A movie not meant to be anything but an entertaining "popcorn/sci fi/action" flick gets one thing right and the leftist critics are foaming at the mouth to bash this film with the fervor of Michael Moore at an all-you-can-eat Vegas Casino Buffet. They portray our military as competent, heroic, and proud of our country.
You see in film critic land that lets them pull out their stock put downs of "jingoistic", "flag waving", "cheesy", etc. Any film that is pro-military is also labeled "military propaganda", as Slant Magazine's review adamantly stated. Roger Ebert says the film is so bad that anyone who disagrees with him and likes the film is an "idiot", so he's clearly projecting that only conservatives will love seeing our military as heroes. Roger prefers seeing them as blood-thirsty monsters killing women and children in Iraq with a Bush or Cheney look-alike covering up their crimes. (see almost any other Hollywood war movie in recent history and that just about sums up their combined plots) And of course it's only the liberals in the movie industry who get to use terms like "idiot" with those who disagree with them with impunity. (although Ebert I would consider an "outsider" and "hanger-on" rather than an actual part of the industry)
So the critics who loved Avatar, with it's anti-military, and even anti-human, ecological message are predictably pulling out all stops to try and make sure you don't go see this film. You see, they're afraid if you do, you might just come away being proud once again of our Marines. And to them, that's an unpardonable sin.
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