Is Avatar just Pocahontas in CG?

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ISROUSRO

Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:19 AM

Yes and no. And here is the reasoning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

passoniatetly indifferent

CHRISISALL

Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:21 AM

Cool.

The laughing Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:07 AM

So, what's your review here, Cit?

The laughing Chrisisall

MANGOLO

Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:29 AM

CHRISISALL

Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:01 PM

BIG LOL!

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SUASOR

Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:25 PM

That so rocks. Busted, Jimmy Boy.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, February 15, 2010 1:46 PM

While watching it, the greatest sense of similarity I had was for The Matrix. I didn't know about the storyline beforehand, and the mental-substitution to physical world gimmick seemed the big comparison. A quest of gaining more knowledge and understanding than the world you're leaving behind, and Neo and Jake are fulfilling a long-held prophecy.

Of course, Matrix may have copied Avatar, being 5 years later.

I'm tempted to include Galaxy Quest into the going native genre (Tony Shaloub), but maybe just because it's a fave of mine.

OUT2THEBLACK

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:01 AM

Interesting analysis at this blogsite :
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=5036

AURAPTOR

Monday, February 22, 2010 8:51 PM

This got me thinking, on the heels of the alleged reports of folks getting depressed because they don't live on Endor...err... I mean Pandora.....sure, it's JUST a movie, but how much science must we suspend to believe in this stuff ?

In the future, we have the technology to replicate a fully functioning biological 'avatar', yet we can't clone or engineer a few nerve cells that could allow for say....soldiers to walk again ?

( Hell, all we had to do was elect John Kerry and John Edwards, and Christopher Reeves would still be alive today! An WALKING ! ) - sorry

And you mean to say, that a few hundred years in the future, we don't have the mining technology to burrow UNDERground to get a the neat-o space ore ? We HAVE to obliterate a 500 ft tall tree first, and THEN rip up the entire land?

I'm thinking we have ways of doing it today, instead of resorting to a massive open pit.... oh well.

Still, it was a pretty movie.

Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first.

STEGASAURUS

Monday, February 22, 2010 10:02 PM

Actually, they stated in the movie that the surgery to repair the spinal injury existed. It was just very expensive to have done.

I think it was a way for Cameron to show us the heavy-handed ness of the corporations/government. In reality it probably wasn't all the expensive to do, but those that could do it charge an excessive amount of money to do so.

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