I really am 15... and it's my experiance as well that most people my age are obsessed with sports, clothes, chemicals, and sex, although not necessarily in that order. I also don't feel especially discriminated against. That said, I am a wierdo and proud of it.... I know people aren't always going to understand "my" movies, which is why I don't proslytize, but I'm not gonna let that stand in the way of judging them on how they appeal to me, as opposed to the mainstream.

Just been thinking about this over a (very boring) class trip:

What if it's not a coincidence that the big Na'avi settlement was directly on top of a massive unobtanium deposit? They do live inside of a massive (bigger than most of the others, in fact) braintree, after all... and the braintrees are obviously capable of sensing electrical and magnetic fields... like those generated by unobtanium! The other Na'avi site (the huge I/O willow grove) is located at the center of another extraordinarily magnetic area.... maybe the humans can't just go somewhere else because all the significant unobtanium deposits on the planet are already being used... by the braintrees! I'm too lazy to crunch the numbers on this, but it seems that without some very conductive medium, the trees would have a hard time mustering the voltage needed to send signals across a large moon. I originally envisioned some sort of organic dynamo using the deposit as a power source for the trees' electrical communications... but that's pretty ridiculous. It makes more sense to me for the trees to leech shallow unobtanium up through their roots for making some kind of superconductive pathway within the root system that makes it much easier to communicate at low, biologically-producable power. Maybe the Na'avi are just there because the trees are bigger and make a nice place to sleep at night, or they actually engage in some sort of symbiosis with them..... see below.

Consider that Aiwah's ability to control the higher animal population of Pandora could easily be applied to mating habits... which means controlling which traits are passed on to the next generation of banshees or lemurs or whatever....considering that the trees have been around for millions of years in one form or another (they cover the entire planet, have vast reserves of memory, apparently one single consciouness, and they must have outcompeted the non-brainy tree species: it's doubtful that an organism that large/powerful/smart could be driven extinct by a regular old ELE) it becomes possible that Aiwah controls the evolution of Pandoran species, and created the Na'avi. Why? I don't know! Maybe to "service" the network or protect it in some way (as they do against the humans).....maybe as a means of gathering information (the Na'avi do, after all, routinely "back up" their memories in the willows).... maybe as some sort of companion species (I'm not sure if a giant vegetative brain that has never encountered sentient life other than itself would get lonely or not).... or maybe just because it wanted to see if it could.

Yeah. It was a REALLY boring trip.

I see that..heh..

Side note here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHA

there's also part 2..Star Wars review, Star Trek movies as well..good entertiament

that was pretty darn funny eh LEADER, watched these yesterday too. Man, that phantom menace one took me deeper than I ever wanted to go into that train wreck but it really did raise some baffling points, especially about how many lines of dialogue were completely nonsensical. The lack of a genuine protagonist really shocked me as well, I'd never even considered that before.

i heard the first 3 secs of video and i knew the guy was a joke, and not worth listening to

people who's wives hair can be destroyed by a ceiling fan and who have to help take the wheels of their richest relatives new house, dont have the capacity to have valuable opinions

on the contrary...I bet they would know alot about caravans

well, when i need to know how to live in a box, ill be sure to ask one of them, in the meantime, im feeling sick because of how much of a twat that guy was...

i realise part of it was for humour, but then hes taking things about the movie and twisting it (very much in the same way religion does) to have a negative connotation... like the big eyes and cat nose was designed to evoke sympathy... well, no shit? also, they're pretty? in todays society, thats the way it works, if its pretty, people like it...

and the comments he made about district 9? bleh, as if they DIDNT beat you over the head with the message?

grrr, ignoramous' like him are an insult to intelligence and make me sick to be human, and related to such a sack of dumb...

Important question: why did  the humans attack on ground at all in the final battle? The point was to bomb the Naavi to death, not storm their homes; any thoughts on why a ground assault would have helped in any way, especially since the natives didn't have any kind of anti-air weaponry or tactic from the ground.

Important question: why did  the humans attack on ground at all in the final battle? The point was to bomb the Naavi to death, not storm their homes; any thoughts on why a ground assault would have helped in any way, especially since the natives didn't have any kind of anti-air weaponry or tactic from the ground.

This thread needs bumping, because I found this GREAT interview which goes indepth about Avatar... and all its plot issues.  Its great listening to James Cameron and getting in his head and figuring out why he did things the way he did.

heres the article:
http://screenrant.com/avatar-script-discussion-kofi-47786/

I really want to watch this thing..... in the 10 minutes before I go to school.... any chance we can get bullet points or something from somone with more time on their hands than me?

Well, I watched it, start-to-finish, and found the information contained within rather enlightening..... my opinion of the movie is still pretty much where it was, but it was not fun seeing my secret hopeful fantasy that Cameron really wanted to write something cereberal and nunance-laden but was stopped by the big bad studio crushed........ and although I'm about as far left as it's possible to get while maintaining a connection with reality [EDIT: I am, of course, speaking hyperbolically here], I found the non-stop corporate-bashing a bit tiresome: money makes people do nasty things all the time, but even big business has sometimes shown a soul..... and the feel-don't-think stuff turns my stomach...... Cameron's treatment of the Doc seems to demean her in some way, but of course my support of the character (if not the world she live(s/d) in) is as strong as ever.........

Alright, so I miiight have bittered a little since new years'.....

If any news of a sequel indicates it will be more of the same, I may feel compelled to once again pick up my fanon pen (well, OK, OK, word processor) and do my own small part to keep a good backstory from going to waste.