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Tarami
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I assumed putting Dances with Wolves alongside Avatar was the joke.
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Aez
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And Australia.
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Strazos
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Ah....I haven't actually seen Avatar, but I've heard the comparisons.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Actually now, people are less likely to have seen dances with wolves which to be honest kind of sucked.
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Strazos
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Eh, I actually like the movie.
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I thought it was pocohontas that Avatar mimicked. Now Dances with Wolves and Fern Gully too? Not that I can't see the obvious parallels, but did people bitch this much about the similarity of the other three movies before Avatar was made? Or do you need to reach a mass appeal level before it's cool to make scathing comparisons? And at what point can I put on a beret, go to some anti-establishment poetry night and complain about how Avatar is just a tool of corporate pig dogs to keep me and feminists down in the mud?
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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I thought it was pocohontas that Avatar mimicked. Now Dances with Wolves and Fern Gully too? Not that I can't see the obvious parallels, but did people bitch this much about the similarity of the other three movies before Avatar was made? Or do you need to reach a mass appeal level before it's cool to make scathing comparisons? And at what point can I put on a beret, go to some anti-establishment poetry night and complain about how Avatar is just a tool of corporate pig dogs to keep me and feminists down in the mud?
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Aez
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Just be glad it didn't win the "Movie of the year" award. The rage would have been endless.
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Not saying avatar should have won but the hurt locker was over dramatized oscar-bait that will be forgotten about completely in a couple years. It's not even going to be a trivia question, it's that forgettable.
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Amarr HM
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Just wondering were Pocahantos, Dances With Wolves and Ferngully really that good that people should be defending their IP? I have only seen one of them and I vaguely remember it being really boring (Dances with Wolves).
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Aez
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Not saying avatar should have won but the hurt locker was over dramatized oscar-bait that will be forgotten about completely in a couple years. It's not even going to be a trivia question, it's that forgettable.
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Amarr HM
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Kall is right I totally forgot I was looking at the funny picture thread for a minute. Here have a photo I took in a pub while on a trip to Kerry recently.  I'm assuming the questions were pretty easy. |
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Male introduced to foreign culture wins the heart of a notable female, oftentimes "royalty", and decides his own culture isn't as good as the foreign one. Fern Gully is unique in that Zack didn't actually stay with the fairies (which would have been impossible), which is at least something a little different. |
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Not saying avatar should have won but the hurt locker was over dramatized oscar-bait that will be forgotten about completely in a couple years. It's not even going to be a trivia question, it's that forgettable.
Richard Cobbett summed this up. The Academy voting pool is dominated by actors, and Avatar is a two-hour infomercial telling them: You can be replaced by a Playstation 3. Same reason the guy who played Gollum/Smeagol never had a chance of winning Best Supporting Actor. --Dave |
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Ironwood
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But he should have. He put a fuckload of work into the Gollum character. The fact that it was then rendered in CGI should have ADDED to his achievement, not taken away from it.
It did in my eyes.
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Jeff Kelly
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Especially considering the fact that Gollum seemed more real than some of the other characters in the movies. You totally forget that it's a CGI character which is quite an achivement
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Who wants to ride this bus? This just started my day off right. I wonder if there's a convention in town this weekend...  |
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Heh. I see those buses all the time around in the Chicago area, and I always have a good chuckle.
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kaid
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Thats nothing when my friends wife first came to town she busted up laughing when she saw her first lamers shortbus which are very common sights in wisconsin.
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You're right - that IS nothing.
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I started laughing as soon as his big flappy head came out from the behind the crowd, the rest is pure poetry.
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Saw it in the DSMart thread first but I giggled like a little girl. Just so funny.
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OHMAGAWD I've been searching like mad to find vids of big-headed mascots running into shit and falling over. YOU HAVE MADE ME COMPLETE!
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Cyrrex
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Seriously, why doesn't the guy at least put his damn hands out to break his fall? It's so funny, though, that I want to believe it's real. You can't fake shit that good.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Seriously, why doesn't the guy at least put his damn hands out to break his fall? It's so funny, though, that I want to believe it's real. You can't fake shit that good.
His/her arms are inside the chest of the mascot costume... this one is similar to those stupid baseball big head races... just the legs work. |
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Cyrrex
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Seriously, why doesn't the guy at least put his damn hands out to break his fall? It's so funny, though, that I want to believe it's real. You can't fake shit that good.
His/her arms are inside the chest of the mascot costume... this one is similar to those stupid baseball big head races... just the legs work. Well that's a brilliant design. How could that possibly go wrong? |
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Ironwood
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Heh.
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Samwise
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His/her arms are inside the chest of the mascot costume... this one is similar to those stupid baseball big head races... just the legs work.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Well that's a brilliant design. How could that possibly go wrong?
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