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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.'"
>third-rate fantasy masturbatory session for furries and other WoW-playing losers.
Err, you do know youre posting on slashdot, right?
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?
"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!
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.
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...?