_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

hahaha

gimme back my bliss maaan

this really IS a new sort of moviegoing

anyway its obvs forks et al will eventually see this and be all it was pretty rad in its own way and no one will really care anymore

Has Ursula Le Guin complained about how the plot of this is very similar to The Word for World Is Forest? She did have the better title.

i'm actually gonna completely abstain, but in essence I agree with you mr cram

*~that is a terribly poor point~~~~*

the worst moment in this movie is when they hook up to the forest internet and you can hear the sound of children laughing faintly in the distance as they experience all the na'vi's memories

i must be a sap, but i have to say that even though i cringed at the whole children laughing thing, afterward i was like "noooo don't let them bulldoze the ancestor internet hub!"

on another subject, is this the most unabashedly liberal big budget sci-fi action flick of all time, or did i miss the point?

ya in a sense, i guess, though it is basically a "let's save the community center from the mean developer" movie and that's not really a huge breakthrough iirc

this is our time down here

so this is an incredibly expensive remake of Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo with an azure color code?

reboot

reloaded

xp well i saw it as more of a 'indigenous people in the way of massive fossil fuel reserve' (saved by a community organizer!).

i mean you probably could have made a historical fiction drama from the same screenplay, with Native Americans (or any other type of aboriginal populations) as stand-ins for the Na'vi, but nobody would have wanted to see it. the environmental message of the movie was not subtle, either. i wouldn't be surprised to read conservatives bitching about the liberal brainwashing in the next few days.

Does Pandora have legal, readily-available abortions?

i mean you probably could have made a historical fiction drama from the same screenplay, with Native Americans (or any other type of aboriginal populations) as stand-ins for the Na'vi, but nobody would have wanted to see it. the environmental message of the movie was not subtle, either. i wouldn't be surprised to read conservatives bitching about the liberal brainwashing in the next few days.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, December 18, 2009 12:46 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wasnt that called dances with wolves and everybody wanted to see it?

it honestly kind of reminded me of that 90s tv special where bette midler played the ailing mother earth

xxp

Human-to-Na'vi avatars made possible by stem cells.

so this is like fern gully

slocks, i remember that! Bette was all like "i will survive.. but you... you the humans... it is YOU who will die... and i weep for you"

wasnt that called dances with wolves and everybody wanted to see it?

dunno. never saw it.

point taken, though.

i guess someone's already made/quoted "world's largest screensaver" zing

Is watching this movie in 3-D Imax pretty much the same as sitting onstage in the midst of an ecologically-themed Blue Man Group/Cirque du Soliel mashup?

Has anyone linked to this New Yorker Cameron profile yet:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear

From this I learned the surprising (to me) fact that Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow used to be married.

from what i have seen of the two of them in interviews, it kinda doesn't make any sense.

James Cameron always seems like a good idea at the time. It's only upon reflection that we begin to see the error of our ways.

to be fair he has married a lot of ladies.

he is the king of the world so

From that roundtable above, it seems that pretty much all directors are insufferable egotists, but Cameron more than most.

near, far, wherever he are

Thinking of going to catch this in a few minutes, since I haven't really been able to do anything today yet and I could use massive visual and caffeine-based stimulation

it seems that pretty much all directors are insufferable egotists, but Cameron more than most.

He'd still be more fun to talk to than Reitman, though.

That probably falls into the "faint praise" category, but still.

it is TOTALLY ferngully with guns btw

Who is the TONE LOC of Avatar?

cameron is a hilarious cartoon egomaniac, at least from a distance

Fern Gully had a lot of questionable rapping, incl. from Robin Williams.

wait, waht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtuKoD1Wbvg

"Batty Rap"

...

From the grand tradition of putting the word "rap" in the title so you know they are, in fact, rapping.

Whereas Tone Loc's song in the same movie does not have the word "rap" in the title (otoh it is not good (otooh if is frigging Fern Gully)).

what the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT1wXm-rqLo

okay I am going back to listening to songs based on WoW samples

wow the lead chick in fern gully totally anticipates zooey deschanel

"This movie makes me emo. Thinking about it makes my nose do that chloriney thing you get right before you start crying. I am SO GAY for this movie that I can’t stand it. And you know what? Having finally seen it, I don't even care what the haters have to say. I am a happy meniscus that your spite sauce slides off of. I'm lifted."
http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/flicked-off-with-mary-hk-choi-avatar
(kinda digging the awl lately)
comments are fun too

xp drowned in a gulley

Ha Simon I was thinking Fairuza Balk.

that review i just posted was the first one that made me actually want to see this thing