this is just depressing.

I'm so confused. Is that a largely unfunny skit or genuinely odd people? I've seen people who believe they are Druids or wizards act the same way but then my entire brain is screaming that nobody could actually be this lame.

This is a joke.

I guess not seeing Avatar (yet) leaves me somewhat out of the loop on this, but what's going on in this video? Do these people actually believe what they're doing? It seems like a hoax, because it's not funny enough to be pure parody.

I don't get what exactly was expected in the way of obnoxious comments. Just seems like some people made a silly video.

The article says the video is a parody. You guys read the articles, right?

@ Angelo: Were you listening to Devin's story? Then you have no frame of reference here, you're like a child wandering into a movie… I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the muck so these Na'vi can run around the forrest and they come an pee on your fucking rug…

The fact that some of you thought this was real, even after it is EXPLICITLY WRITTEN IN THE ARTICLE, points out the general "intelligence" level of the CHUD commenter.

How can you even consider yourself a film geek if you can't detect this video's satire?

This video and Devin's intro highlight the biggest flaw of AVATAR: the lack of iconic characters. The first Star Wars film provided kids with dozens of distinct, memorable-looking aliens, robots, and humans that they could dress-up and role-play as. And ultimately identify with.

Between TV, the Internet and video games, movies don't have a huge cultural impact anymore. What movie since Star Wars has? Batman and Jurassic Park were big summer movies, but nothing like Star Wars. That said, what was the point of this article? If you wanted to post something else that rips on Avatar, just say it. Don't judge it by failing to be something it never claimed to be in the first place. Maybe a couple of people who are depressed Pandora's not a real place might have claimed that, but if that's your point of reference, you're really struggling for an argument.

Fucking Christballs, Devin. Let it go.

The majority of the planet sees the movie and it's not had a cultural impact? The movie's been out two months now. It hasn't even had time to spawn conventions and fan fiction and shit like that. And your beef with people not taking action to save the planet now….can you prove that Star Wars got people to start acting more Jedi-like, full of compassion and understanding? A movie that doesn't inspire people to stand up and take up a cause is demoted to being 'just pretty pictures'? Not to mention I HAVE had tons of conversations with tons of friends that don't normally even go to the theater anymore about Avatar, and it's been kinda unanimously loved. That seems like a cultural impact to me. It's something that everyone is participating in and talking about. And just wait; the conventions will be huge down the line. Let me clarify here that I don't take part in shit like that, I have dignity and a brain. But the conventions will be huge.

It does make me feel somewhat better knowing that this is in fact a parody, But you just know there are most likely groups of goobers doing this all over, just not filming it.

Devin, with ANOTHER AVATAR ARTICLE! Who is for a Devin-less Chud? I say it's time to start a petition… get rid of Devin once and for all. I would say that we should have him sterilized, but come on, we all know the last vagina he saw was when he was born.

I can see CBS making a Reality Tv Show
Avatars: The Real World

Wow Devin, I'm usually one of those people that applaud you for your honest assessment of Avatar (unlike most) and cringe when people bash you for simply being honest – however, you totally lost me with the "growing global climate crisis" line… really?

With all the evidence piling up about the mountains of faulty and tampered with climate data right now, you think this is a good time to start spouting that shit on your movie site?

I've been reading CHUD since like 1999? and that's the only thing you've ever said that has made me question your intelligence or integrity.

[Note] Any green freaks or Avatards that feel the need to bash me for my statements, please note that it was addressed to Devin and if 'You' take issue with any of it.. save your breath [keystrokes], I could not care any less – your opinion is irrelevant to me.

Whatever DF says, the opposite happens.

You name it, Avatar, TDK, Watchmen, Transformers, Hellboy 2, Drag Me To Hell, 3D and the list will keep going and growing.

I've never seen someone be so wrong so many times in a row.

Bad movie this, it will be a failure that….blag, blah, blah.

The dude would never survive if he worked for one of the movie companies, they would lose a ton if money if they listened to him.

I was watching the Olympics tonight, and the commentators were saying the blue spandex clad skaters looked like some Na'vi stepping out of Avatar. That'd be cultural impact and conversation, wouldn't it? They weren't making fun of them, either.

"growing global climate crisis."

Yeah, holy shit it gets cold and SNOWS in the winter! I bet it gets hot in the summer! OMG ITZ TEH GLOBAL WARMING!!!!ONE!!!ONE!!!!!

METROPOLIS restoration premiere event. QUOTE
—Before the film started, there was the usual set of speeches. The announcer for the evening described METROPOLIS as "The AVATAR of its time." —-

end QUOTE.
yes, no cultral impact, just like Metropolis. Clap Clap, Devin

How come Devin is the only writer on CHUD who posts AVATAR stories? This is so stupid and it makes the rest of CHUD appear unbalanced in its AVATAR coverage. Either Nick needs to bring down the hammer or Devin needs take a long, cold shower and get over the big, blue people. HOMETREE FOR LIFE, YO!!!

Lots of avatar stories because its the highest grossing film all-time? what don't you understand? #13 another anti-avatar article because, yes, all devin has said is true. You could not find any flaws with Avatar? No first contact with alien problems that might have risen in your brain? For the amount of money it has made, Cameron has proof that movie-goers at large are simple-minded. Clearly the most basic of backstories was not necessary for the public.. Unobtanium=Oil, Alien=Terrorists, Kill what we refuse to understand.. awesome effects dude!

