Avatar plagiarizes Delgo?

[Checkmate]

People don't just condemn it for being completely and painfully unoriginal and uninspired.

People complain about it because it's a fucking awful movie, too.

 

[FordSVT]

I think you'd be in the minority with that opinion. I thought it was a pretty but average action movie but I don 't know anyone in real life who thought it was "fucking awful". There are some bad movies out there, really bad.

I don't think people know how to critique things properly and they're vague as hell when they condemn something. Stuff is usually either "awesome" (the 10% of stuff they like personally whatever that happens to be) with the other stuff being "shit". They want every movie to have the best elements of films they've already seen, but they want it to be unoriginal too. There is also little consideration for the type or intent of a movie, with the belief that all movies should be all things.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Now that I've finally seen it, Avatar most blatantly rips off Star Wars. Luke/Jake defeats the Death Star/evil mercs by calling upon the Force/Eywa, which binds the universe/Pandora together. Sigourney Weaver plays Obi-Wan, and even dies right when she's sposed to in the story.

Of course Star Wars ripped off just about everything in its turn. It's okay to rip off a rip off.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Jonathan Lethem & Avatar

I bet you could take stills from Pocahontas, Atlantis, Ferngully, & Princess Mononoke & find similar looking stills from Avatar same way this guy did for Delgo...

Jonathan Lethem on Avatar & story source:

I saw the 3-D movie. [Avatar.] Wasn't there only one? And I thought it was like a really self-important remake of a children's animated film.

10/28/2010
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/jonathan_lethem_says_tk.html

 

[Davros]

Yeah because Delgo was the first movie ever to feature creatures riding flying creatures, and floating islands.

Those islands reminded me strongly of Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky which I doubt originated the concept either.

As anybody familliar with album covers for the band Yes would know.

 

[Peak]

I'm glad that this movie was such a bomb...

 

[Prince of Space]

Yeah because Delgo was the first movie ever to feature creatures riding flying creatures, and floating islands.

Those islands reminded me strongly of Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky which I doubt originated the concept either.

As anybody familliar with album covers for the band Yes would know.

Visual evidence of Roger Dean's influence, for those who are interested.

 

[Davros]

Those islands reminded me strongly of Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky which I doubt originated the concept either.

As anybody familliar with album covers for the band Yes would know.

Visual evidence of Roger Dean's influence, for those who are interested.

City Of Heroes had a similar looking area with their Shadow Shard.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/14416587_da1222fb0c_o.jpg