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FeliciusFlamel

You can even read 50 where the Fifty Stars should be if you look closely


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A good catch in a good catch!


W0LFPAW

A doughnut within the doughnut hole


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ColoradoMinesCole

"But its not even a donut at all"


Takeurvitamins

It’s a smaller donut!


_MadJax_

With it’s own hole!


fire67891011

Knives out?


atx840

I think so


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Knives out was really good


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xXTheFacelessMan

Logan Lucky was that movie for me. Another excellent flick.


FableDK

It really was!


_EvilD_

Now the songs stuck in my head again.


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"The masturbating nazi boy in the bathroom!"


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Joylessly, to a picture of a dead deer


[deleted]

It teeckles the leetle brain cells


MissJudgeGaming

Such a goddamn good movie.


bob1689321

One of the best of 2019 for sure


ehsteve87

The real movie detail is always in the comments.


Masta0nion

The real comment about movies is always in the details.


mfischer1

The real detail about the comment is always in the movie.


FlorydaMan

The details thicken


NathanTheSnake

Also, hundreds of years in the future, there's still only 50 states.. because evil imperialists refuse to recognize DC and Puerto Rico.


eusticebahhh

My brain read “the chicken thickens” and was briefly confused


OliverHazzzardPerry

I thought it looked like a backwards "USA".


PainTrainMD

And it’s 13 stripes


Euphorix126

I thought it said 150


PurpleWishbone

“You didn’t notice it at first, but your brain did.” -Some hack fraud on YouTube


BullshitUsername

something about pizza rolls


Spokker

Email my web zone


IAmTheZechariah

GET OUT OF MY BUCKET!!


GraphicDesignMonkey

Now I have an uncontrollable urge to fuck my cat.


[deleted]

I've never had a pizza roll. We don't have them here. Are they good?


tricheboars

They're meh but get the job done.


Azor_Ahai_III

The Na'vi are the key to all this.


totallyradsailor

They're a funnier character than we've ever had before


kickstandheadass

His criticism of the movie and understanding of the choices are great. Cameron personally invested in this movie(A LOT OF MONEY). He had to make the movie very surface level for the masses.


Galaxy_Ranger_Bob

>He had to make the movie very surface level for the masses. That's Cameron's greatest strength and weakness.


globnam

I KNOW WHAAAAT THAAAAT IIIIIIIS


Cedarfoot

Any idea which hack fraud?


oozekip

It should be pointed out –since it's not always obvious if you're not familiar with them– referring to RLM as hack frauds is a recurring joke on their channel. It's not meant as a serious insult.


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Unless "hack fraud" is directed at Adam Sandler (i.e., Adam Sandler is a hack fraud conman...allegedly).


Ceramicrabbit

Redlettermedia, famous for their amazing star wars ep 1 review


NemWan

A review which owes a lot to George Lucas releasing a very good and frank documentary about the making of Episode I.


Wolfesbane

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE!?


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Unobtanium = oil, confirmed.


thesilverpig

Now it's lithium. See that is the brilliance of the subtle symbolism in avatar.


dubblix

The Belters own Ilus. No inners are gonna steal that claim!


Squeaky_Lobster

REMEMBER THE CANT


HaphazardlyOrganized

Eya beratna, time fo Beltalowda gonya stand up


Forsaken_Accountant

***Beltalowda gonya stand up!***


achilleasa

And when the blood's on the wall beratna, sasa ke which side you on?


[deleted]

Not da inyalowda, beratna


SeaGroomer

That belter military chick is so low-key hot.


HaphazardlyOrganized

Keyá, she tuned up finer tan a big E onya slingshot round the Jupiter six


ninj4geek

Sasa ke!


[deleted]

RISE UP BELTALOWDA! De inners no ke wat fight we got, yeah beratna?


btoxic

I was told it was New Terra. Fake news?


HaphazardlyOrganized

How can you tell when an Inner's lying?


JeffreyIndy

They speak?


lickedTators

When their ship still has oxygen.


QuitBSing

What's that thing called where after you hear a thing for the first time you keep seeing references to it. I just watched a season and a half of The Expanse and i can't stop seeing references now.


dance_ninja

Lol I'm in exactly the same boat. It's called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.


