tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post3300506534180115282..comments2023-10-31T07:39:03.451-07:00Comments on Lobojo's Den: AVATAR: A Rambling Reviewdrlobojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-12624190396027377622009-12-23T21:26:11.943-08:002009-12-23T21:26:11.943-08:00Unobtaium not Unatainium. I guess the first you c...Unobtaium not Unatainium. I guess the first you can't get and the second you can't suceed. Either way both of them are similar to the joke in the long equation on a black board that says "here a miracle occurs", sort of like those equations Jan Hendrik Schön used to publish in 'Nature' etc..<br /><br />Anyways Cameron's use of of the name is lame, Actually come to think of it, even the use of avatar and pandora are a bit sophmoric.drlobojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-61353943497125381572009-12-22T07:59:13.673-08:002009-12-22T07:59:13.673-08:00I'm now hearing it referred to a Dancing With ...I'm now hearing it referred to a Dancing With Wolves in Space. Naw, not really. Dances With Wolves had more character development and a better story line.<br /><br />I would also note that Cameron left it wide open for a sequel.<br />He left the Natives and a dozen or so scientist in charge of an intact mine and and military/industrial base complete with equipment, weapons, gunships space ships, and resources.<br /><br />It will take 5 years for the Company transport to get the people back to earth, and another five years to return to Pandora.<br />In ten years the Pandorans and the expatriate Earthlings can mine a lot of unatainium (cute name huh?) thus creating an economic bartering tool, and the Native can integrate the weaponry of Earth into their defensive systems. Also the systems that made the Pandoran Avatars could do the reverse and create human avatars controlled by Pandorans. They could then infiltrate the Corporation and so on and so on and so forth. In the hands of a master story teller this could be quite a series with sequels and prequels and spin offs and all sorts of marketing stuff.<br /><br />So is Cameron up to it?drlobojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-92172128193170701902009-12-21T11:43:59.462-08:002009-12-21T11:43:59.462-08:00Found the film visually aressting but overall it w...Found the film visually aressting but overall it was quite a letdown esp since the narrative was cliche as hell.Jeanhttp://www.indianauteur.comnoreply@blogger.com