Avatar on DVD

I cannot believe this movie was so popular when released in 2009. All I can say is Americans sure must be cynical to think our US Marines Corps in Iraq leaving with their tail between their legs during Obama's drawdown is the enemy in James Cameron's pretentious portrayal here. This tawdry film sinks to a new low like his outstanding Titanic. Unlike the Sunnis & Shia in Mideast political insurgency, the Na'vi on the planet Pandora (Pandora's box perhaps?) are seen as a primitive civilization much like our Native American nations-living in a tree of souls, riding around on flying reptiles, equipped with poisonous bows and arrows. Dances With Wolves in a Jurassic Park meets Tarzan. Real acting is forsaken with special effects of blue monkeys in a Garden of Eden. The premise of this show errs with the cynical notion the USMC seeks to secure mining rights for a floating rock from the floating mountains by invading Pandora using helicopter gunships & walking Star Wars-like transformers. Then the movie audience is patronized to accept our wheelchair ridden hero as a dreamwalker, teleported as an experimental hybrid of human DNA and the indigenous tribes by climbing into a computerized clamshell to be embedded with the alien inhabitants-not convincingly at all as beaming down or up like in Star Trek. Our hero assimilates to their way of life which in the show is nothing like al-Qaeda or ISIS today; the Na'vi are not terrorists, the Marines in the show are the bad guys, ala blue coats in our Indian wars. Okay Cameron got that far, but where he fails in this farce is our leathernecks of Iwo Jima and Korea fame didn't go to Baghdad to take their oil. America sought to secure the Middle East from chemical, biological or nuclear weapons from being used in another 9/11-like attack on US soil. "Strong heart, stupid baby" rejects his citizenship a little like Edward Snowden of the intelligence agency did, to defeat our Marines and live happily ever after with his lady in the forest. Hell is paved with good intentions perhaps, but the only stupid babies are the ticket holders who got duped by a very unpatriotic James Cameron. Semper Fi.