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formerly it takes a lot etc. on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

formerly it takes a lot etc. — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:57:03 +0000

I finally saw it. Somewhat visually interesting, but tedious, tedious, tedious!

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Ronbo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:41:34 +0000

AVATAR IS CRAP! Earth/America/Capitalism Are Inevitably The Nasty, Imperialistic Villains. Enviromentalist Wacko Politically Correct Aliens Are The Heroes. Beam me up, Scotty! There are no intelligent movies on this planet!

josh_speed on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

josh_speed — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:35:31 +0000

AGREE STRONGLY.

intelligentless on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

intelligentless — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:39:22 +0000

What's your problem, bro?

intelligentless on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

intelligentless — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:59:56 +0000

blue deux noobs

intelligentless on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

intelligentless — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:58:47 +0000

noobs

Bittersweet on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Bittersweet — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:43:32 +0000

I just read this review while listening to 'Ice Cream Castles' by the Time, and the two awesome sensory inputs together have just caused my brain to explode. In a good way.

brotherman on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

brotherman — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:27:24 +0000

Hmmm. You're putting up with "excruciating" for "fine" and "no problem." Not only that, but you're repeatedly putting yourself through it, despite how "excruciating" it is. Are you THAT bored? Is this a service you provide? I thought most people tend to avoid things they find excruciating. Now, if this article was something that you LIKED, but are trying to improve for your future reading enjoyment, that would make a lot of sense. Otherwise, I have no idea what you're getting at. Sorry, I meant, "I have no idea at what you're getting."

paco on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

paco — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:44:11 +0000

"the author uses 'their' to her unborn child" ==> "the author uses 'their' to *refer* to her unborn child" "specifice" ==> "specific"

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paco — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:39:42 +0000

"But then he shows us Pandora. This planet that he made for us. And it overshadows every suspension bridge, pyramid, and skyscraper all at the same time because I swear to God, THIS is what makes me want to have a kid. And I love bridges. I want to get to be the one who adds this to their source material. I want them to draw from it when figuring out what to love about life. And I want that love to determine their life's work." This passage confused the fuck out of me on my first pass. This is why: the author uses "their" to her unborn child, to avoid the use of "he" or "she" -- but the placement of "their" leaves the reader lost. The lack of specifice reference leads to all sorts of problems in the rest of the passage: "I want to get to be the one who adds this to their source material." As noted, the use of "their" in this sentence leaves the reader initially bewildered as to whom the author is referring. (This problem could have been corrected by replacing "their" with "my child's" -- but our author probably didn't want to go to that level of sickly sweet specificity.) The confusion here is further compounded by the author's use of "this" in the above-quoted sentence. What does "this" refer to? Does "this" refer to the bridges in the immediately preceding sentence? Does "this" refer to this review? No, the reader eventually muddles to the conclusion that "this" refers to AVATAR -- at least, that's what we deduce through the haze of the writing. Enthusiasm is fine. I have no problem with it. Long live enthusiasm and joy. But bad, lazy writing -- no matter how tricked-out and gussied-up with fifty-cent words and appropriated slang -- is excruciating.

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The Zissou — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:10:40 +0000

This movie doesn't interest me. The commercials look like Amazonian Smurfs fighting robots. That being said, this is an excellent review and I wish all film reviews were written with this kind of passion. Sometimes a movie can make you feel much more alive than any aspect of your daily routine, which I think is much larger praise than any number of appendages or celestial objects.

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paco — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:03:45 +0000

Is there a reason the author of the post and the commenters here insist on using the acceptable but variant secondary spelling "dialog"? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dialog Seriously, just curious. Am I weird to be annoyed by this? I think most people spell this word as "dialogue", and most dictionaries suggest that that is the preferred spelling. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dialogue

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brotherman — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:55:33 +0000

Why are you inferring that I only think there are two kinds of reviews? If I say I love apples but hate oranges, I'm not saying there are only two fruits. I understand that this particular review is an extreme, and my other example is also meant to be presented as an extreme. Let me also ask you, what is your definition of a professional film critic? I assume this writer was paid for this article. If I was paid to twitter, "Avatar sucked," or "Avatar rocked," wouldn't that make me a professional? Clearly you have a definition other than the literal one, so what are your qualifications? What do you think the point of a film review is?

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Pop Socket — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:28:05 +0000

Cameron went to the Lucas School Of Dialog. After three viewings, you will have to watch it with the sound off just to endure it.

