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Xtian
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:15 am    Post subject: Avatar Reply with quote
Colonel Miles Quaritch is now in my badass list. His badassery can still improve but I find it very improbable.

Avatar 2 synopsis:

Humans carpet bomb Pandora. The End.
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Best moment for Colonel Badass?

After emptying a submachine/compact gun and all chambers of his revolver at a fleeing VTOL, his aide runs up to him and hands him a breath mask.

Fsck the poison atmosphere, I'ma gonna kill somethin'.
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BJ
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I liked it best when a missile exploded, his shoulder caught fire, and he just patted off the flames nonchalantly... after three minutes. @___@

And all without wearing an air mask.
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princessa
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Post Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Art of Avatar is now out at FullyBooked. I'm still thinking about the P1600 pricetag, because it's such a thin book, but the concept art/illustrations are gorgeous.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nooooooo!!

Trilogy!
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Xtian
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Post Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
BJ wrote:
I liked it best when a missile exploded, his shoulder caught fire, and he just patted off the flames nonchalantly... after three minutes. @___@

And all without wearing an air mask.


I love all part involving the Colonel except the one where he died.

If he damaged the avatar engine first he would have killed both protagonists first.

Colonel is a very professional character. He knows his responsibility, he knows rewards, he knows a lot. He is a boss you will always want - he rewards great job.

Jake is good but an out-of-place good. For a ex-soldier his values are way off. The story shows it is ok to be a traitor/rebel as long as you can get away with it.
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boy_bakal
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Post Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The thing about the Col. is whenever I see him, my head keeps chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" Laughing
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Knightingale
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Post Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Linked this to princessa before on Fezbuk, but here's the Avatar that almost was. Interesting stuff. Definitely not movie-able because of length and wealth of detail (and really crappy lines of dialogue), but I suspect I would have greatly enjoyed it as a novel.

Also, BJ, that's my favorite scene too. >___> We watched it the night it came out and by then we were all trying to BREATHE with the Colonel (and failing so hard).

BJ Edit: Avoid using people's RL names.
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Isis
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Late post is late, but I just want to share this image because it is Lego and it is awesome:



(Avatar battle in Lego)
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mnightsilver
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Simply impressive... I miss Lego. Do any of you guys still have them blocks?
Avatar is just great for an eye candy, even though the plot is a little linear. But since I'm more of a monster fan, I like the Tarrukh (pls don't mind the spelling) more than the colonel, hehehe.
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BJ
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think mnightsilver is looking for a Lego tournament of some sort...

"My block-building skills are better than yours!" DAAAHHH! Laughing
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
@Knightingale: Well, isn't this a little too late. I've been reading the link you gave and I must say, they are all intriguing changes to Avatar. It must be the reason for the story ending up blatantly like a Pocahontas-turned-Sci-Fi movie. I hope Project 880 gets turned into a novel. Very very interesting...
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Knightingale
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
@mnightsilver: I believe the original Project 880 would have been insanely ambitious to shoot as a film, so I don't blame them for paring it down. That said, now that they're making it a trilogy, I can only facepalm because the cut-and-dried storyline they resorted to to make the movie work is now something that works AGAINST them. A lot of decisions would have been made differently had they been consciously working on the idea that it would be a multi-part series. :/

That said, I do look forward to a novelization.
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Post Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I will be more than happy to watch the trilogy if the next 2 parts would have more original stories. I am checking out my brain too often when I watch films these days.

I also want to see more burning blue elves. And badass military personnel. And no traitorous humans.
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princessa
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You know the question most everyon asked after watching Avatar? If they could join the sensory things at the ends of their ponytails, why didn't they just do THAT during the sex scene?

Guess what. It WAS supposed to be in the movie, it just probably got censored.

The Avatar Na'vi Sex Scene Revealed


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That they would censor this... application... of the USB hair is really quite telling.
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