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I thought the character was decent, but he actually looks greasy... No Greaseball needs to be actually covered in grease to be seen as such. Maybe they do, I dunno.
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
[img]There is no reaction image I can link to that would describe how I feel about this quote.[/img]
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Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
[img]There is no reaction image I can link to that would describe how I feel about this quote.[/img]
This one might work:
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.
"I wasn't depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ," Baghdassarian said. "But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."
A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.
"That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.
A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
Cameron's movie, which has pulled in more than $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales and could be on track to be the highest grossing film of all time, is set in the future when the Earth's resources have been pillaged by the human race. A greedy corporation is trying to mine the rare mineral unobtainium from the planet Pandora, which is inhabited by a peace-loving race of 7-foot tall, blue-skinned natives called the Na'vi.
In their race to mine for Pandora's resources, the humans clash with the Na'vi, leading to casualties on both sides. The world of Pandora is reminiscent of a prehistoric fantasyland, filled with dinosaur-like creatures mixed with the kinds of fauna you may find in the deep reaches of the ocean. Compared with life on Earth, Pandora is a beautiful, glowing utopia.
Ivar Hill posts to the "Avatar" forum page under the name Eltu. He wrote about his post-"Avatar" depression after he first saw the film earlier this month.
"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world."
Reached via e-mail in Sweden where he is studying game design, Hill, 17, explained that his feelings of despair made him desperately want to escape reality.
"One can say my depression was twofold: I was depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed like such a perfect place, but I was also depressed and disgusted with the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted to escape reality," Hill said.
Cameron's special effects masterpiece is very lifelike, and the 3-D performance capture and CGI effects essentially allow the viewer to enter the alien world of Pandora for the movie's 2½-hour running time, which only lends to the separation anxiety some individuals experience when they depart the movie theater.
"Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far," said Dr. Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. "It has taken the best of our technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect."
Fans of the movie may find actor Stephen Lang, who plays the villainous Col. Miles Quaritch in the film, an enemy of the Na'vi people and their sacred ground, an unlikely sympathizer. But Lang says he can understand the connection people are feeling with the movie.
"Pandora is a pristine world and there is the synergy between all of the creatures of the planet and I think that strikes a deep chord within people that has a wishfulness and a wistfulness to it," Lang said. "James Cameron had the technical resources to go along with this incredibly fertile imagination of his and his dream is built out of the same things that other peoples' dreams are made of."
The bright side is that for Hill and others like him -- who became dissatisfied with their own lives and with our imperfect world after enjoying the fictional creation of James Cameron -- becoming a part of a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them emerge from the darkness.
"After discussing on the forums for a while now, my depression is beginning to fade away. Having taken a part in many discussions concerning all this has really, really helped me," Hill said. "Before, I had lost the reason to keep on living -- but now it feels like these feelings are gradually being replaced with others."
Quentzel said creating relationships with others is one of the keys to human happiness, and that even if those connections are occurring online they are better than nothing.
"Obviously there is community building in these forums," Quentzel said. "It may be technologically different from other community building, but it serves the same purpose."
Within the fan community, suggestions for battling feelings of depression after seeing the movie include things like playing "Avatar" video games or downloading the movie soundtrack, in addition to encouraging members to relate to other people outside the virtual realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities.
It would be so awesome if all these people vowed to never have children. Of course the black hole created by the lameness makes chances of that highly likely...
Emo wussiesd. Where's Blade when you need him?
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
So how long until actual cults pop up? I give it a month.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
I think its just a cult trying to gain charitable status. At least, that's what I have to believe. Because if I have to take this seriously, I will lose all faith in humanity, and be forced to facepalm for 24 hours solid.
These people have no idea what depression's really like...
But seriously, if Hollywood made a movie claiming (insert name here) is some sort of divine being, then people probably would start believing it. There's real hope for humanity when people contemplate suicide after seeing a great movie
Ive long pointed this out to my missus when she talks about "nature" whenever we watch a BBC documentary in HD.
A helicopter with a HD camera flying over an arctic tundra makes the place look bloody lovely, as does a lush Jungle in Africa or the craggy snowcapped beauty of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan.
