Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues

[Molina00]

But I digress. Regarding the thread, fantasy escapes are good now and then, but nothing I've ever seen, played, read, heard, etc. in the creative realm has ever led me to despair.

I think it would be pretty safe to say that these people had some underlying problem going into the movie. I find it hard to believe that a movie could make any sane person suicidal.

I myself haven't seen the movie, don't know if I will or not, but I can guarantee you, it won't have a lasting effect on me if I do. Give me a week and I would probably forget I even saw the thing.

[C.Fortson]

Honestly I am sick and tired of every time I pull up the enternet the Yahoo homepage has something new about Avatar. Right now there is an article on Yahoo about some people thinking Avartar has racism in it, this, that, the other.....
Just watch the movie and go on, people need to stop making such a big deal about it. Honestly I didn't care for the movie. I mean whats with a hurd of blue people living in a tree, and flying on birds with their hair stuck in the animal somehow. Anyway, I'm just saying some people are taking this movie WAY too serious.

[jonnyweb]

great flick, but people need to get a freakin life!

[avstars]

Yea seriously, now the vatican is criticizing the movie? I know the visual and the story makes it look real, and for Avatar it is very real, but come on, it's just a movie. It's a work of fiction.

[dfr52]

Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues



Well it looks like Cameron got his intended consequences...people disgusted with the state of the world and mad at corporations.

But seriously people, contemplating suicide because Earth isn't like Pandora? Get a life!!! This falls along the same lines of people who think they're vampires or witches after watching Twilight or Harry Potter. Uberlame.

Its sad it took a fictional movie for people to realize this.

[OnePimpTiger]

Its sad it took a fictional movie for people to realize this.

Are we taking for granted cars, computers, air conditioning, ovens, clothes washers and driers, cel phones, video game systems, the internet, radio, television, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Corporations have given us a lot of things, do we really want to bite that hand? I'd like to see the vast majority of these people live in a world like Pandora, where you have to actually work just to live and hunt your own food and sleep outside with the bugs and animals...I would give them maybe a day...probably not even that though.

[Umpy9]

I can see how people say that they wish things were like that, and the intention was obviously to show that people have lost touch with their surroundings, but to get depressed over something out of their control is just dumb. If they really feel like our world has become so consumed in technology then they would do their part to go green, and live how they would want the world to be... However I'm not going to bash people (like some people on here have been) that would like the world to be greener because I can see where they're coming from; however I wouldn't want that... Maybe more efficient would be the word for what I want.

[dfr52]

Are we taking for granted cars, computers, air conditioning, ovens, clothes washers and driers, cel phones, video game systems, the internet, radio, television, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Corporations have given us a lot of things, do we really want to bite that hand? I'd like to see the vast majority of these people live in a world like Pandora, where you have to actually work just to live and hunt your own food and sleep outside with the bugs and animals...I would give them maybe a day...probably not even that though.

Corporations have helped to develop and bring those innovations to the public but at the same time they have been responsible for some of the problems society faces. I'm not advocating a back to nature approach but that the world is not a very "pleasant place" at this time.

[OnePimpTiger]

Yeah, they've caused their fair share of problems...but in reality, it's the humans behind the corporations. Inanimate, intangible entities that only exist on paper can't actually cause any harm. But, my point was a lot of people blast corporations like they're the root of all the world's problems, failing to see they've also provided us with far more than individuals alone ever could have...there's good and bad in everything and to only focus on the bad (corporations in this situation) or good (an imaginary planet) is naive. (Referring to these people, not you dfr)

Speaking of which...do these people think the separate tribes of Pandora never fought or engaged in war? Fighting for territory and resources is a very natural thing, just look at wildlife.

[dfr52]

Yeah, they've caused their fair share of problems...but in reality, it's the humans behind the corporations. Inanimate, intangible entities that only exist on paper can't actually cause any harm. But, my point was a lot of people blast corporations like they're the root of all the world's problems, failing to see they've also provided us with far more than individuals alone ever could have...there's good and bad in everything and to only focus on the bad (corporations in this situation) or good (an imaginary planet) is naive. (Referring to these people, not you dfr)

Speaking of which...do these people think the separate tribes of Pandora never fought or engaged in war? Fighting for territory and resources is a very natural thing, just look at wildlife.

By corporations I was referring to those in charge since they make the decisions (good or bad). But I do agree its the people not the enitity. And yes that is naive.lol

I believe the last statement was mentioned on the politic/religion board and I think it is true as well.