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Never seemed to be marketed that way.

I like the films - then again, I’m a sucker for big cinema and IMAX 3D, so from an eye-candy perspective, it’s glorious. Is the story anything earth-shaking? Of course not. It’s escapist fluff… but oh… how it looks.

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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I feel like saying “James Cameron made a film about nothing” is unfair. I don’t think it’s about nothing. It’s about colonialization. It’s about inter-species racism, but in like a corporate kind of way.

And yet, it really feels like a film about nothing. I wonder why that is.

Is it just that it has nothing interesting to say about how colonialization works? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the film, but I do sort of remember it coming to really obvious conclusions.

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- foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think it fell into a ton of tropes is all. Eh, it was a product of it’s time - as all films are - and I found it similar to Dances With Wolves. Banged up protaginist, left broken by his service goes to the frontier and finds a new life…
  
  There it is…
  
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Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
iirc that was all it was ever really touted as.

Supreme eye candy, nothing more, nothing less.

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