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[SandChigger]

Some of the nutjobs this thing is drawing would buy the teleportation with no problem if you portrayed it as something done through the divine power of Eywa.

Sheesh.

[Ampoliros]

I really hope the Na'vi procreate through chest bursting.

[SandChigger]

Now THAT was funny. Mind if I repost that over on the Official Avatar page on FB? I'm experimenting with ways to piss off 800,000 people.

Anyone seen this?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Mov ... vie.blues/

Pathetic, just pathetic. Part of me wants to tell the poor, sensitive wishy-washy-suicidal things to just get it over with and clear up the resources for others to use.

I mean, come on, how many ways can you say LOSER?

[Omphalos]

Sounds like that group of 800K strong fans may be losing one or two soon, huh?

[Nekhrun]

Pathetic, just pathetic. Part of me wants to tell the poor, sensitive wishy-washy-suicidal things to just get it over with and clear up the resources for others to use.

I mean, come on, how many ways can you say LOSER?

Blue is the new black.

[SandChigger]

I feel a Blue Like Me fanfic coming on!

My copy of the "Survival Guide" book arrived yesterday. What a piece of shite.

OK, I knew it was going to be an in-universe guide for subversives/activists, but the intro & first section are just over the fucking top. Feh.

I was really hoping for some details on the fictional Alpha Centauri A system, but it's sadly lacking. They tell you the gas giant has 14 moons but not which one of them is Pandora. (From the fact that moons five and six have substantial nitrogen-oxygen atmospheres, I guess it's one or the other.) Fucking hack job.

The Na'vi are classified taxonomically as Homo pandorus.

Excuse me? How did a species of alien blue Smurfkitties end up in a Terran primate genus?

Moronic.

Plus someone informed me that Cameron has termed the work "sci-fi + fantasy". ... Fantasy? Right, that's it, I'm out the door.

[Omphalos]

Bet you'd wished you'd finished taking that dump, huh?

[SandChigger]

For shits and giggles last night before leaving the office, I ran the Stargen program about 10,000 times with Alf Cen A as the star and there was NOT ONE result with three gas giants. It's either two rocky planets and one jovian or a rock, a dwarf jovian (just a few times bigger than the Earth), and a regular jovian. (That's just based on the mass of the star, doesn't take the fact that Alf Cen is binary [trinary if you count Proxima] into account, and doesn't handle "hot jupiters" ... so grain of salt time.)

More damning is the fact that if there were jovians around either Alf Cen A or B, we would already know it. (We're pretty good now at finding jovians.)

Frank Herbert can be excused for having put planets where we now know none exist or are even possible, because we didn't know then what we know now, but this crap just flies in the face of what is known. It's "science fiction" that says "Fuck you!" to Science. A pick-and-choose universe means ... fantasy.

Feh.

[Ampoliros]

maybe Na'vi is the new emo?

[SandChigger]

I think I'm going to take a hint from Tleszer and Na'vi-ize my buttocks.

That'd shock the childlike simpletons, what?

[chanilover]

:lol:

Now THAT was funny. Mind if I repost that over on the Official Avatar page on FB? I'm experimenting with ways to piss off 800,000 people.

Anyone seen this?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Mov ... vie.blues/

Pathetic, just pathetic. Part of me wants to tell the poor, sensitive wishy-washy-suicidal things to just get it over with and clear up the resources for others to use.

I mean, come on, how many ways can you say LOSER?

LOL. Look at that guy chomping his way through a whole pizza on his own.

[SandChigger]

He forms a nice contrast with this:

Some nutjob showed up on the FB Avatar page forums yesterday saying that the PETA "Proggy" award Cameron received recently was a nice thing, but the scene with the killing of the peacock-deer-like-thingy for food was too much and that he hoped Cameron would contact such-and-such author and reconsider his position on hunting before he makes a sequel.

Naturally, I replied with a link to that People Eating Tasty Animals group. He came back with "well, you keep right on eating meat and let's see who lives longer."

Hey, I may not live as long eating meat, but I'm eating BETTER than the PETArds and Vegoons.

[Ampoliros]

We could start a whole line of anti-avatar t-shirts

"Before you go to Pandora, take a Valium"

"My Whole World is 3D"

"My T-shirt is from the Future, It came back in time to keep me from being as pathetic as Na'vi fanboys. Looks like its working!"

[SandChigger]

More like, before you go, have a lobotomy.

Feh.

[Eyes High]

Well I actually sprung to see this one in '3D' at the regular theatre. Dang! I didn't realize movie tickets had gotten so high and we went to the matinee.

This was a pure fantasy film. PERIOD! Good graphics, predictable story line. Pocahontas meets Battle for Terra. Got a few good laughs out of it, my 12 year old thought it was awesome, but then again he is only 12.

I enjoyed for a relaxing movie and time spent with my husband and two of my sons.

One thing I did like was that the 3D wasn't 'in your face' like the older movies were.

[SandRider]

one of the reasons this movie is making so much money -
the buzz about the effects is getting people like you and me
into a theater, even with a known weak story - would you have
gone to see this or waited for the DVD if hadn't been 3D (and
so talked about) ?

[Eyes High]

Good question.. I sure wouldn't have spent the money to see it at a regular theater if not for the 3D. I would have waited till it came to the discount theater that we normally go to or wait and rent it on DVD.

I'm not one to usually 'follow the crowd' when it comes to watching a movie based on what critics or the media says.

But you do have a good point. I 'fear' that more producers will use this '3D' stuff as a gimmick to get people to pay the extra bucks to see it on big screen. 3D may work for some movies, but it is not for every one of them. There are good stories out there that 3D would distract from.

And I pray that if/when we finally get a new Dune movie that it will not be treated as a gimmick.

Dune in 3D

[A Thing of Eternity]

I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra.

[Omphalos]

I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra.

One of the many benefits of Canada's form of collective socialism.

[A Thing of Eternity]

I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra.

One of the many benefits of Canada's form of collective socialism.

We're so socialized our private corperations forget to gouge us!

Yes, that must be the case! YAy Commies.

[Eyes High]

Yeah, I think it was $ 2 extra.

We went to the last showing before the evening prices kicked in. Adult tickets were $ 9.50 each and the child was $ 9.25. (it would have been $11.75/adult)

Then of course the high prices of the popcorn and sodas inside.

The theater I normally go to, we can get in for $ 2 each during the day or $ 3 each after 6:00 p.m. The popcorn and drinks are still high but not as high as in the other theater.

I admit I like the seating in the one we saw Avatar in better than the seating in our regular theater because the seats are elevated by rows so the short people (like me) can still see over the heads of the person in front of them.

[Omphalos]

I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra.

One of the many benefits of Canada's form of collective socialism.

We're so socialized our private corperations forget to gouge us!

Yes, that must be the case! YAy Commies.

Naw! That's not it. It's that the government subsidizes your movie viewing, and is so polite about it that you don't even know it's happening!