Now, i did my arctic training in Northern Norway, did a tour of Sierra Leone and went to Afghanistan twice, ive seen, nay, LIVED in all the places above.
Its fething horrible. The biting wind, the endless fething snow. The honking heat and humidity of the jungle, the bugs, the fething gak you have to eat when your there. The gakky sandy fething desert.. I have no desire to ever go to these places again as a resuly of my military training. I even look at hill walkers on Brecon or in the Lake District and think "sad bastards..." All that forced marching seems to have ruined it for me.
Anyway, the point is, sure it looks ace on 3D IMAX, but if any of these sad bastards actually went to a lush jungle, sat in the horrible wet heat, and got troughed by some fething ants before going to sleep in a TREE, they would be "Depressed" about not having Air conditioning, A cold bottle of water from the fridge, a decent meal and a proper comy matress to sleep on.
Oh, and it was an internet forum. Theres no electricity, let alone broadband on Pandora!
Be careful what you wish for sad bastards!
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
Valkyrie wrote:These people have no idea what depression's really like...
But seriously, if Hollywood made a movie claiming (insert name here) is some sort of divine being, then people probably would start believing it. There's real hope for humanity when people contemplate suicide after seeing a great movie
*Sarcastic mode off*
What's even more depressing is that people are threatening suicide after seeing a mediocre movie.
Howlingmoon wrote:well yeah. a lot of furries got depressed because they can't have Zoe Saladane as they're own personal blue catgirl thing.
Guess that makes me a furry then, who knew? Course with her being ten foot tall and all the phrase "hotdog down a hallway" comes to mind.
"This is the first community on the internet for Na'vi 'Kin - those who are Na'vi in human form. Be it reincarnated Na'vi, Na'vi on a mental level, or spiritual Na'vi, we have one thing in common - we are Na'vi, truly, in our hearts and at our cores.
The aim of We Are Na'vi is to provide a safe environment for Na'vi 'Kin to gather and talk. I am the first, but undoubtedly not the last. When more Awaken to their true selves and have the Realization they will doubtless seek out a place to call home and be themselves. We Are Na'vi is that place."
This is so stupid its physically painful to read. Therefore I quoted it in an effort to make others suffer.
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mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
They must be exaggerating for attention or depressed due to a chemical imbalance or something and making this their reason. I refuse to believe someone could be actually, really, depressed over something as trivial as this.
Jesus fething christ.
Ketara wrote:At least, that's what I have to believe. Because if I have to take this seriously, I will lose all faith in humanity, and be forced to facepalm for 24 hours solid.
It's too late for me, but there may still be time for you, Ketara.
Run! Run like the wind!
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
At least on other person finally agrees with me. I say that theses people should be given their dreams. Throw them into a jungle, either the amazon or congo. If 100 of these people were thrown in I would wager every dollar I have that no more than 5 survive a month. That solves all problems.
At least on other person finally agrees with me. I say that theses people should be given their dreams. Throw them into a jungle, either the amazon or congo. If 100 of these people were thrown in I would wager every dollar I have that no more than 5 survive a month. That solves all problems.
A month? Not even 5 would last that long in either without support.
Between the animals(chimpanzees alone in the Congo will tear a man apart without trouble, not to mention the various other species in both that are poisonous) and the various poisonous flora, most people wouldn't last a week left alone in there(especially if they had no wilderness training or knowledge of what's safe to eat and drink).
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
I can say that while these people need help, they actually need help. I have hardcore depression and have spent the night in a psych ward for attempting suicide so i can get the disconnect. You never know what it might take to trigger something that somebody has pent up, and I'm sure people have offed themselves for less. I know this is the internet, but you might try going easier on those of us who clearly have something wrong and need help Hopefully I'm not sounding preachy, not my intention at all.
That is what I meant when I said they must have already had a chemical imbalance. What makes it unbelieveable for me is that so many hardcore avatar fans would have a chemical imbalance like that- it's not THAT common. I've had the other kind of depression, the sort related to bad life events, and the triggers for that have to be a bit more extreme than a film in general, or your life must be incredibly sheltered, which I think makes you fair game for some slagging.
