I don’t have words.
The movie is just non-stop humans being absolute colonizer monsters and the people (and creatures) of Pandora, who want to live in peace, being forced to fight back (and kicking human ass).
The movie lives and dies by it’s visual effects and by god are they incredible. Pandora is just such a beautiful world, and Cameron lets you experience it in all its beauty and unity and peace before he shows the ugly human machines and weapons kill and destroy it. You feel the pain and the righteous anger when the Navi fight back. I was cheering for every human death of which there are many.
Is the story perfect? Nah. There are points where it’s cliche etc but I don’t mind that. There is a larger story about nature and colonisation and that’s what matters so much more. Pandora is a world that can fight back because the world itself is alive and connected and god just imagine if Earth was like that.
I’m definitely gonna see it again and I’m super pumped for the sequels.
I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive (and I get some animal phobias at least, I firmly stand against anything with an exoskeleton they’re fucking gross and make me recoil in disgust) but I don’t get why whales.
They’re fellow mammals. They are smart. They are mostly gentle (killer whales are smart enough to attack boats but that is a learned response not an ingrained one).
Is it like an extension of thalassophobia?
I don’t think any phobias are rational.
That’s fair, but for my phobias at least I can explain what the exact details are (the chitin, it’s the chittering, the FUCKING PNEUMONATIC SYSTEM THAT MOVES THEIR LEGS).
I was hoping to at least understand the aspects of whale that cause it. Hypothetically: the size, being swallowed, ect.
Ah gotcha
Is that a “wtf Jesse but I’m polite” gotcha or a “oh that’s why you were asking” gotcha?
The latter lol.
Yeee, you’re always so polite. It makes this place nicer.
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If they were in any way rational they wouldn't be phobias. People don't get to choose.
I understand that, being afraid of a roach is pathetic from a rational view, yet I scream if one touches me.
It doesn’t mean I can’t explain the qualities of the roach that make me itchy on the inside. I wanted to learn what those are for whale phobia.
I come within touching distance of whales pretty often, they're massive and if you get too close one swish of their tail can kill you without even knowing you're there. Blue whales are also the largest creatures to ever exist on planet earth, which is a pretty reasonable thing to fear imo.
The largest creatures to ever exist on planet earth that we've seen so far :alex-aware:
My mom blames Pinocchio, but I'm pretty okay with toothed whales actually. And sharks are really cool, except for basking sharks and whale sharks because they set me off too. I think it's a Big Thing Underwater sort of fear, but very specific.
The big mouths too maybe? Fantasy art of whalelike creatures underwater with big open mouths always get me.
I don't think it's just thalassophobia though. I really enjoyed Subnautica, and the scariest part for me was ironically the big peaceful floaty whale guys near the surface. The rest of the game was only the normal kind of scary, not the "I can't function" sort of phobia-scary. Sure that leviathan is currently trying to swallow me whole, but at least it looks like a cool sea serpent and not a blue whale..