Not an Avatar Threat, An Avatar Promise
The pop-cult polemicist in me is feeling terribly thwarted at the moment. TAS luminaries Reihan, Peter, and James have written the world’s most challenging takedowns of Avatar, a movie I quite loved and am prepared to write the world’s most challenging defense of, except that I am packing today and traveling tomorrow, to my parents’ house, a place where all mental processes slow to cryogenic status and all ambition drains into the cracks between sofa cushions. (At least my mental processes and my ambitions. My parents seem to function just fine.) Since I sort of specialize in out-of-date movie commentary, I shouldn’t worry about it and just write the thing when I get back. But Reihan, Peter, and James should worry. If I can emerge from suspended animation and remember some of what I wanted to say, I’ll be gunning for them.
Bring it!
— Peter Suderman · Dec 21, 06:29 PM · #
Reihan, Peter and others are being dishonest by letting their politics interfere with their reviews. As an analogy, they’d make bad teachers by letting their dislike of a student’s art effect her math grades.
If I may, the world is made up of two kinds of people: the lively souls who like or love Avatar, and the whiners, bitches, downers, sourpuss, criers and cranks like Peter Suderman who boo hoo hoo. But the joke’s on them, for Avatar would probably end up making millions and millions and millions…
— bz · Dec 22, 12:36 AM · #
Not to worry. Reihan, Peter, and James are intellectually dishonest in their “takedowns” lol. You’re not missing anything by skipping them.
As always, conservatives simply can’t handle the truth and they respond with ludicrous speculations that only Ayn Rand would love.
— Ray Butlers · Dec 23, 11:43 PM · #