Avatar reminds me of something...

[CriticallyAcclaimed]

Ever the pessimist as I am, once confronted with the overwhelming praise Avatar has been receiving I found myself having to find something to the contrary. And it wasn't hard.
Claiming a spoiler alert here isn't necessary because everything I'm about to say is made clear in the trailer for the movie. Avatar is about a hostile people invading the land of an ancient, nature-loving people in order to abuse the resources there. The military send in a man to infiltrate the Na'vi, where he promptly falls in love and begins to fight with them, seeing the error in his ways.

Wait for it...Avatar is live-action Pocahontas.

The white man invades, John Smith falls in love, hell breaks loose. Avatar is one musical number short of a lawsuite. And while on the subject, why are the smurfs in the movie named after the Zelda fairy.
See, if they just put bitchin' CGI in Pocahontas in the first place Disney would be a billion dollars richer.

Dig and dig and dig and diggity dig.

 

[Julianking93]

That's pretty much why I didn't like it.

No originality whatsoever.

 

[El Poncho]

By any chance did you see the picture from funnyjunk?

Spoiler

 

[Ryuk2]

No originality and not very good at story telling for me.

 

[justblues]

it tru the story's not really orgnal but i still loved wathing the movie come to life. it's like a pop up book only for the big screen

 

[TheLastCylon]

Ever the pessimist as I am, once confronted with the overwhelming praise Avatar has been receiving I found myself having to find something to the contrary. And it wasn't hard.
Claiming a spoiler alert here isn't necessary because everything I'm about to say is made clear in the trailer for the movie. Avatar is about a hostile people invading the land of an ancient, nature-loving people in order to abuse the resources there. The military send in a man to infiltrate the Na'vi, where he promptly falls in love and begins to fight with them, seeing the error in his ways.

Wait for it...Avatar is live-action Pocahontas.

The white man invades, John Smith falls in love, hell breaks loose. Avatar is one musical number short of a lawsuite. And while on the subject, why are the smurfs in the movie named after the Zelda fairy.
See, if they just put bitchin' CGI in Pocahontas in the first place Disney would be a billion dollars richer.

Dig and dig and dig and diggity dig.

Good for you! Now go and mill about with the other people who discovered this.

Seriously, the movie was great. It's just a popcorn movie.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I find that this type of plot isn't done enough. It's better than another romantic comedy.

So, its really not all that unoriginal.

 

[Julianking93]

By any chance did you see the picture from funnyjunk?

Spoiler

this is the greatest thing I've ever seen

 

[metalmmaniac]

Yea, pocahontas, dances with wolves, fern gully, it seems like a mashup of many things. i havent watched the movie yet, it looks ok, but ill be waiting for the bluray.

 

[Irridium]

You know, I'm sick of everyone calling out Avatar on its unorigonality.

Bioware games all seem to follow a same basic path, with the same basic companions from the companies other games.

Call of Duty's campaign isn't that origional.

Comic Book movies aren't that origional.

And yet all of those are rediculously popular.

Nothing seems to be origional anymore.
So can we please just let this argument die?

 

[Punisher A.J.]

I think its funny in a Ironic way.... you know how there are shows..... game, movies, t-shirts, web sits, jokes, careers, yada yada yada about aliens invading earth and destroying it for no reason...... well this is about humans invading an alien planet destroying it for no reason...... come on thats funny.

 

[Nerdfury]

OH MY GOD. YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON TO PICK UP ON THAT! YOU ARE THE SMARTEST PERSON ON THE INTERNET EVER!

See also: Dances with Wolves in Space, Fern Gully in Space, The Last Samurai in Space.

/internetsarcasm

 

[-BloodRush-]

no reason?!

its about the "whateverthium" thats worth a billion dollars. if you ask me, its worth destroying a sacred and ancient civilization as well as fuckin up the ecosystem of a planet.

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[sneakypenguin]

You know, I'm sick of everyone calling out Avatar on its unorigonality.

Bioware games all seem to follow a same basic path, with the same basic companions from the companies other games.

Call of Duty's campaign isn't that origional.

Comic Book movies aren't that origional.

And yet all of those are rediculously popular.

Nothing seems to be origional anymore.
So can we please just let this argument die?

But avatar is like holy crap i've seen this before, its not just based of an old story it is a direct copy of it. COD4 is unorigional in that its a modern fps but how it puts things together is new. Avatar just beats you over the head with it obvious plot (and political statement) I'm not sure about you but I was always about 20 min ahead of the movie because we've seen it before.

 

[AkJay]

Sorry to say, but your great discover has been done 10 times over on many different levels. I've heard Avatar being compared to about 15 movies, all of which have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

Um, why the hell do you care. As Movie Bob said, and it pains me to quote someone for it makes me look like a fanboy (im NOT).

But anyway, "Saying that Avatar is like Dances With Wolves does not make yyou smart, it makes you look like a dick", now while you may be saying it looks like Pochahontis its the same concept.

It was a GOOD MOVIE, why hate on it, the ending was pretty fucking epic too, not gunna spoil it for anyone who hasnt seen it yet but if you like explosions you wont be dissapointed.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

You do realise it's been over 2000 years since books have existed (and therefore even longer for stories), and almost 100 years since films have existed. People have had a lot of time to determine what makes a popular story. There will be repetition. Get strung up on complete originality and you will be forever unsatisfied.

Yes, Avatar rips off a lot of stories much older than Pocahontas, as well as even more concepts, so what? It's what's always been done and what will always be done in a society that prizes cost effectiveness over everything.

I enjoyed Avatar, I knew what it was doing from the get go, but I found it a lot easier to enjoy it by not getting strung up on critic-esque bullshit like what the OP is spouting.

Ask yourself this: Do you honestly think you're the first person in history with your full name?

 

[Ghonzor]

Ask yourself this: Do you honestly think you're the first person in history with your full name?

Do I?
Well, in this case, yes I do.
Mainly because my last name is a combination of two surnames from different cultures. It is highly unlikely that anyone has previously had my full name.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Ask yourself this: Do you honestly think you're the first person in history with your full name?

Do I?
Well, in this case, yes I do.
Mainly because my last name is a combination of two surnames from different cultures. It is highly unlikely that anyone has previously had my full name.

Wow. I didn't expect anyone to fall into the trap quite that fast. Those two surnames that yours is a cross between, how do you know they themselves aren't bastardized from different cultures? You're not looking far enough.