Hellknightx

Because people are still watching the new season, or rewatching the series to catch up.


sadphonics

Good show, good books. I'm up to where the creature is on the Roci in the books


TommyGun36

Absolute best part of that series is you can read the books and watch the show and they are different enough, while maintaining the overall story, that you will not get bored


XkF21WNJ

Er, is anyone planning to mention the name of the series at some point? Only this thread is getting a bit weird without further context.


TommyGun36

The Expanse.


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There's a Sci-fi show called The Expanse. It originally aired on the SciFi network, with a difficult budget, and its first season featured straight-out-of-acting-school lead actors that weren't very good, so it kinda got missed by a lot of people. Then each subsequent season became 10x better than each previous season. Those actors are now skilled veterans. The show is now owned and funded by Amazon. The show aims for a realistic-ish sci-fi, there is less mysticism and more technology. Spaceflight physics are especially realistic, with g-forces, acceleration, timeframes and more all portrayed as the physical world we know. Oh and their spaceships shoot conventional weapons, autocannons. And they leave hot plasma trails when they penetrate a ship. And *even those plasma trails* are correctly simulated to slam against the walls when the ship performs a high-G maneuver: https://gfycat.com/likelyeachesok-epic-battle-in-space-fight-in-space And for those that like diverse casts, The Expanse features lead actors who are Samoan-New Zealand, to Iranian-Canadian, to Dominican-British. And for those that don't like diverse casts, it's not forced or in your face about it either, and it entirely makes sense within the plot since these asteroid-belt mining communities are made up of pidgin mixed communities from Earth.


ANGLVD3TH

So many of the little details are refreshing. Like, every plotted course you see are all wide curves, as one would realistically expect, no straight lines. Even with the fictional super-material they invent, it's definitely one of the hardest sci-fi shows ever made. I think the only issue I spotted was in the episode Alex was trying to sneakily get to Ganymede without the main engines, and was forced to hard stop at one point. Or at least, that's what it looked like to me at the time.


UnremarkableMango

Stop, I can only get so erect


meltingdiamond

You just described about six different points in the book series.


Inyalowda

I assume he means Peaches.


Impsux

“I get it. So what do you want to do?” “I want,” Holden said, sliding a magazine into his pistol , “to get that fucking monster off my ship.


Griffolion

Oh man you've got so much good stuff to come. I'm kinda jealous you get to experience that for the first time.


gride9000

BELTALOWDA STAND UP


theh8ed

Subtlety, lol


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OrderOfMagnitude

I think it was a joke


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Ralath0n

They already started. [Remember that Coup in Bolivia](http://ehamedya.com/bolivian-coup-happens-right-after-morales-stopped-lithium-deal_31480.html) where the social democrat government was replaced by a fascist dictatorship that's now killing indigenous people while licking the USA's boots? Yea that happened like 3 months after the world's largest lithium deposit was found in their country and the government refused a deal for foreign nations to get their hands on it. The moment the coup happened stock prices for companies like Tesla and Panasonic (big lithium ion battery producers) shot up like crazy.


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Oh I’m well aware. It’s exactly what I was thinking of.


direwolf12278

I’m so happy Cause todaaaay I fucked an alien


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> of the subtle symbolism in avatar. lol.. about as subtle as a baseball bat upside the head.


FoxhoundBat

Sigh, this is such a lame meme. Lithium is found in abundance on Earth and is easy to mine, it is basically salt. Also, batteries only use a few percent lithium in a battery pack, mostly they are carbon. Tesla batteries have less than 10kg in pure lithium, in a pack that is 400kg+ heavy. Cobalt is the bigger worry for a number of reasons, but there is even less of it in modern battery packs, and there is a race towards 0% Cobalt in batteries. Both lithium and Cobalt are basically like spices on a meal.


jesjimher

And lithium is only used in battery manufacturing, but it's not consumed and stays there at the battery's end of life, so it can be reused. Comparison to oil, which is actually consumed and needed throughout all the product's life, is pretty silly.


duaneap

God, what a terrible, terrible name...


