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[blackshirtboy]

Originally Posted by arctic eagle

unobtanium, you know, the grey rock, if you paid attention, you'd lean there's more to pandora than you think, skxawng Tawtute

Well I assume you're talking about "the flux", the strange distortion that envelops the hallelujah mountains. Persumably it refers to some sort of "gravitational flux" where either gravity is at its weakest point or a large deposit of unobtanium pushes the land upwards.
HOWEVER!
The natural gravity thing makes no sense because then why don't people just fly off into space when they get too close, and we are never told anything about unobtanium other than how much it sells for. For all we know it's being ground up and used as a sweetener for coffee back on Earth, we're certainly not led to believe that it makes things float.
AND!
Neither of those explanations excuse the waterfalls.

Also, I absolutely loved the movie and the mountains were the only part I had any real trouble with, and that isn't saying much, my earlier post made me out to seem angrier about it than I was. In hindsight I shouldn't have unleashed the awesome power of capslock.

[spongebathe83]

what i didn't quite understand was how all the aliens had USB ports built into their ponytail braids

[Jake T Catt]

What I want to know is, did Jake and Neytiri ever connect themselves together using those USB connectors? and if so, what happened?

[Nihtgenga]

Originally Posted by Hooded_Miracle

I'm going to be honest and say that the reason I DON'T want to see this film is because it sounds like a bad video game in film form.

Yurrp.

Originally Posted by Kojiro Highwind

I'm not into visuals... they are cool but I usually go for story....

Yurrp.

[sodacat]

Originally Posted by Jake T Catt

What I want to know is, did Jake and Neytiri ever connect themselves together using those USB connectors? and if so, what happened?

I think you're a little too young for this conversation.

Did the movie or any of the extra material specify what the average lifespan of the Navi is?

[Seabass-Man]

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[Racerx135]

Agree.. AMAZING!

I have not felt this way watching a movie since I first saw Star Wars as a 10yr old in 1977

Back then we never saw anything like it. Avatar gave me that same feeling. For the first 20min you are thinking how cool the 3D is but right before it gets cheesy you get immersed into the movie and forget you have the glasses on.

The only thing I disagree with is Original story. This story is basically Dances with Wolves in Space. But that does not matter since the Movie is so Freaking awesome. I will be seeing it several times again before it leaves the theater.

[blackshirtboy]

Originally Posted by Seabass-Man

According to the Na'vi Encyclopedia that was released along with the movie, Unobtanium is a metal that superconducts at atmosphere temperature, and the mountains were full of it. As they are eroded and break off, they float instead of tumble. It's not made clear in the film, but you do see that small chunk floating on Giovanni's desk along with the magnetic fluctuations they talk about.

Now I know!
Yeah that's what I thought at first though they never actually say it in the film, and so I assumed that the rock in the guys office was the future, zero-gravity equivalent of a display case. Well, which I guess it was but whatever.

[OhZone]

Oh, I really liked the movie, even if it IS Dances with Smurfs. I don't care if it's story is not 100% original, but the odd thing is, and I've noticed this with other movies lately, the flashy trailer that shows off a lot of the special effects actually turns me off. It makes the movie look like just superficial flash. They should give a hint about the story a little more, even if it's not Shakespeare. I was pleasantly surprised about a number of flicks lately when they had reasonably good stories, after I expected all effects and no storyl Oh, well.

[thrandrall]

The visuals were a lot of fun (esp in 3d) and I always love massive scale military hardware, armored suits, etc - not to mention floating mountain-type landscapes. I'll almost certainly pick up the DVD....

That said, the story was absolutely atrocious. The only redeeming factor was that this version of "The Last Samurai in Space" didn't feature Tom Cruise. I mean, I'm always game for Sigourney Weaver in SF but every other character was so thin I'm surprised I didn't walk out of the theater with a papercuts. Cameron can direct action, but like the Star Wars prequels...not all directors can write (esp good dialogue). Very wooden attempts to weave current political/military catchphrases and themes into a story that could have been so much more...like actually examining the implications of a bio-electrical planetwide network (how much would that be worth earth-side?)...rather than trying to make another trite gaia theme.

And remember, Ebert also gushed over Ep. 1.

[thrandrall]

Thinking about this after watching Avatar - for a comparable story about nature vs. man that's actually good with real characters, I'd say check out "Princess Mononoke" - or Nausicaa, etc. Miyazaki actually knows how to write characters and conflict that aren't wooden, trite and cliched. More than one dimension, good and bad, strong and weak characters on both sides of the conflict.

[OhZone]

I like the paper cut metaphor but the characters could have easily been even more superficial. I didn't think they were that bad at all. And, yes, the visuals were great in 3d.