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Avatar: The Way of Water is a 'damp squib'
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| 13 Dec 2022
| Nicholas Barber
Posted on 12/14/2022 1:52:40 PM PST by Rummyfan
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Was planning to give it a miss anyway.
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posted on
12/14/2022 1:52:40 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Yes, we may have had a 13-year wait for the first Avatar sequel, but apparently there are three more due to come out in 2024, 2026 and 2028. If The Way of Water is anything to go by, that's not a prospect to relish, but let's hope Cameron uses those sequels to address one key point, at least. How is it that 22nd-Century humans can travel all the way to Alpha Centauri in spaceships packed with robots and clones - but they still haven't developed glass which is strong enough to withstand a wooden arrow?
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posted on
12/14/2022 1:56:40 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: Rummyfan
Wounded Knee under the Sea.
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posted on
12/14/2022 1:57:04 PM PST
by
MMusson
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
12/14/2022 1:59:20 PM PST
by
DallasBiff
(Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: Rummyfan
Humans=destroyers. Pandorans=goodness and light. 😲🤔
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:00:07 PM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Rummyfan
Squib? Did Harry Potter coin a new word, or did this pre-exist HP?
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:03:50 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Rummyfan
“Jake wages a guerilla war against them, blowing up railway tracks and stealing weapons. He is a stripy-blue Robin Hood ...”
Lawrence of Arabia would be the proper comparison here, not Robin Hood.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:03:59 PM PST
by
Boogieman
To: Rummyfan
4 kids in 13 years? The liberated ladies aren’t going to like the thought of his wife being pregnant and nursing for at least half of that time. How patriarchal. //sarc
To: dangus
That word has been around for a very long time. They are a type of explosive, kind of like a primer, that was often used to set off cannons.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:06:14 PM PST
by
Boogieman
To: MMusson
The first one was Fern Gully. At least that had Tone Loc.
My kids used to get angry when I pointed that out to them.
To: Vermont Lt
“The liberated ladies aren’t going to like the thought of his wife being pregnant and nursing for at least half of that time.”
How do you know the gestation cycle of the aliens is at all similar to humans though?
To: dangus
Squibs are the primers for canon. When they are set off by themselves (no other powder) they make a bunch of smoke, a little light, and a “pop”…not a boom.
To: Boogieman
You are right. Aren’t they part salamander-like. She might just lay eggs and hope they turn out OK.
To: Rummyfan
Flying dragons—pooh! Four-eyed whales—pshaw. I want to know about the perfect teeth of the Pandorans. Maybe the humans just want to steal their computer-generated dentures.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:09:45 PM PST
by
ingeborg
To: dangus
It’s kind of similar to how we say something was a wet firecracker.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:10:45 PM PST
by
Codeflier
(My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard. )
To: dangus
Long before "Hairy Trotter, the colt who lived" Squib was a word. And it is used correctly in this article.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:12:06 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
To: Rummyfan
Movies with “Water” in the title fare poorly. This one joins WataerWorld and “The Waterboy”.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:12:24 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: Rummyfan
I thought the first one was propaganda and didn’t watch it.
However I later learned that it was banned in China: because the corrupt politicians/land developers would push people out of their family houses and traditional farms to build China’s empty cities and make money. And the Chinese government was afraid of the movie encouraging protests.
One wonders if Hollywood was aware that this was about China, not just western civilization that they love to hate.
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:13:21 PM PST
by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
To: Dr. Sivana
Ah, but what about “The Shape of Water”? That was a hit.
To: Rummyfan
It's been 13 years since James Cameron's Avatar beat his previous blockbuster, Titanic, to become the highest grossing film ever released.That those two films are the highest grossing movies of all time reminds me of the old H.L. Menken pseudo-quote:
”No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
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posted on
12/14/2022 2:17:05 PM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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