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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/13/2010 7:59:57 PM

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Um, yes, as to the OP, I've been referencing it as James Cameron's $260 million dollar remake of Ferngully. When I'm not referencing it as 'Dances With Smurfs' (nods to the South Park boys) . . . . . & yes, it was good. Amazing special effects, huge visual fantabulousness, very cool, etc etc . . . . Just, yeah, made me wanna go home & watch Ferngully, frankly . . . ....

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/14/2010 6:38:12 AM

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I am glad you remembered or the next time I talk to him I would have to tell him how utterly forgettable he is!

Not utterly forgettable, just partially forgettable.

I kept thinking “synchronicity” and I knew that wasn’t right. If it’s any consolation, there are lots of posters who have stopped posting and whose screen names I can’t remember. That Sponge Bob guy, the guy with the sun glasses and the big grin, the old hippie with the walking stick guy…

"synchronicity? ... no.... Synonym? ...no..."

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/14/2010 7:51:59 AM

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hat Sponge Bob guy, the guy with the sun glasses and the big grin, the old hippie with the walking stick guy…

And my memory is so bad these days I cannot figure out who you are talking about!

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/14/2010 12:33:11 PM

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And my memory is so bad these days I cannot figure out who you are talking about!

When people disappear from the boards I tend to remember their avatars rather than their screen names. Maybe it has something to do with my being left handed and therefore (supposedly) more visually and abstract oriented. I dunno.

Anyway, Sponge Bob guy (in other words a poster with Sponge Bob as his avatar) came and went during your absense and so to, I think, did sun glasses and big grin guy. As for hippie guy, I'm pretty sure he was posting back when you were on earlier. His avatar was an old hippie looking guy wearing sun glasses and a hawaiian shirt, holding a walking stick and flashing a peace sign. For the life of me though, I can't remeber his screen name. Oh well, such is life.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/15/2010 2:42:20 PM

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On graduate student money I can't afford it twice

just sneak into a multiplex, its easy peasy in the daytime!

as for the film, well there arent that many blockbusters with original scripts to start with, as film itself its pretty average but its such a visual treat that all that can be forgiven... I'd imagine watching it on a DVD at home would be 2.5 of the dullest hours imaginable though...

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/17/2010 8:42:28 PM

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You are thinking of farglebargle, with the aging hippie avatar, Marc.

I held off on reading this thread until I saw the movie. I can't speak to Ferngully, because I never saw it. Did that have an utterly predictable storyline, too? Absolutely stunning visually, though. I don't think I have ever seen a CGI world rendered so well.

I saw a little blurb on my homepage that it has surpassed Star Wars for the all-time box-office record. Personally, I think they need to adjust that for inflation before Cameron takes any bragging rights. $9.25, and that was the matinee price.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/17/2010 8:45:58 PM

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You are thinking of farglebargle, with the aging hippie avatar, Marc.

Bingo!

Thanks.

I wonder what became of him.

He was a pretty interesting poster although toward the end there he was kind of going down the realone/pahunkboy route if you know what I mean.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/18/2010 5:45:48 AM

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I hate Avatar. All my friends are obsessed about that movie and cant stop talking about it. I didnt like it at all

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/18/2010 5:58:25 AM

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I saw that it won the Golden Globe for best drama last night..... I may very well refuse to ever watch the Oscars again, if it wins Best Picture there.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/18/2010 8:06:29 AM

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You still watch the Oscars? Lost in Translation winning for best original screenplay broke the camel's back for me.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/18/2010 9:48:21 AM

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I liked that movie! Honestly, I disagreed more with the Best Adapted category, with Lord of the Rings beating Mystic River.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/20/2010 2:52:18 AM

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The special effects are incredible. Worth the $15 to see it in imax 3d. Didn't care for the predictable "Marines are big stupid killers" routine, but knew going into a James Cameron movie that i'd have to suspend disbelief in more than the usual ways. Once the battles started I kept thinking Big blue indians and mechanized cowboys (but actually wanting the indians to win this time).

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/20/2010 2:55:12 AM

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OMG I soooo loved this movie! I RARELY watch a movie twice, but I think I'd head back to the theater to see this one again!

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/20/2010 12:50:49 PM

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You are thinking of farglebargle, with the aging hippie avatar, Marc.

I held off on reading this thread until I saw the movie. I can't speak to Ferngully, because I never saw it. Did that have an utterly predictable storyline, too? Absolutely stunning visually, though. I don't think I have ever seen a CGI world rendered so well.

I saw a little blurb on my homepage that it has surpassed Star Wars for the all-time box-office record. Personally, I think they need to adjust that for inflation before Cameron takes any bragging rights. $9.25, and that was the matinee price.

We paid $16 something to see it IMAX, which I am glad we did... totally worth it!

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/20/2010 12:52:11 PM

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"Marines are big stupid killers" routine,

Actually the hero was a marine

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/22/2010 10:35:02 AM

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Both movies had simular themes, the enviroment. However Avatar also had cultural and social issues, a cultural is in the way of our getting something a corperation can make millions on selling, what is the answer, reduce the cultural to basically on object that we are superior to and this give us the right to destory them to get what we want.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/22/2010 10:39:27 AM

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Both movies had simular themes, the enviroment. However Avatar also had cultural and social issues, a cultural is in the way of our getting something a corperation can make millions on selling, what is the answer, reduce the cultural to basically on object that we are superior to and this give us the right to destory them to get what we want.

Which is why it fed my hippie dippy liberalness. He was doing what anthropologists call "participant observation" and then he went "Native" on his bosses....

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/22/2010 10:52:39 AM

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I really liked th movie. It wasn't original in any way as far as the story or dialog. It's a story people have been telling for thousands of years;

1. the main character discovers another culture they haven't encountered before.
2. The main character lives with that culture and learns that they have value, even though they are very different from the main characters home culture.
3. Main character defends the new culture against the home culture.

Dances with wolves, fern gully, Pathfinder, pocahontas, the last samurai, etc. Its an old story.

James cameron took a known theme, and told it beautifully. The characters were well rounded. The villains were easy to hate without becoming two-dimensional.

The effects were icing on the cake. gorgeous and adds to the story immensely, but secondary.

My main issue is how much praise he's getting for how much the movie is making. Of course the movie will make 400+ million; each ticket is $15. This is more an issue of how studios rate the success of films in general than Avatar specifically. I always felt it made more sense to rate a film by how many tickets it sold. $100 million in ticket sales now isn't nearly as many butts in theater seats as $100 million in 1975, or even 1945.

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/22/2010 10:54:14 AM

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Joseph Campbell... heroes journey

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RE: Avatar - The movie - 1/29/2010 2:53:23 PM

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Sinergy and I are going to go see Avatar again... yay!

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