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Anyone else see it? Had I known it was so long I would've went weewee beforehand.

That one scene with the giant bulldozer... Fern Gully much?

Oh man, so good. Sad that I can see us doing that though, minus the heroic save.

Someone seroisly needs to do a "Fireflies" AMV for it.

That sucks. And yeah, a lot of movies have that kind of theme; not just "going native," but "siding with the natives against the invasive humans/white people".

Also, I believe this image sums up the "Fern Gully" comment:

I just called it Pocohontas in Space. Honestly. The 3D version of the movies kicks eight asses though, end of story. Holographic screens felt so real, it almost distracted me. The concept overall had been overdone, but we are in the century of no originality. I stopped looking for things to get creative, and simply let people tell their versions of the same payed out concept.

Hell, even some people compared Orius to Harry Potter.

PS - I killed them when they did.

The Director wrote:

Hell, even some people compared Orius to Harry Potter.

PS - I killed them when they did.

Good man.

Kane wrote:

The Director wrote:

Hell, even some people compared Orius to Harry Potter.

PS - I killed them when they did.

Good man.

Its something that had to be done for great justice.

Too true. Besides, it's often not how original or different the story is, but how effectively it is told, from what perspective, and with what emotional investment from the audience.

Going to have to go with Rem on this one. Everything of the same type of genre is the same, but the devil is indeed in the details.

But hey, I say let it roll. Everything has a stereotype. But they honestly have little movies (outside Horror genre) where the bad guy wins. Can I see this? Please? (Hell i should write a whole story on it. JUST to say I did it. >/ And if anyone knows of titles, please tell me, I would like to look into it).

But to go with the whole Pocahantus//Avatar comparison, I found another one for you to laugh at:

Couple of things didn't quite work - Tsu'Tey doesn't try to kill Jakesully out of jealousy, but out of fear and mistrust; Neytiri risks her life before the Colonol's brought to justice "shot with arrow! yo"; and the two coltures didn't really resolve their differences. Other than that, v. funny.

ifer wrote:

Couple of things didn't quite work - Tsu'Tey doesn't try to kill Jakesully out of jealousy, but out of fear and mistrust; Neytiri risks her life before the Colonol's brought to justice "shot with arrow! yo"; and the two coltures didn't really resolve their differences. Other than that, v. funny.

After the tenth similarity the few mistakes were easily disregarded.

I havent seen Pocohantas in years, and its funny just how much is dead on. I find it uber amusing. Oh and Rem, about what you said earlier. If I hadnt been contaminated with so many remakes and reboots in the last five years, my opinion about the movies as of late would not be so condemning. I am afraid it is too late for me. lol I know that every movie that comes out is going to suck ass. With this mentality, a good movie is simply going to go right past me.

Remzical wrote:

Then read a book. Read a book. Read a motherfucking book.

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EDIT: Just throwin' this out there, but Neytiri was a helluva lot better Native American than Pocahontas does. Swan diving off a cliff isn't a big show of your connection with nature. It's stupid.

Cheers to that, stupid woman. D|

And btw? I love the reference. >]

Remzical wrote:

Then read a book. Read a book. Read a motherfucking book.

End Quote.

EDIT: Just throwin' this out there, but Neytiri was a helluva lot better Native American than Pocahontas does. Swan diving off a cliff isn't a big show of your connection with nature. It's stupid.

Okay true. Neytiri had a goddamn dragon and could kill like spiderman with chainsaw arms. Pocahontas had a klepto raccoon, a rage filled hummingbird, and a tree that sings like a snoring cat.

And yet she's still several magnitudes better than any of the other Disney princesses (besides Mulan, of course)

ifer wrote:

And yet she's still several magnitudes better than any of the other Disney princesses (besides Mulan, of course)

Well yeah. Ariel is a fish, Belle is into bestiality, Jasmine is a terrorist, Snow White is a dumbass, and Cinderella is poor.

One had to slip through the grid. Heh...beastiality....get it?

Mulan was a man! Heh. Well - she technically did better as a man after the whole I'll Make A Man Out of You bit. I just don't understand how no one knew... Either feudal Chinese people were really dumb, the women looked like men so they couldn't tell them apart, or Mulan was really masculine looking... That and Li Shang was actually a homosexual. Hah! I dunno. All speculation.

I don't think Naytiri could pull a Mulan though.

ChinChillah wrote:

Mulan was a man! Heh. Well - she technically did better as a man after the whole I'll Make A Man Out of You bit. I just don't understand how no one knew... Either feudal Chinese people were really dumb, the women looked like men so they couldn't tell them apart, or Mulan was really masculine looking... That and Li Shang was actually a homosexual. Hah! I dunno. All speculation.

I don't think Naytiri could pull a Mulan though.

Nope. She was blue.

Plus, it's not like in today's society where girls wear the same clothes that men do. Clothing styles in the past were very gender-segregated, and you just wouldn't even stop to think "maybe this person's crossdressing". Kinda like how in some third-world countries people identify each other more by their clothing than by their faces (they wear the same thing every day), you just don't develop the thinking processes to recognize them in other garb.