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 Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. 
#12085531 - 02/23/10 07:54 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Personally Avatar had depressed me after seeing it as well , not because I couldn't live in the fantasy world of Pandora , But because we as a people are so far from the connection shared between life and all things as displayed in the film . My journey of psychedelics and meditation have made me feel much more in touch with everything as I'm sure many of you have . So I'm wondering did Avatar make you depressed , happy , sad, what have you ?
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085538 - 02/23/10 07:56 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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It didnt make me feel anything. I thought it was shallow and trite. The 3-D was cool though.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085540 - 02/23/10 07:56 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haven't seen it, don't plan to see it.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: fiddle]
#12085541 - 02/23/10 07:57 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: DieCommie]
#12085545 - 02/23/10 07:58 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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DieCommie said:
It didnt make me feel anything. I thought it was shallow and trite. The 3-D was cool though.
Don't get me wrong :P I'm not saying its the best movie ever made far from it . It lacks depth for certain but I took it for what it was .
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085551 - 02/23/10 08:00 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I thought it was neat looking
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085556 - 02/23/10 08:01 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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If I had seen it I would be depressed knowing I spent $8-12 on a piece of shit 2 hour
thing. When I could have spent $25.00 for a good blu ray that will play many, many times.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085559 - 02/23/10 08:01 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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what I'm  curious about is...
these people who are becoming depressed after seeing the movie... watching it in 3d?
well that's probably retarded, but i am still a bit curious
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: the bizzle]
#12085562 - 02/23/10 08:02 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was def entertained
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: Rocker232]
#12085565 - 02/23/10 08:02 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wanted to be in that world much more than our own.
Who wouldn't 
We're sitting infront of an electronic box, they're flying around some magical land on some dinosaur looking thing.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: Rocker232]
#12085579 - 02/23/10 08:04 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have had a dream so beautiful that I wished it to never end.
and I guess I can see how watching avatar could be like having a dream...
but I feel sorry for anyone who needs James Cameron to dream for them.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: EdgeChaos]
#12085601 - 02/23/10 08:07 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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EdgeChaos said:
I have had a dream so beautiful that I wished it to never end.
and I guess I can see how watching avatar could be like having a dream...
but I feel sorry for anyone who needs James Cameron to dream for them.
Eh I have to admit. I've had some cool dreams but they didn't have shit on Avatar.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: learningtofly]
#12085622 - 02/23/10 08:10 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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learningtofly said:
I thought it was neat looking
coaster and his girl nodded out midway through the film i think lol
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: EdgeChaos]
#12085624 - 02/23/10 08:11 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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It was pretty, but that sort of pretty that I really like...
The whole network thing kinda made sense to me.
BUT, it's just a movie... and I don't think it was as good as everybody was saying.
Yeah, the 3-D was good.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085708 - 02/23/10 08:25 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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HeroMike said:
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DieCommie said:
It didnt make me feel anything. I thought it was shallow and trite. The 3-D was cool though.
Don't get me wrong :P I'm not saying its the best movie ever made far from it . It lacks depth for certain but I took it for what it was .
It was no Lord of the Rings, but it was still a damn good movie. It had creative, thought provoking ideas and did an excellent job of playing with my emotions and entertaining me. The animation was fucking badass, but it would still have been a fucking great movie without them.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: RipVanWinkle]
#12085806 - 02/23/10 08:37 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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" But because we as a people are so far from the connection shared between life and all things as displayed in the film"
prettymuch summed it up for me, I think that people know that the way we live now is terribly wrong, It makes me wonder how James Cameron managed to make it so inspiring / strike such a chord. I liked how the idea of CHI was put in there too, nice touch 
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: Doctor_Dick]
#12085868 - 02/23/10 08:47 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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go live on a fuckin commune, hippiesQuote:
Doctor_Dick said:
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learningtofly said:
I thought it was neat looking
coaster and his girl nodded out midway through the film i think lol
yah i saw that lol.
u seemed 2 be enjoying it.
idk if it was cuz i was super baked but i thought it looked really, really fake.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085870 - 02/23/10 08:47 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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HeroMike said:
Personally Avatar had depressed me after seeing it as well , not because I couldn't live in the fantasy world of Pandora , But because we as a people are so far from the connection shared between life and all things as displayed in the film .
IMO, if a large number of people actually felt that same yearning after seeing Avatar, and felt it strongly enough for it to register as "depression," then Avatar deserves to be regarded as an artistic accomplishment of extremely high import.
Avatar's accomplishment was not clever writing or a delightfully twisted plot -- there are a myriad of movies you can watch for those qualities.
