Bro the movie is so boring (I've never seen it). The story is uninteresting (some youtuber said that), the characters are one dimensional (I failed geometry) and the only reason people like it is because it was CGI Eye Candy
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Actually, if I remember it, this name is a real term. It's like a placeholder name for when you are researching a new element.
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Never fails to prick my pickle when people pick out the most inconsequential detail and use that to invalidate the whole argument instead of actually addressing the point being conveyed
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Unobtanium is actually what scientists call hypothetical elements that have yet to be discovered. Usually once they are discovered, they’re given a different name. A far more realistic name would likely be Pandorium. Although haters would obviously complain about that too.
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Dude, we don't talk about the Avatar: The Last Air Bender movi- Oh, those Avatar Movies. Nevermind then, carry on.
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I feel like the movie feels so pretentious in its portrayal of humanity. Humans are also part of nature, so why are people trying to separate them sometimes almost completely? There have been plenty other creatures to cause extinction and environmental effects even without human intervention. Nature is not good. It just is. The movie’s portrayal of humanity bad and nature good just feels shortsighted and lazy.
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Correct me if I’m wrong. Californium was named because a lot of elements were discovered in that state by universities, Rutherfordium after Rutherford, a theoretical physicist who proposed a model of how Atoms worked (now outdated), and Einsteinium needs no explanation. Unobtanium roughly means “we can’t obtain it”, and it had been used in Sci Fi for a while as a paperweight placeholder name (even in 2003’s The Core). Excuse me but homaging people in physics with an element, and a writing equivalent of an “IOU” are not the same.
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Not that it personally concerns me or that i have heard it before, but I am curious as to someone potentially complaining that the series might perpetuate the "noble savage" narrative and what your response would be.
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Reminder that scientist officially named a dinosaur “Irritator” because the damaged and incomplete state of the fossil pissed them off so much
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My own thoughts on the movie for the heck of it: The movie's basically good. Not necessarily great, but at least good. The movie's sometimes accused of just being eye-candy but, even if we assume that's true, I think you have to ask why the eye candy is so good. It isn't just a matter of budget, but visual creativity. There is excellent vision here. The world-building is nice. The movie is preachy as hell and has a very romanticized view of nature and hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Having said that, colonialism is bad and taking care of the environment is good. The movie borders on misanthropic at times in its depiction of humanity. I think this is a bit of a bad thing, lemme tell you why: thinking that humans are generally stupid or evil is a mindest that encourages nihilism, not empathy. People who think most humans are idiots are not going to change the world for the better, people who think everyone is valuable will. Even then, it's not exactly like Avatar is anywhere near the biggest contributor to misanthropy in our society. I think a lot of people get their meta-criticism and "in-universe criticism" mixed up. Maybe you think portraying humanity as evil isn't great, but the fact is that the RDA is totally evil. They're basically The Martians from War Of The Worlds.
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My gripe is that it's already a term in engineering fields for hypothetical materials they would need to make something work, so to those who know this information, it still feels very on-the-nose.
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Wait until the commentor sees what Ace Attorney calls made up chemicals.
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The fun thing about names is they are all real stupid until they become normalized. Take Batman for a second: that's a stupid fucking name. A guy dresses up as a bat and calls himself Bat Man? How lazy can you get? But Batman has been in the cultural zeitgeist for almost a century and sounds pretty normal, but lesser known characters with a similar naming convention are frowned upon. Remember people making fun of Antman back before the first movie came out? I remember. I don't like the name unobtanium, I think it's pretty fucking silly. But how is it honestly worse than other fictional elements like gundanium or bassnium or element zero?
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Has it occurred to you that Avatar just doesn’t do anything special enough to stand out? I mean aside from the visuals I can’t think of anything it does that others films don’t already do better. “Dances with wolves”, “The Last Samurai” are some of the first films that come to mind in this kind of… Genre? (I don’t know what to call these kinds of films.) regardless it’s not a terrible movie either. It just doesn’t stand out on the merits of its story.
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I think I will watch Avatar again, genuinely love to get immersed in it B)
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It's like when people complain about monsters in supernatural movies or series having simple names that describe what they actually do because "why can't they have cooler names" and then you look at the translation for real monsters from real Mythology and it's just "the thing that eats people" and "really really big lizard".
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The suspension of disbelief isn’t something that borders real life. Just because it can happen doesn’t mean people will go with it. Unobtanium could be a real thing but that won’t stop people from seeing right through it as a lazy name.
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The humans are the villains but considering the state of the planet, I am shocked it took the humans a generation to return and even more shocked that they didn't just glass the planet from orbit to collect the rare earth.
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The S.E.A.
I wish people could criticize the Avatar films in good faith.
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