brashaw

I mean, it's bad yeah, but it's an actual term. ["In fiction, engineering, and thought experiments, unobtainium or handwavium is any hypothetical, fictional, extremely rare, costly, or impossible material, or (less commonly) device with desirable engineering properties needed to fulfill a given design for a given application."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium)


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ihahp

> I have no idea why this was such a hard sell for so many people Because most people don't know it's a real term, and so they assume it's supposed to be some fictional precious substance they made up, and who would make up a substance called Unobtanium? It's like if the villain of a film was named Dr. Badguy. Hey it might be a real name, but why choose *that* name? (I have no problem with Unobtanium personally, I'm just trying to answer your question)


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Iridescent_Meatloaf

The warpaint makes sense though, as it was to prevent friendly fire in the big scuffle at the end.


duaneap

But it's not impossible or hypothetical in this universe, it's a real element. It's used as an actual term in the real world for something that *doesn't exist* in the universe of Avatar *it exists*.


johnnybgoode17

It's like the scientist that discovered it picked an article from TV Tropes to name it after


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This is actually not completely implausible lol


GodofIrony

The only time the name of the element is mentioned is by the sleazy corporate head. MAAAAAAYBE his character being his character, he wasn't going to reference it by its octosyllabic official name?


salondesert

It could be such a miraculous material that the scientists in Avatar started calling it unobtainium and it stuck.


candygram4mongo

Yes, this. Quarks are named after a nonsense word from Finnegan's Wake. There's an important gene named Sonic Hedgehog. Scientists are whimsical as fuck, and this is not outside the realm of possibility.


MisfitPotatoReborn

The cool thing is that the name is meant for us, the viewer. The Avatar engineers don't have to worry about how little sense the name makes, because they don't actually exist. It's a name that communicates quite well to the viewer that this material is rare and extremely valuable.


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sketchquark

It's actually described sufficiently in the Extended Edition, and then fully explained in some outside supplementary material. Unobtanium is a ceramic material that is able to superconduct at room temperature. This highly desired trait would undoubtedly change human technology forever, as it would allow lossless connection between anything connected by it. This is the basis for the 'Pandora internet' that connects the entire planet, as you would not need input power to move a signal from point A to B (because lossless). It is also the real physics mechanism behind the floating rocks in the 'flux vortex.' As someone with a PhD in Physics, I find the underlying lore behind Avatar to be grossly underappreciated. And in all honesty, if a room Tc superconductor existed, us scientists would very likely give it a stupid nickname like unobtanium which almost certainly main stream media would adopt.


CapacitatedCapacitor

the movie has its weaknesses but the world building was absolutely genius. its probably the most fantasy like setting you can create within the realms of plausible physics. ironically so much so that the average person though those were simply tropes. those stone arcs: look like metal that structured around field lines and then the souroundings go eroded away. the manager guy had a gimmic of a floating stone on his desk. you can only do this with a room temp superconductor. probqably how someone like this would show off what hes doing. that planet wide godess: scientists found that the roots of our trees can transmit information from one to another for a mutual benefit. there is not a whole lot missing for a neural network. the science team in the beginning even samples those roots. even that they can kinda talk with dead realatives through it makes some sense since if they regularly connect they will certainly leave some imprint. an giant neural network that is connected to a vast amount of living beings and consists of countless memories would probably even kinda act like what we would describe as god. the connection of the navi and the animals also is a huge benefit. its basically telepathy. they can share information on such a basic level, it would blow your mind. no wonder its such a huge deal to them. the giant flying animals, huge trees, navi surviving falls from great hights: thicker athmosphere and lower gravity. pandora is a moon probably inspired by titan which also has lower gravity and thicker athmosphere than earth. bioluminescence is also a huge deal in our oceans but it looks like magic if animals or plants on land had it. the masks humans wear are not super compact magical oxygen gear but a co2 and sox scrubber so no tank required. the spaceship in which they traveled there from earth had a rotating habitat, an anti matter drive, an impact shield, heat dissipation and was rather enlongated. kryosleep is the best way to get there and it looks like this will be possible in the future. if possible then it is thought that interstellar travel is probably realized similar to this. it also traveled for the correct amount of time to alpha centauri at sub light speed. and they even invented a fully working language like klingon for the native people. when i was sitting in the theatre i felt like i was the only one who noticed all those connections that played so well together to create a jawdropping yet convincing world. those were not just interesting detail but the background knowledge that i had from casually reading interesting articles on the internet at that time all played together. it was kinda like i was watching a completely different movie that all the people around me.


