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Since everyone tells that Avatar is da movie of the year,I found it very average in it's story.Film to me is good because of it's special effects.
I hate the main character and the fact that RDA didn't bring heavy weapons on Pandora(they were prohibited from that I think)like nukes(they wanted planet intact,but they could bombard Mary Sue Smurfs in case of their defeat) and some vehicles.
What an idiot would make such a big visor on that exoskeleton.
RDA was defeated by some Deus Ex Machinima planet's intelligence(which seems to be stolen form some game which name I can not recall) and I couldn't resist to see some 40k on Pandora(Catchans fighting Na'vi and Space Marines slaughtering anything).

IvanTih wrote:What an idiot would make such a big visor on that exoskeleton.

It's not just a military weapon. It was also used to do heavy lifting and whatnot at the main base.

It suffers because of this dual role. I highly doubt that it was originally supposed to be a military weapon in the first place.

Yeah, story is pretty much Native-American vs. conquerors set in the future. Very cliche. Special effects yeah i liked them too.

Seemed like a good movie to watch on a huge with some friends eating popcorn, drinking beer and ripping off on the characters. I wouldn't see it twice however, i just find it...not worthy.

I think all the big fuss they make about it has absolutely no basis except for the effects, technology involved in its production, and the huge, huge budget

Vladsimpaler wrote:

IvanTih wrote:What an idiot would make such a big visor on that exoskeleton.

It's not just a military weapon. It was also used to do heavy lifting and whatnot at the main base.

It suffers because of this dual role. I highly doubt that it was originally supposed to be a military weapon in the first place.

Read that on wiki,they should make like a Dreadnought.

IvanTih wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

IvanTih wrote:What an idiot would make such a big visor on that exoskeleton.

It's not just a military weapon. It was also used to do heavy lifting and whatnot at the main base.

It suffers because of this dual role. I highly doubt that it was originally supposed to be a military weapon in the first place.

Read that on wiki,they should make like a Dreadnought.

And entomb a blue smurf in it

aka_tizz wrote:

IvanTih wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

IvanTih wrote:What an idiot would make such a big visor on that exoskeleton.

It's not just a military weapon. It was also used to do heavy lifting and whatnot at the main base.

It suffers because of this dual role. I highly doubt that it was originally supposed to be a military weapon in the first place.

Read that on wiki,they should make like a Dreadnought.

And entomb a blue avatar in it

Fixed.

I think avatars represent vido games. then sully starts to say that he doesnt know whats real. i think its about the blurring and satire of vid games.
and seriously can we stop with are the avatar threads?

Why? It's a good place to rip off on it

Avatar is like a really plain girl with a fantastic make up job.
The plot is fairly uninspired, and has been run through in countless other movies, but the special effects were incredible.

garret wrote:I think avatars represent vido games. then sully starts to say that he doesnt know whats real. i think its about the blurring and satire of vid games.
and seriously can we stop with are the avatar threads?

People are all butt-hurt that a movie that they nit-picked to death has made over 2 billion USD world-wide.

I think that I'll go see it again to spite them.

only thing that bothered me was that human lost. . . . and that they blew up a SPACE SHUTTLE with a GRENADE. . . it doesn't work!!!

Unobtanium

Gwar! wrote:Unobtanium

I know, what the feth James Cameron.

And of course, this:

To be fair Pocahontas is just the standard White Guilt Plot Template. I am sure you could fit Dances with wolves, Last Samurai or any other movie with a white star in a sea of minorities.

I disliked the fact that you knew exactly what was going to happen all along. When the guy gets on the horse, we all knew he was going to fall off but we'd love him anyway. *blegh*

But truth be told I've seen worse movies.

Yeah. But the thing that really sucked(imo) was the ending. I mean, what the hell? Some priestess transports his soul to his avatar body. How in god's name could that happen?

what i was wondering. Was pandora just one big giant brain. Was eywa juat the concious of that brain.
Also i hate how they portrayed marines in that movie. they portrayed them as monsters. I hate movies that protray the military like monsters.


