thatguy669606 2010-02-10 21:22:28

Thank you thank you thank you for this...at least I know I'm not the only person who thought that James Cameron totally took this from Pocahontas, or Dancing with Wolves, or The Last Samuri, or Fern Gully...just to name a few.

UnknowGhost 2010-02-11 09:13:13

omg.. when i sad this to my friends and company they told me that i'm too pragmatic, if it has succes it must be good ecc ecc.
when i wached it the only thing i liked was the hitech 3d, the fact that there were no stage used, and the plug&play bio-neuro-cable they had (an idea not well developed), but i felt the plot 15 years old, man umans can travel to another planet and cannot manage to win a war? they still have bullet weapons!!

anyway also check this <a href="http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/videos?bcpid=51434042001&bclid=41247345001&bctid=62889043001">http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/v ideos?bcpid=51434042001&bclid=412 47345001&bctid=62889043001</a>

molkman 2010-02-11 15:23:40

Why do you hold back The Lighthouse Girl for so long? It's such a great film and it's not worth showing it to a really small audience instead of just publishing it on the internet.

super-maruigi 2010-02-12 13:03:32

rtil, $2 million dollars does not mean that everyone thought it was a good movie. It just means that the movie had a lot of people going IN. Now, we all know that most people were going IN to expect a movie that was amazing, looking at all the hype it recieved, but you don't know that a lot of people may have been walking out not as satisfied. I read the whole "Avatar Blues" article, but I honestly haven't seen a whole lot of that stuff happening in my area, so I can say that most people I've seen weren't fully satisfied with Avatar.

Thing is, hype kills everything. Remember Paranormal Activity? It was supposed to be the scariest movie of all time. The majority of the people who went to see it came back saying things like, "Oh, it wasn't all THAT scary." With Avatar, it's the same story. I went in the theater not expecting too much, so I did enjoy the experience.

Sure, the plot may have been overused, but it I'll say this much about the movie; it really did suck you into that beautiful world of theirs. But again, the design of that beautiful world was inspired by the things we find in OUR beautiful world, so there's no need for people to long for the sight of Pandora again. Maybe if you left the house every once in a while, or took a vacation to someplace, you'd see that this world isn't as gray as you think it is.

But I'm just saying, it being on the top of the box office doesn't say anything about the quality of the movie itself. Remember, YOU contributed to that $2 million as well.

armydanywolf 2010-02-13 15:03:10

avatar is gay! overrated fucktard movie! blue gay fuckheads i hate them and im glad someone finally agrees!

Rezolution 2010-02-13 18:22:55

While all the other ranting is true, I think in the movie they were in reference to Unubtanium, which is indeed a real element, however, only atoms of it have been synthetically produced in laboratories. Of all of the rest of it, perhaps indeed they unintentionally (or intentionally) made a pun of the name, since it does sound like Unobtainium, if you say it at regular speaking speed. The 'Unub' is actually a modified latin prefix that refers to its atomic number as element 112. Just wanted to clear that up. (God damn I know too much...:/)

MyNameIsDeath 2010-02-17 11:42:53

I think it quite proves that if you dump a shitta cash into a crappy scenario,the scenario doesn't get less crappy.

Emanhattan 2010-02-17 13:22:57

cant wait to see the sequel!

Tenkisin 2010-02-20 03:21:37

it's really funny because its true lol.

Sandling 2010-02-22 08:57:33

Because the guilt reminds us of what and what not to do. Those who dont experence that are cold. As for wanting to "live" in pandora. Seems a bit childish I remeber as a kid I wanted to live in the Pokemon world(It was originally a manga). Which is based off of are own world. I read in a positive quote in a book called Lord of the Flies(Lost is based off of this book and several other things :/)that the best fantasies are close to are own. People want to live in another world because its an escape. To answer your question. We a very ditached. I dont agree or approve that the script is copied off of Pocahontas. But even Disney didn't entirley come up with that Idea it was based of a real story. I didnt like the 3-d effects they hurt my eyes sitting in a thearter for 3 hours I would have preffered a movie with out "3-d" effects. But then I again Im a bit old school I prefer 2-d. But anyway. Just want to say Almost every thing today is ripped off nothing is really original anymore and the things that are, are overlooked. I could get into a whole nother debait about that. But most of the time we just re-invent the wheel because the old ideas were so good. But one day we will come up with original Ideas as we did in the past instead of tweaking the old. And we will experiance the "enlightenment" once again.(The Industrial revolution). One can hope.

Vert 2010-02-22 17:08:54

Just seen Ponyo, not Hayao Miyazaki's best work (Spirited Away, for one, is better), but still was a joy to watch, specially seeing it in a cinema, where the amazing visuals really shine! Worth the wait, I just hope it doesn't take so long for his next movie to be released.

Btw, some really nice work you've been uploading on NG lately, I specially liked the 'no' picture and the medigirl, they look particularly nice!

eVo121 2010-02-24 02:49:18

Oh come on it couldn't have been that bad. I liked it, i thought pandora was an absolutely gorgeous place, and that he portrayed life as a... whatever they are called... in an interesting fashion. I dunno why you hate it so much D:

I guess if you focus less on being immersed in a new world and more on picking out all the flaws and plot holes or whatever then the movie would suck x_x but that same rule applies to any movie..

Oh well, sorry you didn't like it.

Gabox32X 2010-02-26 11:13:49

Jeje This is a great job the best comparation EVAA!!!!
(Uh im sorry this is a shit) XDXD

Good work and see my profile (god damn im soo noob
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JackieBlue 2010-03-02 18:42:14

"although to his credit nothing really good has come out recently... "

While I agree with everything else right down to the punctuation mark, I can't say I agree with this. I really enjoyed 'Inglourious Basterds', 'Precious', and 'An Education'

DocDemigod 2010-03-04 01:14:29

If I had realized how bad it was after paying for the ticket, I would've put the cash in my microwave and watched it curl and burn for a more entertaining show.

Sci-Fi 2010-03-08 05:18:52

i think what your trying to say is that it was a little overrated. cause as far as films go, this one was a 10. the plots been done, but every plot has been rehashed and re-told. i think your problem is the buy in. most people that don't like sci-fi/fantasy/horror(sometimes) have a problem buying into the characters and the world. you got hung up on to much crap. the film was great, lovely bones was great, but really Mark Walbern(or whatever)...plus Zoe Saldana is hot even as a giant blue person

ChromeChild 2010-03-09 20:16:00

Part of what made it successful is it was littered with truths so....yeah

duon44 2010-03-13 10:48:44

It was a great movie i really liked the 3d and all the nice effects and stuff, but, it is (like you've pointed out in the image) just like pocahontas. And by the way Pandora isn't even a planet ( in real life) it's one of the moons of Saturn -_-

Simon150999 2010-03-14 13:48:04

Very well.
Exackl how it is.
Just a damn copy of something other.

OmnislashMaster 2010-03-14 20:13:00

Sigh. And the criticism never ends...

I like it how many people are so quick to bash Avatar for it's 'unoriginal' plot (true originality has died a long time ago) and 'mediocre' dialogue, etc. Now, while I agree that Avatar's premise is not the most original idea, it's predictable, and that the dialogue may not have been Shakespeare-level material, but for what the movie was trying to accomplish - being a sci-fi epic - it did it's job rather well. Not since The Return of the King have I enjoyed a film that marveled me on so many levels or wanted me to see the film again in theaters just to get the adrenaline rush of the adventure. I loved every minute of it, and it was worth the ticket price every time.