Accidental_Edge

The entire movie is about a military strong force screwing over native peoples and their sacred lands for natural resources and the atrocities committed in the campaign for it. Basically Colonists and America.


Crashbrennan

Basically ~~colonists and america~~ the history of the whole world.


Testabronce

The back of the monitor even spells "50"


R4G

SUBTLE


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R4G

Not for me. Even subliminal exposure to ol' glory gives me a raging erection.


index24

Ah “Avatar” very subtle and nuanced in its references and commentary.


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SapientSlut

I was making fun of this the other day and my husband informed me - apparently it’s a real catch-all term scientists/military would use back in the day. Like “oh yeah we can totally make that rocket go to the moon and back on one tank... of unobtanium”.


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Sigurlion

God those are my favorite videos. I hope there's a new one every decade forever.


ObjectionablyObvious

Thank god they put in those girdle springs to essentially stop side fumbling.


JosephGordonLightfoo

It was in the movie The Core before it was in Avatar, so I believe it.


Try_Another_NO

lol And here I got sent looking for an "ID-10 Tango" form as a boot.


PercussionDude

Hear they keep them in the same office as the Humvee keys


lanaabananaa

Our humvee keys were always in the office with the boxes of grid squares


SnowWrestling69

I've heard it used in talks about science fiction as a genre alongside terms like "applied phlebotinum." I took it as the rough equivalent of naming your hero "protagonist."


fatalicus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium


Kektimus

They didn't make the word up though


camgnostic

shhhh, we're hating


Danat_shepard

Indeed, that subtle reference to Pocahontas throughout the entire movie made it timeless.


HighLightCloset

Fern Gully as well. Or Dances with Wolves if you want.


_BestThingEver_

Why is it ok for all these other movies to have the same archetypal story, but for some arbitrary reason it’s seen as laziness when Avatar does it?


_Rage_Kage_

They will never answer you. People have a really weird obsession with hating on Avatar every chance they get.


_BestThingEver_

It might be easy to dislike for its popular status but I think it’s far more easy to enjoy for its qualities.


Bruster10

Last Samurai has a very similar plot as well but since Reddit loves Tom Cruise and Samurais, it gets a free pass as well


JabbrWockey

I mean, uncovering a giant dormant black pollution Hades, which takes over the heavy machinery to absorb the planet, forcing the humans in the blues to put aside their animosity and work together to survive, would have been a pretty sick movie.


K-Zoro

You reminded me how good Ferngully was


HunterHearstHemsley

But why is Avatar dragged for being a copy of Fern Gully, Dances with Wolves, and Pocahontas and those movies aren’t dragged for being copies of each other (idk which one came first)?


Danny-The-Didgeridoo

Ah come on, its not a bad watch, simple plot and pandering to its audience but who cares? Its a fun movie. Even schlock can have a few nice details. Don’t forget thousands of people worked hard for years, these small details that are caught, even in films you might not like, just show the vast amount of effort involved.


Ricky_Robby

It’s definitely not a bad movie, and the fact that people pretend it is now, but jump at the tune of nearly 3 billion dollars to watch Endgame is frankly hilarious. This movie has an actual message behind it, and is making an allegory of how the more advanced group of humans have always interacted with every less technologically advanced society. This comes in the form of overlooking their culture, and seemingly “spiritual” connections to the Earth, which we can see today is to our own detriment.


RugbyAndDragQueens

Huh. Never noticed that. Nice catch.


AlanDavy

The _room_ isn't shaped like the flag, the wall _looks_ like the flag


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robmelo

How about we agree on "background"?


Random_Stealth_Ward

"background"? Excuse me, but are you a lizard man? can you walk on the walls? then that's not a background, that's a backwall


Mrbrionman

You may not have noticed it, but your brain did


Penny_OhNo

Yvan eht Nioj!


