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2-D Avatar To Be Pulled From Theaters In China
SimonTheSoundMan notes that Avatar is being pulled from screens in China for being too successful, and too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message. (The 3-D and IMAX versions will remain.) "The communist nation's state-run movie distributor China Film Group is unexpectedly yanking the James Cameron-directed blockbuster Avatar from 1,628 2-D screens this week in favor of a biography of the ancient philosopher Confucius starring Chow-Yun Fat. ... According to a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the move was made at the urging of propaganda officials who are concerned that Avatar is taking too much market share from Chinese films and drawing unwanted attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions."
Indeed. Exit polls indicate that those who went to Avatar looking for depth came away with no message at all.
Breakfast served all day!
I can only dream with a day when I enter a movie theater and I have the chance to actually see something entertaining and not mind-numbing.
Like the documentaries of some time ago. Today documentaries are or conspiracy theory or some hippie crap that tries to explain simples things like quantum mechanics as some sort of good karma.