Okay Fringe is done for now in Holland. They showed whole of season 1 and the first episode of season 2. Poor Charlie

But Supernatural is back. Yessssssssssss. Seriously I urge you all to watch this awesomeness of a series.

Right now I am watching the Vampire Diaries. Hmm, not sure what to think now. Kinda Twilight-ish. 

Iga_Bobovic said:

Okay Fringe is done for now in Holland. They showed whole of season 1 and the first episode of season 2. Poor Charlie

But Supernatural is back. Yessssssssssss. Seriously I urge you all to watch this awesomeness of a series.

Right now I am watching the Vampire Diaries. Hmm, not sure what to think now. Kinda Twilight-ish.

They showed the first few episodes of Supernatural's latest series then took it off air here.

Yodariquo said:

bugsonglass said:

This is one of my favourite heart-warming and uplifting films which I have often watched at times when I was down.  Special recommendation for yoda! Wilbur wants to kill himself

Well that was depressing.

oh man, i'm sorry you thought so.  it has almost the exact opposite effect on me

I'm still waiting for them to repeat the first series of lost godamnit.

Oh yeah Iga, been watching Wolverine and the X-men. It gets a lot better and eventually worthy of the 90s X-men series. This is like Silent Hill SHattered Memories as it has familiar characters, locations and names but re-jigs things.

It started off fairly episodic but now its better now its focusing on preventing the future war.

Yodariquo said:

Late to the party, I saw Avatar last night.  In terms of the movie itself, bizarrely enough I think if anything it works best as a romantic plot; everything else was a mess.  Paper-thin depth of character, particularly in the political elements, and plausibility absurdities aside, the movie panders to the worst kind of naive idealism.

The alien race is very comparable in culture to Native Americans, in terms of a worship of nature and the whole "one with everything" concept.  Ultimately, the everything in the movie plays up to them having some sort of perfect society, and by learning their ways there's some kind of great insight into life.  It's nonsense.

The one part that irritated me most was when the character who knows the group the best says "We have nothing to offer them."  Really?  An entire race whose sum-total of technology is the ability to make hammocks is completely without need of anything the modern world can provide?  No medicine, shelter, climatology, chemistry, mathematics, educational systems, plumbing, nothing?!  They get away with this by never showing anyone needing medical attention (until near the end where their mystical crap fails), and never showing any inclimate weather.

Humanity has progressed technologically for a reason.  Of course there are harmful environmental practices, but the entire movie demonizes technological and social progress.  Just because something's "the way it's always been done" does not make it better, insightful or even useful.  Somehow I don't like choosing sides between war-mongering incompetent management and xenophobic intolerant mystics.

Beyond the movie itself, the day gaming goes 3D is the day I quit gaming.

What the hell at the last sentence, the 3D was incredible, it is the future and I want it here in my house NOW!

Anyway I don't think the movie was trying to say that by learning their ways you get some insight into life. The movie was trying to show that the planet of Pandora itself was alive, that the Navi can communicate with it as if it were a computer. It wasn't so much about learning to become a better person or anything, that aspect just came from accepting and respecting a different society rather than come in and blow it up for material gain.

I agree about them not needing any modern tech, understandably they don't want anything that can harm the planet but stuff like medicine and education will be beneficial but they show that in the movie. That is what the Avatar program was trying to do, it was giving them education, it was helping them grow while respecting them and of course the humans got something in return, to study the planet.

Yes the movie plays heavily on the whole nature versus tech plot but in the end I felt it was more about greed and power trying to take over a foreign land.  It wasn't just that the humans used technology, it was that they literally blew their home to bits. They killed many of their people. That is why they fought back. There is a take care of nature message in there as well but I didn't feel there was an anti-technology message, there was an anti-invade other land message.

Ravenprose said:

Everything was blurry and weird looking, which gave me eyestrain and a headache. If I hadn't seen it with my sister, I would have walked out within the first hour.

THIS