Fucking Avatar

[Rama]

No. But she was a Honky taken and raised by the Indians. Thus the movie didn't promote interracial coupling.

[Fiero]

Oh, well then that is stupid, but fits the Mel Gibson agenda.

[B E C K]

Fake Indians should stick to other Fake Indians!  None of this interbreeding nonsense, like hooking up with Fake Chinese or Fake Mexicans!

[Rama]

It's unnatural it is.

[B E C K]

 

[Faye Valentine]

Let's see how many geeks name their kids after the main characters of this movie. I saw a msn article about how this past year the names "Bella" and "Edward" were the most popular. fucking geeks. fuck.

[Fiero]

They already are, I've heard.

[B E C K]

Avatar trailer to Pocahontas trailer audio:

"Neytiri" - http://www.babynamegenie.com/polls/148627/results
Here's one baby Neytiri... heh.  http://www.glidercentral.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/893942/Meet_Neytiri

I've read a couple of things (i.e. speculative articles from such beacons of journalism like The Sun) about the supposed new wave of Avatar inspired names but have seen no data on it.

[Fiero]

"I like it, I love different yet cute names.
tho i just have to say, that she might have to pron. her name for everyone her whole life."

It took me a minute to realize that this wasn't really bad English and that "pron" is supposed to be pronunciation.

[B E C K]

"James Cameron Reveals His Quest to Build More Perfect CGI Boobs" @ the aptly named, The Gawker - http://gawker.com/5403302/james-cameron-reveals-his-quest-to-build-more-perfect-cgi-boobs

[Fiero]

OMG HE WANTS 13 YEAR OLDS TO HAVE CHUBBIES HE IS A PEDO

[B E C K]

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?  That article title would've made more sense but it wasn't just white folks who made this movie and then proceeded to snap up tickets like piranas drugged up on stupid.  This kind of drones on and on to make its point; the quotes and comments are the better parts.  It does contain this quote from a black sci-fi writer:

In the US, to talk about race is to be seen as racist. You become the problem because you bring up the problem. So you find people who are hesitant to talk about it.

True and sad.

Also quotes some blogger who says this, although I think the first half says it all better than the second:

By the end of the film you're left wondering why the film needed the Jake Sully character at all. The film could have done just as well by focusing on an actual Na'vi native who comes into contact with crazy humans who have no respect for the environment. I can just see the explanation: "Well, we need someone (an avatar) for the audience to connect with. A normal guy will work better than these tall blue people." However, this is the type of thinking that molds all leads as white male characters (blank slates for the audience to project themselves upon) unless your name is Will Smith.

[IDE]

Yeah she got pregnant and then they decided to get married because of that which is ALWAYS a good idea.  Then 12 years later they got divorced (big surprise).

The End.

[Faye Valentine]

By the end of the film you're left wondering why the film needed the Jake Sully character at all. The film could have done just as well by focusing on an actual Na'vi native who comes into contact with crazy humans who have no respect for the environment.

More liek the film didn't need any character, period. Freaking Ferngully ripoff!

[The D]

"This dern thing is givin' me a headache!  I want my money back!"  I wonder how many people did that.  Can't you just take the glasses off and sit for the rest?  Not that I'd want to.  Or do you see those little colored lines coming from shit?

No, you can't watch it without the glasses. At least, I couldn't when I pulled off my glasses a few times during the movie to see what it looked like without them.

[Fiero]

My nephew is two. Just before his second birthday he went to Disneyworld with his parents, and my parents, and one of his other uncles family. They went to an exhibit they have there based on A Bug's Life. The first time a bug flew at him he threw his glasses off with vigor (I really wish they had videotaped it). He got used to it after awhile, but would still sometimes pull the glasses off.

[The D]

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"? 

I like the guy in that article that said the movie was the best one-dimensional 3D movie he's ever seen.

Pocahontas trailer with Avatar audio
The way Na'vi get it on (NSFW for Sully's drinking straw (literally) penis)

This being the first 3D film I've ever seen I was wowed solely by the 3D. It was very pretty.

As for the movie I nitpicked about all sorts of little things. Like why the idiot humans didn't just drill a horizontal shaft under the tree. Or why an alien species would have the same sexual rituals as humans, like making out, or doing it the same way humans do. And the sex scene wasn't even much of a sex scene, but a suck scene. Or the battle scene at the end that made all the battles in every St*r WarzzZZ prequel look 10 times better.

I liked the movie, but realized it's pretty preachy and not a very complex plot, not to mention no complex characters or good one liners. There are much better movies last year than this. And the entire movie is basically Imperial colonization meets enviromentalism, or Pocahontas meets Ferngully, or a tree-hugging hippie's wet dream.


What stumps me is why conservatives don't like this so much. I had this one guy who I know (but don't like) say it was all liberal propaganda. A whole "Colored people are victims of evil white people" crap. I'm not exactly sure how relocating/killing indigenous populations and destroying the environment for the purpose of strip mining an area is liberal propaganda, since this kind of stuff has actually happened in the past. And some corporations will do anything to turn a profit, even illegal stuff, and if anyone gets in their way it's their funeral.

I figure that the people complaining about this being liberal propaganda are just people who want to find something to bitch and whine about, either because they're attention whores, or they want to put themselves on a mighty moral high horse and show how much better they are than others.

Either that or they feel the movie hits too close to home and they feel guilty for something.

[Fiero]

Well, at least your parents are telling you its new age hippie religion propaganda.