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.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
A post by a user called you gone float up with it expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the media.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Monday, January 11, 2010 8:16 PM Bookmark
QFTruth Bombs
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned wins thread.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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!"
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"and i thought this movie would be the go-to punchline to jokes about box office failures for the next few years."
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"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."
― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― chartres (goole), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
totally unsurprising, but still i think (WARNING: GENDER NORM) dude conservatives are like "whatever, it was kinda cool"
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/james-camerons-nightmare2.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Mila Kunis and John C. McGinley look TERRIBLE
― living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
that's because they painted their faces blue
― Who Makes the Na'vis? (s1ocki), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Jim Cameron, blue fans outside avatar screening PHOTOS
― da croupier, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooooooooooool
― living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
This film might have been better if it had any character development whatsoever
― mh, Monday, 11 January 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Most of that front row appears to have had part of their jaws removed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
JAW-REMOVINGLY SPECTACULAR SPECIAL FX!-cnn
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
one guy has pizza
tall goatee seems to be asleep
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm hoping pizza guy has the box balanced on his belly.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
vs Pink Flamingoes vs Salo vs Out of Africa vs...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
EASY TARGET. SMOKE MORE WEED.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2010/01/500x_navisex.jpg
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
*yiff*
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
The ultimate intimacy
― touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible
― Dino-linguist Noam Chompsky (Pillbox), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 08:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
whoaboy
― The tendrils INTERTWINE with gentle undulations. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
"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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
"modern doctrines"
― living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"TWO BLESSINGS!"
- Cacciavillan & Bertone At The Movies
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a freakin' metaphor
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
shakey aren't you an atheist?
metaphor for what?
― chartres (goole), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I am definitely not an atheist!
― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
good day, sir!
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
xp oh, ok.
― chartres (goole), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link