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:28:38 +0000

Not...exactly? (Don't wanna step on any toes.) I mean, I don't think she's a professional film critic, but it's not really your response to her I'm talking about. You're contrasting her with other film critics, who in your opinion (as it reads) write primarily so they can show off their hoity-toity knowledge of cinema. Which presumes that a) this is a real epidemic, and b) displaying a broad knowledge of film doesn't belong in film, um, criticism. I don't even know what to say about "no one's listening to anyone else anyway," because I don't buy it at all...just as I don't buy the knock on "correspondence" degrees from USC. Who are you talking about? If you want good film criticism online, it ain't hard to find. Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Manohla Dargis, Glenn Kenny, Richard Brody, etc.

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brotherman — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:01:09 +0000

Isn't the writer of this article a film critic?

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:55:37 +0000

"where in the end, no oneÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s listening to anyone else anyway." Wow, that's cynical. And inaccurate, I think. Also, you're a little bitter about film critics. There are plenty of good ones out there, who care a lot about movies, and aren't in it to masturbate all over their readership.

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:43:12 +0000

Gracias.

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brotherman — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:11:06 +0000

Between someone that LOVED something and another who didn't, I'd rather be the former. The most overrated thing in the world is a discerning palate. In the end, no one gives a shit except you. It's like going through life, only fucking with a condom on, and you're bragging about how thick it is.

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brotherman — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:04:14 +0000

I didn't know there was supposed to be an invitation for discussion. Or at least the discussion you're looking for. I liked that this wasn't an academic essay about the movie so much a one-man bukkake of emotion (or solo jerk to use your wording.) I like that it demonstrates a refusal to hear "Well, the story is derivative of the archetypical Campbell-ian-" STFU because that is just how the writer feels about it. There's no uncertainty about how much they loved it. This is the kind of review I like. The "This-is-how-I-feel" kind of review. I hate the kind of review that just gives people an excuse to wank their film/TV correspondence degree from USC, where in the end, no one's listening to anyone else anyway.

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Abe Sauer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:40:54 +0000

Old but still relevant http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/waterstone.html

Abe Sauer on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Abe Sauer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:40:24 +0000

http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/waterstone.html

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:13:43 +0000

Which David Foster Wallace? I'd love to read his thoughts on this, actually...

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:12:24 +0000

Hey, you'll get no argument from me about Malick--even though I do think people give him a pass sometimes on what I see as pseudo-spiritual faux-naivete (I also find it easier to connect with a big blue alien than with Colin Farrell). But is it so bad that the film is broad? That it's unsubtle? And how do you know that Emerson would've had a problem with it? It seems that Cameron was very interested in having his audience see something anew, with fresh eyes--and, for my money, he succeeded at that. Again, as with the 11-foot-tall blue aliens, he wants as many people as possible to connect with something strange and foreign and (in his mind) beautiful. Okay, I'm starting to scare myself. But it really was one of the very few movies I've seen that I felt fully justified its own obsession with technology--I'd put AI in there, as well, and the past two movies of David Fincher (all these movies are about replication)--and while I do think that the world we have is usually enough to ruminate on, our world is not all that he's interested in. Excuse me, I need to go join a cult.

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Abe Sauer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:51:10 +0000

I was just looking at the parallels b/w Lucas and Cameron in their sci-fi. They are very different. Where Cameron IS like Lucas is this obsession with technology improving films. Both were extrordinary story tellers in the earliest stuff (Terminator/THX1138) but then their stories became increasingly horrible as their FX obsessions took over. See, esp on this subject: David Foster Wallace.

Abe Sauer on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Abe Sauer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:48:00 +0000

Mary: Oh, agreed, The FX are without even close equal. They are the Tiger Woods of FX. Balsa: Well, I believe I said that for a film heralded as "groundbreaking" it was the most derivative I had seen. As for "green" films. I guess I see that but it's ham-handed as hell. As for Emersonian, I don;t know if we need to create other worlds. Personally, I find Malick's onscreen studies and lingerings on nature (in New World, Thin Red Line, and Days of Heaven) to be far and away more powerful than anything in Avatar, partly because they are real things that I can experience (something, real and no manufactured, that I would hazard Emerson would side with). In the New World you even get real Indians and militarized human invaders set on plundering the natural riches!

