I absolutely loved Avatar...and NOT because of the 3D which was utterly inconsequential to me. The first theatre I saw it in didn't have the 3D feature, and the movie looked better without it. I later saw it in a bigger place with the 3D. Still wonderful, but not as good as without the 3D, because the colors look quite a bit better with no 3D.

I've rarely seen any movie in my life that I liked better than Avatar, because it presented a visually gorgeous world, a marvelously beautiful alien race, a marvelously worthy philosophy of life held by that race, and it showed for all the world what our own evil empire is really up to every day, everywhere it goes, exploiting natural resources, regimenting and enslaving people to serve it mindlessly, and creating ugliness and waste and death and pollution wherever its big giant technological foot lands. the evil empire being the big military-industrial machine that our taxes pay for every day of our lives.

That movie had many good and powerful messages in it, messages that humanity ought to heed before this planet is totally trashed. The Na'avi as shown in the film were our far better selves, the real gems of humanity that lie mostly hidden in people, the highest potential in all of us, and there's almost nothing in the corrupt society we presently live in to encourage our better selves to come forth...except whatever wisdom we can find in in the inner silence of our own hearts.

Nope, I wasn't in a temporary state of insanity when I loved that movie, Number 6. It's our military-industrial society that is in a temporary...or a permanent state of insanity, and it's criminally insane. The Na'avi were everything we could be, should be, and CAN be...if we just had the courage and the vision to do it.

Guess why it didn't win best picture that year? Because it was a direct philosophical repudiation of our entire present military-industrial aggressor civilization, that's why, and they couldn't let THAT message win "Best Picture" in imperial Amerika. No sir. They had foreign wars to fight, so they gave Best Picture to a film about an American bomb disposal expert in the "War on Terror". Just what Dr Goebbels would have done, I expect. Fascists don't like ideas such as were presented in Avatar. Those ideas are a complete rejection of all that Fascists stand for...and the Fascists lost out in Avatar. For once!

Thank you, James Cameron.