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[KP1025]

Unobtanium has been used as a generic term for a very long time. I do wonder why they didn't just name the one in the movie Pandorium or something unique to Avatar. Then again, all these fictional metals pretty much sound the same anyways.

Edited February 27, 2018 by KP1025

[TomCruiseTop]

1 minute ago, KP1025 said:

Unobtanium has been used as a generic term for a very long time. I do wonder why they didn't just name it Pandorium or something unique to Avatar. Then again, all these fictional metals pretty much sound the same anyways.

They'd find something else to pick at anyway, it's tough at the top. 

[aabattery]

Rank the fake mineral/element/whatever names in media:

 

Adamantium > Kryptonite > Vibranium > Australium > Tritanium > Duranium > Unobtainium > Nth metal

[TomCruiseTop]

On average films where the MacGuffin is unobtainium gross the highest, so I'll go with that as first, then the rest. 

[IronJimbo]

4 minutes ago, aabattery said:

Rank the fake mineral/element/whatever names in media:

 

Adamantium > Kryptonite > Vibranium > Australium > Tritanium > Duranium > Unobtainium > Nth metal

krypotnites more unobtainable than unobtainium, also.. austrailum? lol

 

Just now, JamesCameronScholar said:

On average films where the MacGuffin is unobtainium gross the highest, so I'll go with that as first, then the rest. 

 

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Edited February 27, 2018 by IronJimbo

[Premium George]

4 minutes ago, aabattery said:

Rank the fake mineral/element/whatever names in media:

 

Adamantium > Kryptonite > Vibranium > Australium > Tritanium > Duranium > Unobtainium > Nth metal

Dude nth metal too low. It has the coolest properties of all this.

[aabattery]

5 minutes ago, Premium George said:

Dude nth metal too low. It has the coolest properties of all this.

 

I'm ranking the names here, and Nth metal is a dumb as hell name.

[TomCruiseTop]

Jim should have called it 0.5Anium, because that seems to be something else that can't be obtained. 

[dashrendar44]

16 minutes ago, aabattery said:

Rank the fake mineral/element/whatever names in media:

 

Adamantium > Kryptonite > Vibranium > Australium > Tritanium > Duranium > Unobtainium > Nth metal

Precious Tritium > All-ium

 

 

[TomCruiseTop]

7 minutes ago, dashrendar44 said:

Precious Tritium > All-ium

 

 

Tritium is real though... God Spider-Man 2 was brilliant. 

[vc2002]

1 hour ago, aabattery said:

Rank the fake mineral/element/whatever names in media:

 

Adamantium > Kryptonite > Vibranium > Australium > Tritanium > Duranium > Unobtainium > Nth metal

 

I don't remember Unobtainium being actually used in the movie in any way. That's one of the things that I want to see in the sequels. You gotta show what the earth really looks like and why Unobtainium is so precious. These were told in words in Avatar, but since there will be 4 more movies, these need to be shown in real earth scenes. Inevitably there will be humans revenge in the sequels anyway.

[TomCruiseTop]

17 minutes ago, vc2002 said:

Inevitably there will be humans revenge in the sequels anyway.

Revenge? For what? The first movie was the Na'vi taking revenge on the humans. 

[vc2002]

24 minutes ago, JamesCameronScholar said:

Revenge? For what? The first movie was the Na'vi taking revenge on the humans. 

 

 

[TomCruiseTop]

1 minute ago, vc2002 said:

 

 

What kind of imperialistic nut would call taking back what you tried to steal in the first place 'revenge'?  

[vc2002]

19 minutes ago, JamesCameronScholar said:

What kind of imperialistic nut would call taking back what you tried to steal in the first place 'revenge'?  

 

Revenge is just "pay back". It can be for good or bad. Like "Revenge of the Sith".

 

We're not playing the word game here. You got the point.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2018 by vc2002

[TomCruiseTop]

Just now, vc2002 said:

 

Revenge is just "pay back". It can be for good or bad. Like "Revenge of the Sith".

 

We're not playing the word game here. You got my point.

 

 

I got your point, and of course you're correct in the strictest definition of the word, but I read that you almost felt the humans would be correct in any reaction to the action of the Na'vi in the first movie when you used the term 'revenge'. Apologies for any confusion, I think I misread your tone. 

[Deuce66]

"There's NOTHING we have that they want"....pretty much sums it all up to me. 

 

Of course the humans will be back, there will be conflict and more violence. I'm more interested in how JC and his team can twist these themes over the course of 2-4 movies without rehashing the same familiar tropes over and over again. 

 

 

[TomCruiseTop]

6 minutes ago, Deuce66 said:

"There's NOTHING we have that they want"....pretty much sums it all up to me. 

 

Of course the humans will be back, there will be conflict and more violence. I'm more interested in how JC and his team can twist these themes over the course of 2-4 movies without rehashing the same familiar tropes over and over again. 

 

 

That's the fun of it though, we could go the transhumanist route, the McKennian shamanist route, or some kind of Ellulian dive into primitive culture to name but three. Although knowing Jim he'll have something that I couldn't think of in a thousand lifetimes up his sleeves.  

[IronJimbo]

3 hours ago, Deuce66 said:

"There's NOTHING we have that they want"....pretty much sums it all up to me. 

 

Of course the humans will be back, there will be conflict and more violence. I'm more interested in how JC and his team can twist these themes over the course of 2-4 movies without rehashing the same familiar tropes over and over again. 

 

 

Jim, Weaver and Lang have already hyped the stories/plot going forward. "shit yourself with your mouth open" etc

 

I think A2 will be about Jake trying to get all the tribes to unite, thats a stab in the dark though.

Edited February 27, 2018 by IronJimbo

[aabattery]

7 hours ago, vc2002 said:

 

I don't remember Unobtainium being actually used in the movie in any way. That's one of the things that I want to see in the sequels. You gotta show what the earth really looks like and why Unobtainium is so precious. These were told in words in Avatar, but since there will be 4 more movies, these need to be shown in real earth scenes. Inevitably there will be humans revenge in the sequels anyway.

 

You could argue that it was used to make the mountains float. I think that was the explanation for them?