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5 Moments from 'Avatar' That Are Suspiciously Familiar

By: Gladstone | Dec. 14, 2009 | 351,510 views
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yeah the story was a bit cliche, but thats not the point. the cgi is the best i've ever seen. if, one day, the director can combine the two (unlike george lukas) it'd be perfect.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 7/13/2010 4:00 PM
Isshiah

no clue why people get so offended by hate by number.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 6/16/2010 4:09 PM
faustkeen

OH so every movie with an inspiring speech is ripped off of brave hearth
haha this guy's getting lamer by the podcast.

loser

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 5/30/2010 10:16 AM
Ivan-sama

so what if it's not ORIGINAL...hardly any plot in any movie or in any book is original. everything is inspired by another. avatar was visually stunning and entertaining. so what if it's slightly like another movie? james cameron spent 5 years making this movie. so shut up.

3 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 5/18/2010 7:48 PM
MattDorado

5 years making the movie..

and 30 minutes writing the script

Posted on 5/21/2010 11:32 AM
hullscion

Now, please, just think about what you just said, here since it is so obvious that you have some problems with thinking, I'll help you. Okay, now, point one; If no book, movie or other plot is not original, where'd the plots that copied other plots get their f**king plots?! 2) Now, since I know, your too much of a idiot to see another argument than, "I said hardly not no, stupid" Well, then why are most plots f**king original? 3) You have absolutely no f**king evidence to support your poorly thought out claim, now, I know that your gonna say the same to me, well, prove; Terminator, Alien and the other movies that Avatar stole from. That's pretty much all, oh yeah, Avatar sucked and I'm so pissed that I'll never have those 3 hours of my life back, I kept on thinking, oh, maybe the mind blowing experience is next, but apparently I'm not so stupid that I'm amazed by flashy s**t. And, 'So shut up' Really, you have no better way to end it other than, 'So shut up' Well, that's all, I got better things to do than try to force brain dead a*****es to f**king think. Wow, I needa find a better use of my time...

Posted on 5/25/2010 3:44 PM
pinkaie

I think the Avatar character design was taken from an old Morrowind race mod.

Haha, I knew it was going to be Braveheart.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 5/13/2010 1:12 AM
likalaruku

I was not impressed at all. By the video. Avatar was f**king amazing though.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 5/5/2010 12:43 PM
Landen

I just saw the movie and I easlly saw the whole story comming the whole oustsider/chosen one story it was reallt preidtable, but the vigials are mind blowing but it's not the best movie ever like a lot of people say it is.

2 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 4/28/2010 1:17 PM
TheGamergirl22

It makes sense that you hate it! Your a girl. Not really, to both i presume.

Posted on 5/25/2010 5:06 PM
thathobo

Mmmm, 'cause she's a girl she hates it? Okay?

Posted on 6/21/2010 10:02 PM
ColonelOrnery

You can basicly say that Avatar is Pocahontas in space with blue dudes instead of native americans..

2 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 4/3/2010 10:34 PM
JamesCox

& Dances with Wolves.

Posted on 5/13/2010 1:12 AM
likalaruku

axcept where the script for avatar was done by the time they made Pocahontas

Posted on 5/30/2010 10:21 AM
Ivan-sama

Avatar surprised me with an endless amount of unparalleled optical overload with its every single shot which is just so full of detail that you literally open your eyes wider to take as much in as you can before each cut.
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1 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 3/23/2010 3:58 AM
annejaa

That's exactly why I have no desire to see it. I miss the good old days when special effects were done with props, stunt doubles, & cell animation, & more budget went into script writers who didn't suck cheese through a cloth.

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0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 3/14/2010 4:36 AM
cheapfashions.

I usually like your videos, Gladstone, but this is just weak sauce. Everyone knows Avatar's not entirely original. Buuuuuut, what is? Everything's lifted. We long ago started scraping the sides of the idea barrel, so I don't know why everyone's b***hing about it like it's a new thing. When's the last time you saw any piece of entertainment that was completely original and didn't derive its material from anything else? Like 40 years ago, that's when.

I realize you're only doing the trailer, and so it's only a cursory look at it. But if you looked at the whole movie, you could've talked about the paper-thin plot, the grade school morality, the intelligence insulting characters, or the bafflingly simplistic themes, but instead you did what everyone else has done and said it's unoriginal. You sir, are the president of irony.

But hey, at least you didn't say the words fern, gully, Pocahontas, dances, or wolves. So you've got that going for you.

1 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 2/2/2010 8:55 PM
SickBoy

This came out before the movie was released. Also, if there were a thesis to this HBN its just that Cameron had unlimited time and money to make the movie of his dreams -- and that movie is a mere rehash of goofy s**t he and others have done before with a bloated CGI budget.

Posted on 2/9/2010 8:02 AM
G-Stone

Having seen the film I must say that this HBN was in no way scathing enough.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 2/1/2010 2:49 PM
Robforfucksake

Interestingly, the comparison of Pandora to a Yes album cover is more apt than this vid shows. In the movie, (yes, I saw it) there are landscapes not shown in the trailer that even more closely resemble the Yes albums, especially the second one shown. Also, in an issue of Entertainment weekly, an article on Avatar made the exact same comparison to a Yes album, I wonder who came up with the line first, Entertainment Weekly or Gladstone?

1 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 1/18/2010 5:12 PM
inventor36

The design of those mountains is based on some mountains in asia actually

Posted on 5/30/2010 10:24 AM
Ivan-sama

comparing the Navi to Jar Jar Binks = f**king ridiculous

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 1/18/2010 6:24 AM
Dondadon

found out the gorrilaz song! go me

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 1/17/2010 12:28 PM
Neolithicman

I think the remote body thing is actually from Ghost in the Shell, and somehow Jojo's bizarre adventure. Maybe its not from them, but they had the remote body thing before.

1 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 1/17/2010 12:46 AM
KirbyNalgon

Nope. Ghost in the Shell had cyborgs. The human brain was the computer running the shell.

Posted on 3/16/2010 5:14 PM
fangboy

Hey genius! You forgot to mention how the whole climax was basically Custer's Last Stand. But all sci-fi and junk.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 1/13/2010 6:52 PM
AlterationA

Oh god Gladstone, thank you thank you thank you.

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0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 1/13/2010 9:12 AM
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