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also if they use there little hair braid connecting thing for intercourse with eachother. does that mean i what think it means with the animals.

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Pocahontas" bs that's going on in the Off Topic forum right now. Avatar deserves much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine plotline from James Cameron for $500,000,000 (that's about 45,000,000,000 yen) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid insomnia with my plotline.

Famous directors spend years working on a single Avatar and repeat cliches up to a million times to produce the finest movie known to mankind.

Avatar is thrice as long as Pocahontas and thrice as ham-fisted for that matter too. Anything Pocahontas can preach, Avatar can preach better. I'm pretty sure Avatar could easily bisect a Captain Planet episode with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why Star Wars never bothered conquering Avatar? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Cameron and his boilerplates of destruction. Even in World War II, Internet soldiers targeted the plotline of Avatar first because it's killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Dances with Wolves is simply the best movie that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the Oscar system. Here is the stat block I propose for Avatar:

Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing, Best Characters, Best Aesop, Best CGI, Best Director, Counts as Original

Now that seems a lot more representative of the entertaining power of Avatar in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Avatar needs to do more damage in the Oscars, see my new stat block.

You had to do that, didn't you? You just had to bring in that copypasta?

Orkeosaurus wrote:That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Pocahontas" bs that's going on in the Off Topic forum right now. Avatar deserves much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine plotline from James Cameron for $500,000,000 (that's about 45,000,000,000 yen) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid insomnia with my plotline.

Famous directors spend years working on a single Avatar and repeat cliches up to a million times to produce the finest movie known to mankind.

Avatar is thrice as long as Pocahontas and thrice as ham-fisted for that matter too. Anything Pocahontas can preach, Avatar can preach better. I'm pretty sure Avatar could easily bisect a Captain Planet episode with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why Star Wars never bothered conquering Avatar? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Cameron and his boilerplates of destruction. Even in World War II, Internet soldiers targeted the plotline of Avatar first because it's killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Dances with Wolves is simply the best movie that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the Oscar system. Here is the stat block I propose for Avatar:

Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing, Best Characters, Best Aesop, Best CGI, Best Director, Counts as Original

Now that seems a lot more representative of the entertaining power of Avatar in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Avatar needs to do more damage in the Oscars, see my new stat block.

can some one please explained what just happened here my brain sploded

I read this
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/01/13/6-reasons-avatar-sucks/

I hated the entire thing from start to finish, it was the most corny cliched plot i have seen in 15 years and if i wasnt in an IMAX theatre i would have walked out.

Things I hate about Avatar...

The online nerd rage it has caused.

Thats the only thing so far.

IG rip-off.
Protoss rip-off.
Looks like a disney movie.

Wtf is going on in the entire movie. What is the point of a movie like this?

And nids were complete rip offs of Zerg!

what? no .
Zerg are tryanid rip offs.
tyranids came 20 years before them.
Please do not start this fight!

Asherian Command wrote:what? no .
Zerg are tryanid rip offs.
tyranids came 20 years before them.
Please do not start this fight!

The point is that IG and Protoss are themselves derivative - there's nothing new under the sun and there's nothing wrong with that. What makes the background of 40K an original, valuable work is the way in which it is realised with miniatures. What makes Avatar an original, valuable work is the way in which the story is realised with imagery previously impossible.

What's odd is how often geeks will rail against whatever's popular, they just can't stand that something might be a mainstream success even though it didn't meet their personal film preferences. It's odd that people would complain about how unoriginal a film is in a thread that's so very old, so very predictable.

well just saying the soliders in Avatar are IG cadians.............
So wtf?
i liked the movie. but its not movie of the year.

I wonder how they will do the sequel? Ships come and burn everything on the surface? Then when the fires die out they build a mining instalation.

And why can everything connect with everything? What is the evolutionary point to it? But in the end i found it nice enough if you dont think to much about it.

Grtz
L.D.

Do you mean that hair thing that the blue guys have? If you do,then I agree with you. Pandoran evolution is messed up.