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lol, I saw this article. I think it has to do with how vapid and empty people's lives are. Yes, the world Cameron created was utopic, and it's fun to think about living there, but having to go back to real life shouldn't leave you depressed or contemplating suicide.

There's just something very wrong there.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I was mildly sad that the ride was over. Great effects + 3D really allows you to suspend your disbelief and sort of put yourself in the world being depicted. It must have been a pretty engrossing experience since I felt a little surprised to have to get up and rejoin the real world at the end.
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I wouldn't say we were sad...but both my wife and I felt like it was somewhere we'd love to visit. Not bringing on any type of depression...but makes you want to be outside all the more.
 
They should pick up borderlands for a chance to play and interact with the real world of Pandora...."Critical Beeaaatch".
 
AnonymouseUser said:
I get the same feeling when playing Fallout 3. It's just sooo beautiful... :'(
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Ya, Fallout 3, Stalker, GTA:SA, and Far Cry 2 all pull me in to their World. After playing them awhile, it's kind of an adjustment back to reality again. Wears down after awhile, but it can be rather strange at first.
 
Matrix also had a similar effect on certain people - quite a few had to see psychiatric care because they actually believed they were in the matrix.
 
Blackjack200 said:
lol, I saw this article. I think it has to do with how vapid and empty people's lives are. Yes, the world Cameron created was utopic, and it's fun to think about living there, but having to go back to real life shouldn't leave you depressed or contemplating suicide.

There's just something very wrong there.
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I believe (our) lives center around our perceptions of life AND expectations of what it could be. Your simple statement "... but having to go back to real life shouldn't leave you depressed or contemplating suicide." is an indictment of how (perhaps) these people's lives are NOT what the expected them to be. People go to movies to be entertained and (of course) to escape. Those that want to escape for good may not be that into their own lives.
 
That movie made jungles seem way more enjoyable than they actually are. Real jungles are humid hell holes, filled with nasty poisonous critters and plants you cannot eat and water that gives you dysentery. Say what you will about the frozen tundra, but at least there you don't have to worry about getting trenchfoot and you can sit on a stump for 10 minutes without a scorpion crawling up your asshole.
 
dud said:
I believe (our) lives center around our perceptions of life AND expectations of what it could be. Your simple statement "... but having to go back to real life shouldn't leave you depressed or contemplating suicide." is an indictment of how (perhaps) these people's lives are NOT what the expected them to be. People go to movies to be entertained and (of course) to escape. Those that want to escape for good may not be that into their own lives.
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I can admit I've felt like that before.

I get drawn into Lost so much, and recently get drawn into Farscape. It's just the exotic world filled with constant adventure and a pressing feeling that death is always hot on your tail. It's an excitement few could actually have in real life, and something that can give me a nice escape.

In the back of my mind I still continue to feel like everything is futile and life is pointless and meaningless, but I've been steadily increasing my own grasp on life and realizing that the meaning of life is what you make of it.

Me? Everyone will be remembering my name with equal weight to my Great Great (repeat ad nauseam) Uncle many years from now. Hopefully I can make it happen in the near future but definitely thinking long term here. 😀
But I won't be flying no kite in a thunderstorm. I'll do something equally as hilarious most likely, but not that - it's been done already.
 
PingSpike said:
That movie made jungles seem way more enjoyable than they actually are. Real jungles are humid hell holes, filled with nasty poisonous critters and plants you cannot eat and water that gives you dysentery. Say what you will about the frozen tundra, but at least there you don't have to worry about getting trenchfoot and you can sit on a stump for 10 minutes without a scorpion crawling up your asshole.
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truth. I hate anywhere there are massive collections of trees. Critters abound. Frozen Tundra forests or hellish equatorial rain forests, I want no part of them. Give me open ground, maybe a forest in the distance to be viewed with awe, like on the side of a ridge line or something.
 
Arkaign said:
I was depressed over the utter lack of plot or decent writing and acting.
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the princess had the acting down perfect.

Odd too because the voice actress, Zoe Saldana, seemed so normal in Star Trek (2009) as Uhura. She was born in America but felt like she was really digging for the native Dominican voice almost, with a heavy Caribbean accent. When she got all super pissed, her facial emotions and voice, reminded me so much of a Puerto Rican girl I was seeing for a short while.

No wonder I found myself falling for the damned blue alien. :biggrin: That voice does things to me. Sure she was blue and freakishly tall, I'd still do nasty things to her. :twisted:
 
Blackjack200 said:
I think it has to do with how vapid and empty people's lives are.
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I think it just comes down to this. In the society we live in today, people are so materialistic and disconnected. Most of the people walking around out there are just hollow shells, feeling empty and directionless.
 
I got so depressed after watching Die Hard b/c I realized I would never be Bruce Willis. Sometimes I hit myself in the head with a blunt object in hopes that I'll wake up in the air vent on the 40th floor of a building trying to track down Hans Gruber. In fact just the other day I took off my shoes and walked through broken glass.
 
3D has a lot to do with it, I'm guessing it is something you are going to see more of as tech gets better. There was a DOD project that involved simulating all 5 senses while viewers watched a film. Many had disturbing dreams afterward and had trouble separating what they viewed from real life experiences. Makes you wonder what the limits should be for how real media should get.
 
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