Critics Concerned New Avatar Movie May Not Portray Corporations and Military as Evil Enough

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As trailers for James Cameron’s new epic blockbuster, Avatar, hit television and theaters, critics are becoming increasingly alarmed that the movie may not accurately portray corporations and the military as being evil enough.

“I have some concerns about what I’ve seen so far,” said film critic Cindy Mattson.  “The previews I’ve seen appear to show that a corporation has invaded another planet with the military’s help in order to mine a valuable resource, and they need to kill indigenous people to do so.  That starts out promising enough, but this movie was really supposed to push the envelope.  I didn’t see any scenes of children being murdered or at least poisoned or disfigured by white male executives or soldiers.  And there was no real sense that the indigenous people would be enslaved and severely abused in order to mine the expensive resource.  What about burning down a hut with women and children still inside, or framing the inhabitants for terrorist acts in order to support military strikes against them.  And that doesn’t even touch on the fact that the connection between this story and how the United States has invaded the Middle East and murdered millions for oil is just far too subtle.  Very few people will easily make that connection or be able to envision George Bush as one of the characters.  Unless they are saving those scenes, I think there could be real trouble for this movie.”

James Cameron assured the media that the movie will still achieve its goal of demonizing not only the military and corporate greed, but white people as well.  “None of these critics have seen the movie yet,” said Cameron.  “Trust me.  When you leave the theater, you’ll hate the military, corporations, white people, and Christians more than ever.  You’ll realize that the war on terrorism is actually just a ruse for corporations and the military to kill brown people for oil.  The DVD release will even have a feature to turn on labeling so that the screen shows which people are supposed to be George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.  We didn’t spend $200 million on this movie so people would walk away with ambiguous feelings about these important topics.”