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[Arachno-capitalist]

AVATR     50,000     short     H$204.07     H$395.55  9,574,000.00     (-93.83%)
In my worst imaginary investment decision ever, I short sold Avatar's stock on HSX.com. I lost over 9 and a half million imaginary dollars.
"Theres too much hype" I said, "this movie cost too much to make" I said.

[Choop]

i'm going to see it again in an hour, this time with the missus in tow.

[Doc]

AVATR     50,000     short     H$204.07     H$395.55  9,574,000.00     (-93.83%)
In my worst imaginary investment decision ever, I short sold Avatar's stock on HSX.com. I lost over 9 and a half million imaginary dollars.
"Theres too much hype" I said, "this movie cost too much to make" I said.

Whatever else you want to say Jame Cameron hasn't made a flop in a while, he makes very marketable movies.

[jay-ell]

Fern Gully

This, with a side of Braveheart.

At least FernGully had Tone Loc.

I did enjoy it, but in the sense of "this is a story that is fun to play along with." Certainly not in the "this will change the way I think about film" kind of way.

For those who have seen it:

Unobtanium? Really? I laughed my ass off every time I heard that word. So. Ridiculous.

Also, Giovanni Ribisi is and always will be the kid from My Two Dads. He was good in this role, though.

[CortJstr]

JL, I haven't seen it but the first thing you mocked wasn't actually invented by the movie. It's a thing.

[Toaster]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Unobtainium

[miles]

This, with a side of Braveheart.

And garnished with Dances with Wolves, no?

[Dangermoose]

"Had Tone Loc" is the criterion on which Avatar fails.  He was certainly available.

[oball]

"This is why we're here; because this funky cold medina sells for twenty million a kilo."

[jay-ell]

OK, so what if unobatinum actually exists in the real world. It's still a ridiculous thing to call a rare mineral. It just sounds so...fakey.

[lprkn]

I accept the unobtanium thing, but Pandora? That's just lazy writing.

[Doc]

That whole movie was pretty lazy writing. I kind of loved the colonel though, that scene where he walks out into the hanger and empties both his guns at the escaping chopper and then turns around to put on an oxygen mask was pretty bad ass.

[Arachno-capitalist]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

(CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.
...
"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," Hill wrote on the forum. "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."

[AugustWest]

The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.

Sounds like Philippe is standing on it.

[JorgeFabregas]

Baghdassarian is standing on it.