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[kevbone]

did you like it? ?

[G-spotter]

[prole]

Never heard of it.

[jon]

Pretty incredible movie, saw it in IMAX 3D.

[billcoe]

 

LOL! Brilliant!

 

Bone -Ho hum. Caught the first 1-1/2 hours and then called it a day. headed off to book 5 of the Aubry/Maturin series.

[Bug]

If you block out the script and the war scenes it is fantastic.

 

[pink]

Never heard of it.

 

 

archie bunker gave it a big thumbs down because of it's anti white undertones

 

 

 

 

[prole]

Avatar Leading to Depression?

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

8:31 a.m. Friday, January 15, 2010

 

Why, oh why can’t people on Earth move to the world of Pandora – a utopia of peace-loving people in the future in the movie Avatar?

 

Because it’s a movie? It’s not real.

 

Still, on Web sites dedicated to the movie, fans have post after post from people who are now depressed -- sometimes so much that they say they have considered suicide – and are looking for ways to cope.

 

There were 52 pages of comments on avatar-forums.com when it was closed to any more postings. The site offered “ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible.”

 

Several news organizations, including Psychology Today, are writing about the the response of fans to a movie that brought in $1 billion in the first four weeks it was out. Many of the posters write that they have seen Avatar multiple times – four, five or six times.

 

They all say they were moved.

 

“The day after I saw Avatar, I was completely depressed,” Toruk Makto wrote on avatar-forums.com. “I looked at my hands and thought ‘What I wouldn't give...’, going and seeing again, and again, it makes me feel good… ‘Waking up’ afterwords is extremely hard to do.”

 

Mike posted on Naviblue.com that he had been depressed since seeing the movie and wanted to be one of the Na’vi, the blue-skinned folk inhabiting Pandora. “I can’t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all the tears and shivers I got from it. I even contemplated suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora”

 

Nancy Schimelpfening, who writes on the topic of suicide for about.com, was outraged at the reaction and said some fans were making light of suicide.

 

“My first reaction?,” Schimelpfening wrote. “You've got to be joking! I don't want to minimize anyone's experience of depression -- maybe they are already prone to depression and the realism of the movie is simply contributing to what they are already feeling? -- but, to me, this seems to making light of what is in reality a very serious condition.”

 

Posters also opined about the beauty of Pandora and vowed to be like the people.

 

“Start living like Neytiri: in touch with nature, the environment, and not being greedy and wasteful,” Neytiri proposed on the forums. “Pass on the burger, for something more healthy for you and less cruel to animals. Spend your time on this forum, or volunteering in your free time, instead of getting high or drinking, twiddling your thumbs, being apathetic and complaining about how bad the world is. Don't get swept away by the wave of negativity, live your dream. Your life has only two switches, to shine or not to shine.”

 

Someone posting under the name Elquin tried to offer some perspective, however, pointing out scenes of characters “getting chased and devoured by a Toruk.”

 

“People do forget how dangerous Pandora is,” Elquin wrote. “Jake is almost killed by a Titanthere and a Thanator in the first few minutes after being on Pandora. Then a few hours later he is almost killed by Neytiri and a pack of viperwolves. So in the space of a few hours he could have been killed four times. And I haven't even included the time when Tsu'tey attacked him, and he was even with Neytiri at the time. Also, when the Toruk chased Neytiri and Jake, it showed that even the Na'vi could be potentially be victims of predators on Pandora. They are by no means immune.”

 

But to deal with Avatar depression, one poster suggested watching a sunset or the stars, reading a book, walking in the woods, starting a garden or raising chickens.

[G-spotter]

Chicken tastes good.

[The_Rooster]

Chicken tastes good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kevbone]

Bone -Ho hum. Caught the first 1-1/2 hours and then called it a day.

 

Are you saying you left half way through?

[Off_White]

I like to sit in the big dark room.

 

 

My wife works at the Nisqually Tribe where it seems opinions are pretty evenly split. Half say, "that movie is so racist" and the other half say "that's the best Indian movie ever made."

 

I thought it was a Dances With Wolves remake, but I've never seen Disney's Pocahontas. That synopsis was both hilarious and accurate.

[111]

anyone ever see the animated movie Fern Gully? It is IDENTICAL to Avatar. [video:youtube]

[billcoe]

Are you saying you left half way through?

 

Yes, that is what

"Caught the first 1-1/2 hours and then called it a day. headed off to book 5 of the Aubry/Maturin series."

means. I went and curled up with my book. (thanks Ivan)

 

The books are approx an 7-8.5 with strong engagement and attachment with 9 being Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, Asimov and some others of course being higher. While the movie, to me, was much less than that on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being totally kick-assed and 1 being the Penthouse take on Caligula or a Ron Jermey movie when he got fat and no hot women would do him movie.

 

So I'm sticking with "Yes". I suppose had I been puffing on the Thai stick, if might have gone up a few points, but as it was, the story line was geared towards a simpleton and seemed very predictable. In fact, that is what makes GSpotters copy of the written notations rendition above so funny to me. It just cracked me up again! I was thinking of this:

Which G brought home quite interestingly with a tweak of originality the movie plot lacked!

[Doug]

I thought the story was boring and predictable (kinda like my posts), but the cinematography was freakin' incredible. I had a ManDate with two buddies on New Years day. We tried to get to the iMax version, but settled for 3D. We will go se the iMax just to experience it.

[AlpineK]

I'm not sure about this Avatar movie. I'd agree the best films came from the 80s or earlier.

 

It's really hard to beat stuff like this

 

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2FqXjHOz4

 

Or this

 

[video:youtube]

 

Isaac Hayes rules

[gertlush]

I was going to go see it but then checked the running time, 2 hours & 40 minutes!! I'm guessing lots of CGI battle scenes & big explosions yawn

[ScottP]

anyone ever seen Fern Gully? It is IDENTICAL to Avatar.

Yes, and it wasn't.

[Mal_Con]

I knew folks in Fern Tree Gully (just outside Melbourne) they were not blue (maybe sad sometimes) but not blue.

[layton]

Avatar is soooooooooooo 1993. That nature company Fern Gully shit was cool then, but fuckign lame as shit now. And yes, I've witnessed Fern Gulley and Avatar is the EXACT same movie. What a stupid piece of shit.

[olyclimber]

pssfft. but have you seen Fern Gully 3D? I have it on vinyl.

[ivan]

i sense you wouldn't mind a redo on the dark crystal though, eh, mike?

 

christ, tried watching that w/ my kids the other day and it STILL gives me the willies

[J_Kirby]

It's definitely out there for a glorified Muppet Movie. My kids won't be seeing it until they're a bit older.

[Fairweather]

Inglorious Basterds was the best movie of the decade.

[Fairweather]

A moon with exposed liquid water would not be found orbiting a gas giant beyond the frost line. I mean, geeeez, come on. This was almost as bad as Apocalypto's solar eclipse followed later in the evening by a full moon!