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Jeffrey Shallit
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about mathematics, science, politics, music, religion, and
Recurrent thoughts about ....
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Jeffrey Shallit
American mathematician, professor of computer science at a major Canadian university, & skeptic.
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Blog Archive
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2009
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December
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- Philip Skell - The Cowardly Creationist
- The World's Worst Journalist Attacks!
- My Three-Word Review of Avatar
- Creepy Politician of the Month: Nadine Morano
- Best News in a While
- Five Laws of Choosing Referees
- The Great Climate-Gate Debate at MIT
- Moronic Holocaust Comparison
- Chrystal's Algebra is Available Electronically
- Elyot Grant Co-Wins CRA Research Award
- TV Station Can't Bring Itself to Show or Name Book
- Book Sale!
- Authoritarian School of the Month
- David Gelernter on Tolerance
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December
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6 comments:
I felt like I was being beat over the head with the movie's obvious points (e.g. who's bad and who's good). A lot of new age nonsense too.
Oh c'mon; all the CGI in the world couldn't make Kevin Costner look life-like.
You are not alone:
When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?
I haven't seen the movie but I am a great fan of Jim Cameron, and I plan to watch Avatar at the earliest. I have enjoyed every one of his movies, and the fact that whenever he makes a movie he makes the other two Hollywood hypes - George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, look like amateurs. He is the greatest "big movie" maker yet. Hollywood has a lock on "big movies", because Hollywood does not understand and will never make a movie that moves you emotionally. So when I want to watch a spectacular movie or crime or suspense, action and special effects I watch a Hollywood. When I want to ponder about the human condition and see colour, gaiety and the entire range of human emotion, I watch Indian film. I am comfortable with that division. Everyone can't be good at everything.
And one more thing, Cameron seems to have understood what the term Avatar really means. To us of the Dharmic traditions, who are fed up with the misappropriation of our ideas and their re-clothing in Christian terms, (worship is not puja, murtis are no idols) for the first time 1000s will learn that Avatar is not (re)incarnation. Avatar is simply another form of yourself that can exist simultaneously.
... compared to other movies, Avatar was kinda worth the money. Come on, I keep on thinking what a waste GIJoe and that lot of movies was (which it really was). Avatar at least was dialogue wise cheap but animation wise introduced the spectator into a whole new dimension, astounding! Kinda like your first class in combinatorics. Combinatorics, unlike other fields is not deep, but what one can do with it is pretty wild stuff.
Late comment: I watched it yesterday (01/19/2010), dubbed (it was the only option): great movie; you can never expect a movie to be a mark in the history of movies plots, to have the best dialogues ever and to be revolutionary in terms of animation, at the same time. It was the latter, and will be a mark in history of effects in movies (whatever be the right name).
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