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:35:52 +0000

You see that he's "failing" to create human heroes...and I see it as the one of the film's major achievements that we sympathize fully with non-humans, that THEY are who we see the conflict through. And I'm not sure I'm worrying too much about how a 9-year-old plays AVATAR. If you think Lucas's strength is his slavish need to connect with little children, then we disagree mightily. You've seen the PHANTOM MENACE, yes? That's what happens when you obsess over creating relatable human heroes for 9-year-olds. (George Lucas is pretty much worthless in my book...bad director, bad writer, good toymaker.)

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balsa_wood — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:28:18 +0000

First off, I highly doubt it's the "most derivative production" you have ever seen. I'm sure you've seen more derivative movies, probably this year. That's web hyperbole. The DANCES WITH WOLVES parallels are clear, yeah, and the simplicity of the natives will be the most shopworn element years down the road. But he doesn't stop there, really. Cameron takes the stranger in a strange land line further into a pretty trippy realm with his seeming conviction that there's a unity between all living things. This is something that George Lucas never could say directly, because he's such a lame-o. (GOING TO RUIN MOVIE NOW, SO DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT) The big twist at the end--when the ferocious rhino-like animals of Pandora revolt against the villainous army--it's a little silly, yeah, but it's also positively Emersonian, this notion that, if under duress, the entire natural world might just up and revolt. I'm not sure I've seen something quite like that before in something that's not a cartoon. I mean, this movie is passionately green: our hero only is able to "see" at the end, once he's become a member of a forest clan. Loopy and slightly new-agey and hippy-friendly, yes...but derivative? No. In ALIENS, those robot suits that the Americans wore were just cool-looking hardware--here, it's a pretty efficient symbol of our disconnect from the world we're dispassionately trashing. And I haven't even started on the effects, which are singular.

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Mary HK Choi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:13:47 +0000

I guess it depends what you're applying "groundbreaking" to. The story's shit. I address it in the post. "The dialog has the subtlety of dubbed German porn and granted, the narrative is basically a cave drawing of a mother and child since it better make sense in Kerala as well as Kansas." BUT the story has absolutely nothing to do with why this is a groundbreaking movie. What are they going to do about DVD sales? I mean, you can't get a passable facsimile of the viewing experience at home. Are they going to extend the theater run? Also, can you really "forget" about something when it's the benchmark to beat? I agree that movies will bust out this technology in the future but if you look at what came before, this is an absolute quantum leap in CG and that's the part that I find awesome and worthy of celebration.

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joeclark — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:51:35 +0000

+(10Ã¢ÂÂ´ Ãƒ- 10Ã‚Â¹Ã‚Â²)

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Abe Sauer — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:41:19 +0000

The Lucas comparison is important and I'm no film scholar but Cameron is wildly (and maybe destructively) departing here from operatic sci-fi child's-play epics (Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica (original) or even Star Trek) and that is the failure to create HUMAN heroes. Jules Verne to HG wells to Lucas all knew that the "good guys" had to be human characters kids could relate to (and want to be). Even Cameron knew this in Aliens and Terminator. But Avatar? How does a 9 year old boy "play" Avatar? get a wheelchair? Pretend to be 11 feet tall and blue? Cameron has, unfortunately, been misled into thinking he's making a "message" film for adults when he made a Star Wars for the Next Generation.

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deepomega — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:38:26 +0000

STRONGLY AGREE. It cannot be overstated how great the graphics were, but jesus christ. A Facebook friend posted saying Cameron was the new Lucas. I don't think she meant it as an insult, but I agree wholeheartedly. And I could've handled the gentle racism, the mind-bogglingly shallow plot, if the dialog were written as though it were words actual human beings would say, but no.

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forget it i quit — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:10:55 +0000

Thank you Abe! Derivative was the first word I thought of. An absolute blow-your-mind 3D tour de force for the effects and CGI. But the plot? The characters? Even down to the indigenous culture? Been there, done that. Maybe he did it to make it more accessible? To make the messages obvious to everyone? Was it worth my $20? Yeah, but only cause that's what Imax 3D is for.

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SpyMagician — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:26:34 +0000

Oh hey, late question but does anyone know if anyone anywhere is attempting to figure out if Avatar sync well to Pink FloydÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Ã¢â‚¬Å“Dark Side of the Moon?Ã¢â‚¬Â Now thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s something!

