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January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« on: January 07, 2010, 10:20:33 am »
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To be honest, I got no idea with this one.

I have not and am not paying money to see AVATAR as anytime anyone says "oh, the characters and the plot and the writing aren't the POINT, it's a SPECTACLE" about a film, a little box is checked off in my head that says "no, not for this guy, sorry" so... I mean... maybe it's funnier if you have seen the film?

I kind of hope there's more to this other than a stale gay panic joke, I dunno what it would be, though.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2010, 10:36:39 am »
You're right. There's nothing there but the 3D thing, and the 3D thing gets old in 15 minutes. Then you have to endure 2 hours of drool-drippingly tacky shit. Strip's ok, though?
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 10:41:18 am »
For me the gag isn't Roast Beef, it's how Teodore is so into his artistic re-enactment that he's completely oblivious to how uncomfortable Beef is.

Specifically, the punchline is 'Laaaaaa'.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2010, 01:21:22 pm »
I haven't seen the movie (and won't) but this made me giggle. Poor Beef, and you don't have to know much about the movie to know that he is right, T really had an awful lot of other choices, what is his problem?
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2010, 02:07:36 pm »
oh dear lord.  I saw Avatar about a week ago, and yes the big blue alien sex scene was a head-scratcher.  Pretty much the LAST part of that movie I wanted to see re-enacted on Roombas.  Beef, I feel your pain.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 02:22:49 pm »
I was going to complain about another "current events" strip, but then I saw the B.O. gross for Avatar.  I'm gonna have to deal with little blue trick-or-treaters from now until I'm 50, aren't I?
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 02:33:50 pm »
Will there be Avatar/Smurfs fanfic, do you think?
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 10:33:10 pm »
The flower is supposed to stand in for the sacred tree. And during the Na'vi mating process, they touch head tentacles and communicate psychically, and they call it "two becoming one" or something cliched like that. So the fact that Beef has gotten off of his Roomba and is on Teodor's stands for that. Basically they're fuck*ng in front of a tree because the tree belongs to a goddess.

Also, Papyrus.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2010, 10:53:14 pm »
Me too and I was actually thinking of seeing this movie.  I may need to rethink this.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2010, 12:45:15 am »
I wasn't a fan.  If you spend $500 million on a movie, I shouldn't be sitting there in the middle of it looking at my watch bored out of my skull.

Also, for all the hype about the 3-D and special effects, the best looking shot of the film was a chest-level shot of a sweaty Michelle Rodriguez running in a tight shirt, which probably could have been done for a lot cheaper.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2010, 08:19:18 am »
Yeah, it looked wonderful and it's a great technical achievement but you know exactly what the story is already. My favourite comparison so far has been Fern Gully. There are some quality action sequences by the end though.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 03:53:46 pm »
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2010, 06:30:01 pm »
Quote from: oball on January 08, 2010, 12:45:15 am
the best looking shot of the film was a chest-level shot of a sweaty Michelle Rodriguez running in a tight shirt

It took me a minute to realize that Michelle Rodriguez was a real actor, not a CGI re-creation.  In a movie full of computer-generated ten-foot-tall blue aliens with cat faces and fiber-optic ponytails, she somehow managed to be the least human character.

I wanted to resist this movie, like I managed to resist Titanic.  "OMG IT WAS EXPENSIVE TO MAKE" doesn't motivate me to see a film.  But I went because the lure of a 3D movie was more appealing than an afternoon at home in the snow (I'd had seven straight days off due to holidays, mind) so I went for it.  For most of the movie, I didn't care about the actors or where we were in the plot: I was more interested in the quality of the animation.  I'm glad James Cameron was such a douche about detail because it may result in more/better access to digital fx and physics models in other applications.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2010, 06:56:28 pm »
The more I learn about Avatar, the more I fear that people in a lab somewhere are dedicated to creating exactly what I never want to see.
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Re: January 7, 2010 - "mated before Eywa"
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2010, 06:57:29 pm »
Apparently, I'm going to see this movie in 3-D this weekend.

The Spouse has decreed it.
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