One thing that always bothered me about Avatar and similar movies.

[HookersandIceCream]

District 9?

I felt more of a connection to those big a$$ cockroach lookin' aliens than I did with every human in the movie, including Wikus

Seriously?


There were a million reasons why we were supposed to sympathize with the Aliens in D9.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

the aliens from that movie are no more "out there" than Avatar's aliens though..

Avatars looked damn near human, except they were blue and had tails

 

[up in here]

the aliens from that movie are no more "out there" than Avatar's aliens though..

as far as having two arms and legs, yes they were still humanoids, but not even close to the Avatar aliens. They were closer to the Aliens type aliens.

 

[dontreadthis]

as far as having two arms and legs, yes they were still humanoids, but not even close to the Avatar aliens. They were closer to the Aliens type aliens.

they walk, move, have faces like humans but they just look much uglier lol. im just sayin if somene is gonna down Avatar for their aliens then what makes District 9 so much more wildly creative. now "different" to me would be a departure from the bipedal usual we see in most movies:

lol but how many people are gonna watch movies like Avatar if you have something crazy like that instead of the aliens they used.

 

[winb83]

the one thing that bothered me about Avatar is it literally felt like a predictable pile of cliches that didn't take any risk and followed the beaten path. like it was just a bunch of mix and match parts from other movies and stories rolled up into one. that and its excessive length.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

the one thing that bothered me about Avatar is it literally felt like a predictable pile of cliches that didn't take any risk and followed the beaten path. like it was just a bunch of mix and match parts from other movies and stories rolled up into one. that and its excessive length.

it aint but so many logical stories you can write. Why would humans go to another planet?

1. To colonize it due to Earth dying
2. To exploit it's resources through exploration (Avatar)
3. Just because we can

that's it. That's the only logic behind humans going to other planets in other galaxies. Avatar was at least somewhat original in its delivery of the cliches/stories.

 

[StatUS]

Avatar was a glorified tech demo. Appreciate it for what it was.

 

[Chris Mauro]

who cares, its science FICTION


Not a DOCUMENTARY, u fukkin geek

 

[Box Cutta]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

^ A possible explanation.

 

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[Fillerguy]

Is the utter unoriginality in the designs of alien life form. Think about it, when is the last time you've seen an Alien in a movie that wasn't just a variation of a human or an animal we already know? Specifically Avatar, every creature was just a play on everything we have on Earth:
A fukking monkey with four arms
A tiger or some big wolf-like thing that roars like a lion
Big blue people with dikk-hair
Come to think of it, is it even possible to create something truly alien without basing it on an animal that already exists? For instance, if we never discovered ocean life and only knew about land animals do you think humans could imagine a fish or an octopus and attribute all of the appropriate mechanics? shyt, probably not.

They could, based on scientific data about the living conditions the life form exists in. Most people just choose not to because it's too much work.

They ain't even gotta do that though. Look at the crazy shyt that lives on this planet. You could take a piece of 10 different things and make some weird new looking alien. Or hell, look at any time a tsunami or hurricane happens. All kinds of crazy deep sea fish that no one has ever seen get washed ashore.

Fred.

Everything we create is a variation of what exists; we draw from experience. How does one make something new from nothing? Cameron and his team spend years designing Pandora's biosphere...coming up with back stories, names and behaviors for creatures who would get less than a 30 seconds of screen time. He developed an ecosystem that stands up to decent ecophysiological criticism yet dude is unoriginal

 

[Fillerguy]

This is a blasphemy.

 

[Raph]

I thought this was going to be about the plot-line and if it was I would have agreed. Avatar was just dancing with wolves set on a different planet. There was no originality in that cliched story line. I never really enjoyed that movie.