So I finally watched "Avatar" - I guess this was the plotline

[LynneSin]

Two young people from completely different worlds manage to cross paths and fall in love. Although he is from another world he tries his best to fit in with her world. In the mean time a man who loves a really really big gem wants to keep them apart so he can keep his gem and they manage to sink a ship.... um I mean a tree.

And the music, I swore they just rehashed the same stuff from the last movie.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. No, no, it's an analogy for the war in Afghanistan.

The Taliban, you see, are not a horrible, corrupt clan of ultrafundamentalist misogynists who would love nothing more to restore their fascist theocracy. Rather, they are an peaceful, environmentally friendly group of mystics who like to take care of trees and mind-rape pterodactyls with their ponytails.

[Frank Cannon]

2. Here ya go.

[LynneSin]

5. I got the trailer for that movie....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehpf4SO43DY

[DBoon]

6. I prefer this one

[spinbaby]

3. Best description I've heard is...

Dances with Wolves in Ferngully.

[nolabear]

7. Egg-zactly. Although that Lolcat post did have me in stitches. "Pew" "Pew!"

:rofl:

[Ron Green]

4. And the Academy Award was down to a contest between this thing and "Hurt Locker?"

Have you seen Hurt Locker? What a weak sister of a film. When was the last good movie made? Every time I give some new film a chance, it steals a couple of hours of life without giving me a damn thing.

[jobycom]

8. It's cause you're old.

Avatar was as good as any film you're thinking was better, but you've seen it all now, and back then it was original. Whatever film you're thinking "They should make films like that again" your parents thought "Damn, movies suck now, why can't they make shit like that one I loved when I was younger."

That's my theory, anyway. Nothing's new because I'm no longer new.

[Ron Green]

14. You may be right. I'm old.

I often wonder about that with movies (and with music). But I'm finding that I see more value in art from before when I was born than from my own life.

For example, I don't care much about music that was popular when I was a teenager, although I think it's got more substance than popular music now. The really good stuff was created before I was born, and I like it more because it's got better harmony, more style.

My favorite movie right now is "Sunrise," from 1927. That's way before I was born, so it doesn't matter if I'm 25 or 60 at this point, to judge a movie that old.

Most of today's movies that seem to have something in them of value are from other countries, in my opinion. Both "The Hurt Locker" and "Avatar" pale in comparison to many non-awarded films from the past.

[jobycom]

9. So it reminded you of Romeo and Juliet and half the stories from the Bible?

There's like two stories ever written. Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. Everything else is commentary, although some clever folk just combine plotlines.

[Lindsey]

10. I didn't get Avatar or The Hurt Locker. I loved Inglorious Bastards

and was bummed that it didn't win the Oscar.

[jobycom]

13. IB was okay. The opening scene was almost worth an Oscar by itself.

The rest of the film just turned into a running Tarrantino gag. That's not bad--I love Tarrantino--but I think people compared it to his other work more than the other films nominated. I'd have still picked Avatar over IB. Avatar was impressive film making, whether the story was original or not. Kind of like when Return of the King won--the storyline was a complete failure, but just to pull off a film like that was good enough in a slow year.

I was personally rooting for Up, though I didn't really believe it had a chance. :)

[Odin2005]

11. There are few stories that are EVER truely new.

Nearly all stories are just variations on eternal archetypal themes.

[tblue]

12. It's Pocahontas with blue people.