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Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate?
brumgrunt writes "Den Of Geek wonders if James Cameron's Avatar is heading for a fall, and if it will even be a science fiction film, off the back of the previews shown last week. It writes: 'It seems in Avatar that all this gee-whiz science is merely there to draw the "old crowd" in and provide some kind of rationale for a brightly-coloured fantasy-world which reflects the most emetic of the artwork plastered over teenage girls' MySpace pages.'"
Uhhh...the movie is supposed to convince people to dress in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Windrunner athletic shoes, and armband patches reading "Avatar Away Team" before committing suicide by mixing barbituates with vodka and plastic bags?
If Rocky Horror Picture Show didn't induce that type of cult-like following -- though it was damn close -- I have a hard time imagining Avatar will.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
And, may I add, perfectly...
The word you're looking for here is "Cromulent"
>third-rate fantasy masturbatory session for furries and other WoW-playing losers.
Err, you do know youre posting on slashdot, right?
I mean, it's based on the fantasy TV show of the same name that's on Nick, right?
Only if "Air Bender" is a new ball shoe endorsed by a Futurama character.
For a moment there I read this comment as "No one wants to see tall blue Elvis Ewoks", and I was about to argue most vehemently that that's exactly what I do want to see in a movie.
Yeah, I don't understand the Heaven's Gate reference. Are the developers going to commit mass suicide?
We can repair the body, or build a new body, but the brain has given up and thinks that the fixed or new body is still broken.
And we can't fix brains, we just know how to move them. It's like you fucking nerds installing a CPU. You don't know shit about how it works, and you could never fucking make one - you just know how to plug it in.
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At least that's the shitty argument the fucking furries will throw at you.
The man can throw elephant dung at a screen and his fans will marvel at how original it was he used elephant dung...
If you've ever seen the size of a pile of elephant dung, you'd understand why people marvel that he used elephant dung.
I mean, just look at the size of the toilet that is needed!
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"No one wants to see tall blue Elvish Ewoks."
For a moment there I read this comment as "No one wants to see tall blue Elvis Ewoks", and I was about to argue most vehemently that that's exactly what I do want to see in a movie.
Naked tall blue Elvis Ewoks.
Oh, God, I just wrote "Watchmen II"
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
This looks like Dances with Wolves in Space
I want this movie to succeed only so that it may have a Broadway adaptation and then later become a traveling figure skating exhibit. I mean, who wouldn't want to see "River Dances with Wolves in Space on Ice?"
I once knew an "airbender". We called him "The Last Windbreaker". He claimed it had something to do with enzymes, and digestion. The breakdown of vegetable material in the greater intestine was mentioned.
As far as first impressions? He didn't make a good one - let's leave it at that.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
His spinal cord is emitting subspace tachyon flux rays that block any attempts at repair.
They even tried the Main Deflector Dish, but the spinal capacitance field blocked it.
That was my first impression as well. It doesn't do much to convince me that the movie will be legitimate science-fiction, rather than fluffy science-fantasy, when the aliens are bright anime-blue with giant cartoon doe-eyes.
And me thinking it was a furry kill fest. A chance to see those pests killed by the thousands by mechs and mowed down by machine guns while they moaned pitifully, waving their little bows and orangina bottles and fluttering those big eyelids before being crushed by gigantic robotic armored suits.
I too would have waited 10 or 15 years to get it just right. To get the fur to ripple just so as the metal squashes it into the mud.
And I was so eager to see it too... I'm so disappointed.
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Actually the mech wasn't the badguy, the humans running it just accidentally let out the bad guy by cutting up the tree he was magically imprisoned in.
What, why are you all looking at me like that?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Wouldn't that be "Suffocates Wolves"?
I was watching Matrix Reloaded last night and I realized that they probably won't make movies like that again.
And that's a bad thing because...?
This "Avatar" is unrelated to that one. Needless to say, I was still rather confused.
Even more so, here.
I've been playing old school (Pre-EA) Ultima, where every third schmo on the street greets you with something along the lines of:
"Avatar, you must save my son from the daemons!"
"Avatar, seek out the rune of Compassion!"
"Avatar, have you seen my daughter that I left in a tree stump last week?"
...So I understandably mis-parsed the article title "Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate?"
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
At least they saved money by using an installed-by-default font in the logo.
That's only for the sneak preview- they're using Comic Sans for the final release.
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Bankrupt Fox? I'll make sure I don't see it in that case. Just doing my part!
There is a war going on for your mind.
OK, lets review what we've seen so far.
Spaceships? Check.
Mech-suits? Check.
Aliens? Check.
How could Avatar possibly be considered sci-fi...
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
"I complain on forums about video games that I haven't even played!"
Sweet... you post on the SW: TOR forums too?