I’m watching Avatar in theaters by my lonesome, fuck this shit already. I know it’s not a silly Disney cartoon, but I can’t convince anyone else of that fact.
Yeah I was thinking similar stuff as well, but wanted to see if anyone could point out a more proper explanation =)
You stopped posting while you were in there.
Hopefully that means … wait what are you talking about?
When you come back here I think you’ll understand what I mean that the next one has to be about man trying to make some hard choices. Everyone knows that we are fucking up the planet but we love modern convince so much. Plus Earth isn’t an effing memory bank.
Oh and for those trying to say that the humans should have won. Um no and no. They were outnumbered and Na’vi are 4 times stronger than the average human. They had no weapons to wipe them out instantly either and if they did what good is nuking the very places where you need to mine for material later. And considering it costs $7,500 a BIT to communicate with Earth, they couldn’t call in for back up. And even if they did it would take 6 years to see it.
But you can beat that Pandora is about to be a warzone in 6-12 years.
I’m not sure about that, remember it wasn’t the entire human race looking for this mineral just some organisation looking to get rich. I hope world leaders would allow them to go out and slay an alien race for that reason.
Going to see this tonight.
I thought Avatar, as a whole, was a decent experience. The one thing that detracts from it was that the disparity between the quality of the visuals and the quality of the story was so extreme, that it made Avatar decent instead of amazing. Not that the story was bad, just that it wasn’t as awesome as the visuals.
And then there were the multiple plot holes and random inconsistencies, and then the fact that Sam Worthington/Sully was about as interesting and deep a character as Episode 1-3 Anakin Skywalker. Still a solid movie despite this.
Funniest moment was when the evil villain colonel guy caught on fire and just casually brushed it out. I don’t think that really works IRL, but okay Cameron. Whatever floats your boat. :rolleyes:
Going to see this movie with my wife tomorrow in a #D theater. Got a question about the 3D though, neither of us have ever been to a 3D movie and I kept seeing on the news reports about nausea and such from the effect. I’m not to worried about it for me but my wife is 8 and 1/2 months pregnant. Are the 3D effects really strong enough to get you nauseas or is that just the TV trying to play something up to more than it really is just so they have something to say?
You don’t think what works in real life? Brushing fire off your clothes? That actually works pretty well.
No civilization kinda depends on the material now. Yes it keeps the rich rich but it keeps society rolling along. The material is a superconductor (taken from the book) and is basically perfect. So it’s a necessity to some chosen degree (I say that because they could go back to other materials but it’s hard to say no when better stuff is out there).
Yeah what weeks said. Take a towel and set it on fire and beat that shit into the ground and watch what happens. The act of hitting the flames deprives the fire of oxygen.
She should be ok. Take a doggie bag just in case.
In hindsight, I kinda wished they talked a bit more about what the material was used for. Perhaps in a sequel?
Fail on the name though: “unobtanium”. Be more creative with that, lol.
As postecd earlier, it’s an actual name used in real-life. 
Unobtainium is a humorous name for any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. The properties of any particular unobtainium depend on the intended use.
Fail on my part, didn’t know it was posted earlier…
All of the ships they use to get to Pandora are privately owned, only carry about 200 people each and have pretty limited cargo capacity. All the military hardware on Pandora was built on Pandora, at the base they had there… no doubt they will send a bunch of people over, but I doubt they are going to have much equipment to use unless the na’vi don’t blow up what was left at the end.
Up against the na’vi and Eywa… I seriously doubt an army of less than 2,000 guys with no big guns will be able to accomplish much there. A diplomatic solution is probably the only one.
Not fail on your part, I still think its dumb. Its really not that hard to create a name of a substance with properties. And even IRL the name unobtainium is dumb. Thats like some southern dude naming his kid “Mayne”.
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are you a scientist? do you make the rules? cause if you were, you could!
i think unobtanium is a great name. what does it matter the name of the mineral is?
the name unobtanium indicates its extreme rarity and value just by saying the name, immediately the audience understands the nature of what they’re after before you’ve even said anything. would you rather they call it something stupid and “real” like ununquadium or ytterbium.
I think you misunderstood me. I don’t mean after 6 years it will look like a war-zone but in 6-12 years it will. As in RDA will get word about what happened and send a fleet of corporate and military personnel to annihilate the Pandorans. Or things on Earth will change and the ‘people’ will rise up against their corporate overlords.
Not only does the RDA want the material it’s vital to human life at this point, or at least the way life is being lived. There will be a backlash.
They said they were twin brothers so even if it wasn’t Jake’s avatar however it looked is similar enough to his brother.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that I’m actually glad that Cameron decided to choose a jungle/forest setting over any other setting that we’ve come to associate with the future, aka space ships, distopias like blade runners, barren wastelands or star wars cities. The thing is that building and mechs are just straight edges and blocks. Yes there is effort put into it, but being straight and unnatural makes it easier to accept as real in the film than vegetation or fauna. In the case of Pandora there’s nothing that I felt was out of place with the rest of the objects or people. It basically looked as real as an alien rain forest planet might be in real life.
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Actually…yes I would. They wasted enough dialog detailing how expensive it was and enough screen time on a floating piece of it. They could have spent 5-10 seconds explaining wtf it really was.
domnt get it twisted though, still loved the movie, I just really hated the name.
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Regarding unobtanium…it’s a dumb name. However, most of the new elements created in labs that exist for a nanosecond before immediately falling apart are retardedly named.
Examples:
Einsteinium
Californium
Lawrencium
Nobelium
Europium
So, I guess they should’ve named it Cameronium? Or Threehundremillionium?