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Choire Sicha — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:04:05 +0000

Hi Paco! Well I too am old before my time. Heh. One of us, one of us! Thanks for catching "phosphorescent." That is an editor's error; fixed! As for agog, I personally approve of this particular highly-irregular usage. (On the principle of language being a virus.) And as for your notes about room for discussion; well, you're discussing!

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Abe Sauer — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:00:57 +0000

Really? For a film that is "groundbreaking" it is quite possibly the most derivative production I have ever seen. It steals from a heap of films (including Cameron's own). Hell Cameron himself admitted to the LA Times that it was "Dances with Wolves in Space" which I only learned when I got home and googled "Avatar" and "Dances with Wolves." Give that search a whirl. I'm nowhere near alone. The technology is amazing and a far leap from the Creature of the Black Lagoon 3D I used to watch as a kid; but Avatar will be forgotten 10 years from now when all movies are busting out this technology. Ironically, it will be Cameron's Aliens, Terminator 1, and (yes) Titanic that people will still want to watch a decade from now. The film is important and everyone will remember when/where tey saw it. But only historically, like Pong. Nobody wants to play pong anymore.

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balsa_wood — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:40:44 +0000

No.

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p is for pee — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:00:13 +0000

oh my god. I want to have sex with this post and Choi and the movie all at once.

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p is for pee — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:58:27 +0000

love

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Dave Bry — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:52:17 +0000

"The words wonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t peel their skins off and spazz for you in waves and particles and alchemy and phosphoresent flowermagic and hypercolored superdinosaurs..." Yes, the words will. Your words do.

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SpyMagician — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:10:51 +0000

100% nobody is stating the obvious: The number #1 movie in the nation that many folks will be getting stoned to. Someone please bring Laser Zeppelin back. Thank you.

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MisterHippity — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:01:21 +0000

Ã¢â‚¬Å“James CameronÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Avatar is the most beautiful film IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve seen in years.Ã¢â‚¬ÂÃ¢â‚¬" David Denby, The New Yorker Ã¢â‚¬Å“An extraordinary film.Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬" Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Ã¢â‚¬Å“It extends the possibilities of what movies can do.Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬" Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Ã¢â‚¬Å“Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬" Mary HK Choi, The Awl

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BoHan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:24:59 +0000

Also, the American Savior packs a machine gun on the back of his dino-bird. Made my head hurt more than the 3D IMAX.

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Abe Sauer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:06:25 +0000

3Dsturbatory Star Wars-opera ripoff of Daces with Wolves with shamefully pornographic amounts of Noble Savagery thrown in. And every time I saw Michelle Rodriguez piloting that Aliens drop ship I kept waiting for her to scream "Spunkmeyer!?" http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages/a_036CynthiaDaleScott.jpg

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Br. Seamus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:18:48 +0000

So, it's not actually Furry Titanic? WHEW.

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kneetoe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:30:02 +0000

My money's on the dinosaurs. Nothing can stop the dinosaurs.

rj77 on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

rj77 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:24:27 +0000

STRONGLY AGREE.

paco on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

paco — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:55:48 +0000

"and possibly and adverb" = "and possibly an adverb"

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paco — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:55 +0000

I must be old before my time. The hyperventilating, circle-jerk tone of this discussion makes me want to hate this movie, and everyone who is so agog about it. (I haven't seen it yet.) And, yes, I know -- what's wrong with a good circle jerk? Is this meant to be a review, or just a spurting paean? I appreciate the sentiment of the following: "There is a battle of dinosaurs vs. robots. I have nothing more to add to that sentence because you're dead inside if you can't get what's cool about that." But it feels a bit like "You're either with us or against us." I understand that the movie makes you want to have kids, and that's really lovely, but it feels like there's no room for discussion here. (Hence the circle jerk?) Maybe room for discussion is overrated. ["Agog" is not a verb. It's an adjective, and possibly and adverb. Nothing can "agog" your brain to any level. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agog You're missing a c in "phosphoresent". http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phosphorescent And this sentence is broken: "I was even mad at the movie for being a pussy as [sic] to appear to question its own awesome."]

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MisterHippity — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:48:07 +0000

"Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap." THAT SHOULD TOTALLY BE ON THE MOVIE POSTER!

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balsa_wood — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:45:36 +0000

Hey man, I'm lookin' at the picture and it's not like I'm disagreein'. Though it isn't not fun to imagine that head on Harry Knowles's body.

