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Pickles beat me to it. These people need to seriously re-evaluate what they are doing with their lives.

At the risk of sounding like an idiot I am seriously amazed some times at what we are. I mean humans in general. While the rest of our planet is busy building nests out of twigs, throwing shit at one another and humping just to perpetuate the species; I am able to buy an ounce of meth, go into a 900 dollar a night hotel with 6 of Cookies best holes and watch Al-Jazerria on the other side of the planet. I mean Jesus people just because we do not have some symbiotic relationship with fucking Mother Earth does not mean its the end of the damn world. Sure who wouldn't want to mainline memories and what not? That would be swell, you could talk to great great great great grandpa. Super! But god damn, we have been to the moon! Soon enough we are going to take commercial flights into outer space for shits and giggles.

Add to the fact that they are fucking ALIENS. Humans cannot possibly stand to live in their socialist utopia. We are a race of haves and have nots. It is not in our nature to live and let live, to share as one conscious body etc. We just cannot do it.

And in closing, its a movie its all fake. Hell Mr. Cameron just retold the story of the Native Americans, but instead of shitty plots of land no one wants and casinos he gave them a happy ending.
 
DarkHand said:
Not really uncomfortable, but Final Fantasy and Beowulf characters, for example, definitely looked unconvincing and even creepy at times. Granted, at other times it was so fluid I would forget they were CGI, but I was weirded out far more than I was convinced.
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Gotcha. See, I'm not sure if Avatar would really count as an example of Uncanny Valley or not, seeing as the characters aren't CG humans, but rather an alien race. A very photorealistic alien race, but an alien race nonetheless...
 
Drake said:
Hell Mr. Cameron just retold the story of the Native Americans, but instead of shitty plots of land no one wants and casinos he gave them a happy ending.
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Yeah, if anyone's praising the movie because of the plot, then, well, they shouldn't. It's far from original. This story has been told a billion times before...Dances with Wolves, Dune, Pocahantas, Fern Gully, etc.

The special effects were the draw for me...
 
No doubt about it, that is why I have been saying that District 9 is a much better movie over all but Avatar owns in terms of visuals. Now if they could come up with an original story with those visuals it would be simply amazing.
 
Drake said:
No doubt about it, that is why I have been saying that District 9 is a much better movie over all but Avatar owns in terms of visuals. Now if they could come up with an original story with those visuals it would be simply amazing.
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DarkHand said:
Not really uncomfortable, but Final Fantasy and Beowulf characters, for example, definitely looked unconvincing and even creepy at times. Granted, at other times it was so fluid I would forget they were CGI, but I was weirded out far more than I was convinced.
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We talked about this in my computer graphics class in college back in like 2001. The closer you get to "the real thing" the more the human eye looks for differences and the more unpleasant the experience. It is actually better to do CG with "cartoonish" characters instead of trying to make them look real.
 
@ These idiots thinking the avatar wrld is better than our own . . did they not hear the punch line about how humans cannot breathe the atmosphere of the avatar planet?

Also, the movie made no mention of the horrid types of bacteria/mosquitoes/snakes/parasites that must populate the naviv's world . . . not to mention how bad shit must smell - not one time did I see anything that looked like a shower or even a hair brush.

They must have horrid, glow in the dark lice covering their scalps.
 
Cashizslick said:
@ These idiots thinking the avatar wrld is better than our own . . did they not hear the punch line about how humans cannot breathe the atmosphere of the avatar planet?

Also, the movie made no mention of the horrid types of bacteria/mosquitoes/snakes/parasites that must populate the naviv's world . . . not to mention how bad shit must smell - not one time did I see anything that looked like a shower or even a hair brush.

They must have horrid, glow in the dark lice covering their scalps.
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I think they were saying that they hoped to die and be reincarnated as a denizen of Pandora, not that they wanted to live there as a human.

Either way though, it's still fucking retarded... :shrug2:
 
So I was sitting here and something hit me. Unobtanium was ripped off too. That movie The Core the ship they use, the skin is made out of Unobtanium.
 
Drake said:
So I was sitting here and something hit me. Unobtanium was ripped off too. That movie The Core the ship they use, the skin is made out of Unobtanium.
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Unobtanium is a generic term for something that would be perfect to have but can't be gotten.

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Unobtainium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - In engineering, fiction, or thought experiments, unobtainium is a humorous concept for any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. The properties of any particular unobtainium depend on the intended use. For example, a pulley made of unobtainium might be massless and frictionless. However, if used in a nuclear rocket, unobtainium would be light, strong at high temperatures, and resistant to radiation damage.
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And yes it's totally lame that movies actually use it as a serious term. :p
 
from urban dictionary

unobtainium

the gayest word ever created
Joey used the word "unobtainium", so everyone kicked his ass and lit him on fire.
 
Ohhhh okay, that makes more sense I suppose. I didn't realize that it was a real term, it sounds so cheesy I should have figured it was a real term haha.
 
1st avatar related death

Man died after watching Avatar - doctor | News.com.au

A 42-year-old Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure has died of a stroke likely triggered by over-excitement from watching the blockbuster Avatar in 3D, a doctor says.

The man, identified only by his surname Kuo, started to feel unwell during the screening earlier this month in the northern city of Hsinchu and was taken to hospital.

Mr Kuo, who suffered from hypertension, was unconscious when he arrived at the Nan Men General Hospital and a scan showed that his brain was haemorrhaging, emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih said today.

"It's likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms,'' the doctor said.

Mr Kuo died 11 days later from the brain haemorrhage, and the China Times newspaper said it was the first death linked to watching James Cameron's science-fiction epic Avatar.

Film blogging sites have reported complaints of headaches, dizziness, nausea and blurry eyesight from viewers of Avatar and other movies rich in 3D imagery.
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Simply stunning. Thats an extra 100k in Cameron's account.
 
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