Avatar is Ferngully on steroids!!!!
Col.Quaritch a combination of X’MEN’s Cable (without the robotic arm attached in place of his human arm, or mutant powers of time travel)and Duke Nukem !!
That man had to have had some of the best badass lines ever uttered or quoted in cinematic history!!!
I did not see him as the villian but a man of Honor(an anti hero or antivillian at best) who through stress of his job and effects of war on his psyche just seem to crack under the pressure of it all! Where was his support or superiors to remove him from his post and get him the help and understanding an care he so desprately needed and deserved?!
I’d cry if Col. Quaritch started to cry because someone reached out to what was left of that man’s humanity, and making him look like a babykiller!(Even Badass John Rambo cried and and discussed his disgust of how he and others were treated and “called babykiller and all kinds of vile crap such as that” after they returned home after the Vietnam War in “FirstBlood”).
Our Marines deserve more respect than what Col. Quaritch got in Avatar, that’s what bothered me most about the characterization.I somewhat think it kind of bothered actor Stephen Lang to a point,who did the best he could with what Cameron gave him, it was said that Quaritch was even more vilianous, and It was Lang that gave him what little honor and respect we see of him in Avatar(a lot of Quaritch cold heartedness was purposely cut out of the film-you can see the deleteded scenes in the new version rerelease of Avatar on DVD,some deleteded scenes can be accessed on youtube!
Let’s move on from the Veitnam War and how we so dishonored those who deserve our honor most!”FREEDOM ISN”T FREE”IT”S BOUGHT WITH BLOOD!
But then again according to Cameron, he wrote Avatar pre 911 yet tried to sell it to a post 911 world! I thought we had moved on from such negative sterotypes of our men and women in the Military service! Maybe Cameron after all the bad press that followed the film(most complaints being racism and White guilt)will be more sensitive in the future concerning this issue as well!
