James Cameron is full of shit

I just read this blurb on yahoo!  It is about Fox wanting some of the Tree Hugging out of Avatar.  I cannot blame them,  it was a bit over the top at points (like from the 2 minute mark to the 3.5 hour mark or how ever fucking long that movie was).

Anyway I will not get into the self righteous bullshit Cameron says,  but there is one part that struck me as funny.

James Cameron’s environmental concerns can be attributed to being a parent of three young children and the fact he would like them to have a world to grow up in. “I think there’s a way to live and raise your kids with a set of values that teaches them the importance of hard work, the importance of respecting other people and the importance of respecting nature. And that it’s not this consumer society where you buy something and then throw it away when you get the next new thing, filling up huge landfills with plastic and electronics.”

Filling up landfills with plastic and electronics… how many copies of Terminator and his other movies are in landfills?  That is his past though,  I am sure he has learned his lesson and is going to keep plastic and other crap with a limited lifespan out of landfills.

Avatar Toy

This toy and it’s box were, I am sure,  made from recycled materials in a factory that is as green as Kermit The Frog.  I am also sure they were not made and shipped to the US in huge fossil fuel burning ships.  Furthermore I assume they were made to never break so that kids would not need to throw them away.  I looked and could not find anything about them being anything other than typical toys online.  I will check the store the next time I am there,  but I do not expect to be surprised.

I am also sure Avatar will only be made available as a digital download, and not on DVD, Blu-Ray or any other plastic format that will end up in the landfill at some point.  But they are already talking about cut scenes and things on those formats, so dammit I guess those will one day ruin the planet also.

Cameron needs money.  His kids need ponies and I am sure his 20 ex wives take a good bit of income away from him.