Avatar Depression

[Watson]

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"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world."

"Pandora is a pristine world and there is the synergy between all of the creatures of the planet and I think that strikes a deep chord within people that has a wishfulness and a wistfulness to it," Lang said. "James Cameron had the technical resources to go along with this incredibly fertile imagination of his and his dream is built out of the same things that other peoples' dreams are made of."

"I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

Linkage

You know you take things too seriously when...


Lol @ the guy with the Pizza

[Chaos81]

Re: Avatar Depression

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought of this when seeing that picture.

[MC Fatigue]

Re: Avatar Depression

Could it turn out that advanced technology like this 3D stuff they did could be addictive and mood altering? I would bet that anyone saying these things did not see the movie in 2D.

[The GIGGAS]

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Could it turn out that advanced technology like this 3D stuff they did could be addictive and mood altering? I would bet that anyone saying these things did not see the movie in 2D.

People always get obsessed with things. Celebrities, movies, television shows. There was no 3D to get Star Wars nerds obsessed.

[tsalbysp]

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I think it has more to do with the fact that our society is about as piss poor as it can get, while the society in Pandora is heartwarming.

Materialism, greed, vanity, rudeness, lack of community, broken families, economic woes, constant warfare, and so on and so forth. When you see a society work and function so well on Pandora, and then take a look in your own backyard, of course it is going to be depressing.

[chia51]

Re: Avatar Depression

I think it has more to do with the fact that our society is about as piss poor as it can get, while the society in Pandora is heartwarming.

Materialism, greed, vanity, rudeness, lack of community, broken families, economic woes, constant warfare, and so on and so forth. When you see a society work and function so well on Pandora, and then take a look in your own backyard, of course it is going to be depressing.

ding, ding, ding we have a winner!... couldn't of said it any better.

[Cebby]

Re: Avatar Depression

Materialism, greed, vanity, rudeness, lack of community, broken families, economic woes, constant warfare, and so on and so forth. When you see a society work and function so well on Pandora, and then take a look in your own backyard, of course it is going to be depressing.

If you get depressed because a Utopian movie has a better society than reality, you're taking fantasy way, way too seriously.

That's like being depressed because in the movies every nerd/slacker/financially struggling middle age overweight person gets the dime piece.

Movies aren't real and thus there's no reason to believe that they could be.

[jmood88]

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It's hilarious that CNN based a story off of some posts on a fan site. I might email some posts from here to them and see if they do a story.

[Qb]

Re: Avatar Depression

It's hilarious that CNN based a story off of some posts on a fan site. I might email some posts from here to them and see if they do a story.

That's a great idea. They could start with how Left 4 Dead has us longing to live in zombie utopian bliss. Why there's even a website calculating how long our transformations will take! This is a bombshell!!!

[Cebby]

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That's a great idea. They could start with how Left 4 Dead has us longing to live in zombie utopian bliss. Why there's even a website calculating how long our transformations will take! This is a bombshell!!!

Breaking News:

"Tensions rise between SEC/Florida State football fans; conflict eminent. State Department taking 'wait and see' approach"

[bkfount]

Re: Avatar Depression

I think it has more to do with the fact that our society is about as piss poor as it can get, while the society in Pandora is heartwarming.

Materialism, greed, vanity, rudeness, lack of community, broken families, economic woes, constant warfare, and so on and so forth. When you see a society work and function so well on Pandora, and then take a look in your own backyard, of course it is going to be depressing.

But our real life world isn't all about those things. Get out and travel some, do something other than play WoW, watch tv, and whine about life on the internet. The movie is going to make like $1.5 billion from overseas viewers alone, certainly they aren't all as down on life as some of these people.

We all need some escapism occasionally, but whatever issues these people had that lead to this kind of reaction probably existed long before Avatar came out.

[CMH]

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But our real life world isn't all about those things. Get out and travel some, do something other than play WoW, watch tv, and whine about life on the internet. The movie is going to make like $1.5 billion from overseas viewers alone, certainly they aren't all as down on life as some of these people.

We all need some escapism occasionally, but whatever issues these people had that lead to this kind of reaction probably existed long before Avatar came out.

Agreed.

Taking the approach that this film altered the mental state of people to feel this way is just like saying that Marilyn Manson's music affected the mental health of children in the 90s.

And since I'm one to believe that all of that is hogwash, I don't buy it for a second that this film is the single reason these people are suddenly feeling depressed with life.

[daflyboys]

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Maybe those people should be directed what was in the "Fail pics" thread. See this works better because when you go to sleep and wake up, you actually do wake up in America.

[Adam Dayton]

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Wait till these losers get 3d porn.

[superjames1992]

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Wow, I just have to laugh. Fantasy is not reality, what else is there to say?

I don't understand the obsession people have with this movie.