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1/11/2010 12:45:51 PM

now i think i'll go see Avatar on the IMAX this weekend

1/11/2010 12:48:36 PM

Lets not forget that that Alien is hot in pretty much every category.

I'm going to go ahead and say that Zoe Saldana is officially the Geek Sex Goddess.

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 12:52 PM. Reason : >.<]

1/11/2010 12:50:24 PM

interspecies rape surprise sex

1/11/2010 12:50:52 PM

Didn't this already happen? I think it's called "Furry Fandom"

1/11/2010 1:45:54 PM

I saw it last night and thought it was awesome. Except that the fuckers made me pay for the glasses even though I already had some.

1/11/2010 1:47:20 PM

I feel like if we did make it possible to resettle there then the nerds would be the first to get eaten by the jungle monsters.

The main dude was a hardass marine and he almost got eaten 5 times in the first half of the movie.

1/11/2010 1:54:23 PM

"Living like the Na'vi"? Really? What the fuck is that horse shit?

I can't stand it when a bunch of luddite morons get on their horse about how awful technology and how great nature is and how we'd all be happier and more fulfilled if we went back to nature. It's one of the themes that surely would have irked me about this movie had I not been too busy looking at the pretty pictures.

And that's aside from the fact that we don't have magical nerve endings on our heads that are shared by every other goddamn species on the planet, or carbon fiber bones that make us hard to kill. We're frail as shit. You know who came closest in recent memory to "living like the Na'vi?" The Native Americans on whom they are obviously based. Remember what happened to them?

James Cameron needs to make a short sequel for the web in which the human race returns to Pandora with all of its vast military power, bombs the shit out of everything, and takes all its resources without batting an eye. Remind these pantystains that for billions of years, proximity to nature has meant proximity to death, either from nature itself or by the awesome ass-hammer of technology.

1/11/2010 2:23:23 PM

Wow grumpyGOP. Want a cup of coffee? I've got a grind of Blue Mountain I can share.

1/11/2010 2:28:39 PM

Or they can make a sequel about the na'vi all dying from the tuberculosis that Sigourney Weaver accidently gave them.

1/11/2010 2:30:17 PM

Avatar made me want to kill myself, but only because it's a poorly written piece of garbage.

1/11/2010 2:37:20 PM

the writing wasn't great but let's be honest, the point of the film was not the story

i appreciated the fact that the story was simple and stayed out of the way. i would have gotten lost due to paying attention to the visuals so much

1/11/2010 2:38:34 PM

i realize that story and dialogue was not the point

however, it was so bad it distracted me from the visuals

1/11/2010 2:39:49 PM

It's the same shit that pisses me off about "Walden:" "Oh, I'll go live in this cabin I bought and paid for in the middle of the woods, and live in perfect harmony with nature, except for all the times I go into town to get my laundry done and buy supplies."

Or the "indigenous peoples" fan clubs, who go on and on about how the natives would never destroy their environment, except for those times they hunted all those megafauna into extinction.

Life in nature is not admirable. It is not desirable. I don't care if there are no trees left on Earth, it still beats the hell out of a planet full of gigantic goddamn dinosaur things that all want to kill you.

1/11/2010 2:44:56 PM

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"however, it was so bad it distracted me from the visuals"

damn that sucks too bad i guess

you realize it's a kid's story right

1/11/2010 2:46:27 PM

this reminds me of when people were going to sue J.K. Rowling over the emotional distress they had when Harry and Hermione didn't get together at the end of HP - because apparently she made all the fans believe that would happen.

1/11/2010 2:47:43 PM

i'd never heard that! but i'm not sure how any idiot who read those books could have thought that's where things were heading

1/11/2010 2:48:52 PM

i did get wrapped up in it, but not in a depressed omgsuicide kind of way. it was really intense/lots of action, and i cried when that horse thing was on fire...but i am a girl and i get really easily emotionally involved in shows and movies.

i liked the movie. when i left i was exhausted and sore from sitting there tensing every muscle in my body the whole time. i said i never wanted to watch it again but now that i'm over it, i'd like to see it again. not in 3d this time. you lose so much color and brightness to those 3d glasses.

1/11/2010 2:49:07 PM

I just wanna go stare at the pretty colors. I know the story is just a big liberal circle jerk anyway so I'd rather not pay attention too closely.

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 2:49 PM. Reason : to, too, whatever]

1/11/2010 2:49:36 PM

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"I know the story is just a big liberal circle jerk anyway so I'd rather not pay attention too closely."

It's anti-exploitation and environmentalist. I think it's a good package for that, too, seeing as how our unbelievably stupid population (plus kids) could use these sorts of messages.

1/11/2010 2:51:52 PM

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"Life in nature is not admirable. It is not desirable. I don't care if there are no trees left on Earth, it still beats the hell out of a planet full of gigantic goddamn dinosaur things that all want to kill you."

Well, there aren't any "gigantic dinosaur things" that want to kill you on Earth now and we're razing forests so we can plant farms for food for countries that aren't remotely trying to control their population. I'd also argue that life in nature is far more desirable to an overcrowded planet because that future won't be like some George Lucas fantasy city planet, but more like the layout of modern Mumbai.

