James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster Avatar may be making box office history, topping $1 billion worldwide after only 17 days, but it's not making political conservatives happy. Right-wing columnists and bloggers are ripping the film—about a soldier-cum-corporate-spy who infiltrates a spectacularly peaceful planet with base intentions but ends up turning on his bosses—as a pantheistic work of leftist "anti-American, anti-human" propaganda. Is Avatar blatantly leftist, or are conservatives reading too much into a sci-fi fantasy? (Watch a report about some conservatives' belief that "Avatar" has an anti-military message.)
Avatar is liberal-revenge porn: Why would James Cameron waste half a billion dollars, asks John Nolte in Big Hollywood, on this "sanctimonious" attack on American achievements—"from our [nation's] founding straight through to the Iraq war"? Only movie-goers with the sort of "liberal bloodlust" that lets them "freakin' hate" America could overlook the movie's "by-the-numbers" plot and tired "PC clichés."
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