"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning. It just seems so... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep... doing things at all. I live in a dying world." This from Ivar Hill, a 17-year-old Swedish game designer, on the Avatar forum page. Apparently, many Avatar fans have been feeling suicidal? But help is on the way. "And even if the CNN article does lure trolls here, it sure makes people who also are suffering from the pandora syndrome come here," wrote one forum poster today. Also: "The dark site of publicity... It will go down after a while." Yes, that's what she said.
What Food Court did they FIND these people in!?!?
Sometimes I feel this way after a good Masterpiece Classic. Little Dorrit had me in bed for a week; I might hold off on the coming Emma (with Johnny Lee Miller!) until the weather turns, at least.
I felt that way about Bleak House.
Are you kidding? The new 'Emma' (with Johnny Lee Miller!) has me so excited I'm practically peeing my pants. It's like my very own DVR crack.
I am just afraid of the desolating loss after it is finished and I am left alone, without a message board community to ease me off the ledge.
That's what old 'Pride and Prejudice' (with Matthew MacFadyen! or Colin Firth!) and 'Jane Eyre' (with Toby Stephens!) DVDs are for.
I had a similar reaction the first time I saw one of those Burger King commercials with the enormous, freaky plastic Burger King Golem in it.
I mean, what kind of a world do we live in where that kind of thing is allowed to be made?
On the positive, 6:29 is some solid hug time.
Oh, Kate Bush...she's a total loon and I love her for it.
ftw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs
Kate Bush is the best. No one does interpretive dance in videos anymore.
Close second:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3cVY1JESQ&feature=related
Don't miss the white dress version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChywYrwHBY&feature=related
Billy Squier ruined it for EVERYBODY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI
omg Kenny Ortega directed that.
I finally saw it on Saturday and IT WAS SO AMAZING (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and to me the afternoon after it was kind of like a lesser version of how it feels coming down from mushrooms and how the real world can be sort of a bummer after this amazing psychedelic experience and, while living in a world that is not Avatar did not make me personally want to kill myself, I could see how this bummer feeling would be a lot more intense to a seventeen year old in general and a "seventeen year old Swedish game designer" in particular.
But OMG, IT WAS SO AMAZING.
I write these things on the Internet and afterward I don't understand why.
Welcome Home Brother (or Sister).
I also finally saw on Saturday, and outside the laughable dialogue and the completely ham-fisted cultural metaphors (OMG! We 9/11ed their tree!!!), thought it was super badass. I want plants to light up when I bop them now.
This "game designer" does realize that living there would require him to live in the jungle and run around hunting and gathering while simultaneously avoiding hammerhead rhinoceri and creepy shark jaguar hyena things, right? Because I'll take my dying world over that, thanks.
I just saw it saturday, too. And, yes, i want to see it again as soon as possible. And again and again. It's never been so easy to ignore completely idiotic dialogue. Like, "Yup. sure. Dance on, dances with wolves. indulge in all the earth-day 101 spirituality crap you want, make all the ham-handed political allusions you want, too. All the cheesy black-light poster love scenes, too. Just show me some more of those neon-glowing floating jellyfish and make me feel like I'm flying a giant dragon through the best game of D&D I ever played. I could watch it for 12 hours. Again and again and again.
I felt that way after I saw 'In The Mood For Love' - real life wasn't nearly as sexy looking. I even tried smoking a lot while listening to Nat King Cole but no joy.
This is why I like 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas' - because I can actually eat acid.
*call me