Back in August, word came out about a new type of movie that was being created. This new genre of film would blend live action filiming, CGI and three-dimensional projection into such a seamless format that it would change the way movies were made form the date of its release forward. Adding more promise to this exciting new project was the fact that it was being led by one of Hollywood's most fiscally successful producers, James Cameron, the same man who produced Titanic, which shattered box office records. So I got excited. I caught the buzz. In my living room, I remember showing my friend Brandon the trailer via a website and saying. "Doesn't that look AWESOME?!" *sigh* As we age, as the experiences of our lives come together to shape our view of the world, people come to understand a two simple premises. First, nothing forged by man will ever be as good as you think it will be. Second, you cannot trust people not to have a hidden agenda - ever. Both of these premises would have served me well as I was getting amped up about James Cameron's Avatar. The beautiful-looking film is, by Cameron's own admission, an anti-human, anti-American, anti-war, anti-capitalist tome which he hopes to subliminally imprint onto the world subconscious. "We’re telling the story of what happens when a technologically superior culture comes into a place with a technologically inferior indigenous culture and there are resources there that they want," said Cameron of Avatar. "It never ends well." Well, clearly Cameron is making that conclusion based only upon the perspective of one side - the inferior indigenous culture. Because for the technologically superior culture, things always work out pretty well. Except in Cameron's twisted, juvenile and iconoclastic mind. It shouldn't surprise anyone that Cameron hates the United States, nor that he blames that nation and Christianity for most of the world's evils. Cameron financed and starred in a 2007 documentary called "Last Tomb Of Christ." Cameron and the Jewish Canadian archaelogist Simcha Jacobovici attempted to resurrect (sorry) a widely-disreputed claim from the 1980s that an ossuary box found in a Jerusalem tomb actually contained the bones of Jesus Christ's body. The fact that the claim Cameron and Jacobovici were making had been almost-universally dismissed by scientists and biblical scholars didn't stop the maker of Titanic from chopping up orthodox Christianity in the documentary. Cameron was born Canadian. And there's good evidence he should have stayed that way: "The re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004 caused James Cameron to revoke his application for U.S. citizenship, so apparently disgusted was he by the outcome. Perhaps Cameron skipped his citizenship classes -- in America, it's a citizen's job to vote out of office those he dislikes -- or he saw the political landscape and decided he was better off where he was. Sure, America's system is changed from within, not all that different from Canada's parliamentary democracy except that there, Cameron stands at least an outside chance of one day overthrowing the monarchy and assuming his rightful place as the "king of the world."' - AskMen.com, "James Cameron: 5 Things You Didn't Know"
Now, I am no fan of George W. Bush. In fact, a shared distaste for the 43rd president is probably the only thing James Cameron and I have in common. That said, clearly Cameron doesn't have an unconditional love of Americans as his national or ideological brothers and sisters, nor does he possess an understanding of the American ideal. Whether or not one has these elements is really a fair yardstick for whom we should and shouldn't allow to become citizens. Clearly, James Cameron should have stayed in Canada and commuted to L.A. for work. Nevertheless, many of the reviewers who saw Avatar for what it was, a sheer turd of propaganda polished up to look all nice and shiny for mass American consumption, called it in advance. "Overall it's a horrible piece of shit," said one entertainment industry worker before the film's premiere. "The entirety of the Hollywood marketing machine is behind it, however, so it's going to make a boatload of money." The saddest part of the multi-million (multi-billion?) dollar haul that Cameron will take from Avatar is that much of that money will be offered up by Americans and Christians who either don't know about his opposition to their nationality and beliefs, or who don't care about the filmmakers's ideas being diametrically opposed to their own. Unknowing ignorance is one thing. It deserves understanding and enlightenment. Apathy is another thing altogether. It deserves death. And it will eventually get it. | 
