The Con Man liked James Cameron’s “Avatar” but…. “In a movie this big, EVIL in all caps ends up making the movie smaller,” he blogs. “Then there is the kumbaya natives of Pandora to consider, a people so in touch with their own souls and the souls of their ancestors that the entire planet is a throbbing Internet gone viral, vital, and all-natural. Almost the entire second half of the movie is the story of how these poor innocents, who know how to use a machine gun, are stunned into near-submission not unlike the metaphorical subjugation of Native Americans and the Napalming of North Vietnam and Cambodia. I’m as willing as anyone to concede the United States lost some of its soul in these campaigns, but it would not have hurt ‘Avatar’ one bit to at least hint that a good backstory for bad guys makes for a mo’ better movie.”