[Movie] Avatar (2009) - BZ wants your nub

Unobtainium is actually a term that's used jokingly in engineering to describe materials that are either rare and impossible to find, or flat-out non-existant. Cameron's cheeky use of it is pretty clever but it comes across poorly in the film. It's like they KNOW it's a ridiculous name so they play it off that way.

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Script can be found here with Unobtainium intact, for anyone interested. This is the version being passed around for the Academy to read, so I'm sure it's the final draft:

http://www.foxscreenings.com/media/p...eronAVATAR.pdf

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Avatar has become the highest grossing film of all time.

Post your reasons on why this is a grave injustice to art and the world at large below this line:

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Originally Posted by Shin

Anyway, Sprout, didn't you say you liked Avatar in your journal? That you have an opinion at all suggests you paid to see it, in which case you have exactly zero grounds on which to complain about how much money it's made.

Whoa there, I loved Avatar and I'm not at all complaining about it making that much money. I never would have predicted it would surpass Titanic, but I'm stoked to see that it did. My snide comment was not meant to be an attack on the film, but rather a nudge to the people who haven't stopped bitching about how terrible the movie is since before it was even released.

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You know, I'm pretty sure that the Harry Potter books have made more money than War and Peace but you see surprisingly little internet nerd-rage about that.

There are more than a few people on here who stomp on those books whenever they get the opportunity to. Maybe the Potter nerd-rage is exclusive only to GFF?

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Originally Posted by Crash Landon

There is somewhat more to art than merely visuals. There are also the matters of meaning and social relevance. On these levels, Avatar is rather unremarkable. In terms of art, Avatar is a painting of a bowl of fruit. It's a very well painted bowl of fruit, but ultimately, there's nothing deeper to it. In terms you'll likely better understand, it's the difference between Stevie Wonder and T-Pain; both are technically singers but only one is a true musician.

Films as art resonate with more force and pathos than Avatar does. Honestly, aside from breakthroughs in CGI filmmaking, the word "art" doesn't even belong in a conversation about Avatar. All the non-visual elements are pretty ordinary, from the plot to the dialogue to the soundtrack. It's a fun movie but it has absolutely no impact. Compare this to far greater films such as Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, Shawshank Redemption or Schindler's List. Those are works of art because they evoke something real. Avatar cannot accomplish this, and is barely "art" as far as the legitimate meaning goes.

I seem to remember you avoiding the film because of some fascination you have with blue furries. Did you change your mind and see it?

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Originally Posted by Tellurian

shallow characters or not.

I wouldn't even go so far as to call them shallow. They're just flat. They're safely written. Not interesting enough to be unique, but not offensively underwritten enough to be annoying (with the exception of Michelle Rodriguez who plays every tough girl role she has the exact same way). They serve their purpose and that's pretty much it.

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