It already had both...pace51 wrote:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/04/21/avatar-cameron-sequels.html
They're putting it in the oceans? Cameron's gonna need amazing special effects and an actually decent storyline for this one.
I thought the unobtanium name was a bit cheesy, too, but when you look at the periodic table, the heavier elements don't exactly have the most creative of names.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
The Avatar hate I've encountered seems to mostly stem from the cool kid bandwagon. It's sci-fi; it doesn't have to be Citizen Kane. Even with 'unobtanium,' there's nothing wrong with the picture, and I will see the second.
it was more boring than citizen kaneunnamednewbie13 wrote:
The Avatar hate I've encountered seems to mostly stem from the cool kid bandwagon. It's sci-fi; it doesn't have to be Citizen Kane. Even with 'unobtanium,' there's nothing wrong with the picture, and I will see the second.
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maybe the terminator lineStubbee wrote:
so what story is he gonna rip off this time? Pocahontas worked great for Avatar but what he gonna do for the next movie?
yes because 'hegemony seeks to exploit the resources of peaceful natives' was a totally original concept.Stubbee wrote:
so what story is he gonna rip off this time? Pocahontas worked great for Avatar but what he gonna do for the next movie?
Agreed, it's not like the plots of his other movies are exactly ground breaking.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
The Avatar hate I've encountered seems to mostly stem from the cool kid bandwagon. It's sci-fi; it doesn't have to be Citizen Kane. Even with 'unobtanium,' there's nothing wrong with the picture, and I will see the second.
For all we know, some film geek will name a new element unobtanium in the future.CapnNismo wrote:
I thought the unobtanium name was a bit cheesy, too, but when you look at the periodic table, the heavier elements don't exactly have the most creative of names.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
The Avatar hate I've encountered seems to mostly stem from the cool kid bandwagon. It's sci-fi; it doesn't have to be Citizen Kane. Even with 'unobtanium,' there's nothing wrong with the picture, and I will see the second.
it goes beyond using "the hegemony yada yada"KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
yes because 'hegemony seeks to exploit the resources of peaceful natives' was a totally original concept.Stubbee wrote:
so what story is he gonna rip off this time? Pocahontas worked great for Avatar but what he gonna do for the next movie?
Story is not always the most important characteristic of a film. Avatar's plot was fairly shallow (intentionally so), but just because it's not complex or totally groundbreaking does not make it throwaway. Avatar was great not because of the "3d" effects but because of the cinematography. The amount of quality, polish, editing, etc. that went into the film was an achievement on it's own... something which the average moviegoer often doesn't recognize but is as important to any film as the writing.wikipedia wrote:
In engineering, fiction, or thought experiments, unobtainium (also spelled unobtanium) is any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material, or (less commonly) device needed to fulfill a given design for a given application.
Yet, somehow it was completely more interesting than the Star Wars prequels, which prized special effects over story.Spearhead wrote:
Story is not always the most important characteristic of a film. Avatar's plot was fairly shallow (intentionally so), but just because it's not complex or totally groundbreaking does not make it throwaway. Avatar was great not because of the "3d" effects but because of the cinematography. The amount of quality, polish, editing, etc. that went into the film was an achievement on it's own... something which the average moviegoer often doesn't recognize but is as important to any film as the writing.
'Unobtanium' Is a generic term, like 'rocking horse shit', it doesn't matter - why does everyone get so worked up over it?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
The Avatar hate I've encountered seems to mostly stem from the cool kid bandwagon. It's sci-fi; it doesn't have to be Citizen Kane. Even with 'unobtanium,' there's nothing wrong with the picture, and I will see the second.
SEREMAKER wrote:
maybe the terminator lineStubbee wrote:
so what story is he gonna rip off this time? Pocahontas worked great for Avatar but what he gonna do for the next movie?
have someone come from the future to protect the marine/blue thing because his offspring is the key to the blue things race to survive the onslaught
Noone managed to combine these yet?pace51 wrote:
They're putting it in the oceans?
