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U.S. conservatives have blasted James Cameron's blockbuster space epic Avatar for depicting U.S. marines as villains, others have critiqued it as a patronizing tale of a white American rescuing a native people from the ravages of imperialism, but the most unique criticism of the film yet may come from the St. Petersburg Communist Party: 

In the recently issued statement they claim that the sci-fi blockbuster is trying to justify the Nobel Prize award given to Barack Obama, but fails in its task as no one would believe that a US marine in the film (who the Communists describe as a “murderer and oppressor of Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Haiti and Somalia”) can stand for good.

It should be noted that the production of Avatar began four years ago when Obama wasn’t even in office.

“It is quite funny to watch how the activists of the national liberation movement of Pandora accept a Pentagon-made mutant instead of judging him by the laws of the revolutionary time,” the communists noted.[...]

“The carefully concealed nature of an aggressor, traitor and maniac quickly discerned itself in Cameron's film – according to the plot, Venezuela has already been invaded, Chavez is killed, and the hordes of G.I. break out into the Solar System, burning everything in their path. Conditionally separating the film’s heroes from the bad ones – Republicans (the head of the human’s colony and the marines), and good ones – Democrats, led by Jake Sully and fanatical botany professor (Sigourney Weaver), Cameron comes to the absurd – taking the side on of an extraterrestrial civilization in conflict with humanity.”

At the end of the statement is the demand “to ban the presentation of all Cameron’s films in Russia until he recognizes the plagiarism and robbing of Soviet science fiction in order to create his low-grade blockbuster.”

The KPLO also claim the the planet Pandora was ripped off from a 1960s Soviet science-fiction novel.

Russia Today notes that, "The Communists of St Pete and Leningrad Region are known for their strange statements on all important Russian and international events," and this is not their first foray into film criticism. Two years ago they attacked Ukrainian actress Olgo Kurylenko for consorting with "enemy of the Soviet people" James Bond. 

EXPLORE:CULTURE, RUSSIA
 

FIXXBOX360

2:23 PM ET

January 12, 2010

WTF

Why can't people just enjoy? Avatar rocks \m/

 

MORPHO PELEIDES

3:24 PM ET

January 12, 2010

I didn't realize that Pavel

I didn't realize that Pavel Chekov was now in charge of the KPLO.

 

ARROYORIBERA

11:26 AM ET

January 13, 2010

Traitors to inhumane and illegal imperial action

The most important aspect of Avatar, by far, is the clear portrayal of U.S. Marines, U.S. soldiers and Blackwater/Xe type mercenaries with some remaining conscience betraying the empire. We all know that after understanding what the military/industrial complex is all about -- invasion, occupation, mass destruction, subversion of other countries, destruction of other cultures -- many soldiers, spies and mercenaries see the light and regret their actions, even going public with the truth. In the face of unilateral global U.S. imperialist action, the next level is active disobedience and rebellion by those individuals. It is time for the people of the world, collectively, to defy the U.S. empire and its aggressive, murderous activities on the planet.

 

AMADEO

10:06 PM ET

January 14, 2010

Sorry to break this to you...

This "unique criticism of the film" is just a joke. It's a parody on hardcore-communists' appeals to public.
The authors have already produced tons of those. They became popular a while ago, after"criticizing" the last Indiana Jones movie. That little pastiche was so good that many Russian people thought that it was a real thing. The one on Avatar is kind of mediocre.

 

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