If you think THAT is desirable, you probably should seek some help.

1/11/2010 2:52:04 PM

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"you realize it's a kid's story right"

What does that even mean? Stories for children shouldn't have to be well-written?

1/11/2010 2:52:24 PM

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"What does that even mean? Stories for children shouldn't have to be well-written?"

In general kids' movies are to the point, simple, and the plots don't have many twists or turns. Also, the language tends to be simpler because kids are still learning.

Do I really have to explain this to you? Stop testing my patience Brian, I know you're not a moron

1/11/2010 2:54:12 PM

Avatar is not the problem--this is:

Youth Mental Health Problems On The Rise
01/11/10

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"CHICAGO — A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychological questionnaire used as far back as 1938, confirm what counselors on campuses nationwide have long suspected as more students struggle with the stresses of school and life in general."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/11/youth-mental-health-probl_n_418173.html

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 2:59 PM. Reason : Soft fuckers. ]

1/11/2010 2:54:57 PM

i don't know that i would have let my kid see it

1/11/2010 2:55:00 PM

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"In general kids' movies are to the point, simple, and the plots don't have many twists or turns. Also, the language tends to be simpler because kids are still learning."

None of those things mean that it also has to be bad.

The Iron Giant is an example of a movie that is aimed at children but enjoyable for everyone because it's a goddamn brilliant film.

My complaint with Avatar is not that it's simple, but that it's poorly written.

1/11/2010 2:58:58 PM

You may be right I don't know

I couldn't peel my eyes from the amazing leap forward in graphical technology

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 3:02 PM. Reason : not to mention how creative the biology was]

1/11/2010 3:02:07 PM

I don't think Avatar was the poorely written. It most certianly didn't negatively affect my experience.

1/11/2010 3:03:00 PM

i definitely thought the story was interesting and entertaining, but not too heavy that it kept me from enjoying the cool effects

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"i don't know that i would have let my kid see it"

i agree with this... definitely no kid under 10 anyway

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 3:09 PM. Reason : ]

1/11/2010 3:07:23 PM

I think the believable emotions on the faces of the CGI people were awesome during all of the destruction

Little fuckers need to know what their comforts are predicated upon

1/11/2010 3:14:17 PM

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" disengagement with reality. "

1/11/2010 3:17:49 PM

unobtanium was a really fucking stupid name

1/11/2010 3:19:39 PM

^ An example of the laziness I'm talking about.

1/11/2010 3:22:36 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

Cameron didn't come up with unobtainium

Not really trying to defend him here so much as keep you guys from sounding dumb when you wax intellectual to your dizzy-headed friends

1/11/2010 3:24:10 PM

i think vinyl knew that angle.... dunno about others though

still true, nothing funnier than listening to some comm major attempt to speak some sort of science

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM. Reason : s]

1/11/2010 3:25:28 PM

^^ But to actually use what is recognized as a catch-all term when you could easily give it a much better specific name is ridiculous.

^ I generally stay away from non-musical science because I don't know much about it and I recognize that fact. But we're talking about writing.

The fact is that James Cameron has made two good films in his life and he made them both in the three year period from 1986 to 1989.

\/ I forgot about T2. Three goods films, all between 1986 and 1991.

1/11/2010 3:27:26 PM

<---------all about some avatar-alien sex

I don't know all about movies like you vinyl, but T2 was fucking amazing.

1/11/2010 3:28:04 PM

1/11/2010 3:29:20 PM

me and Eric were super mature during the movie and wondered if they fucked using their ponytails

1/11/2010 3:30:12 PM

there is a sex scene that is cut out but is on the director's cut and I am so curious about that as well, samwise.

1/11/2010 3:30:54 PM

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"me and Eric were super mature during the movie and wondered if they fucked using their ponytails"

obviously, that'd own

1/11/2010 3:31:01 PM

^^^ i was going to post the same thing. i'm super mature also



[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM. Reason : ]

1/11/2010 3:31:04 PM

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"The fact is that James Cameron has made two good films in his life and he made them both in the three year period from 1986 to 1989."

Actually that's entirely your own opinion, not fact, and isn't even shared by a lot of people.

1/11/2010 3:31:21 PM

I forgot, True Lies R00lz.

1/11/2010 3:32:59 PM

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"Actually that's entirely your own opinion, not fact, and isn't even shared by a lot of people."

Obviously you don't know vinylbandit so you need to stop this argument here and now.

You know hipsters? You know self righteous scene kids? You know really super obnoxious people who only like a band if less than 5 people have heard of them?

vinylbandit took a shit one day trans-Atlantic and when it washed ashore, it grew into the races of creatures mentioned above. Your words are really wasted.

1/11/2010 3:33:23 PM

I love you too, Mike.

1/11/2010 3:34:16 PM

He can have whatever opinion he wants, its just never going to be a fact.

1/11/2010 3:35:02 PM

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1/11/2010 3:38:37 PM

lullz

1/11/2010 3:39:31 PM