Sulphur on 22/1/2010 at 22:22
♫♫ like a flower bending in the breeze
bend with me, sway with ease
when we dance you have a way with me
stay with me, sway with me ♫♫
oRGy on 31/1/2010 at 03:07
I was there just thinking and crying for about 15 minutes before an usher asked me to leave. I told him I never wanted to leave and he was confused for a second. Then he said I had to go and if I wanted to see this “crappy movie” again I’d have to pay for another ticket. Well to cut to the chase it got a bit heated at that point and we ended up in a shoving match. The police officer who took me out of there didn’t seem to care either. When I told him he was a tool of an oppressive society that is destroying the world he laughed at me. Now I’ve got a charge against me for public disturbance but I don’t care. Hopefully that jerk usher got fired.
The next day I saw it at a different theater in 3d. All of a sudden the world was as real as my own. At the end I stood up and started telling the people that they were the bad guys and were killing the Na’vi everyday with their western society. I said look at Afghanistan! I got cussed out and had a soda thrown on me but I wore those like a badge of honor, I felt like a Na’vi standing against human oppression and sickness. I just wished I had a weapon at that point and could have fought like Jake did. Jake was so strong. I began to wish that I could be like a new Hitler, only instead of exterminating one race I’d do the whole human race then shoot myself at the end. My mom always said I get too wrapped up in this stuff but she is an idiot who is just as much part of the problem as every other American. I told her when I got home and she cried but I don’t care anymore, I’m 35 and I can do what I want in my room and don’t have to take any “medicine” if I don’t want to. Did the Na’vi take pills to “get better” Did the Indians? Nope. I just wish I could stop thinking of this; it’s more than a movie. My Mom used to think I was too into WoW but that was just a game. I quit playing and told my guild wife there to just forget me. This feels real, that is just stupid now. I don't even really want to go into work.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/12/avatar_blues/))
Renzatic on 31/1/2010 at 03:42
Of all the humorous bon mots and clever witticisms that have made me crack a smile or chuckle and chuckle around here, nothing, NOTHING has made me laugh as hard as that stupid damn face.
Fuck you, Dethtoll. I look like I'm crying over my incontinence over here.
Muzman on 31/1/2010 at 03:53
It is good perplexity that.
There's been a lot of those stories about Avatar apparently doing weird things to people's brains. Sounds a bit like 'scary mystical technology' bullshit, but I wonder if there might be something in it.
There used to be a fairly confident belief that sitting and looking at a screen for long enough periods, particularly CRTs under flourescent lights and things, could contribute to low moods and other symptoms of depression. Playing certain games sometimes did this too, I think I heard.
I haven't looked any of this up, but I sort of boiled it down to assaulting people's eyeballs in certain ways along those lines, messing around with fake focus and depth perception and motion might do something funny to some people. If there's anything to that, 3d movies might be doing something similar.
Yakoob on 31/1/2010 at 04:58
Quote Posted by Muzman
There's been a lot of those stories about Avatar apparently doing weird things to people's brains.
Oh cool, does that mean we are now gonna move from video games to 3d movies as the current medium that turns kids into satanists?
Firefreak on 31/1/2010 at 06:55
Only for a short time - until 3D is common with PC/consoles & games...
thefonz on 31/1/2010 at 09:24
Or. People are simple.
SubJeff on 31/1/2010 at 18:11
A psychiatrist told me that after the Matrix came out several paranoid schizophrenics presented believing they were the One or were in the matrix and so one.
