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.
#30 Ah-yea….When you locate an “advanced civilization” please let me know. I’d like to join.
#29 No kidding! Family of 4, $62 + $10 parking. Ouch! It was cool to see in IMax 3D though…
This sounds like a good way to thin the herd.
I’ve offered my services with a legal contract like Kevorkian but I’m sure he won’t take it like many of you. Offer still stands on CO2 and stuff if you need “proof.”
“Movies” are a business enterprise. Made to make money. Money is made by appealing to people who will go to the same movie 15-20 times and consider suicide as a logical reaction: AKA your average teenager.
If you want your cultural products to appeal to your intellect or to move an adult mind: go READ A BOOK!!!!
aka: The medium is the message.
How does someone hate Forrest Gump? Jeez.
#36 Bobbo
Aw, c’mon… Hollywood used to have some pretty good products! There’s no reason they can’t make comic book films, and stuff for people with other tastes too. Back in the good old days they used to produce the low budget B movies for teenagers, now for some reason the stories for teenagers are similar, but the budgets have gotten huge.
What horse shit. After seeing Star Wars I wanted to be a Jedi, didn’t make me depressed cuz i couldn’t be one. After seeing Ghostbusters, I wanted to be a ghostbuster, bustin’ ghosts, but it didn’t make me depressed, let alone suicidal. Those were fun little fantasies I had as an adolescent.. At least I had video games to play out those fantasies (and still do!)
But this movie is so “special” people can’t “get over” the drama and emotions induced from this over-hyped movie? For fucks sake what is wrong with people?
It’s not because this movie is special and amazing. Maybe it’s because when I grew up as a kid MY parents were forcing me to take prozac, ridlin, or those other mood altering drug that doesn’t LET a child mature mentally.
oops.. Correction: I meant to say my parent’s WERE NOT making me take drugs.
Books are far too new media. Epic Poems passed down orally is the only true culture. Perhaps only cave paintings.
37 because it sucked.
Only dumbass liberals would be suicidal, although, I would prefer death to watching another stupid fucking hollywood movie about how bad our country and military are.
I want to watch it in Betamax.
LibertyLover said, “I was tempted to paint my wife blue one night”
Didn’t help. She still wasn’t any fun.
Am i the only one who enjoyed it? Quite liked the movie, spectacular CGI and scenery and have to say that the chick Na’vi was pretty hot! =P
Fine the storyline was a rip off of Pocahontas (hot too) but 99% of movies are. I spent a few bucks, was entertained and went home happy; it was worth the money, even when seeing it in 2D. Yes it was a “save the world” movie, but enjoyed it nonetheless. I even got a few explosions!
#46
Haha, those that didn’t like it haven’t liked a movie since they started calling them talkies.
Yes, Paper, it was a beautiful movie. The plot/story were so derivative that I was astonished even as I watched. In 3-D. That effect was so unneeded I felt sure it was an afterthought. And it wasn’t very well done, i.e. there was forced depth of field. You couldn’t focus wherever you wanted. And the silly 1950’s trick of throwing things into your face was annoying and juvenile. Yes, I found the Na’vi attractive. And that was Cameron forced to make the characters and all the other creatures so similar to Earth life forms in order to carry out his little love story. Yes, some of the creatures had six legs but watch the movement and you see they act as if they had four. I could go on. The point is Cameron claimed this was the movie he’s wanted to see/make for decades and, yet, there was so little in it that was new. Much has been made of the way he photographed the actors in front of a green screen and then translated that to animation. Duh! We’ve been using motion capture for twenty years! Green screens even longer. And, while I can’t come up with a title or author, I distinctly remember a sci-fi novel wherein the earthman lands on a distant planet and falls in love with a blue feline inhabitant. I, too, spent a few bucks, was mildly entertained but I went home with a headache.
Ah, hell. Maybe I’m just too old to appreciate science fiction, anymore. The main point is that despite the hype, there was nothing new in the film. Hell, even flying the dragons: Harry Potter did that years ago!
#47 Raster
You mean like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? Now there’s a story worth watching…
I can relate to this story
I was very suicidal after watching Madagascar and realized animals cannot speak at all!
The corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
People just need something to complain about. “im depressed after this movie” etc etc.. Why can’t you just go on without publicly identifying and potentially ruining a movie? Just let it be people!
The title of the movie was a weird sorta name, and other than that, the only other thing that I remember is that this thing crawled out of the polluted ocean, and was mutated by nuclear waste, or something. I remember that it was a real cornball of a movie.
Well thats funny in Avatar They show humans as Evil. lol
It was one of the best movies in recent times. What an amazing movie!
It was a very artistic and interesting movie with great visual effects and storyline. It made me wonder, how beautiful to also experience life in Pandora.