_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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!

xp oh, ok.

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

Because they convinced themselves it wouldn't answer? Didn't Jake have this exact conversation with CCH Pounder in the movie?

i don't remember, and i left my ponytail at home otherwise i'd look it up

Erik Davis on Avatar, ayahuasca, etc

probably because the tree will only listen to a badass who flies on a giant red dragon

avatar 2: the tree whisperer

Shakey Mo, Erik Davis writes very badly. What was his point?

O RLY shamanic cultures would tend to disagree with you

to paraphrase an old philosophy lecturer of mine, the shamanic cultures are JUST WRONG.

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.

the shamanic cultures are JUST WRONG.

otm. nature is not in harmony. it is just as hobbes said imo.

and the life of man, solitary, poore, na'vi, brutish, and short

shart I mean

http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw17rsfST71qa9g6uo1_500.jpg

Boris Strugatsky (of the Brothers Strugatsky, of Stalker fame) is evidently accusing James Cameron of ripping him off?