_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

EASY TARGET. SMOKE MORE WEED.

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*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

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

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.

having a funny convo w/ a friend who agrees with me about everything except that he loved it

*****: the pivotal scene in avatar
*****: is the one where america launches a 9/11 attack on sioux jerusalem
me: lmao
*****: and it only gets more convoluted from there
*****: i love it

*****: 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

What was convoluted about the movie? It was pretty fucking straightforward.

i think what he means is pretty clearly conveyed in the above quotes

Goddammit I want to go see it in Imax 3d but those shows are still totally selling out and I want to be in a theater that is half full at best.

Being a peasant I don't think I've been to see a 3D movie before and I was astonished by this. However, although I quite enjoyed all the running round the jungle the story was pretty excruciating. I think, regardless of whether you find the

it's the embarrassment of watching a film which is all about the peace and love but whose narrative and aesthetic is almost entirely 'we need american football style jocks and nubile big-eyed scantily clad maidens (although with blue buttcheeks) to make out and we need a massive fight with a big baddie at the end who won't die' ie the opposite of the whole aesthetic. Cowboys and indians (almost literally) but in a mantle of second-hand spiritual stuff.

Yep, that's what's going to save earth.

Also, I know he's supposed to be a moron, but really - 'She told me how everything was interconnected, I think I'm beginning to understand.'

Of course I wasn't thinking that at the time, I was just wincing and pulling a face every now and then, but in retrospect I think that was at the root of most the wincing and face pulling.

Did anyone else's eyes hurt after seeing it? I wear glasses anyway, so I was wondering if it was that, but then I wondered whether it was a result of trying to focus on things that you couldn't really focus on.

3D was impressive. One eye watered a little towards the beginning, & the glasses gave me a head/toothache somewhere in the middle, but that went when I fiddled with them a bit.

Was most impressed by the solid, dirty, real-looking machines towards the beginning. Forgot how good Cameron was at military-industrial SF. More in awe at that than the Whirl-y-gig stuff.

Carried me along. Only got bored during some tribal life bits, smelt a bit of Consultant Anthropologist.

Whoops, unfinished sentence.

Was clearly supposed to read 'regardless of whether you find the EYWA'.

I suspect watching the movie with 3D glasses over my normal glasses was responsible for the headache I got a few hours after leaving the theater. I am one person who doesn't give a shit about 3D.