GUARDIANS of the GALAXY - Grading & Discussion
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No. Computer time and man hours aren't the same thing. Hint: One measures time that humans spend working.
And the other measures time in the Matrix.
I'll bet it does, but I'm afraid that has zilch to do with whether it's true.
It's fairly plain from the creature design that some thought went into things like gravity, respiration, evolutionary relationships and diets -- toward the creatures as part of a system -- in Avatar. You could try making a similar case for Endor if you like, but I doubt you'd be successful since the material just isn't there.
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Mister Fandango
Fleet Captain
Oh good God. <just resumes rubbing his temples> Fucking fanboys.
Magic flying mountains and even more magical Internet trees and communicating with the dead = total science fiction. No fantasy to be found here, folks. The Na'vi are in no way, shape, or form elves. Nope. Someone spent a few hundred hours rendering their CGI, so that's clear indication that they are 100% SCIENCE FACT!!!!!!!!!!
<just shakes his head again and wanders off>
Magic flying mountains and even more magical Internet trees and communicating with the dead = total science fiction. No fantasy to be found here, folks. The Na'vi are in no way, shape, or form elves. Nope. Someone spent a few hundred hours rendering their CGI, so that's clear indication that they are 100% SCIENCE FACT!!!!!!!!!!
<just shakes his head again and wanders off>
I was about to tell you to stop substituting spleen for argument... but then I saw this attempt at... well, presumably it's an attempt at argument:
Um. Yeah.
Interestingly enough, word-for-word that rivals almost any paragraph I've seen on the Internet outside of a political debate for sheer density of strawpersons and misbegotten, ignorant non-thought. Ironically it's actually kind of like the trolling equivalent of discovering unobtainium. So... I guess that's something of an achievement?
Perhaps not on par with having something actually interesting or informed or intelligent to say, but nobody's perfect.
There's gotta be a joke related to "Man Years" but I can't think of it.
All I'm sayin is, Avatar really felt like it could have fit right into Star Wars. I mean if all of the zany aliens they already have are any indication...I bet they would even have beaten the empire more convincingly than the Ewoks did.
Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to you. Personally, I think that if George Lucas wrote WW2 it would end with airborne ninjas doing backflips into and off of the Reichstag, while I'd prefer to just watch the battle like it really was.
The zany aliens in Guardians would fit right in with Trek. Love or hate the new movies, they have the same kind of pacing. Even Ronan wouldn't be that hard to believe.
Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to you. Personally, I think that if George Lucas wrote WW2 it would end with airborne ninjas doing backflips into and off of the Reichstag, while I'd prefer to just watch the battle like it really was.
The zany aliens in Guardians would fit right in with Trek. Love or hate the new movies, they have the same kind of pacing. Even Ronan wouldn't be that hard to believe.
A blind hobo could have beaten the Empire more convincingly than the Ewoks did.
[qualifiers!]Uhhh, just sayin', YMMV, I appreciate Yo Mama for her purity of spirit and patronage of the arts, etc.[/qualifiers!]
Mister Fandango
Fleet Captain
When people's sole argument and proof -- and feel free to go look it up -- for Avatar being "well-though out science fiction" rather than fantasy is "uh, like, it totally took a long time to render the graphics. PROOF!!!" there's no sense trying to argue with them.
Especially when the same people then try to mock anyone who points out how fucking stupid that argument is.
Especially when the same people then try to mock anyone who points out how fucking stupid that argument is.
Awesome. Except that's not what I said. All I was interested in quantifying was that it was "carefully" worked out. I made no attempt to quantify whether the result was good or made sense. Take up the rest of the question with BigJake or someone else.
Dude. This is just sad. If you're going to wig out about arguments and proof it helps to actually read what's in the thread.
Does anyone else besides me think that Star-Lord's look would be better if he had a hat along with his mask like his comic counterpart?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-Lord#mediaviewer/File:ST1.PNG
That's one of the reasons I liked the adaptation of him in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaB5iTFgxVk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-Lord#mediaviewer/File:ST1.PNG
That's one of the reasons I liked the adaptation of him in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaB5iTFgxVk
Most action movies these days have that kind of pacing.
Text Groot and he texts you back:
http://www.avclub.com/article/text-...lMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default
http://www.avclub.com/article/text-...lMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default
Ahhh I loved GotG!! Rocket and Groot were the best, hands down. 