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 badlyi normally don't have these feelingsbut i'm going to say i want this to failthat 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 badlyi normally don't have these feelingsbut 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
― 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.
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
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