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mooncalfe @ 12:55pm: (in)visible.



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mooncalfe @ 1:49pm: america eats its young.


a Blood Syndicate picture i did for the upcoming Milestone Forever!

mooncalfe @ 1:31pm: avaturd.
saw Avatar. i was expecting all the "mighty whitey" stuff and the disregard for American Indian and First Nations people, but i didn't expect it to be so damn boring, haha. i've never been a James Cameron fan, i think the only movie i like of his is the first Terminator (although T2 is supremely watchable even if it's really dumb). i haven't seen Piranha 2 or Titanic, but i've seen enough of his stuff to know that even when i don't like the movie it at the very least has really entertaining action and thrills, but Avatar was pretty blah across the board, i was really surprised by that. we're supposed to do a podcast about it next week so i'll wait for that to say more i guess, but overall the movie was pretty bad, unintentionally racist, full of "noble savage" stuff, the monsters were dull earth animal analogues (ooh, alien horse!) on a pretty generic jungle planet, and what was up with the "mystical" subtitle font? fucking Papyrus or whatever? wtf. Neytiri was cool, though, i think if they ditched everything else and ditched the thinly-veiled (or non-veiled), romanticized Native American parallels i might like a Neytiri Show. i guess i have a soft spot for cat people, blue people, and blue cat people (anyone remember her: one, two. Cameron ripped me off! ha) but that couldn't save this mess.

here are some good links regarding the movie:

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar? by Annalee Newitz

and another stance by Scott Eric Kaufman, which is a little mean-spirited i think, and i don't think i agree with everything he's saying, but is an interesting read.

this one isn't about Avatar specifically, it was written a year ago, but the writer articulately talks about a lot of the problems with the sort of movie Avatar is and the problems you run into when you use aliens and monsters to explore race.

ETA: dcmoviegirl reviews Avatar! the Na'vi: Brendan Fraser?! XD

mooncalfe @ 3:32pm: only one way to go.