one guy has pizza
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:07 (sixteen years ago)
tall goatee seems to be asleep
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:08 (sixteen years ago)
I'm hoping pizza guy has the box balanced on his belly.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:09 (sixteen years ago)
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
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:59 (sixteen years ago)
vs Pink Flamingoes vs Salo vs Out of Africa vs...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:10 (sixteen years ago)
EASY TARGET. SMOKE MORE WEED.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2010/01/500x_navisex.jpg
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:07 (sixteen years ago)
*yiff*
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:09 (sixteen years ago)
The ultimate intimacy
― touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:25 (sixteen years ago)
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.
― Al Gore invented the internet to house the bitterness of humanity (reddening), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:56 (sixteen years ago)
hey do u want to sync with me y/n
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 07:36 (sixteen years ago)
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
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 08:12 (sixteen years ago)
Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible
― Dino-linguist Noam Chompsky (Pillbox), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 08:18 (sixteen years ago)
my theater was fidgety and uncomfortable enough with just the hot na'vi makeouts.
heh... My theater starting laughing at it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:14 (sixteen years ago)
whoaboy
― The tendrils INTERTWINE with gentle undulations. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:42 (sixteen years ago)
Meanwhile in non-surprise of the year story:
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/01/cnncom-jumps-shark-by-writing-story.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:18 (sixteen years ago)
More bad reviews pouring from Europe:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_en_mo/eu_vatican_avatar
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
"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
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:44 (sixteen years ago)
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
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:52 (sixteen years ago)
"modern doctrines"
― living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:52 (sixteen years ago)
hahaha
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:53 (sixteen years ago)
"TWO BLESSINGS!"
- Cacciavillan & Bertone At The Movies
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:54 (sixteen years ago)
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
― chartres (goole), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:12 (sixteen years ago)
it's a freakin' metaphor
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:17 (sixteen years ago)
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
― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:19 (sixteen years ago)
shakey aren't you an atheist?
metaphor for what?
― chartres (goole), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:20 (sixteen years ago)
I am definitely not an atheist!
― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:22 (sixteen years ago)
good day, sir!
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:24 (sixteen years ago)
xp oh, ok.
― chartres (goole), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:24 (sixteen years ago)
also if they're really connected to a super being that can ~command all creatures~ why didn't they ask for its help BEFORE the humans blew up their damn tree
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:25 (sixteen years ago)
Because they convinced themselves it wouldn't answer? Didn't Jake have this exact conversation with CCH Pounder in the movie?
― living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:26 (sixteen years ago)
i don't remember, and i left my ponytail at home otherwise i'd look it up
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:28 (sixteen years ago)
Erik Davis on Avatar, ayahuasca, etc
― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:32 (sixteen years ago)
probably because the tree will only listen to a badass who flies on a giant red dragon
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 01:18 (sixteen years ago)
avatar 2: the tree whisperer
Shakey Mo, Erik Davis writes very badly. What was his point?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 01:33 (sixteen years ago)
to paraphrase an old philosophy lecturer of mine, the shamanic cultures are JUST WRONG.
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:47 (sixteen years ago)
criticized it for flirting with modern doctrines that promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion
religion is a modern substitute for the worship of nature.
maybe the issue is the 'flirting', the pope's never been too hot on that.
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:10 (sixteen years ago)
the shamanic cultures are JUST WRONG.
otm. nature is not in harmony. it is just as hobbes said imo.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:16 (sixteen years ago)
and the life of man, solitary, poore, na'vi, brutish, and short
― (҉) (dyao), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:18 (sixteen years ago)
shart I mean
― (҉) (dyao), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 10:19 (sixteen years ago)
http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw17rsfST71qa9g6uo1_500.jpg
― The tendrils INTERTWINE with gentle undulations. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:46 (sixteen years ago)
Boris Strugatsky (of the Brothers Strugatsky, of Stalker fame) is evidently accusing James Cameron of ripping him off?
― with hidden noise, Friday, 15 January 2010 20:59 (sixteen years ago)
Finally saw this today, in IMAX 3D. The story was kind of worse than I expected actually, totally predictable and laughable at times. But I'll be damned if the visuals didn't keep my eyes glued to the screen every second. I pretty much have no desire to ever see it again, but I'm glad that I saw it in the big format.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:12 (sixteen years ago)
having a funny convo w/ a friend who agrees with me about everything except that he loved it
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:05 (sixteen years ago)
*****: the pivotal scene in avatar*****: is the one where america launches a 9/11 attack on sioux jerusalemme: lmao*****: and it only gets more convoluted from there*****: i love it
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:06 (sixteen years ago)
*****: the heroes are afro-arab pacifist treehugger warhawk jihadist 9/11 victim aztecs*****: i just love that they are animist buddhists at peace with nature, but also mongol human meat grinders
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:07 (sixteen years ago)
What was convoluted about the movie? It was pretty fucking straightforward.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:07 (sixteen years ago)
i think what he means is pretty clearly conveyed in the above quotes
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Sunday, 17 January 2010 04:10 (sixteen years ago)