In Between Sermons, Avatar a Stunning Experience

Pajamas Media "Avatar is a thing of beauty, a 3-D movie of clarity and power. And, at a time when the special effects bar is raised with every new blockbuster, Cameron’s film sends that bar rising through the rafters. So why did he retrofit his film with an immature Iraq war meme and, much worse, politically loaded dialogue that rips you right out of the movie time and time again?"...."Then again, in Hollywood, ideology too often trumps all."...."And for those bothering to keep score, the U.S. isn’t taking oil out of Iraq. It’s essentially telling us Cameron can’t really debate the Iraq war on its merits, so he has to stack the deck in his favor. He does it partially with dialogue that can’t be saved by any 3-D trickery."