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...of SCIENCE! posted:"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly drown in a rising tide of boiling sea water and microplastics Give away all of your possessions including your clothes and run off to live in a remote tropical jungle, then tell me how happy you are.
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mallratcal posted:People just wanted to gently caress the blue creatures. those poor Smurfs
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colonelwest posted:Give away all of your possessions including your clothes and run off to live in a remote tropical jungle, then tell me how happy you are. Keep a check on this guy, I think we have a bona fide brain genius in here! Nothing gets past him!
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James Cameron: "So there's these thin and lithe sexualized humanoid cats" The worst of the internet: "I'm listening."
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extant hunter-gatherer tribes do tend to report higher subjective happiness than people in developed nations not that I'd trade places (no video games)
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"I long for a simple life" - guy who killed the poo poo out of a spider plant and would be eaten by cannibals 4 seconds into the power grid collapsing
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Next year JC will roll the boulder away from the opening to the Avatar cave and bless us with so many gently caress-eye giving blue cats that he will single handedly re-launch the dead cinema industry.
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Avatar was basically one of only two movies* that really successfully utilized the then-new circular polarization 3d movie technology. Seeing it in the theater was an experience, with a super-high spectacle factor. People weren’t going crazy wishing they could be on Pandora because of anything in the story, it was purely because of how immersive the environments felt. The closest we probably have to something like that today are the people with the super-high-end VR rigs talking about how amazing it is to play Half Life: Alyx. *The other was Jackass 3D.
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LanceHunter posted:Avatar was basically one of only two movies* that really successfully utilized the then-new circular polarization 3d movie technology. Seeing it in the theater was an experience, with a super-high spectacle factor. People weren’t going crazy wishing they could be on Pandora because of anything in the story, it was purely because of how immersive the environments felt. The closest we probably have to something like that today are the people with the super-high-end VR rigs talking about how amazing it is to play Half Life: Alyx. hm did jackass 3d give anyone depression?
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Cubone posted:hm did jackass 3d give anyone depression? No, it was a good movie. That's why no one is defending it on twitter.
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A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film. "That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Jackass 3D.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Johnny Knoxville will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted. A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "SteveOWhite" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie. "Ever since I went to see 'Jackass 3D' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Jackass and all the jackasses made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Jackass and the everything is the same as in 'Jackass 3D.' "
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Avatar loving owned, Cameron basically invented a whole new way of making 3D movies that blew everything else out of the water, and nobody's been able to emulate it since despite trillion dollar budgets, lol. Also as certain podcast said, it was the one time in American history the American audiences stood up and cheered as the movie showed them Vietcong brutally eviscerating US troops.
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Jan 4, 2021 08:51
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steinrokkan posted:audiences stood up and cheered no one did this
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luchajones posted:no one did this I remember hair sex
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KakerMix posted:I remember hair sex I stood up
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mallratcal posted:People just wanted to gently caress the blue creatures. Didn't they gently caress demolition man-style using their ponytail internet jacks? I ain't down with that
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luchajones posted:no one did this well a podcast said it happened
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If it didn't happen, it's only because they were too stunned by the transcendental beauty of Pandora and the rich narrative weaved through it to move.
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mallratcal posted:well a podcast said it happened A podcast that never heard of Return of the Jedi.
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LanceHunter posted:A podcast that never heard of Return of the Jedi. George Lucas definitely didn't intend the storm troopers to be seen as Americans, unlike Cameron who literally made a movie about American soldiers getting killed in the most gruesome ways in the name of justice.
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Vim Fuego posted:Didn't they gently caress demolition man-style using their ponytail internet jacks? I ain't down with that What was down with that? They hosed with their ethernet-braids... but they also controlled their horse things the same way?
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steinrokkan posted:George Lucas definitely didn't intend the storm troopers to be seen as Americans, unlike Cameron who literally made a movie about American soldiers getting killed in the most gruesome ways in the name of justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxl3IoHKQ8c&t=59s
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Again, as he himself says, a generic underdogs vs. empire archetype riffing on the cultural tone of the time, vs. biting literal (not figurative) USMC troopers in half in the middle of the post 9/11 fetishization of all things military.
