Poll: What is the most ridiculous controversy that has came from Avatar
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ItchyxBritches said:Soushi said:ItchyxBritches said:Ha ha, you do have a point. I just wish that people would stop trying to ruin it for others by using jokes that have been repeated, not just a few times, but lots of times. Either way, it doesn't really matter. I guess the trick is to keep it from bothering you.Soushi said:I think most of the people on this thread liked the movie, they're just trying to add some humor. Anyway it sounds like you're trying to tell me that you've never heard a funny joke, and repeated it to your friends? What do you talk about then? Different brands of bread? How fantastic corn flakes are? The joys of Desert Bus?ItchyxBritches said:I will have to disagree then, cause i'll be damned if I trust everything that a book tells me, even if it is a dictionary. Besides, if a comedian told a joke that wasn't funny and nobody laughed, it wasn't a joke, it was a flop. One way or another, all i am saying is that this unintuitive and way over-done pool of dry and inane 'wit' needs to fuck off. If people wanna keep chuckling away to themselves, that's fine, but just stop trying to ruin it for other people. You aren't funny, you are just repeating the same overdone crap.Soushi said:joke  [johk]The_root_of_all_evil said:I thought they copied Ferngully, given the monster truck was a direct rip off.manaman said:They didn't copy dances with wolves. They copied the Disney classic Pocahontas.
It's not a joke if it isn't funny, or has been told hundreds of times.Wiezzen said:
?noun
1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Joke)
Note that it doesn't say it has to succeed in making someone laugh.
I just find it hair-rendingly irritating at times. But, perhaps i need to take a note out of my own book, and realize that some are gonna hate it, others gonna love it, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
*sigh* still, i wish someone had taken me up on my challenge to create something totally original. I was hoping for some funny shit to brighten my bleak and humorless day.
Soushi said:ItchyxBritches said:Soushi said:I can see where hearing the same jokes over and over can be annoying, so i do see your side too, (stupid orange and banana knock knock joke!!), but my point was that the posters were just injecting something that they thought others would find funny. I'm glad that you're able to shrug it off tho. TBH I was in a bit of an argumentive(sp?) mood when I first started posting anyway.ItchyxBritches said:Ha ha, you do have a point. I just wish that people would stop trying to ruin it for others by using jokes that have been repeated, not just a few times, but lots of times. Either way, it doesn't really matter. I guess the trick is to keep it from bothering you.Soushi said:I think most of the people on this thread liked the movie, they're just trying to add some humor. Anyway it sounds like you're trying to tell me that you've never heard a funny joke, and repeated it to your friends? What do you talk about then? Different brands of bread? How fantastic corn flakes are? The joys of Desert Bus?ItchyxBritches said:I will have to disagree then, cause i'll be damned if I trust everything that a book tells me, even if it is a dictionary. Besides, if a comedian told a joke that wasn't funny and nobody laughed, it wasn't a joke, it was a flop. One way or another, all i am saying is that this unintuitive and way over-done pool of dry and inane 'wit' needs to fuck off. If people wanna keep chuckling away to themselves, that's fine, but just stop trying to ruin it for other people. You aren't funny, you are just repeating the same overdone crap.Soushi said:joke  [johk]The_root_of_all_evil said:I thought they copied Ferngully, given the monster truck was a direct rip off.manaman said:They didn't copy dances with wolves. They copied the Disney classic Pocahontas.
It's not a joke if it isn't funny, or has been told hundreds of times.Wiezzen said:
?noun
1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Joke)
Note that it doesn't say it has to succeed in making someone laugh.
I just find it hair-rendingly irritating at times. But, perhaps i need to take a note out of my own book, and realize that some are gonna hate it, others gonna love it, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
*sigh* still, i wish someone had taken me up on my challenge to create something totally original. I was hoping for some funny shit to brighten my bleak and humorless day.
I'm going to go with the Avatar depression. Complaints about copied storylines and knee jerk reactions to any attempt to corrupt the youth are to be expected. I was not prepared for the revelation that people would become depressed over not being able to visit Pandora.
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There's freaking smoking EVERYWHERE!
There's freaking smoking EVERYWHERE!
Yeah...no...I don't see any rip-off between those two vehicles.Singularly Datarific said:Off topic: Holy crap, you look exactly like my brother.Mr. Squee said:
On Topic: Really people? Ripping off halo? Halo ripped off aliens!
Were feminists actually complaining about this movie? The only loud noise I've heard out of the feminist camp lately is protest of Focus on The Family's anti-abortion super bowl ad.Mr. Squee said:
The Halo thing is funny, though. Someone needs to sit these kids down and let 'em know that the world existed before Bungie. Hell, maybe Bungie could do it. Didn't they cite Cameron's Aliens as an inspiration? 'Cos it sure as hell was one.
There's no way to satirize this, it's already self-parodying.
You forgot the most ridiculous one of all: That it's a leftist Commie plot to undermine good conservative values. I think your poll is fail without that option.Mr. Squee said:
Is anyone else getting the sudden major itch to pay mininova a visit?
"Get away from her, you *****!"
"Get away from her, you *****!"
There's a reason for this effect. It's called "using a medium and a story to show us to ourselves." And Avatar did a decent (I didn't say outstanding, don't get freaky on me) job.MetalGenocide said:
The smoking one grinded my gears, mostly because the person who did smoke came across as a total ***** at the time, and the whole part about her demanding a cigarette appeared to be there, just to show how she treats everyone around her like her lackeys.
I'd never heard of the one about the female Navi being less muscular, and that one clearly makes no sense either.
I'd never heard of the one about the female Navi being less muscular, and that one clearly makes no sense either.
Well, for starters, it IS a blatant rip-off of Dances With Wolves... and Pocahontas... AND Fern Gully.
But the most ridiculous "controversy" surrounding the movie is that Feminists think the female Na'vi's lack of muscular beefiness is some symbol of subservience. I mean, Neytiri kicked more ass in that movie (especially in the earlier parts) than Jake. Besides that, it's a scientific fact that women just can't get quite as muscular as men can. No beef against them; they've got flexibility and attractiveness over us by a long shot.
But the most ridiculous "controversy" surrounding the movie is that Feminists think the female Na'vi's lack of muscular beefiness is some symbol of subservience. I mean, Neytiri kicked more ass in that movie (especially in the earlier parts) than Jake. Besides that, it's a scientific fact that women just can't get quite as muscular as men can. No beef against them; they've got flexibility and attractiveness over us by a long shot.
2. No question whatsoever, 2. Women aren't as muscular as men in real life-not as a result of culture, but a lack of testosterone. And if you believe that the lack of muscle makes women physically inferior, then you inherently accept that women in real life are physically inferior. One can only accept that women are equal by rejecting the idea that equivalent muscle mass is necessary to be equal. The very nature of the objection raised by feminists implies that women are inferior in real life.Mr. Squee said:
Thats because I am your brother.TheFacelessOne said:1.
There's freaking smoking EVERYWHERE!
Yeah...no...I don't see any rip-off between those two vehicles.Singularly Datarific said:Off topic: Holy crap, you look exactly like my brother.Mr. Squee said:
On Topic: Really people? Ripping off halo? Halo ripped off aliens!