It's not the highest grossing film of all-time. It's the highest grossing film of all-time that ripped people off by price gauging. That's what happened. Nothing you or anyone else can do can change that and Avatar will be forgotten. Why? It made Transformers 2 money. That's what it made without the price gauging. Suck on it and keep sucking.

Don't let it go Devin. Don't stop making fun of this new-age dogpile of a movie.

The only thing that will shut AVATAR and it's horde of nerds down at the box office will be The AVENGERS(Provided it's done right and Edward Norton is convinced to come back as The HULK) Also, I really don't see how anyone can be happy that a movie like AVATAR had to cheat it's way with overpriced ticket prices in beating TITANIC at the box office???

"Whatever DF says, the opposite happens. You name it, Avatar, TDK, Watchmen, Transformers, Hellboy 2, Drag Me To Hell, 3D and the list will keep going and growing. I've never seen someone be so wrong so many times in a row."

I wasn't a big fan of Avatar, it was alright, but this statement is the main reason I keep reading Devin articles. I'm one of those sick people who gets amused by someone tripping over whilst they walk, just generally fucking up e.t.c.

"Whatever DF says, the opposite happens. You name it, Avatar, TDK, Watchmen, Transformers, Hellboy 2, Drag Me To Hell, 3D and the list will keep going and growing. I've never seen someone be so wrong so many times in a row."

hehe ,kudos to that poster

"The dude would never survive if he worked for one of the movie companies, they would lose a ton if money if they listened to him." – No, they'd just get the wrong Starbucks order.

Devin, please continue to post Avatar bashing articles. Sooner or later the children won't be able to take it and they'll leave. Either that or their heads will explode. Win/win.

Alright, I don't know if Devin reads these comments but just in case that is the case I'd like to go on record here say that I'm just so happy that I'm not the only guy in the world who's seen 'Darkon'. Having seen that makes watching this thing utterly hilarious. Bravo for obscure geek-community references to LARPing!

Gotta admit, the TP Tree of Souls cracked me up.

The "growing global climate crisis"? I thought all that stuff was recently revealed to be a hoax borne out of junk science and anecdotal evidence?

#22 – Actually dude, even if you deduct the extra price that 3D and IMAX tickets cost (yep, taken them out of the equation ENTIRELY) Avatar's gross hands-down slaughters the gross of Transformers 2. It absolutely anihilates it. Accept that and move on. Its running global total is $2.35bn (Transformer's 2 global total was about $900m) and Avatar ain't even nearly finished yet. It's the highest grossing film of all time BY A COUNTRY MILE. Why cannot you accept this? Would you like me to post you a calculator?

#31 – Actually, the 'revelation' that the global warming theory was a hoax based on junk science and anecdotal evidence, was, well…. a hoax. Read around a subject properly before commenting, please.

#Devin – Dude, those people who are saying how consistently you've been wrong now on so many topics have got a point. Perhaps it's time to hand the site over to someone who actually knows a thing or two about movies and who isn't afraid to admit when they're wrong. You're just making yourself look like a 'tard.

It looks like Survivor: Pandora

God save us from the LARPers.

/ex larper

Wow. STILL? I've never heard someone talk so much about something they hate… except maybe a pre-teen discussing how gross the girl he secretly loves is.

So some scientists fudge a pebble's worth of data out of a mountain of evidence for global warming and climate change, and all of a sudden it's all a "hoax"? Some of you guys need to read a little deeper on subjects before you attempt to speak with authority on them. @Devin: Your opinion on the Avatar phenomenon (yes, I said phenomenon) has been noted. You should move on. It's old, and it's seeping into your otherwise good writing in other posts.

LOL @ FUCK YOU SKYBITCH!!!

"i⋅ro⋅ny [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]:
an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected."

Just thought I'd get that out there since Devin will always be known as "that Avatar guy."

Actually, just about every other film wouldn't be able to get people to pay a higher ticket price and would actually end up grossing less if its tickets were all at the same price as Avatar's. The film has to get credit for having something that convinced most people who bought the higher priced tickets that it was worth the extra expense. So, it's probably not as easy to say that it only made so much money because the ticket prices were higher.

The video is a joke of course. But what's even a bigger joke is Devin himself with his relentless anti-Avatar posts. I liked the movie, I don't think it was a masterpiece or anything, but Devin is behaving like a rabid teenager with all this crap. Let it go mate.

At work, can't watch the whole video (or hear anything) but.. if that's really Wisconsin, they must be freezing!

Heheh, damn – them's some SORE vaginas out there… It isn't enough that this silly gimmicky movie made a cunt-ton of cash, you absolutely NEED every other fucker on the planet to sing it's praises or that little itch turns into a throbbing stab-wound, huh? You tetchy little bastards with your magical blue cat-fairies!! You're pathetic, even by fanboy standards. Twilighters are a far less shameful breed of fan. Devin's right to keep baiting you.

If only they'd shot this short in 3D. It really would've spoke to me. Avatar is up for several academy awards including a best picture nod vs. Cameron Ex Katherine Bigelow's Hurt Locker. Only one of those movies impacts what type of movies are going to dominate the big screens at the local multiplex. This is worth talking about.

I don't know about whipping out "I Seeeeeee You" in casual conversation, but I do call people "turook-mak-toe!" with awe and reverence every once in a while. Just to be a dick.

Avatar sucks! keep up the good work Devin. Sometimes I think your an asshole, but I always read your posts. (can't really get behind your "growing climate crisis" comment, seems kind of ham-handed itself)

"But I've yet to see the cultural impact." Yeah, why don't you look beyond American borders for a change? ttp://tinyurl.com/yf5fzle