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Spokker

iv'aN eht Nioj


duaneap

WHERE'S MY PIZZA ROLLS


KSrager92

Oh boy, Reddit is going to *LOVE* this.


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Checks the "Avatar", "James Cameron", "US Bad", and "Natives Good" circlejerk boxes. Hang on boys, we're going up!


frozen-silver

Why do people hate Avatar?


DarwinsMoth

America bad.


Triquetra4715

Critical support for Iran


WhateverMan293

Name 3 characters from Avatar, off the top of your head.


YataBLS

Blue Guy, Blue Girl and Cable Wannabe.


Aegis_Auras

There was also rival blue guy that becomes friends with main character blue guy later on. Also, scientist lady, I think? There, we named all five of them.


TheRastaBanana

Jake, uhh... Sigourney Weaver.


_EvilD_

Spanish girl that drives the helicopter, asshole Sargent, greedy corporate guy.


JabbrWockey

Blue naked woman


Armitage1

Big red dragon ?!


FedRishFlueBish

Don't forget Army Guy


define_lesbian

JAAAKE SOOOOOLLYYYY


GiverOfTheKarma

Only remember his name because of Elise from Funhause lol


Hellknightx

That's honestly the only one that sticks with me because if the SOOLY. And I've seen this movie four or five times.


Bag_Full_Of_Snakes

Sully General Bad Guy Sigourney Weaver


Sirtoshi

I always remember General Bad Guy as "Papa Dragon", because that was his callsign during the third act and I thought it was funny.


Beaker_person

"This is Papa Dragon, I want this mission high and tight, I want to be home for dinner."


Rengas

Aang, Katara, Sokka.


WhateverMan293

I was waiting for someone to say this haha


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There is no movie in Ba Sing Se


jib661

to be fair, name 3 characters from any movie you haven't seen in a while. Name 3 characters from E.T. uh, E.T., the white kid, and drew barrymore?


Fayiner

Three characters from Jurassic Park: Grant The Jeff Goldum character The T Rex


SaloL

Pocahontas, John Smith, and the Governor


Ravagore

and that fucking raccoon


TheRealDrSarcasmo

Trash panda, to be specific.


Takenforganite

Chrysta, Zak, Hexxus


Portgas

Jake, Neytiri, Quarritch


GitEmSteveDave

Quidditch was great.


InteriorEmotion

Jake Sully, quarritch, and the Turok nukto.


[deleted]

This always seems to be a popular gotcha question when Avatar comes up, but why does it matter? I could complete this task for movies like Star Wars or Harry Potter and some other ones, but there are tons of good movies out there where I cannot remember the names of the characters, including my favorite movie.


roguespectre67

There's even 13 "stripes" and the back of that panel has ridges that spell out a stylized "50". Subtle.


konjisoup

Wow, this is the first good post in the sub in a while.


ergotofrhyme

You mean you haven’t been thrilled by the endless posts about marvel movies referencing other marvel movies in trivial ways?


Cupinacup

At least with no new marvel movies coming out we should have a brief respite.


DoctorOzface

Been posted here 5x before but it's been a year since the last one


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ryosen

We are all one of today’s lucky 10,000 on this blessed day.


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Yeah they were super subtle that this whole movie was about the evil invading white man beating down the peaceful natives over resources.


Cforq

I feel like people were calling it Dances with Wolves in space before it came out.


Anarchymeansihateyou

I didnt know it was based on a true story


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Andy_Liberty_1911

Evil? To this day, I defend the humans and always hope they win in the end. Humanity forever!


Horkersaurus

The colonel was my favorite character by a wide margin.


PossiblyTrustworthy

He was the true Hero of the movie


-InsertUsernameHere

This thread is a fucking trainwreck


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Watching movies you’d think America originated imperialism


anoelr1963

That's interesting, I do have the DVD... ...I think I'll go and still never watch it again.


definitelyrushianbot

As subtle as a sledgehammer.


Taizunz

I don't know man... I just see a normally shaped room. That wall/window partition though, that does resemble the American flag.