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[Valdor]

I went on a five and a half mile hike today up a mountain in snow. The whole time I was thinking, this is awesome, not as good as Pandora, but still really awesome.

I too went on a long walk a couple of days after Avatar. I too was feeling rather melancholic that Pandora wasn't real. It was snowing, too.
The only difference is that, with the snow pouring down from the skies and the cold just barely held away by my coat, I realized Earth is a beautiful place, too, perhaps even more so than Pandora,and that we should enjoy and cherish what we have right here. Which I kinda think was the purpose of this film.











That, and make truckloads of cash.

[Martinman300]

I just saw avartar and i thought it was one of the most beautiful films i have seen

[Chino]

Anyone see Avatar on the Colbert Report?

[Volk9]

So apparently theres a little controversy springing up because a lot of the story, characters, and a lot of little things in Avatar seems to be exactly the same from an old PC game called Albion.

In the year 2227, the gigantic, interstellar space ship Toronto reaches a distant planetary system. The ship's owners, the huge corporation Doimlr-Daihatsu-Thompson, believe that there are rich deposits of raw materials on the third planet of the system, and the Toronto is to mine the whole planet's resources at once. The data that describes the planet as a desert, however, turns out to be false. Albion is a world full of life, secrets, surprises, and magic. When Tom Driscoll, the pilot of the reconnaissance team, discovers this, he swears to save Albion from Toronto's tentacles

Ok, so while that seems pretty generic, theres more. The natives of the planet are also "cat-like" people. And one thing that really stood out to me: Apparently the natives also use an organ that they haev to connect with plants, animals, and each other, just like in the movie.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

Just wait 'till I go public with my story that James Cameron ripped off an acid trip of mine. I totally saw horses with six legs.

[Chino]

Ok, so while that seems pretty generic, theres more. The natives of the planet are also "cat-like" people. And one thing that really stood out to me: Apparently the natives also use an organ that they haev to connect with plants, animals, and each other, just like in the movie.

My fucking heart just sank.

[Scurvy!Dreams]

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/albion/screenshots/gameShotId,314897/

The game is even in 3D! Does Cameron's thievery know no bounds?!

[Jamesman42]

Scurvy!Dreams.

[Scurvy!Dreams]

I just checked on IMDB, and that's the name of one of the Na'vi characters! There's no depth Jimmy C won't sink to.

(That incredible pun wasn't even intentional!)

[Jamesman42]

 

[bout to crash]

Oh fuck. And it was released 15 years ago, eh?

Just wait 'till I go public with my story that James Cameron ripped off an acid trip of mine. I totally saw horses with six legs.

[Dr. SeaWolf]

I don't really see the resemblance, other than the tail.

Unless you guys are all being sarcastic.

[Volk9]

I just checked on IMDB, and that's the name of one of the Na'vi characters! There's no depth Jimmy C won't sink to.

 

[RandalGraves]

I just checked on IMDB, and that's the name of one of the Na'vi characters! There's no depth Jimmy C won't sink to.

[orcus116]

I don't really see the resemblance, other than the tail.

Unless you guys are all being sarcastic.

Looks really similar to me, especially if you change the skin from brown to blue.

[bout to crash]

Did you read the description??

[Fluffy Lothario]

Going to see this again tomorrow, in a cinema this time.

Amped as a bitch.

[Anaesthesia]

I read in a newspaper some people commited suicide over Pandora not being real and that they didn't feel anything compared to it.

[lonestar]

I've seen a coouple post concerning theivery, and it brought to mind Alan Dean Foster's novels Midworld and Midflinx.  The world he developed in these books are eerily similar to Pandora, especially the concepts of the worldmind and the hometree.

[Fluffy Lothario]

I read in a newspaper some people commited suicide over Pandora not being real and that they didn't feel anything compared to it.

Some people are silly-billies.

[orcus116]

That's so dumb. Pandora pretty much is our rainforests just minus the floating islands. I mean it's not like the plants were orange and the sky was purple. It looked almost exactly like Earth.

[Jamesman42]

That's so dumb. Pandora pretty much is our rainforests just minus the floating islands. I mean it's not like the plants were orange and the sky was purple. It looked almost exactly like Earth.

Actually, there was an emphasis on many of the plants being different as well (i.e. Sully touching a lot of the plants as he straddled along). The planet hosted weird creatures, interactive plants, and more neighboring moons or planets.

[ariich]

That's so dumb. Pandora pretty much is our rainforests just minus the floating islands. I mean it's not like the plants were orange and the sky was purple. It looked almost exactly like Earth.