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metoometoo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:31:03 +0000

"those of us who live half the time trying to tune our imaginations to the natural frequencies of things, to start the aesthetic and sympathetic vibration" <3

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RAP vs. SWEDEN — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:25:37 +0000

the "HK" stands for "Total Babe"

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Atencio — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0000

Arclight's reserved seats are a godsend for people like me who take no pleasure in waiting in long lines with our fellow nerds.

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iplaudius — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:47:09 +0000

I finished and savored all of this review, and I think I understand how the "glamour" of a thing like Avatar can become a life-force - especially for those of us who live half the time trying to tune our imaginations to the natural frequencies of things, to start the aesthetic and sympathetic vibration. I am very, very excited to see Avatar now.

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Mary HK Choi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:44:08 +0000

@Kois: SOLD! I have a list actually (of course). @balsa: You know what it is? This movie's important. And the full visual effect is what makes it so.

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balsa_wood — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:27:58 +0000

It is absurd, but also somehow so so awesome. I saw it this morning, and agree that it's pretty much breathtaking. But how would it be as a 2D experience? Seriously hobbled, I think.

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iplaudius — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:27:32 +0000

The word nose was right over the word GAY in your opening lines, so I now I am thinking about nosegays. BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME, plz.

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Dan Kois — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:26:42 +0000

Here comes our blog-to-book deal! "Improbable things about Avatar"

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SemperBufo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:24:31 +0000

Juggalo: this season's least popular fragrance gift.

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Rw — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:19:32 +0000

well yeah but don't you need to be down at the theater in 3hrs to get in line?

Rw on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Rw — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:18:25 +0000

We all do!

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kneetoe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:07:10 +0000

First I have to know who wins.

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Atencio — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:06:25 +0000

HOLY SHIT I AM SEEING THIS IN 6 HOURS BUT FEEL LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT BECAUSE IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME I COULD HAVE ALREADY WATCHED AVATAR TWICE.

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iwantyrskull — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:59:09 +0000

"There is a battle of dinosaurs vs. robots" SOLD!

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Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:57:41 +0000

*FREAKING THE FUCK OUT*

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Mary HK Choi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:49:52 +0000

Right? It's because they're "still in Alpha Centauri"! Also, how LOL was it when the AMP suit pulls a big-ass loose knife out on someone? Because that's how anyone would EVER design a blade for robotic armament.

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Mary HK Choi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:45:24 +0000

Hurts. *Rocking*

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Kataphraktos — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:43:31 +0000

Darling, breathe.

Rw on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Rw — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:42:07 +0000

so watcha sayin'.

Rw on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Rw — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:41:36 +0000

yeah and... this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon

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KenWheaton — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:12 +0000

"A hope rapist that should be shot in the face for dream treason." This will totally be appropriated by the Obama administration to be used against opponents. Fucking love it.

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HiredGoons — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:36:39 +0000

Aw, cheer up! Oh wait, don't. Things are terrible.

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Dan Kois — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:36:09 +0000

Yeah, I think so. I have problems with the kiss. Why would Na'vi kiss?

steno on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

steno — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:28:11 +0000

www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4119789849/

ContainsHotLiquid on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

ContainsHotLiquid — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:28:00 +0000

And blue.

HiredGoons on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

HiredGoons — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:23:35 +0000

"a hope rapist that should be shot in the face for dream treason" In an alternate universe, I'm straight and we're married.

ContainsHotLiquid on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

ContainsHotLiquid — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:23:23 +0000

That Denby is still fucking employed and you have not replaced him is a motherfucking crime.

Mary HK Choi on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Mary HK Choi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:23:21 +0000

Is it? I think I have problems with this.

kneetoe on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

kneetoe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:22:53 +0000

Then I am glad there is no such button.

Dan Kois on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Dan Kois — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:21:48 +0000

Their blood is red.

balsa_wood on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

balsa_wood — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:18:31 +0000

Also, the "HK" stands for Harry Knowles, no?

Hobbesian on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

Hobbesian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:17:52 +0000

Rosetta Stone: Mashed Potato

balsa_wood on Flicked Off, with Mary HK Choi: 'Avatar'

balsa_wood — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:16:03 +0000

"I can't even tell you how insane I feel trying to rock up a buncha words to yaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll in some sufficiently synergistic configuration thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll convey what makes this movie so rad." This sentence is very Poochie the Dog.