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    Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music

    Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin

    Avatar Linguist Wants Na'vi Language to be the Next Klingon

    New Avatar Pictures Are The Blue Jungle Cat's Pajamas

    First Avatar Photo Offers Best View of the Na'Vi Yet

    First Outlines Of Avatar's Slender Aliens
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    12/17/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    Um...2:20something...what the hell am I looking at?

    With all due respect to Ms. Lewis's awesome pipes, I really wish they had picked a cooler less Pocahontas-y song.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    MY HEART WILL GO ONNNNNNNNN!
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    You forgot the step where someone serenades you while fading in and out of your reality from some kind of magic cloudy black room.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    Good God. That was craptacular. I happen to be in Disney World right now and I kept expecting a princess to come running across the screen with her posse of friendly forest animals...
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    Image of BangarangRufio867 BangarangRufio867
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    so they couldn't get Elton John to do a "Can you Feel the Love Tonight" remix?
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    Come back Celine and Bryan Adams!

    No, wait, go back!
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    Image of mekki mekki
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    Ah, this generation's "My Heart Will Go On." Only fair that each generation should suffer through their own horrible movie ballad.
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    Image of Twisk Twisk
    12/16/09

    In reply to Watch How James Cameron Seduces Blue Women, To Terrible Music
    As I was watching this, I sat near, then far. But wherever you are I honestly believe that the heart does go on.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/16/09

    @Twisk: You just couldn't resist it, could you. Ugh
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    Image of Twisk Twisk
    12/16/09

    @Im_your_Huckleberry: Hm? I'm not sure what you mean. But it seems that the planet that they're on is far across the distance, and spaces between us. You have come to show you go on.
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    Image of Mr. Praline Mr. Praline
    12/16/09

    @Twisk: The problem with that planet is that I drove all night to get to it.
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    Image of cljohnston108 cljohnston108
    12/17/09

    @Twisk: Oh, that is just bafuckinrilliant!
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/15/09

    In reply to Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin
    Blue humonoids with tails are to hard to come by
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/15/09

    In reply to Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin
    Fuck yeah, Time Spirits!

    I still have the full run of that, buried somewhere deep in my comic collection. I think it was one of the very first series I ever collected.

    I doubt Cameron ever read it though, and other than a few superficial similarities on the part of the cat people and your bog standard "evil corporations are bad, mmmkay?" moralizing, I don't forsee Marvel going forward with any lawsuits.

    Not unless the ghost of Jimi Hendrix or a talking fish shows up, under which circumstances, I think they might have a case.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    12/16/09

    @bluehinter: There's a wealth of great 80s comics that fall under the radar, just waiting for someone to revive. I'm actually slightly excited about the idea of an Alien Legion movie.

    Anyone remember Dreadstar? Great ideas, so-so execution.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/15/09

    In reply to Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin
    I can't think of a James Cameron scifi film that wasn't inspired by something else. The Terminator movies were inspired by Harlan Ellison, Aliens is one part Starship Troopers and one part Vietnam War movie, and The Abyss was one of several underwater epics released in the same time frame. His inspirations aren't important, its his execution, the way he presents the story that is ultimately "original" and satisfying.
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    Image of SNForrester SNForrester
    12/15/09

    In reply to Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin
    She looks like X-Men's Mystique to me.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/15/09

    In reply to Avatar's Neytiri Has a Striking Comic Book Twin
    I think it's pretty apparent by this point that Avatar isn't the most original picture in any regard beyond maybe the technical.

    From Fern Gully/Dances with Wolves plot, Roger Dean Landscapes, Floating magic material that everyone wants to steal from their planet a'la Metabarons, Mechs via Matrix & well... mechs, Ships via Aliens, I'm going for some nice old spectacle and hopefully 3D that doesn't give me a headache.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/15/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: thinking about Cameron's films (except Titanic) you can pretty much say that they are all teen aged boy wish fulfilment...as are all the things that people are noting as inspiration for Avatar...

    I for one feel no need to justify my desire to have my teenage fantasies writ large (IMAX!) for a few dollars :)
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/23/09

    In reply to Avatar Linguist Wants Na'vi Language to be the Next Klingon
    Since the Na'vi have tails, I would think that the tails would possibly be integrated in to the language. Sort of a body language thing. Animals with tails often use them to communicate. But perhaps I am making things far to complicated.

    "Why did she slap me? I said she had nice eyes"
    "You said she had winged thighs. Nice eyes has a tail swish from left to right, not a twirl"
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    11/23/09

    In reply to Avatar Linguist Wants Na'vi Language to be the Next Klingon
    I think they should stop saying this is going to be the enxt big thing, and wait to see if it actually happens before celebrating. Honestly, it doesn't look groundbreaking.
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