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    Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses

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    Image of Jeff Edsell Jeff Edsell
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
    I'm fascinated by the translation of stories from one medium to another, and as a consequence, I've read a lot of novelizations. And of course, some are very bad. Most are mediocre. But a few are very good.

    And the best of these is the novel (the word "novelization" is avoided) of The Abyss by Orson Scott Card.

    Card wasn't simply handed a shooting script and told to go at it. He interviewed the main actors about their characters, hung out on set with them. The release of the novel (usually concurrent with the film, for marketing purposes) was delayed, so Card would have time to do the best job he could. The novel starts a good three chapters before the beginning of the events of the film, and tells us about some of what happened after.

    Cameron explained in the foreword that he too reads novelizations, and hates when they're bad. So he did everything he could to make sure the novel of The Abyss (another story it took him years to get to the screen) was as good as possible.

    (Now watch -- I said all that, and then the Avatar book will be terrible. But seriously, The Abyss is really good, and worth checking out.)
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
    Oh, so not an adaptation but a media tie-in. Great, because those are always soooo well-written.
    ppht...
    [rolling eyes]
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/06/09

    @Grey_Area: SARCASAM MUCH?!
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    Image of Shadowdagger Shadowdagger
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
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    Kinderüberraschung!
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    crashedpc - unrein promoted this comment Shadowdagger was starred Shadowdagger was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Shadowdagger: Noch mal! Noch mal!

    Sorry, my only knowledge of German is from music, so... *shuffles away*
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    Edited by crashedpc - Haifisch at 10/06/09 10:47 AM crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Shadowdagger Shadowdagger
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Nicht die Mamma! :P

    (quote from the dino baby of the german version of the "Dinosaurs" TV-show)
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    Edited by Shadowdagger at 10/06/09 10:51 AM Shadowdagger was starred Shadowdagger was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Shadowdagger: Mein Gott, you just made a German Dinosaurs reference.

    And my comment has been rendered moot by the edited comment above. *shakes fist*
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    Edited by crashedpc - Haifisch at 10/06/09 10:53 AM crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Shadowdagger Shadowdagger
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Let me guess - you listen to Rammstein? :P
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Shadowdagger: They were a gateway band, but I'm listening to OOMPH! and a few others right now.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Shadowdagger Shadowdagger
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: OOMPH! is great, too :) But Rammstein is still my fav. :)
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Shadowdagger: I'm taking this to PM to prevent a complete derailment of this thread, as opposed to only a partial derailment as of now.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/06/09

    @Shadowdagger: you forgot the "already available" tag for avatar WoW character templates. i think they call them night elf hunters.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: what? no? why would you do that??!??! some of us like Neue Deutsche Härte too, don't leave us out!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @tetracycloide: Mm.. you like that silence?
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/06/09

    @Shadowdagger: +1!
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
    Books from movies can be much better than movies from books.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @reddingofish: The entire panel of the Terminator 4: Salvation: The Shitnovel review board would beg to differ.
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    Edited by crashedpc - Haifisch at 10/06/09 10:29 AM crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/06/09

    @reddingofish:
    Name one.

    Actually, I've never minded the Alan Dean Foster quick jobs, but I'd call it a stretch to consider them great literature.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Wookie1972: It made me weep a little to find out that the great ADF did the novelization of T4. It was worse when I read it.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Remember, "When he stood up he appeared much taller..."?

    Sheer magic.
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    Edited by Grey_Area at 10/06/09 11:50 AM Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Grey_Area: I cried tears of water when I read that.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: "He gives water to the Dead!"
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @Grey_Area: Oh no, don't tie zombies into this one, too.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: (It's a Dune reference.)
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
    embossed type - that would be 3d ...
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    crashedpc - unrein promoted this comment hamshank was starred hamshank was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @hamshank: *golf clap*
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
    FERNGULLY! FURRIES! CAMERON'S LOST IT!!!!1!!!

    There I saved about 50 of you from commenting.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @NerD: Blattella:
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: They make pants for that?

    I had to build my own out of space-man diapers.
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    NerD: Blattella was starred NerD: Blattella was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @NerD: Blattella: Duct tape and Pampers?
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    10/06/09

    @NerD: Blattella: Wore them cross country, saves time.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    In reply to Avatar Novel Will Show Pandora Without the 3D Glasses
    "Did you hear? We might have a book deal coming!"

    "That's great! Let's have cat people sex."
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: cat people sex is your answer to everything.
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    tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @tetracycloide: It's my attempt to trivialize someone's considerable efforts at making a pretty movie.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Kudos, sir.

    You're efforts are not in vain, I just would like to see some more creativity.
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    NerD: Blattella was starred NerD: Blattella was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @NerD: Blattella: My only response to you, sir, is the one above. *adjusts monocle*
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: you're not worried they'll take disscussions of sexual congress with their characters as a badge of honor in the CGI world?
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    tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @tetracycloide: That's their own grave to dig; I shan't be responsible for whatever moral fallout that occurs afterward. I'm just here to beat the cat people sex trope to death. *dusts shoulders*
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