

I suspect that by "pristine" he means "healthy, unpolluted, and undeveloped". 



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Final-Fan on 15 December 2009
TheThunder said:
It's the first movie Cameron did since Titanic right ?

I've heard that's the case, possibly aside from stuff like documentaries.



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FaRmLaNd on 15 December 2009

It should be a cinematic tour de force.

Make sure you see in the 3d, thats where it'll be at its best. As much as I don't care about 3d it'll be interesting to see a film from a director of this caliber really focus on the craft.



megaman79 on 18 December 2009

My review - Not that amazing. Bad script, shitty characters and worst of all, the action was less convincing and detailed than i wanted.

When Jim does action, and it feels like LOTR scope stuff, im just not interested. I want the T2 mental hospital. I want the fight at the end of Avatar, but throughout the whole film.

I love the guy but i think the film was a tech demo.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

CatFangs806 on 19 December 2009

Just saw it last night. Amazing stuff. It also made $27 million domestically Friday. Hopefully it pulls strong numbers.