Comments on: Reasons I Laughed Out Loud, Offending Several Fellow Patrons, During The Major Motion Picture “Avatar.”

By: link love ♥ « expansions.

link love ♥ « expansions. — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:32:27 +0000

[...] Reasons I Laughed Out Loud, Offending Several Fellow Patrons, During the Major Motion Picture Avatar is such an amazingly apt essay that I want to kiss the author. Really. This reads exactly like what I was thinking during my observations of the film (which I finally saw, because they were playing it at work. Oh, by the way, I quit my job last weekend. Avatar wasn’t the reason, I promise). [...]

By: So, the Avatar Thing.. : Lawyers, Guns & Money

So, the Avatar Thing.. : Lawyers, Guns & Money — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:42:56 +0000

[...] than that depicted in the film. Colonel Quaritch and Parker Selfridge are about as complicated as Billy Zane’s Cal Hockley, and the film falls very comfortably into a neo-Marxist explanation of the sources of American [...]

By: hn

hn — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:16:13 +0000

maybe I fell asleep, but I used to wonder why they *didn’t* connect their USB hair during sex (like in Demolition Man!), I remember Jake connected to that tree, then they had old style sex…

Also I chose to believe, “Unobtainium” was an in-joke of the writers, they forgot to edit it to something else, then it was too late because all the marketing material mentioning it had already been printed.

By: Interesting posts, weekend of 1/24/10 « Feminists with Female Sexual Dysfunction

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:29:41 +0000

[...] Reasons I Laughed Out Loud, Offending Several Fellow Patrons, During The Major Motion Picture “Ava… – Sady watched the movie and found it funny for all the wrong reasons. Reasons including, “Avatar really did look like a Lisa Frank binder had sex with a mid-’80s sci-fi paperback cover and their baby threw up on your face, which was great.” Well that sounds… great. Lovely. …Hey whatever happened to Lisa Frank anyway, does she still make vivid school supplies for kids? [...]

By: Steff Metal » Blog Archive » Linking Horn, 24 Jan 2010

Steff Metal » Blog Archive » Linking Horn, 24 Jan 2010 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:56:24 +0000

[...] rehashed, sickly plot, excessive length. So I lolled, I lolled a lot, when I read this essay on reasons I laughed out loud, offending several fellow patrons, during the major motion picture Avatar. Props to Sady of Tiger Beat Down for the [...]

By: Tournevis

Tournevis — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:35:47 +0000

Darn! @Laura beat me to the punch. Loved this.

By: Athena Andreadis

Athena Andreadis — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:29:03 +0000

Great (and sharp) points! More on the shock and awe that is Avatar: Avatar: Jar Jar Binks Meets Pocahontas Lab Rat Cinema: Monetizing the Reptile Brain

By: radsaq

radsaq — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:21:02 +0000

The sex in the Dragonriders of Pern series may have been a bit fucked up, but who didn’t love the interstellar telekinetic sex of The Rowan series?

By: MsFeasance

MsFeasance — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:31:59 +0000

OK. I have to mention this: Vazquez Lite was originally supposed to confess her love for Scientist-Guy-who's-One-of-the-Rotating-Interns-On-Bones-Not-That-I-Watch-That-Show-Anymore shortly before exploding. And also, apparently, back on earth people get antelope legs grafted on for no reason.

By: vito excalibur

vito excalibur — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:21:13 +0000

This review is made of 100% awesome (and then I totally blew my day yesterday going back through your archives, but if I took the time to mention all your awesome posts, I’d lose today too. To summarize: hella good.)