A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site “Naviblue” that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
Video: Depressed after ‘Avatar’?“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.’ ”
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
This movie was shown in three formats. IMAX 3D, regular 3D and 2D. I wonder if one of the formats had a more profound impact than the others. None of my family or friends who went to see it on the IMAX had any such nuttiness as is expressed in this weird article.
Found by Jason Baker.
In other news, unstable people are unstable.
Metallica was once blamed for suicides too. More recently that may have been true but only due to their lackluster releases.
the 3D was cool… the scenery fantastic, the story line was well, if you thought Forest Gump was “profound” and Titantic “moving” then you will probably think that this movie was the best ever made. However, if you’ve graduated from primary school you’ll probably think the character where about as developed as the Congolese economy and story line slightly deeper than puddle in the desert.
Does Adam ever get tired of being right?
Problem with this (and many other like it) movies is that it is the ultimate self-mutilation. People who do that to themselves we place in mental institutions. People who do it to their own country we recently decided to elect to high offices. People who self-mutilate their own species – we give them a lot of money… Degeneration.
It didn’t make me suicidal, but I was tempted to paint my wife blue one night 🙂
We really enjoyed the movie but never even thought of committing suicide just because the damn place doesn’t exist except inside a computer somewhere.
But feel free to start a dirt nap if you feel otherwise.
Hi,
30 seconds of basic analysis will show that this story is totally bogus.
Please do some basic fact checking before accepting rubbish like this as “news”.
Regards
Simon
Seeing how much money this movie has made makes me want to kill myself.
I could have just stayed home and watched Pocahontas on DVD. Instead I saw Avatar. Basically the same movie, but “IN SPACE”. And in 3D.
It’s ok, one less stupid ass on the plant is fine with me. As long as they don’t get the idea of running around killing people before they off them selves.
In all honesty this all bs.
I loved the film for the alternate world that was created. But most of the story just seemed so familiar. Like [spoiler] to the rescue. Pure Tarzan. Interplanetary sex, Galaxy Quest: “Ohhh, that isn’t right.” I seriously bet you could make the Avatar story using only scenes from other movies.
RBG
In the movie avatar they said the Na’vi were a “humanoid” race a couple of times. I remember dances with wolves and white people said the indians should have killed every whiteman they saw. And all the white people who all of a sudden said they are part indian. Always from a tribe that the media had mentioned never one of the hundred lesser known tribal names. I hated avatar the ending made me sick. The ending of dances with wolves made me sick too. There are whites who watch these movies over and over again.
#8 Good pickup. And a good analysis by the blogger that critiqued CNN. The BS filter fails some folks occasionally and fails others more frequently.
I rarely go to the movies these days, but there are a number of films every year that I have a desire to see. This isn’t one of them. I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to see Avatar. Funny, I felt the same way about Tron way back when.
Oh, and I thought Titanic was great, but Forrest Gump sucked. If you want to see a movie about a tard that makes it big, seek out “Beeing There”. It is among Peter Sellers last and best films.
I am still waiting for the alternate ending where the humans come back carpet nuke the entire planet and take all the unobtanium.
Did they actually use the word “unobtanium”? That’s such an old lame joke, I can’t believe they actually used it in a movie!
Seek some help and learn that movies are not real. These people do not exsist.
The movie shouldn’t be blamed for people killing themselves. That’s just ridiculous.
I can see how this might be true for some people.
If you believe in rebirth then at one point someone might have been in a similar world to the one in avatar and the movie may bring up old feelings associated with that past life.
And then when you look around and realize what shit hole you’re in now it’s no wonder you get depressed.
But killing youself isn’t going to get you anywhere except back here iin my opinion.
In a related story at The Onion:
News agencies with nothing to write about again attach themselves to pop culture phenomena in an attempt to raise their failing stock and questionable relevance.
Just kidding, The Onion hasn’t written this… yet.
Avatar…Do you meand “Dances with Smurfs?
Now where’s that bullshit-meter graphic when you need it?
ELMO makes me depressed!
Perhaps these people should get out of their parents basement and go explore the beautiful world that we do live in
#22. “Avatar…Do you mean “Dances with Smurfs?’
HA! Now that’s funny. I also thought the story was a rip off of Dances with Wolfies.
Whether or not this suicidal story is true, people who are going to kill themselves over a movie or over a band or over anything similar, are already mentally unstable and need professional help. Just reading the story struck me as someone who is deeply troubled and also incredibly immature. Anyone who even entertains the thought that if they off themselves, they’ll come back as a blue dude in another fantasy world… needs help.
I saw it. I liked it. I didn’t want to kill myself but I did wish a huge-ass meteor would pierce the Earth. I always wish for that though so its not a consequence of Avatar.
If anyone took their entire family to the IMAX viewing and looked at the total cost…THAT could lead to suicide.
So if living in this Avatar (Dances with Wolves) utopia is so great, then why has NO “advanced civilization” walked away from it all and gone back to the jungle??
Why is it when every “primitive” culture, when shown t-shirts and toaster strudel, couldn’t wait to get out of the jungle??
Anybody lame enough consider suicide over a comic book style story, they don’t need help, they need natural selection.
This movie was OK, but suffers from the same defect most films from Hollywood do these days, weak story. You get the impression they wrote the movie keeping in mind they wanted to produce a video game and threw in the typical 3D gimmicks to boot.
There are plenty of good authors out there. I’d like to see a decent adaptation of Willam Gibson. Yeah I know, Johnny Mnemonic, it sucked, but that was because they totally ignored the book when they wrote the screen play. Mona Lisa Overdrive or Virtual Light, if done right could rival with the Matrix easy.