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knives:
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 03 Jan 2010, 00:29 ---You are the most joyless of the fucks.
First, fuck you for telling me my use of pretentious is incorrect. I am saying that you are putting on a fucking pretense if you liked the lower budget "smarter" movie about mistreating aliens as an allegory for mistreating natives and not fucking avatar.
But you are an ESPECIALLY joyless fuck if you think the point of Star Wars, or the point of Avatar, was to make you think. The point was to make awesome, simple, compelling stories with straight forward cut and dry characterization that makes you go oooh and ahhh and maybe holy shit once or twice. You're comparing Avatar to fucking crash? Are you fucking retarded? There is no similarity, at all, between these two movies. I get that you think you are a student of film all "look at me, I can namecheck fucking cronenberg for no reason in my post" but fuck you you joyless fuck. These movies are supposed to be fun and engaging.
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Hey dude, I didn't insult you. I even actually said I enjoyed Avatar, just felt your insults toward other entertainment was out of line. I never said the point to Star wars was to make people think. It's intentionally pure space opera and sure be enjoyed as such. If Cameron's only intention was the same I wouldn't have sympathy with the people that disliked the movie. he does bring in these intentional analogies though, and sure be held to a standard as such. By making the story so cliched I understand that it leads to unfortunate implications and such. Had he left out any attempt at political awareness and gone the route of Star Wars or his own True Lies than that wouldn't be such a contentious point. Again I really did enjoy Avatar put to describe someone who didn't as a 'joyless fuck' is more reductive than Avatar itself.
Also the reason I said you were using pretentious wrong, definitely could have phrased that better, was that maybe some people enjoyed District 9 more because it was shorter and had more elements to them that are entertaining. Some people just don't like epic storytelling, which Avatar is, and prefer smaller intimate tales, which District 9 is. That doesn't make either one better, or someone is pretentious for liking one over the other, I actually preferred Avatar in this debate, but that different people prefer different styles of story telling.
Finally no way am I in fucking film school.
Professor Snuggles:
I am imagining you having sex, currently. You are sighing occasionally, fulfilling monotonous motions, occasionally looking at your watch.
Professor Snuggles:
It is a fuck completely without joy.
knives:
:?
KvP:
Next you'll probably be telling us you don't enjoy the taste of a hearty McDonald's hamburger.
Why don't you go back to France or some shit.
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