Dec 30 2009Pandora Documentary: It's Like Watching the Discovery Channel, But Useless

thanks, but no thanks.

Pretty cool! Thanks for that.

If some one tweaked that script a bit more, and had a touch more aerial footage, this is just an awesome parody of Planet Earth.

After listening to her voice the entire "planter earth" series I'll believe anything she says.

hahahahahahahaha it's like World of Warcraft...colorful, but pointless hahahahahaha

Unobtanium :p are you kidding me? haha

I liked that movie.

hey bugshake:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtanium

"Engineers have long (since at least the 1950s[2]) used the term unobtainium when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects save that it doesn't exist. By the 1990s the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as "Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications]".[3]

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More recently "unobtainium" has come to be used as a synonym for "unobtainable" ... to denote an object that actually exists, but which is very hard to obtain either because of high price (Sometimes referred to as "Unaffordium") or limited availability."

sure it sounds kinda silly, but it's a word people use outside the film.

During the Cold War Titanium was referred to as Unobtainium. When most people first hear the term they think it's just made-up or silly, but the truth is that most of us are already familiar with materials that were once referred to as such.

Interesting

The story was a little predictable, but it was the world of Pandora that made the movie awesome.

@Ryan Thanks for that. I was giggling the entire movie thinking it was such a dumb name. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all.

@Jonjon Yeah, it was FernGully with aliens.

The movie was predictable, and a little hard to believe. How do primitive peoples limited to essentially bow and arrow technology drive off a a superior race with deadly gaseous, incendiary, explosive, and ballistic devices?

Moreover, how did "the People" evolve differently from every other species? They have two less limbs.

And yes, I'm completely willing to accept the race of giant blue kitties. Just not what I said up there.

"Explore Avatar's rich, Delgo-like world..."

What do Italians have to do with it?

Hmm... I didn't know unobtanium was a real term... I guess it makes it slightly less silly?

And, uh, how did *we* evolve differently from every other creature? It happens. *shrugs*

@13 Zanaso:

I thought I read somewhere that the Na'Vi were going to be more alien with 6 limbs but the result was too creepy. Like sticking a human head onto the demon of arachnophobia. But I can't find any reference anywhere so I'm probably just imagining it.

Check out this: http://io9.com/5354315/avatar-concept-designer-reveals-the-secrets-of-the-navi

Says Jim specifically wanted male audience members want to fuck Neytiri. This wouldn't work if she had 6 arms.

Avatar was exactly like Ferngully...except more derivative and less interesting.

The movie said unobtainium was a power source, this 'documentary' says it is a super conductor. WHICH is it Cameron? Through the movie I wanted to know exactly why they had to have that particular thing and would destroy wantonly to get it, yet they never said. Thanks for muddying the waters.

I am also bothered by most animal life having 6 limbs and the humanoids only having 4 now. Oy.

@14: Where did you hear "Diego"? She said Magritte, a surrealist painter.

LISTEN

@14 and Diego Rivera is Mexican NOT Italian.

@18 Near the start of the movie they say its worth like 30 Million dollars per kilo if i remember correctly.

#19 and #20, #14 said DELGO not DIEGO.
READ.

@21, oh yeah. But still WHY was it worth that much? I get irritated with movies that don't fully explain the important parts. (yes, I DO get irritated with a lot of movies) I think a bit more background before they jumped in would have satisfied me. It was a pretty movie though. I will probably end up reading the book when it comes out just to get the sniggly questions answered, like I did with Stargate. ;)

@14 Delgo was a cgi movie that flopped big time. I think the writer comparing Avatar to Delgo was their way of saying they didn't like Avatar. (I didn't see the movie, but screen shots of Delgo show it is clearly a children's movie...quite silly looking) Check out more here:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/floppiest-flop-case-file-126-delgo,16751/

makes me wanna go see it at the movies again

@18 and @23
Avatar's "unobtainium" must be a room-temperature superconductor -- don't you remember those SEVERAL scenes where he had it floating in a magnetic field?

So, 20 million per kilo, from many light-years away is plausible -- we've gone around the world for years to get whale oil, emeralds, etc.

This will be Christopher Nolan's first film since his feature debut, Following
(1998), that is a completely original work. All of his films between "Following" and
"Inception" were either remakes or based off of comics, novels, or short stories.

Unobtainium is a HUMEROUS name for any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material - straight from wikipedia the first guy didn't show the first sentence of the first paragraph