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Inventing the plants of 'Avatar'

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They put a lot of effort into making details of the plants "realistic" on a planet with mountains that float like helium balloons.
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Like most everything in that movie, the flora in Avatar was weak sauced for a variety of reasons such as making things "relatable" to joe six-pack moviegoer. Cameron could have shown us a truly alien eco-system, not a floating Earth-jungle.

Heavy-handed eco polemics and love-story plots require classic Trek-like conveniences such as Earthly forests and sexually attractive alien females that happen to look enough like humans that the male protagonist will want to screw the alien chieftain's daughter.

It's all really silly when you think about it considering the supposed "scientific" attention to detail in other parts of the film (ie. the spacecraft etc).
 
DamnDirtyApe said:
Like most everything in that movie, the flora in Avatar was weak sauced for a variety of reasons such as making things "relatable" to joe six-pack moviegoer. Cameron could have shown us a truly alien eco-system, not a floating Earth-jungle.
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I saw it at the Alamo Drafthouse, so I was more like Joe 3-pints of fine stout. I was honestly disappointed that there wasn't even a brief flash of Na'vi boobies. Am I alone in this?
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skunkape said:
I saw it at the Alamo Drafthouse, so I was more like Joe 3-pints of fine stout. I was honestly disappointed that there wasn't even a brief flash of Na'vi boobies. Am I alone in this?
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As long as it weren't a certain Mr. H. Knowles' ones im with you.
 
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