Actually, there was an emphasis on many of the plants being different as well (i.e. Sully touching a lot of the plants as he straddled along). The planet hosted weird creatures, interactive plants, and more neighboring moons or planets.

Orcus's point is that while they added and exaggerated things, it was still based on our own world. And there is a lot of astounding beauty in our world. Anyone depressed because they think our world is not attractive is an idiot.

[Jamesman42]

That's so dumb. Pandora pretty much is our rainforests just minus the floating islands. I mean it's not like the plants were orange and the sky was purple. It looked almost exactly like Earth.

Actually, there was an emphasis on many of the plants being different as well (i.e. Sully touching a lot of the plants as he straddled along). The planet hosted weird creatures, interactive plants, and more neighboring moons or planets.

Orcus's point is that while they added and exaggerated things, it was still based on our own world. And there is a lot of astounding beauty in our world. Anyone depressed because they think our world is not attractive is an idiot.

I know, but he said the "plants weren't orange", when in fact there were some orange plants (the things that shrunk when you touched them seemed closer to orange of the usual colors). I mean, I agree that our world contains some fascinating marvels and it should leave no one to dwell too long over Pandora's own beauty (which really was gratifying), but it was a bit of a different world. It wasn't entirely new or even somewhat new, but it had its noticeable differences.

[chrisbDTM]

I read in a newspaper some people commited suicide over Pandora not being real and that they didn't feel anything compared to it.

[ariich]

That's so dumb. Pandora pretty much is our rainforests just minus the floating islands. I mean it's not like the plants were orange and the sky was purple. It looked almost exactly like Earth.

Actually, there was an emphasis on many of the plants being different as well (i.e. Sully touching a lot of the plants as he straddled along). The planet hosted weird creatures, interactive plants, and more neighboring moons or planets.

Orcus's point is that while they added and exaggerated things, it was still based on our own world. And there is a lot of astounding beauty in our world. Anyone depressed because they think our world is not attractive is an idiot.

I know, but he said the "plants weren't orange", when in fact there were some orange plants (the things that shrunk when you touched them seemed closer to orange of the usual colors). I mean, I agree that our world contains some fascinating marvels and it should leave no one to dwell too long over Pandora's own beauty (which really was gratifying), but it was a bit of a different world. It wasn't entirely new or even somewhat new, but it had its noticeable differences.

He obviously didn't mean there were no orange plants at all. We have orange plants here on Earth! He meant that the main foliage (which is green here) was still green, not some random other colour. Obviously there were differences (some minor, like the ones you mentioned, some huge like the massive tree they lived in) otherwise it would have just looked identical to Earth.

[Jamesman42]

Ariich, just say that you want to joust with me, and we shall duel.

[ariich]

I challenge you...

*picks up glove and slaps James in the face with it*

...to a duel!

[faemir]

"I choose...the banjo"

Epic Win Props to anyone who gets that reference.

[BlobVanDam]

I read in a newspaper some people commited suicide over Pandora not being real and that they didn't feel anything compared to it.

What idiots. But if it's any consolation, they were surely messed up in the head beforehand anyway if they were stupid enough to suicide over a fucking movie.

[emindead]

"I choose...the banjo"

Epic Win Props to anyone who gets that reference.

The Curse of Monkey Island. Now give me my Epic Win.

That's so dumb. Pandora pretty much is our rainforests just minus the floating islands. I mean it's not like the plants were orange and the sky was purple. It looked almost exactly like Earth.

I'm not saying that these landscapes only exist here, but seriously, guys, visit Latin America. At a distance it looks really beautiful, once you get into the forests and jungle, DAMN if it's a really hostile environment that you want to get out of immediately. And that's a thing the movie apparently did well, it fooled you in making you think everything is just beauty. The Nav'i (or what's it called) are adapted to it, like any indigenous person, but for us, average urban citizens, it is a nightmare.

[Chino]

 

[emindead]

Did you guys get the joke when Jake saw his tail for the first time and (I don't remember who) said: "don't play with it too much or it will fall off?" or something like it?

[faemir]

"I choose...the banjo"

Epic Win Props to anyone who gets that reference.

The Curse of Monkey Island. Now give me my Epic Win.

  *hands epic win over*

Did you guys get the joke when Jake saw his tail for the first time and (I don't remember who) said: "don't play with it too much or it will fall off?" or something like it?

Nope, I thought it might be a reference though.

[emindead]

it's a saying parents usually tell their kids so they don't play with their penis.