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LTK:
If you read the unedited script called Project 880, the social and political commentary Cameron is trying to make in this movie suddenly becomes a lot more obvious. For example, how one of the scientist in the Avatar project had his avatar killed before Sully came to Pandora, where he is pictured as a shell-shocked sort of zombie.
Wait, no one mentioned Project 880 in this thread? How's that possible?
Link: Fuck you, Hollywood
Inlander:
God that irritates me. "All the bits that didn't make sense in the movie make sense if you read all this extraneous material we've provided for you!" Hey Hollywood I'm buying a ticket to a film, not entry into a cult.
smack that isaiah:
--- Quote from: ruyi on 11 Jan 2010, 05:05 ---I believe this was intentional, as the avatars were supposed to have DNA mixed from humans and the Na'vi.
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Yeah, I know it was intentional, it's just that some of my friends said they wanted more differences between the Navi and the Avatars, at which point I pointed out the finger difference--which they didn't pick up on--the apparent height differences between the two (the Avatars seemed a little bit shorter), and the skin texture that the Avatars had that the Navi didnt--they were all smooth while the Avatars had textures. Since they missed those details, I just wanted to point them out.
Something my roommate just mentioned to me that is ringing true is the massive amounts of unnecessary CGI. sure it was pretty and everything, but all the computer interfaces and displays were done with full pointless CGI, which he really didn't need and didn't need to rely on. For the planet and the alien creatures I understand perfectly, but for the computers and junk, just a waste and showing off. And, secondly, all the computer interfaces and displays were massive touch screens and shit, which would absolutely not be in future developments of the computer. Having to move your entire arm to change a screen is a waste of energy on the part of the computist, and even nowadays things like that are not appreciated. Future computes will continue to have simpler analog controls that are not made up of many large movments--the operators would get too tired too quickly. (To anyone who's ever spent a significant portion of a day programming or writing on a computer something that required multiple screens or shells or what-have-yous think about having done it with large arm motions like seen in the movie. we would have all given up half an hour in, or tried to find a simpler way to write the code)
Ballard:
--- Quote from: smack that isaiah on 11 Jan 2010, 06:31 ---It's the goddamn FUTURE why don't we have MIND CONROL COMPUTER!!
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Kugai:
HAL spoiled that,
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