Have fun getting eaten.![]()
So it all works... or doesn't. Pandora is actually a moon circling a huge gas giant primary... which would actually strip its atmosphere down.
If I remember rightly, unobtanium was never actually shown floating in its own right. When Selfridge was playing around with it, it was in a circular receptacle thing. When he later showed it to Grace, he took it from the same device. It could be that this was simply a toy on his desk, like a paperweight with the added novety of whatever was placed within its range would float. We never actually see unobtanium on its own in raw form. Even when Selfridge takes it out of the receptacle, he's physically holding it.More on Pandora:
Secondly... "unobtanium"... it's metal, yes... it floats... double yes. What does that imply? Why are they mining it out of the ground instead of trawling unobtanium dust out of the sky? No, wait... there is unobtanium dust in the sky... it's the flying mountains of Pandora! You're going to go for a vein directly under a native town instead of those obviously rich sources of unobtanium?![]()
Can someone tell me how the final battle with that scared guy in the walking machine turned out again? I know who won, but I was thinking how it went down (through the whole battle scene), and I can't put all the pieces together, and now IU can't stop thinking about it.
Jake lands on the big gun platform, tries to lob grenades into the lift fans, Scarface tells him... "take that! yeah... see?" shoots at him, sends him over the side, Jake unlatches a missile from the pod and throws it into the fan. Platform blows up. Jake falls to the ground, surviving by grabbing onto leaves and vines... Scarface boots up the walker, jumps out through the bomb doors and goes to hunt down Jake.
He gets to the module, where Norm has gone scurrying off for reasons unknown... he's about to smash it up when Pocahontas... errh... Neytiri... comes riding on her beast and attacks him. Jump, attack, jump, attack... disarm, then Colonel BadAss grabs it by the neck and guts it with a giant K-bar (seriously, they make Marine knives in that size? cool). Throws it to the ground, pinning the girl under it. He's about to kill her when Jake shows up. Jake grabs the firearm the Colonel dropped when he was attacked and they go at it, hand-to-hand... errh... manipulator... after that, it's a blur.
They did that in Inglourious Basterds, too. There's a reason for it, I'm sure, but I don't know what.My only question is what was the point of the subtitles?! Sometimes they used them & then other times when the Na'vi are speaking, they don't. I'm guessing they did that just to show off the language?
I haven't seen that yet, but were they speaking German/French/etc. with the sub titles in English or vice versa?They did that in Inglourious Basterds, too. There's a reason for it, I'm sure, but I don't know what.
Ok, so I just caught this movie, and I'm speechless. I really am. On a very small hand near the end, it didn't feel as epic as everyone made it out to be, but on the other, when I think about the movie as whole from Jake's intro to his "transplant", it really does seem rather epic.
But, the one thing I really liked is that even though there were quite a few plot holes (like the gas), I actually wasn't even thinking about them or the least bit bothered.
I just can't put it into words, though. The plot doesn't look like a blockbuster hit, but just the way Cameron brought it all together, the effects, the actors, the languages, the whole world of Pandora; it was just brilliant. But, I suppose that's the whole highlight of the movie, the world & the natives, not the plot.
My only question is what was the point of the subtitles?! Sometimes they used them & then other times when the Na'vi are speaking, they don't. I'm guessing they did that just to show off the language?
Still think that was weird having the alien's language as subtitles when they knew no one knew wtf they were saying....For the speaky parts of the movies, they wanted to make sure the audience didn't miss important plot points or humor when the Na'vi were talking. For other parts, I guess they figured we didn't need to know, and they wanted the audience to pick up on what was being said by reading the Na'Vis' expressions... pretty neat trick, I must say... not cluttering the screen with captions for the parts where they wanted you to pay attention to the characters.
Besides... did you really want to sit for over two hours reading Papyrus?![]()
For the speaky parts of the movies, they wanted to make sure the audience didn't miss important plot points or humor when the Na'vi were talking. For other parts, I guess they figured we didn't need to know, and they wanted the audience to pick up on what was being said by reading the Na'Vis' expressions... pretty neat trick, I must say... not cluttering the screen with captions for the parts where they wanted you to pay attention to the characters.
Besides... did you really want to sit for over two hours reading Papyrus?![]()
I just figured out tonight why I couldn't understand a word! The theater I had gone to had the subtitles in a foreign language.Still think that was weird having the alien's language as subtitles when they knew no one knew wtf they were saying....
I just figured out tonight why I couldn't understand a word! The theater I had gone to had the subtitles in a foreign language.![]()
So Kate wants to see this and we are thinking about going today. Is it really any different then Dances With Wolves in space? I have a feeling it isn't.
I don't know, because I haven't seen it, but its epic all the same.
Go with the 3D if possible. 👍
This describes about half the action genre, including District 9. It allows room for character development that the audience sees and creates a battle against great odds.Basically a guy goes native and fights who he originally started with, in Dances with Wolves' case, the US Army. Reading the plot synopsis for Avatar is seems to be the same thing. I'll probably wait till it comes out on Blu-Ray, I don't really fancy spend $20 to see it.