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steinrokkan posted:Again, as he himself says, a generic underdogs vs. empire archetype riffing on the cultural tone of the time, vs. biting literal (not figurative) USMC troopers in half in the middle of the post 9/11 fetishization of all things military. he says the rebels are like the viet cong and america is the empire. he says america is the empire in this video
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jsoh posted:he says the rebels are like the viet cong and america is the empire. he says america is the empire in this video metaphorically, as part of a broader commentary on imperialism
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steinrokkan posted:Avatar loving owned, Cameron basically invented a whole new way of making 3D movies that blew everything else out of the water, and nobody's been able to emulate it since despite trillion dollar budgets, lol. Jackass 3D had better 3D and was an objectively better movie. Please remain silent for the duration of the thread.
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Cameron has that stereotypical Boomer anti-Vietnam-war activist conception and hatred of the military. He’s not necessarily wrong about the military-industrial complex, but he goes about it in such a childish, dated and reductionist way. His conception of politics never advanced beyond the early 70’s.
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steinrokkan posted:Also as certain podcast said, it was the one time in American history the American audiences stood up and cheered as the movie showed them Vietcong brutally eviscerating US troops. The argument that Avatar is a bad movie because it didn't have the kind of pop culture impact where people are making memes and quoting it like Marvel movies has always been dumb but I like the podcaster argument that the reason why it doesn't enjoy that kind of continuing second life here but is hugely popular and iconic in exploited populations like Palestinians and indigenous South Americans and is because it's a movie that actually speaks to real issues with American society and nobody wants to be reminded of the upcoming ecological collapse or the fact that our entire civilization is built around exploiting resources and labor from other countries by force in a way that is completely unsustainable. Way easier to just turn away and clap when Captain America punches an evil alien that hates humans or John Wick shootdances his way through fifty eastern europeans over gold coins.
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steinrokkan posted:metaphorically, as part of a broader commentary on imperialism they cant be literally america because its in fuckin space
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colonelwest posted:Cameron has that stereotypical Boomer anti-Vietnam-war activist conception and hatred of the military. He’s not necessarily wrong about the military-industrial complex, but he goes about it in such a childish, dated and reductionist way. His conception of politics never advanced beyond the early 70’s. Indeed, we should be actively finding novel, innovative ways to humiliate the military and brutally dismember their cultural effigies to show our contempt, we shouldn't be tied to the old ways. Sadly, nobody's willing to pick up the torch.
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jsoh posted:they cant be literally america because its in fuckin space Counterpoint: The Avater: The Movie
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:What was down with that? They hosed with their ethernet-braids... but they also controlled their horse things the same way?  they were actually loving the horses
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Did human soldiers die in Avatar? Like most people I have almost no memory of the movie. I remember humans being getting kicked off the planet at then end, after the old guy from Don't Breathe lost a power loader fight.
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mallratcal posted:Did human soldiers die in Avatar? Like most people I have almost no memory of the movie. I remember humans being getting kicked off the planet at then end, after the old guy from Don't Breathe lost a power loader fight. yeah they get totally killed
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mallratcal posted:Did human soldiers die in Avatar? Like most people I have almost no memory of the movie. I remember humans being getting kicked off the planet at then end, after the old guy from Don't Breathe lost a power loader fight. IIRC the only human who died was Michelle Rodriguez because Cameron has a fetish for latina self-sacrifice (Vasquez).
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Listen, the point is that Lucas made people watch an abstract representation of an empire getting their rear end kicked in an abstract sanitized colonial war, while the superior film, Avatar, made the audience watch as their neighbor's son Jimmy who shipped to Afghanistan had his limbs torn off by a pterodactyl.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:IIRC the only human who died was Michelle Rodriguez because Cameron has a fetish for latina self-sacrifice (Vasquez). gently caress. I don't even remember her being in the movie.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:IIRC the only human who died was Michelle Rodriguez because Cameron has a fetish for latina self-sacrifice (Vasquez). all i remember is her saying that she didn't sign up for this poo poo
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