Avatar and Invictus

The guessing game: which one's Mandela and which one's Freeman? :)

Check out this funny thing on Fail Blog making fun of Avatar's similarity to the movie Pocahontas.

I saw "Avatar" over the 3 day weekend. Hecka good. The 3D was awesome, but I'm not sure it made the movie a ton better. Maybe I'm just saying that though because they didn't make the 3D a gimmick by having stuff just pop out at you. Instead the 3D gave the breathtaking fauna and the avatar world sublte depth. That's probably why it's being called revolutionary for 3D in big screen movies.

There was a lot of colonialism symbolism and Pocahontas similarities in "Avatar." Colonialism was represented through the people's actions toward the avatars. In colonialism a theme is always that the colonizers are more civilized and are bringing their civilization and higher style of life to the natives. The avatars have a valuable resource that the military wants, Unobtainium, (am I spelling that right) and will stop at nothing to get it. Another colonialism theme that popped up was the idea of ok, we'll be nice to you for a little while and hopefully you'll just get up and move and let us reap the benefits of this resource. Let's all hope you do that or else we'll use our superior military to kill you.

My friend's brother came home from "Avatar" saying that the movie was great, but was similar to Disney's old animated movie "Pocahontas." If you didn't already check out the Fail Blog summary of Pocahontas where someone crossed out names and replaced them with "Avatar" characters.

I also saw "Invictus" with my mom on Sunday night. Before it came out it looked like it was going to be the greatest movie. A drama about the politically volatile time period when Nelson Mandela became president? Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman (who practically is Nelson Mandela) and Matt Damon? What could go wrong?

Well, for one, there was too much rugby. I'm a huge sports fan, but nobody in America gives a crap about rugby and nobody understand the rules. All we get, and appreciate, is the fact that it's like a super badass version of football.

All that grunting and the obviousness that the Springboks would win the Rugby World Cup didn't make for a whole lot of mystery.

Morgan Freeman was really good though. I wouldn't be surprised if Morgan Freeman won an Oscar for his performance. I just wish the movie had shown more of what was going on in his country at the time besides rugby. His presidency was such an interesting and crucial part of South Africa's history and all they talked about was rugby? C'mon now.