_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

(i'm generalizing, of course, but ffs)

Can we talk about the bigger issue here? In that people are actually creating "news" stories centered entirely around stupid shit people post on internet forums? Ffs, this is like that old Something Awful feature.

A post by a user called you gone float up with it expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the media.

HEY FAT NERDS ITS CALLED CAMPING LOOK INTO IT

― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Monday, January 11, 2010 8:15 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i mean LOeffinL at gamers getting depressed about the decline of the nat'l environment, a place they have never once showed interest

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QFTruth Bombs

Ned wins thread.

Meanwhile, there are angry people out there, and people who talk about angry people:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/01/right-wingers-launch-new-attack-on-avatar.html

even the two middle-aged male kneejerk conservatives/libertarians i know were like 'well yeah it's a little left-wing, but w/e it's a kids movie!"

"and i thought this movie would be the go-to punchline to jokes about box office failures for the next few years."

"Why drive to the movies, pay for tickets and spend hours in a dark room when you can just as easily read Noam Chomsky or the speeches of Hugo Chavez in the comfort of your own home and couch? Same difference."

the ideas at work in avatar are vaguely lefty and definitely stupid, so i'm not surprised that the anti-hollywood crowd is doing their song and dance about it

totally unsurprising, but still i think (WARNING: GENDER NORM) dude conservatives are like "whatever, it was kinda cool"

http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/james-camerons-nightmare2.jpg

Mila Kunis and John C. McGinley look TERRIBLE

that's because they painted their faces blue

Jim Cameron, blue fans outside avatar screening PHOTOS

looooooooooooooool

This film might have been better if it had any character development whatsoever

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/11/mawkish-maybe-avatar-profound-important

annoying uber-green guy likes it.

reminded me of one thing i thought of -- generally the european settlers were able to make allies and employ divide-and-rule tactics in the places they settled. good opportunity for dramatic conflict, ducked. instead imo the film is kind of saying the natives are basically like animals (only animals that all get on), which is lil bit racist? wv.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/t1larg.avatar.blues.gi.jpg

cnn plz exlplain to me why this photo has a camera in it

Most of that front row appears to have had part of their jaws removed.

JAW-REMOVINGLY SPECTACULAR SPECIAL FX!
-cnn

one guy has pizza

tall goatee seems to be asleep

I'm hoping pizza guy has the box balanced on his belly.

nerds have been doing this for time immemorial tho - there's no difference between wanting to be reborn in avatar vs. wanting to be reborn in final fantasy or the matrix

vs Pink Flamingoes vs Salo vs Out of Africa vs...

EASY TARGET. SMOKE MORE WEED.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2010/01/500x_navisex.jpg

*yiff*

The ultimate intimacy

Fucking cracks me up that those words are in the script but not in dialogue

my theater was fidgety and uncomfortable enough with just the hot na'vi makeouts. i can only imagine how all the dudebros in the audience would've reacted to actual peer-to-peer networking right there onscreen.

hey do u want to sync with me y/n

Lol Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242409/The-Avatar-effect-Movie-goers-feel-depressed-suicidal-able-visit-utopian-alien-planet.html

Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible

my theater was fidgety and uncomfortable enough with just the hot na'vi makeouts.

heh... My theater starting laughing at it.

whoaboy

Meanwhile in non-surprise of the year story:

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/01/cnncom-jumps-shark-by-writing-story.html

More bad reviews pouring from Europe:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_en_mo/eu_vatican_avatar

"So much stupefying, enchanting technology, but few genuine emotions," said L'Osservatore Romano, which devoted three articles to "Avatar" in its Sunday editions.
L'Osservatore Romano said the movie's plot is unoriginal and its message not new. It faulted Cameron for taking a "bland approach."

pope OTM

The Vatican newspaper and radio station have called the film "Avatar" simplistic, and criticized it for flirting with modern doctrines that promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion.

i dunno about avatar, vatican dudes, but nature>>>>>religion

"modern doctrines"

hahaha

"TWO BLESSINGS!"

- Cacciavillan & Bertone At The Movies

eh, the movie doesn't really support paganism, since the supersmurfs REALLY ARE mentally connected to a living super-being. this is not really very much like any non-european or non-technological culture on earth, who i'm pretty sure, weren't. doesn't look like the vatican nor james cameron thought that thru very well tbh

it's a freakin' metaphor

the supersmurfs REALLY ARE mentally connected to a living super-being. this is not really very much like any non-european or non-technological culture on earth,

O RLY shamanic cultures would tend to disagree with you

shakey aren't you an atheist?

metaphor for what?

I am definitely not an atheist!

good day, sir!