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Question about this

posted 15 years ago by brian577
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I was discussing the new movie Avatar with a friend at work who claims she saw a movie when she was younger (also called Avatar according to her) that Avatar was based on, mentioning it had some kind of war between nature and technology. Now I don't believe that Avatar is based on a previous film (unless you count Dances with Wolves) but this can't be what she's talking about, right?

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[–] BrainGremlin 15 years ago

Did she mention anything more than that? I'm sure there's more movies with the nature vs. technology theme.

I haven't seen Avatar yet, but... as far as I can tell, these movies are not similar at all, and I highly doubt anyone would be so severely deluded as to even associate them with each other. No offense intended.

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[–] brian577 15 years ago

She did say it was animated, and that it was old. Wizards as far as I can tell is the closest thing to her description that I could find.

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[–] BrainGremlin 15 years ago

Ah, then it wouldn't surprise me if she meant this.

Have she actually watched Avatar? If not, she might just have drew the conclusion because this one features a character with the same name ('Avatar', that is).

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[–] brian577 15 years ago

No she hasn't seen Avatar

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[–] BrainGremlin 15 years ago

Aha.

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[–] Aylmer 15 years ago

Well, Avatar draws from a lot of sources - in my opinion from the movie "The Emerald Forest" more than any other.