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Offline kenth

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Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« on: January 12, 2010, 09:53:44 AM »
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(CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.

"I wasn't depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ," Baghdassarian said. "But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."

A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.

"That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.

A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
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"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

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Wow. How empty are their lives?
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 10:09:43 AM »
Sounds like the women who sat through the ending titles for Titanic bawling their eyes out.   :loser:
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 10:42:12 AM »
Que the "Hippies Crying Over Trees" video.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 10:50:48 AM »
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"Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film...

Go for it, losers.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 10:51:27 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on January 12, 2010, 10:42:12 AM
Que the "Hippies Crying Over Trees" video.

Yep, there's most likely a direct correlation between Avatar bawlers and 0 voters.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 11:02:08 AM »
What a bunch of pussies.  ::)
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 12:12:02 PM »
What are their DU screen names?
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 03:22:12 PM »
WARNING GEEK ALERT!!!!!!!!

I admit I got slightly sad knowing that there is no such place as Hogwarts in real life.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 03:23:07 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on January 12, 2010, 03:22:12 PM
WARNING GEEK ALERT!!!!!!!!

I admit I got slightly sad knowing that there is no such place as Hogwarts in real life.

Hogwarts is the Galt's Gulch of the wizarding world. lol.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 03:30:21 PM »
Quote from: FGL on January 12, 2010, 03:23:07 PM
Hogwarts is the Galt's Gulch of the wizarding world. lol.
Going off to google Galt's Gulch.....
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 03:33:28 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on January 12, 2010, 03:30:21 PM
Going off to google Galt's Gulch.....

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I am shocked that someone here doesn't get the reference.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2010, 03:36:12 PM »
I knew it had to do with Atlas Shrugged.  Alas, I have the book sitting on my nightstand where it has been sitting for at least 6 months waiting for me to read it.
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Galt's Gulch
A secluded refuge in a valley of Colorado where the men of ability have retreated after relinquishing participation in American society. Nicknamed "Galt's Gulch" by its inhabitants, it is in fact the property of "Midas" Mulligan, one of the early strikers to follow John Galt's call. This call was to the great men of mind and action to abandon the increasingly slave-state inclinations of a decaying United States - to go on strike - thereby withdrawing the only thing supporting the parasites and looters.

Sarcastically nicknamed Midas in the press because everything he seemed to touch turned to gold, Mulligan adopted the nickname during his explosive investment career before dropping out of sight. He had purchased this land among his far-ranging speculative endeavors, and subsequently retreated to it upon his disappearance. Other strikers soon followed him there, including John Galt, renting or buying land for summer retreats as a respite from continuing their search for fellow strikers among the increasingly collapsing American society. Eventually, a society develops in Galt's Gulch as more people live there year-round as the outside world becomes virtually unsafe to visit.

We are introduced to Galt's Gulch in the final section of the Novel, in the first chapter, entitled Atlantis. The people live with each other in completely free society and embody everything which is the thesis of the Novel, the appropriate values for a society of Mankind: philosophical, moral, economic, legal, aesthetic, and sexual, among others too numerous to mention.

We find industrious, ambitious, happy people continuing their chosen fields of endeavor without the yokes of any taxation or regulation. There is a reverence for private property; everything transacted is paid for with the re-invented currency of solid gold coin struck from the reserves of Midas Mulligan's bank which now resides in the valley. The townspeople receive services from the various heroes we have met throughout the Novel, who all now reside and produce in the valley. They purchase power inexpensively from Galt and his invention of the static electricity motor, maintain their anonymity from the outside world via Galt's invention of the air-wave reflection device (giving the view from above the camouflage of reflected images of other mountainsides nearby), and some attend Galt's lectures on Physics, where he explains his discoveries on new fundamental laws and applied mathematics. The people purchase medical treatment from the care of Dr. Hendricks, who uses his invention of a portable X-ray machine to initially diagnose Dagny Taggart upon her crash landing into the valley, attend concerts of new musical compositions of Richard Halley who has continued to compose in the Valley, acquire raw materials from the efforts of Francisco D'Anconia's excavations around the valley, attend philosophy lectures from the now-retired pirate Ragnar Danneskjöld, receive loans from Midas Mulligan, etc.

Rand's description of Galt's Gulch was inspired by a visit she and her husband Frank O'Connor took to Ouray, Colorado while researching Colorado for the novel.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2010, 09:47:09 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on January 12, 2010, 03:22:12 PM

I admit I got slightly sad knowing that there is no such place as Hogwarts in real life.

Harry Potter sucks.

Sorry, bad habit. But it does...
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2010, 09:59:04 PM »
Quote from: kenth on January 12, 2010, 09:53:44 AM
Continued...

Wow. How empty are their lives?

Sounds like the same bunch of mopey losers who took 'The Matrix' way too seriously.  Nerds.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2010, 10:07:24 PM »
Quote from: Mustang on January 12, 2010, 09:47:09 PM
Harry Potter sucks.

Sorry, bad habit. But it does...

Your avatar and haircut suck!
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2010, 10:12:41 PM »
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2010, 10:44:26 PM »
hahahahahaha

lololololol


how original!!
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2010, 08:24:50 AM »
Pure gold, Chris!

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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2010, 08:50:22 AM »
Hilarious, Chris!


But, in the intrest of full disclosure, I was sad for a while after the Bluesmobile fell apart at the end of that climactic car chase.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2010, 08:59:43 AM »
The one movie that always makes me sad is "Old Yeller". However, I never once contemplated suicide over it or got depressed. It seems to me that these folks are unable to separate fact from fiction. Perhaps this is the reason that this country is in the sad shape it IS in?? Earth to the Avatar watchers: It's a MOVIE, get over it!!!
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2010, 09:09:40 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on January 12, 2010, 03:36:12 PM
I knew it had to do with Atlas Shrugged.  Alas, I have the book sitting on my nightstand where it has been sitting for at least 6 months waiting for me to read it.

Couple years ago I bought a cheap MP3 player for the wife so she could listen to audio books which can be downloaded through the local library.  One of the first she downloaded was "Atlas Shrugged".  It fit on a Sansa 2gig with no problem and provided her with hours of enjoyment.  Just a thought for those on the go, you can easily listen in the car or while waiting for appointments. 
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2010, 09:29:23 AM »
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"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2010, 09:34:21 AM »
Quote from: Thor on January 13, 2010, 08:59:43 AM
The one movie that always makes me sad is "Old Yeller". However, I never once contemplated suicide over it or got depressed. It seems to me that these folks are unable to separate fact from fiction. Perhaps this is the reason that this country is in the sad shape it IS in?? Earth to the Avatar watchers: It's a MOVIE, get over it!!!

Movies like "Old Yeller" and "Where the Red Fern Grows" make you appreciate life even more. Apparently, Dances with Pocah..."Avatar" induces suicide.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2010, 02:07:40 PM »
Quote from: FGL on January 13, 2010, 09:34:21 AM
Movies like "Old Yeller" and "Where the Red Fern Grows" make you appreciate life even more. Apparently, Dances with Pocah..."Avatar" induces suicide.

The entire DUmp needs to see that movie.
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Re: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues
« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2010, 05:56:00 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on January 13, 2010, 02:07:40 PM
The entire DUmp needs to see that movie.

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