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Barnack, I can say with the upmost sincerity that you are by far my favorite poster on this board, and that your analysis and insights always brighten my day.

I think the last 2 POTA movies surpassed the CGI in Avatar by a fair margin, but agreed they do hold up well considering their age.

Glad to see this unitification of movies finally taking off, Avatar leading the way yet again.

That's the thing about jokes, they're usually based on syntax and toying with it. Is it really that grim in SW2 that you've all lost your sense of humour?

If I lived in Brixton I'd want it all to stop too.

Of course, it's all a matter of what your frame of reference is (in in your example you're patently correct). Disney for me is doing great things in the commodification of entertainment from the perspective of making money. That I truly respect. It terrifies me from an intellectual and cultural perspective, but that hardly matters. It also seems that far too often my position is far too often confused with a strawman we might call "TheAvatarMovieScholar". What I seek to argue is from a frame of reference where the essential components of a franchise are themselves as studied and quantified as individual films within the broader framework of said franchises. I should also note that I think Bob Iger is a genius, not quite on par with Jim, but certainly up there.

Glad to see you're finally coming round to the idea that having/making more money is equal to better.

Funny you should reply with a comic strip, I'm becoming convinced more and more each day that Bradbury was a time traveller.

Would love to see BP be able to do more than 0.5A, what an achievement that would be.

Given the level of reading comprehension I've seen in this thread I think that for most on this board this will probably be true. As Wittgenstein said, the limits of language are the limits of the world, and boy are some people around these parts limited.

Lets also not forget that Jim has achieved things outside of film that most people would consider lifetime achievements alone (patenting tech, solo dive of the MT, discovering previously undiscovered bacteria etc.), I think he deserves a little slack in the getting shit done department.

Ah you're talking about the vomit comet! It doesn't actually need to go very high to get the zero-gs though Barnack! Here's a little extra picture for you - some familiar faces on this one...

Ah, shame then. Most private jets fly at (usually above) 36000 feet (so over the negative 10km you quoted earlier) and I'm assuming most big budget directors will have flown in a G650 at some point.

Has Ron Howard actually been into space? If so, I'm genuinely impressed, Jim wanted to go and had consent from NASA to visit the ISS, but it got canned after 9/11 unfortunately.

I'm not familiar with the achievements of Zemeckis, so you'll have to explain this one to me.

I assume when the east and west seaboards are underwater/swampland, and even then, I wouldn't be so sure.

10,898.4 metres (35,756 ft - for the Americans). The rest are sea level (as far as I know).

Nope, again, why all the assumptions? I've only made claims regarding James Cameron, please stop putting words into my mouth.

If you find logical consistency funny I've got some great books by Frege that you'd find a total hoot!

Countries highlighted in red are the ones who have not yet adopted the metric system.

1. A parsec is just shorthand for 3x10^16 metres (or close to that its years since I did any serious physics). 2. I never made any claims to Avatar's depth, don't fall for the trap Barnack, I only ever made claim to James Cameron and his relation to depth. Has reading comprehension really dropped this low while I was away?

Your inability to defend your original position, follow any kind of logic, or even understand the most basic concept of measurement (and of course your spelling of meter) makes me think you're a parody of a modern american educated in the last 2 decades. Could I be right?

So far you've got: Appeal to ridicule. Ad hominem. False equivalence. What are we going for here?

Cameron =/= Avatar. Nowhere have I ever said this.

At no point did I say that Avatar was the deepest movie of all time... are you making assumptions too Treeing? Naughty naughty.