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A clip of Sigourney and Giovanni that will make your brain bleed:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=12414

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link

omg i want this to fail so badly
i normally don't have these feelings
but i'm going to say i want this to fail
that clip is so bad

Drama Mama's and Papa's too! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link

so you can pick up unobtainium, but you can't sit it on a desk, it has to hover on a special levitation coaster?

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 4 December 2009 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link

and who the fuck calls them oral hygienists? Isn't the term dental hygienist?

Or is it different in the FUTURE?

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 4 December 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link

really can't get over him saying 'unobtainium' with a straight face

囧 (dyao), Friday, 4 December 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link

omg i want this to fail so badly
i normally don't have these feelings
but i'm going to say i want this to fail

^^ this! I have been actively wishing for this film's complete crash and burn ever since I saw the first trailer, and the feeling only gets stronger every day.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 December 2009 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link

unobtainium

omar little, Friday, 4 December 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link

People have been gunning so hard for this to fail that it almost makes me want to see it succeed.

But then I glance back at those screen shots and I'm all "fuck this shit"

unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Friday, 4 December 2009 07:01 (fourteen years ago) link

“It came from all the science-fiction books I read when I was a kid and it just gestated over time,” he said. “I did a lot of fantasy art and I had drawers full of drawings of creatures, characters, robots, spaceships and all that sort of thing. So for me I was just going back to my roots.”

To be fair that is EXACTLY what this movie looks like: a bored 6th grade kid's notebook doodlings.

unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Friday, 4 December 2009 07:03 (fourteen years ago) link

I seriously want someone to ask Cameron about the unobtainium hover coasters, since every element of this film is so painstakingly reasoned and all.

Matt Armstrong, Friday, 4 December 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Why did the aliens all go to the English language school if they don't get on with the humans?

Disco Stfu (Raw Patrick), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link

why did indians go to the English language school if they didn't like the colonialists?

Wee xx (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link

this is just gonna be a hardcore cliché snoozefest once i stop laffing at how bad it is (in 10 years time when it is telly, as i will refuse to pay to see it)

Wee xx (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link

it's been dubbed obviously

mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link

avatat

SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link

SPOILERS, if anyone cares

Over time, Jake integrates himself into the Na'vi clan, and begins to fall in love with Neytiri. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth and the Na’vi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of Pandora and the Na'vi.

Which side will he choose, I REALLY CANNOT GUESS.

Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link

his best friend is a talking pie

mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 4 December 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link

wow there are some moments in that clip that almost reach dr. tongue levels of 3d-shown-in-2d posing

da croupier, Friday, 4 December 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link

when he held up the rock i was sure he'd start waving it back and forth

da croupier, Friday, 4 December 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link

when the audience stands up and starts throwing toast at the midnight showings of this, you gonna be sorry you dissed it.

bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link

They're more likely to initiate furry sex.

ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

The pelvic thrust really will drive them insane...

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link

*throws toast*

mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 4 December 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link

unobtainium

EZ Snappin, Friday, 4 December 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link

x-post -- Terrible euphemism.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link

I just feel that needs repeating every ten post or so. Unobtainium - get some if you can.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 4 December 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link

I was thinking that there Cameron goes on about the atmosphere and culture and etc. and I'm thinking, "Okay sure it wasn't a setting you originally devised but in Aliens you just threw in some gunk about terraforming for two seconds and that's all anyone needed and anyone WANTED."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

WE HAVE THEME SONG:

http://www.popeater.com/2009/12/04/leona-lewis-avatar-theme-i-see-you/

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link

For the first few seconds I'm all "Imogen Heap?"

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link

"Okay sure it wasn't a setting you originally devised but in Aliens you just threw in some gunk about terraforming for two seconds and that's all anyone needed and anyone WANTED."

Patton Oswalt's "I don't want to know where the stuff I love comes from, I just want the stuff I love" re: the star wars prequels would seem to apply here

da croupier, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Yup.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link

I cannot put my finger on who Leona Lewis sounds like on this song because it sounds like she's pastiching every single big solo female pop vocalist of the past 20 years.

Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Friday, 4 December 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

omar little, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link

(Sometimes referred to as "Unaffordium")

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link

As for song:

Of the creative process, Lewis says, "James and I spoke about the meaning and emotion of the song. He showed me clips from the film, which gave me insight into the characters and this whole other world that he had created. The song represents the feelings shared between Jake [Sam Worthington] and Neytiri [Zoe Saldana]; it's very powerful and beautiful."

Even the press release is a pastiche etc.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link

tbh I want this film to be good. Not sure why, but there it is.

At the very least it could be the most WTF SF feature since Zardoz.

Bring me Sanka or Tetley (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 December 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Zardoz is a crap film with a lot of weird ideas in it. This is a crap film with no ideas.

unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Haha now imagine James Cameron's bouncing head at the start of the film making fun of us all.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Unobtainium also featured heavily in the movie The Core (the vessel they used to travel to the earth's core was made of it) so Jimmy is at least following in the footsteps of some great examples of hard sci fi.

methanietanner, Friday, 4 December 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7ljBKqJdw

methanietanner, Friday, 4 December 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link

id love for this film to be good. i want all films to be good. but when they so obviously arent and the people behind it act like confusing arseholes, then i can easily sit back and appreciate the lols when it flops

Wee xx (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 December 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Fuck you, synergy.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 December 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link

wow

unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link

looooooooool

Wee xx (a hoy hoy), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link

reminds me of the Three's Company episode where Jack keeps holding up a copy of I'm In You by Peter Frampton he bought for whichever blonde roommate was on at the time.

da croupier, Friday, 4 December 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link

"Lance? Very phallic name you've got there."
how can you NOT want this movie to fail

Drama Mama's and Papa's too! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link

finally a sexy sci-fi movie for the sexing

da croupier, Friday, 4 December 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link

it corrupts whatever it touches.
Leona sounding very enya at first and then very bad tina after

Drama Mama's and Papa's too! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link

ugh, then just bad leona

Drama Mama's and Papa's too! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link

mcguffinanium

Drama Mama's and Papa's too! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link


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