Comments on: Avatar and the Ultimate Geek Death http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/ Just another Creativeindependence.net Blogs weblog Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Chris http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Chris Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:44:40 +0000 http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/#comment-35 Ha! I'm glad you finally got him to go with you. I hope you enjoyed it. I don't think its playing locally at the Imax anymore, though, or I would have been pushing Lou to go there the second time around. Ha! I’m glad you finally got him to go with you. I hope you enjoyed it. I don’t think its playing locally at the Imax anymore, though, or I would have been pushing Lou to go there the second time around.

]]> By: Gramma Susie http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Gramma Susie Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:43:31 +0000 http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/#comment-34 Father-in-law and Mother-out-law finally saw the movie! As a complete non-geek here's what I came away with. Thank goodness over bleached teeth are so last year! Anyhow- lots of fun and if I saw it again it would be at the Imax so I could be surrounded in glowing dandelion fluff. xx Father-in-law and Mother-out-law finally saw the movie! As a complete non-geek here’s what I came away with. Thank goodness over bleached teeth are so last year! Anyhow- lots of fun and if I saw it again it would be at the Imax so I could be surrounded in glowing dandelion fluff. xx

]]> By: Chris http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Chris Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:52:00 +0000 http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/#comment-33 Beto, after you said that there was a "Klingon Rapper", I went to youtube to check him out. Its... interesting. I fear that if he ever ran into a real Klingon, he would be killed where he stood. I laughed at your mention of "Disneyfied love scenes." Feel free to tell us the name of your friend's comic project. I'd love to check it out. Beto, after you said that there was a “Klingon Rapper”, I went to youtube to check him out. Its… interesting. I fear that if he ever ran into a real Klingon, he would be killed where he stood. I laughed at your mention of “Disneyfied love scenes.”

Feel free to tell us the name of your friend’s comic project. I’d love to check it out.

]]> By: beto http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/comment-page-1/#comment-32 beto Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:34:52 +0000 http://aithene.creativeindependence.net/2010/02/20/avatar-and-the-ultimate-geek-death/#comment-32 Count me into those who went to see Avatar twice. At the IMAX. The first time I was deeply impressed, like everyone else. The second time (to make company to relatives who missed it the first time) it was more of a "so that was it" viewing. I'm thankfully ignorant on all things 3D so it was easy for me just to sit, watch and be carried away. For all its merit and implicit messages, some things about the movie are definitely laughable, specially after a second viewing. The ultra-stereotypical Colonel wardog, the Disneyfied love scenes, the cliched resources of action movies on the last third of the film, the cultural assumptions that we'll be the same in 2154 as today, etc. But hey, if we're pretending to find trascendental enlightenment out of a Hollywood blockbuster, we're probably looking in the wrong places. And it's safe to say that Avatar is something quite unlike anything else coming to the big screen, and that alone makes it worth of merit. One of my best friends has a brother who is a linguist. He created a completely new language and alphabet for a comic project of his brother. I think linguists are just like that. It comes naturally to them. There's a dude already rapping in Klingon on YouTube. I can't wait to find covers sung in Na'vi. Count me into those who went to see Avatar twice. At the IMAX.

The first time I was deeply impressed, like everyone else. The second time (to make company to relatives who missed it the first time) it was more of a “so that was it” viewing. I’m thankfully ignorant on all things 3D so it was easy for me just to sit, watch and be carried away.

For all its merit and implicit messages, some things about the movie are definitely laughable, specially after a second viewing. The ultra-stereotypical Colonel wardog, the Disneyfied love scenes, the cliched resources of action movies on the last third of the film, the cultural assumptions that we’ll be the same in 2154 as today, etc. But hey, if we’re pretending to find trascendental enlightenment out of a Hollywood blockbuster, we’re probably looking in the wrong places. And it’s safe to say that Avatar is something quite unlike anything else coming to the big screen, and that alone makes it worth of merit.

One of my best friends has a brother who is a linguist. He created a completely new language and alphabet for a comic project of his brother. I think linguists are just like that. It comes naturally to them. There’s a dude already rapping in Klingon on YouTube. I can’t wait to find covers sung in Na’vi.

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