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
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 December 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― with hidden noise, Friday, 18 December 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm actually gonna completely abstain, but in essence I agree with you mr cram
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
*~that is a terribly poor point~~~~*
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
this is our time down here
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 December 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
so this is an incredibly expensive remake of Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo with an azure color code?
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
reboot
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
reloaded
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 December 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Pandora have legal, readily-available abortions?
― Thulsa Doob (Jon Lewis), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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wasnt that called dances with wolves and everybody wanted to see it?
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it honestly kind of reminded me of that 90s tv special where bette midler played the ailing mother earth
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp
Human-to-Na'vi avatars made possible by stem cells.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 18 December 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
so this is like fern gully
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno. never saw it.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
point taken, though.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess someone's already made/quoted "world's largest screensaver" zing
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
from what i have seen of the two of them in interviews, it kinda doesn't make any sense.
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
to be fair he has married a lot of ladies.
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
he is the king of the world so
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
From that roundtable above, it seems that pretty much all directors are insufferable egotists, but Cameron more than most.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
near, far, wherever he are
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kingfish, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
That probably falls into the "faint praise" category, but still.
it is TOTALLY ferngully with guns btw
Who is the TONE LOC of Avatar?
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
cameron is a hilarious cartoon egomaniac, at least from a distance
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Fern Gully had a lot of questionable rapping, incl. from Robin Williams.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, waht
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtuKoD1Wbvg
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"Batty Rap"
...
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
From the grand tradition of putting the word "rap" in the title so you know they are, in fact, rapping.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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)).
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
what the
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT1wXm-rqLo
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
okay I am going back to listening to songs based on WoW samples
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
wow the lead chick in fern gully totally anticipates zooey deschanel
― Simon H., Friday, 18 December 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
xp drowned in a gulley
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha Simon I was thinking Fairuza Balk.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
that review i just posted was the first one that made me actually want to see this thing
― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"Avatar" is staggering. It’s seismic. Evolutionarily speaking it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap. Punctuating the balls outta equilibrium. Think about it: You can’t bit torrent this shit. And even if some very industrious pillager cops the glasses and figures out how to do it in the way it was intended to be seen, that person is a hope rapist that should be shot in the face for dream treason because James Cameron and a gang of wizards made this beautiful, beautiful thing for us—in 2009 of all years. We should ALL hold hands about it.
is this lady brent dicrescenzo?
― cozwn, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
dream treason
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 December 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link