11.20.09 AVATAR CHARACTERS MINING ‘UNOBTAINIUM’
Since I know you guys have barely heard anything about this project, here’s a new featurette for James Cameron’s Avatar. A couple thoughts: first, as much as I want to see it, I can’t stop thinking about this comment about it from the other week:
“Good news, we can fly you to an alien planet and graft your DNA with that of an alien, follow that up with a mind-meld thingy, thereby allowing you to infiltrate their species and take them out.”
“And what about my paralysis? How’s that coming?”
“We’re not miracle workers, dude.”
Kind of a big ol’ turd in the Avatar punch bowl when you think about it. Also, who decided it was a good idea to put Michelle Rodriguez in this? She’s impossible to take seriously. She’s like a female Billy Zane. Except hardcore and Latin (a chill just ran down my spine from imagining a hardcore, Latin Billy Zane). And lastly, I don’t think I ever noticed this before, but the material the humans are supposed to be mining is called “unobtainium.” Seriously. It’s said to be found only on Pandora and in Diora Baird’s panties.
UPDATE on ‘unobtainium’:
“Unobtainium” is apparently a common euphemism for “any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application.”
It’s common in the automotive world, is also the name of a rubber compound trademarked by Oakley sunglasses, and in The Core, it was the joking nickname of a material used to protect a craft from the heat of the Earth’s core (because the real name had 37 syllables, said the inventor). But judging by the featurette, in Avatar, they’re using the term unironically.
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AVATAR CHARACTERS MINING ‘UNOBTAINIUM’
I can’t wait for this movie to bomb.
Huh, small fucking Universe. My wife’s butthole is called unobtanium, too.
I call you wife’s butthole the spunktanium.
Unobtainium? I think they’ve stolen this from, of all places, The Core. Lovely, a tribute to a movie that makes geologists everywhere cry.
Is it just me, or does anyone else keep seeing a slightly deformed penis next to ‘BRAD PITT ENTERS DARK VOID”?
I wouldn’t say having a jointed penis with a fist at the tip is only slightly deformed.
I can’t stop thinking about the South Park ,Smurfs/Dances with Wolves angle. I think this film is going to die of it’s own pre-opening marketing.
You haven’t seen my armada.
The only thing that this movie is mining is the depths of my patience.
I wish I owned a Mechwarrior suit so that I could dismissively wank TO THE EXTREME.
Do you guys realize how old Sigourney Weaver is?
At some piont in some trailer I heard them say that if he helps kill all the prairie Na’vis that they’ll get him his legs back. So they can fix his legs, they just aren’t because they’re HUGE pricks.
What’s wrong with huge pricks?
<<<— obviously needs to get laid
Nothing, Al. Absolutely nothing.
Unobtainium is slightly more valuable on the open market than Macguffinite.
Anyone who thinks Cameron’s stupid side-mounted propellers are avant garde obviously has never seen Crappy’s dick helicopter.
That fucking thing would shock and awe those blue assholes.
Hey Bob, why are Na’vi men so irritable?
Well Jimmy, I thinks it’s because they always have blue balls!
I’m willing to take one for the team, if it means Al steps up her game.
Kurg, if you see this you need to go to With Leather…NOW!
Hey Bob, what is the Na’vi’s favo(u)rite kind of music?
Well Jimmy, I bet it’s the blues!
Wrong you simpleton! It’s pixieland jazz!
Damnit Crappy, you ruined the plot twist for me. I never would have seen that coming.
Chareth, I just came back from lunch and saw what you said about me in the last thread. I’VE HAD TWO KIDS, OKAY???
*does kegel exercises wildly at desk, sobs*
What’s wrong with average sized (9cm is average, right…RIGHT???) pricks?
Cuz they’re computer pixels, you see.
Well, asAIDS, I pointed that out just because ol’ James there has made some of my favo(u)rite movies so I feel inclinded to defend him a bit. I, like everybody I know, am already irritated to high hell with this movie but I hope it is epically kick ass.
I kid ’cause I love, Chino.
Was that for my benefit, or do you measure in metric to make it seem bigger?
Pricks of all dimension have their place in god’s dominion.
Hey Bob, what color are a Na’vi’s eyes?
Well Jimmy, they’re blew! After the Marines showed up one blew that way and the other blew that way!
I do the male version of kegel exercises. After just a few short weeks, I can flip a towel on to the top of my head without my hands.
You shouldn’t need your hands anyway. Your wife should towel off your head for you.
Chino, your Husband is a lucky man.
Look, someone needs to take down that Megan Fox crotch photo soon or else I may very well get fired from my job by the end of the day
Hey Bob, what’s the most popular sport on Pandora?
Well Jimmy, I’ve heard they love to box!
asAIDS, the term is ‘get Hustla’d’
Fuck, I just caught up to the “Spunk Ransom” post…..
….AYFKM/!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
New Moon.
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