Hiro Protagonist

Charity by Governments is just another form of socialism. You're redestributing the wealth of one country to another country that can't pull up their bootstraps.

Taiwan man dies after seeing Avatar. I'd feel a bit cheated not knowing how the movie ends.

^ I agree. Monkey is a classic.

watched Pandorum (2009) last night. What a mess of a movie this was. Some really good ideas that didn't mesh very well.

watched Horsemen (2009). So much potential but in reality another serial killer type movie.

I would have rather seen another actor in the role than Will Smith.

It looks like the main villian Torquemada from Nemesis the Warlock published in the comic 2000AD.

You've gotta love the Tron guy

Clive Barker's Book of Blood. Thought it was interesting, creepy in a couple of places but overall just another horror movie to watch on a Saturday night.

I think that is the crux of it. They found obsolete shells but no current production after the first gulf war.

I suppose the CIA said so, huh?

What evidence was there, that there was WMDs after the first Gulf War?

I just hope that any aid given has a carbon footprint of zero and has been offset for the sake of the environment and the world. Climate change and all that stuff.

Yes, you're quite right. Here's an article on how Cameron also plagiarised author Poul Anderson's Call me Joe. It seems Cameron has borrowed from a few sources. Funnily enough, these stories from Poul Anderson and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are regarded as great works of science fiction, but when these same stories are merged into Avatar, we have people on this forum who say the story is: "An inane Pocahontas story", "From all descriptions the story is as cliche, trite, and preachy as it can get mushed up by some lame love story", "The story is cliche and very predictable", "it very much comes across as cliche, trite, and preachy", "Predictability/cliche etc", "goofy looking aliens and two and a half hours of dances with wolves/pocahontas storyline ", etc

I was reading this mornings paper and found this to be quite interesting. Cameron plagiarises Soviet fantasy writers

bias is bias - you'd rather believe the US leadership would lie because you are ideologically opposed to them. there's a major problem with your explanation, too: you've set up a bifurcation, i.e., you've given yourself only two options. both of these options express contempt for the US and demonstrate your bias in the matter. these are not the only two choices, there are many others. you do not see other choices because you do not want to. It also could be the case that either or both options are true. i don't know... maybe that there were indeed WMDs in iraq and they got either hidden, or removed, without the CIA knowing? maybe after being decimated by the cliinton presidency, the CIA simply did not have the human presence in iraq necessary to hear about what he was doing and when? Doesn't that go back to what Rostere said about "the CIA has no clue about Iraq's weaponry"? You really haven't shown any other choices.

I was wondering why the listing on ebay had been removed and seeing the date on jags post, now I know why.

North Korea does the same to their people with chemical weapons and they have WMD's. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071466/

In other news, the unemployment rate has gone down in Haiti and job vacancies are at a record high.

No, most chinese use Baidu. Even my girlfriend's neice who is here in Australia studying uses Baidu on her laptop and not google. If there were chinese in china using google and google pulled out, then they would probably go back to Baidu.

You can see racism in anything if you put some thought to it. Obviously James Cameron is a racist and shows in all his movies/TV Shows. He's racist against the 'black' aliens with the 'white' heroine triumphant in Aliens. In T2, he had a 'black' Miles Dyson who working for Cyberdyne, creates the Terminators and Sarah has to stop him, obviously a white person wouldn't be so evil. In Titanic, we don't see any 'black' people at all because the Titanic or was that James Cameron only let white people on the boat. In Dark Angel, the only black person was a bike courier named 'Herbal Thought' obviously a reference to black people who take drugs.

So one week of hype (but hyped really well) in the last week before the movie was released made it currently the second biggest worldwide box office hit of all time.

****, no. That's the second-most diabolical thing the BBC has ever put together. Honestly, are you trying to torture the OP? What about the remake of The Day of the Triffids?

^ I've been meaning to get a copy of that since one of the guys at work keeps saying how good it is. Hopefully over the next few weeks I'll have a copy and sit down and watch it.

The Stranger Danger things is really surprising. With kidnappings, Strangers aren't the problem it's the family members or who the kids know that are the problem. It's weird that kids are taught to watch out for the less than 1% chance of being kidnapped by a stranger than being kidnapped by people they know.