No, Avatar's accomplishment was the vivid communication of a vision of life on Earth that modern civilization has cleft from our psyches, leaving a gaping vacuum in our collective experience of the world. We need more movies and art like Avatar to fill that gap and heal the human mind.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: Spiralout112]
#12085873 - 02/23/10 08:48 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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i saw it tripping amazing best movie experience ever... (ATON of k... bumped at like 3 times during the movie haha) but then i recently saw it with a friend sober (and not in 3d this time) it wasnt that great:/ entertaining but was also sorta lame
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12085957 - 02/23/10 09:03 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Avatar depressed the hell outta me because so many people were obsessed with a shitty, cliche movie.
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Avatar depressed the hell outta me because so many people were obsessed with a shitty, cliche movie.
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I don't believe you saw it. If you do say you saw it, then you are a liar. You may be too good to watch a high budget blockbuster with the rest of america, but you're still a liar.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: HeroMike]
#12086059 - 02/23/10 09:23 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Avatar gave me a lot of emotions...amazement, excitment, wonder, feelings of "I wanna go there", and a little bit of depression. I should also point out on was on about 10 large Ps. stunztii shrooms at the time, and they may have contributed to the feelings of wonder and amazement...
It gave me mild, one-day depression because (A) I could never go on a wild adventure like the main characters did in the movie and (B) because our species have treated other life so poorly, like deforestation, massive habitat loss due to harvesting natural resources, hunting fish and wildlife to the point of extinction and non-recovery, pollution of the air and water, poor treatment of livestock (although me eating them doesn't help), urban modernism, etc.
But those feelings only lasted about a day, because after that, I usually forget about the movie I just saw and move on with my life. Was it life-changing? Sort of, but only temperarly. It did however make me think of Native Americans, and how similar their view of the world is to the Nai've. Makes me wish sometimes that our human race would go back to those simple "living with nature, not againist it" ways...but I'm afraid its already too late....
In the near future, I plan on going back to see Avatar, this time in a IMAX theater on a large dose of LSD mixed with homegrown cubenis mushrooms and a little weed. Hopefully, that will open my eyes to what Avatar's message is really trying to say....because its more than just entainment: its beautiful art with something important to say...I just got to find out what that message is....
This time, I want to be part of Pandora 
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: Rocker232]
#12086062 - 02/23/10 09:24 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Rocker232 said:
I wanted to be in that world much more than our own.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: igwna]
#12086269 - 02/23/10 10:21 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm gonna go with angry because I can never get my money back. That movie was the stupidest, sappiest piece of shit I have ever seen. The characters were one dimensional and I saw the ending from a mile away. And for a budget of more than a quarter billion dollars the special effects weren't that impressive.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: crazyboy25]
#12086287 - 02/23/10 10:26 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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crazyboy25 said: special effects weren't that impressive.
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Mind Transcribing said:
Avatar depressed the hell outta me because so many people were obsessed with a shitty, cliche movie.
Avatar was a 3d blue hippy turd
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: laserpig]
#12086338 - 02/23/10 10:39 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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laserpig said:
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crazyboy25 said: special effects weren't that impressive.
you are insane
Honestly, the coolest 3-D of the whole file was the ad in the beginning that had the astronauts.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: DieCommie]
#12086358 - 02/23/10 10:43 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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were you out taking a shit or something when the tree collapsed?
or when ... every part of the movie happened?
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: laserpig]
#12086363 - 02/23/10 10:43 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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laserpig said:
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crazyboy25 said: special effects weren't that impressive.
you are insane
I'm thinking that CrazyBoy just unplugged from The Matrix right before seeing Avatar, and the immersive photo-realistic graphics of the Matrix cannot compare to the 3-D depth-effect of Avatar....
Man, Nick Swardson was right: there are way too many jaded people out there. If Avatar was shown in IMAX theaters just 50 years ago, people's minds would exploded. I mean, how can you be so jaded? Are you not impressed by anything anymore? Is it all just not good enough for you? Have you seen better special effects than the ones in Avatar (besides the Matrix world you came from)?
Too Much Jadedness these days... 
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#12086372 - 02/23/10 10:45 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Avatar sucked, real life has a better framerate" 
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: laserpig]
#12086379 - 02/23/10 10:47 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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laserpig said:
were you out taking a shit or something when the tree collapsed?
or when ... every part of the movie happened?
I saw it all.  The 3-D was good, dont get me wrong. But it wasn't good enough to make up for the shittie movie. And after a short while it lost its magic over me.
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: DieCommie]
#12086388 - 02/23/10 10:50 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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okay but you do understand that there is a difference between special effects and plot, right?
because you are talking as if you don't
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: laserpig]
#12086861 - 02/24/10 01:13 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I personally thought it was amazing. I think most people who hate on it are emotionally detached and/or jaded.
I highly recommend this article on Avatar and the psychedelic worldview: http://www.realitysandwich.com/avatar_psychedelic_worldview_3d
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Re: Avatar has caused Nation Wide Depression. [Re: fiddle]
#12086912 - 02/24/10 01:38 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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maddlevi said:
Haven't seen it, don't plan to see it.
QFT.
fools and their money are soon separated.
they are also apparently highly impressionable.
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