Avatar, weapon of choice?

lorise

lorise

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With all the technology of the future and all the imagination of the Avatar creators it all boils down to mans most trusted tool, the knife.

When Jake the lead character gets lost, he doesnt have a ray gun or a homing beamer of some sort to fall back on, no he has a knife.

In the final scene, the grand finale, the hi-tech man-robot doesnt beam out killer lasers or draw a tazer, no he draws a knife and becomes a lethal killing machine old school style.

I like the idea that the object of my profound admiration and interest, my hobby is still seen as the most important thing 2 or 3 hundred years from now.

By the Hollywood Sci-fi elite that is.
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I think I also saw that guy with a Cold Steel Trailmaster strapped to his chest in the movie. It was either the Trail Master or Recon Scout with a leather sheath.
 
I like the idea that the object of my profound admiration and interest, my hobby is still seen as the most important thing 2 or 3 hundred years from now.
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You do realize that you are posting about a fantasy movie as if it was real?

I hope that you also realize that you can't learn martial arts by playing video games.
 
I think it was tongue in cheek guys, relax... it's the intronet.

Avatar was a cool movie... with kick-ass knives. Real or not, blades were in quite a few scenes. That chest rig Na'Vi Jake wears is sweet. This really helps our community, if you ask me. I already have a Na'vi knife request.

Rick
 

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I think the op is saying it's cool, that with the big imaginations of these Hollywood directors, writers, etc; that they still value a knife as their fall back survival tool.

I agree, they could of imagined up some wierd lightsaber/ray gun thingy, but instead they kept it real with a knife!
 
I would have expected a chainsaw type device mounted on those things.

The final human assault was a joke. Principles of war, anyone? Then again, I thought it was a film with the usual expendable paper good/bad guys.

Good thing Hurt Locker won the Oscar for Best Picture.
 
i liked the movie, i did have to stifle a laugh a few times when imho that wasnt what the director had intended for that particular scene, but all in all i thought it was ok, i did like hurt locker better, avatar had great animation.

of course what happens in a movie like avatar and what happens in real life could be 2 widely different things lol.

i dont think avatar is any big boon for knife collectors though, i guess its not a bad thing, but i dont see it helping with laws or public image, really, its too fantasy for that, imho anyway, i couldnt take anything serious out of it, i suppose the old good vs evil and good always beats evil maybe?

the creatures, the blue lookin ones, to me looked plain silly, with the tails and such, feline features, lol, i guess i am getting old.
 
Apec said:
The final human assault was a joke. Principles of war, anyone?
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Totally. If it was anyone normal up there, they'd just drop a few ton rock from the orbit, don't even bother with explosives. It would be enough to wipe the area clean and bring half of that unobtanium to the surface too.
 
Magnussen said:
I think it was tongue in cheek guys, relax... it's the intronet.

Avatar was a cool movie... with kick-ass knives. Real or not, blades were in quite a few scenes. That chest rig Na'Vi Jake wears is sweet. This really helps our community, if you ask me. I already have a Na'vi knife request.

Rick
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Thanks for the closeups Rick. :thumbup:
 
I hope that you also realize that you can't learn martial arts by playing video games.[/QUOTE]

Well crap, there goes my cqc training:D
 
A knife is reliable. It doesn't jam, run out of ammunition, or break (easily). It is silent and easy to carry. God, in his infinite wisdom, somehow managed to ill-equip us to deal with our environment. We have no fighting canines, or talons. We forge iron. We make knives. I suspect we always will.
 
Apec said:
I would have expected a chainsaw type device mounted on those things.

The final human assault was a joke. Principles of war, anyone? Then again, I thought it was a film with the usual expendable paper good/bad guys.

Good thing Hurt Locker won the Oscar for Best Picture.
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Yeah I kind of though that too about the final assult, but they did at least make a half hearted excuse to explain why they went about it like they did. Something about their missile guidance systems being dissrupted, and the whole robots with guns vs natives with sticks thing. :)

Hurt Locker on the other hand...
I went into that movie with an open mind and honestly expecting to like it. But by the end of the movie I was completely like WTF? ...Really? ...That's it?

I wish someone could explain the appeal of Hurt Locker to me, because other than having a pretty cool slow-mo explosion at the beginning, I just couldn't get into it at all. To me and every one else I've talked to since, the movie seemed to have no plot, bad acting, bad directing, major plot holes, and a terrible anticlimactic ending.

Francly I was shocked that it was even nominated for any awards, let alone having won best picture! :eek:

Oh well, to each his own though, I just don't get it personally.

Oh, and I too thought that it was kind of cool that with all the big budget sci-fi stuff going on in Avatar that they did still appreciate the simple basic usefulness of a good Knife. :thumbup:
 
The movie is a basic knock off of "Ferngully" and a disappointment to me at least.
 
BryFry said:
Yeah I kind of though that too about the final assult, but they did at least make a half hearted excuse to explain why they went about it like they did. Something about their missile guidance systems being dissrupted, and the whole robots with guns vs natives with sticks thing. :)
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On the other hand, if the humans used more successful tactics and planning, the film would be a lot longer and much less entertaining. Recon, intelligence briefings, OPORDs, all that.

The entertainment industry is simply sold on Pickett's charges with scifi technology.
 
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