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[Ozymandias]

I wouldn't make fun or be judgemental of people with issues.

 

Really? I was mocking the absurdity of Kal's post, but I think you know that and are just being a language cop thats unhappy with me using the word 'losers'.  But just in case you don't, let me just say I hope lonely and/or depressed people get help/meet somone and have a happy life.  I've sorta been there myself.

Edited January 3, 2015 by Ozymandias

[Noctis]

I was depressed as an early teen, and Hogwarts not being real didn't make me depressed or suicidal.

Hogwarts, Pandora, Middle Earth, etc are all places that people want to visit and a place to escape and feel happy. But people becoming suicidal because they're not real?

Yikes.

[Neo]

Kal, MARVEL is not looking to affect moviegoers to the point of suicide like you claim AVATAR did.. There merely looking to entertain you.. WTF???

First off don't want to argue here, just posting a fact nothing more. Read the entire article and you will get a better sense of what happened 5 years ago.

 

Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues

James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

 

[vc2002]

I believe this people being suicidal for Pandora not being real article is just a marketing pill. Dont take it and dont believe it.

Edited January 3, 2015 by vc2002

[kayumanggi]

Happy New Year. lol

[Mattrek]

If you become clinically depressed or suicidal over a computer generated world not being real, the only thing that shows is just how incredibly lonely you are and how boring/unexciting your life is. I mean Jesus fucking Christ.

Or it shows how fucked up our real life is and how much people want something different then what is the reality. I don't think feeling depressed over not being able to have an environmentally friendly world where the little guy isn't run over is abnormal.

[Mattrek]

Making losers depressed and suicidal?

Nope, making people yearn for a new world that is unattainable in real life is his gift. He did it with the romance in Titanic too. He is a master at making people wish his movies were real.

[Mattrek]

I was depressed as an early teen, and Hogwarts not being real didn't make me depressed or suicidal.

Hogwarts, Pandora, Middle Earth, etc are all places that people want to visit and a place to escape and feel happy. But people becoming suicidal because they're not real?

Yikes.

After seeing avatar people did feel depressed and regardless of how that depression happened (obviously avatar didn't solely put them into depression, but it was probably the icing on the cake), depressed people attempt suicide. This isn't a case of Avatar made people suicidal. This is a case of the movie making people wish their lives were better and adding on to whatever else was happening in their life and then them becoming suicidal from everything combined (if people even were suicidal). There isn't a direct firm link here.

[Hatebox]

Did people actually become suicidal, or even depressed? It sounds like one of those too good to be true headlines, but I remember reading those articles and they never cited any real examples beyond a few social media posts along the lines of "OMG, really sad I can't live in Pandora :-((((".

[Mattrek]

Did people actually become suicidal, or even depressed? It sounds like one of those too good to be true headlines, but I remember reading those articles and they never cited any real examples beyond a few social media posts along the lines of "OMG, really sad I can't live in Pandora :-((((".

I'm not sure, but for me I definitely wished to be there.

[Neo]

For this that don't believe this was true, guess you were asleep for the first few months of 2010. lol.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/avatar-induced-depression_n_420605.html

Edited January 3, 2015 by Neo

[Jessie]

Are you trying to insinuate that people were on suicide watch over a movie like AVATAR Kal??? If so, those people deserve to cash in the chips for attempting such a thing over a movie like this, hell, any movie PERIOD... No movie is worth attempting to take your life over, not even a MARVEL movie Kal, so I call bollox on that..

 

 

 

 

 

Actually what Kal said is true to be fair.

[Neo]

Why would a Marvel movie ever affect someones life? Its not hard to imagine that a movie as visually stunning and with a story like that would cause 1000s of people to want to live there and cause them depression because they don't have that here. You shouldn't look down on them, just accept that some want more and Avatar gave it to them.

[Jessie]

I'm not going to lie but after seeing Pandora it is pretty depressing seeing our planet at times, depending where you live. The UK is a shit hole lol

[Hatebox]

Why would a Marvel movie ever affect someones life? Its not hard to imagine that a movie as visually stunning and with a story like that would cause 1000s of people to want to live there and cause them depression because they don't have that here. You shouldn't look down on them, just accept that some want more and Avatar gave it to them.

 

The movie wouldn't have 'caused' depression - they would have already been depressed and just latched onto it as an escape. But I'm dubious about all that anyway, given what I said in the above post.

[Klingo]

I'm not going to lie but after seeing Pandora it is pretty depressing seeing our planet at times, depending where you live. The UK is a shit hole lol

After watching the movie, I was rooting for the humans to win and wipe out the forests.  The hell with the Navi!

[Neo]

The movie wouldn't have 'caused' depression - they would have already been depressed and just latched onto it as an escape. But I'm dubious about all that anyway, given what I said in the above post.

Not my point, but thanks for the syntax lesson. lol.

[Hatebox]

Not my point, but thanks for the syntax lesson. lol.

 

Since you explicitly said 'cause' one could only assume that was your point. But ok.

[RaidensSword]

The way the humans treated the alien race was actually horrible for me to watch personally. Its something that has taken place throughout history and continues to happen presently within our own world and seeing it in this context and knowing that it would probably happen in the same way irl really resonated with me on an emotional level. The scene with home tree burning almost brought tears to my eyes.

[Kalel009Shel]

People just don't appreciate Stephen Lang. Everything he said is quotable.

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