If you make the highest-grossing movie of all time (even if you don't win big Oscars), you're going to get sued by someone, and in the case of Avatar, it's by a guy who runs a cafe in Vancouver, Canada.
No, really: This guy, Emil Malak, told the Vancouver Sun that he's filing a copyright infringement suit against Cameron, claiming that the writer/director stole not only the story, but also the designs from Malak's proposed movie:
[Malak] claims he spent $120,000 developing his sci-fi script, Terra Incognita, which is about mining a precious metal on another planet and encountering alien beings that resemble certain aspects of those in Cameron's Avatar.
The lawyer said Malak hired a screenwriter and graphic artist to develop not only the script but the art direction of the story in the late 1990s.
Malak's lawyer says he sent a copy of the script for Terra Icognita and graphic designs in 2002 to Cameron's company, Lightstorm Entertainment Inc.
No comment yet from Lighstorm or Cameron, but we're going to go out on a limb here and say that this Malak guy has no case. After all, we all know that Cameron actually based his story on Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves and Braveheart. (Just kidding.)
Along with Star Wars, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Raiders of the Lost Ark, L.A. Confidential, Munich, Raging Bull, The Searchers and Saving Private Ryan? :teeheeA lot of those movies lost because they were shamelessly brilliant genre movies or just had balls. Neither designation belongs to Avatar.
Along with Star Wars, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Raiders of the Lost Ark, L.A. Confidential, Munich, Raging Bull, The Searchers and Saving Private Ryan? :teeheenice list
Along with Star Wars, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Raiders of the Lost Ark, L.A. Confidential, Munich, Raging Bull, The Searchers and Saving Private Ryan? :teehee
It's been beaten to death but it's the movie that Titanic robbed of an Oscar.Along with Star Wars, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Raiders of the Lost Ark, L.A. Confidential, Munich, Raging Bull, The Searchers and Saving Private Ryan? :teehee
If we ranked all these movies, Avatar would be at the bottom of the list.
note: I haven't seen LA Confidential
If we ranked all these movies, Avatar would be at the bottom of the list.
If we ranked all these movies, Avatar would be at the bottom of the list.
Even if this is 100% inarguable FACT, it doesn't fucking matter, because the point is that it's fucking distinguished mentally-challenged to say that a film will be forever relegated to the dustbin of history just because it failed to win Best Picture.
If we ranked all these movies, Avatar would be at the bottom of the list.
Even if this is 100% inarguable FACT, it doesn't fucking matter, because the point is that it's fucking distinguished mentally-challenged to say that a film will be forever relegated to the dustbin of history just because it failed to win Best Picture.
Avatar will have none of the classic, enduring staying power of the films listed.
Even if this is 100% inarguable FACT, it doesn't fucking matter, because the point is that it's fucking distinguished mentally-challenged to say that a film will be forever relegated to the dustbin of history just because it failed to win Best Picture.
Quit flattering yourself, Ichirou.
You aren't clever, or even funny, and you have the debate skills of a Nintard.
And yet I've managed to repeatedly eviscerate you, so what does that say about your level of intellect, you feces-flinging chimpanzee?
And yet I've managed to repeatedly eviscerate you, so what does that say about your level of intellect, you feces-flinging chimpanzee?
Again, don't flatter yourself.
You've tagged along while vastly superior posters like Willco, Wrika Wrek and am nintenho made the serious arguments and then thrown in a few wisecracks. You haven't eviscerated anyone, nor are you capable of doing so.
Don't you have lolis to be jacking off to?
That makes zero sense, you festering pile of scrotal gangrene.
You really are the least intelligent poster on this board, aren't you?
No, my insults boil down to the fact that you're a complete waste of life with zero redeeming qualities aside from the fact that at one point in your life, you watched a good number of films. I can't imagine anyone being masochistic enough to spend any time with you in person, and I'm starting to suspect that a major reason you went to Japan is because you had no social life to speak of in your home country. It seems that the only real satisfaction and self-validation you get is in bashing people who you perceive as having inferior taste to yourself. I'd say that you were probably never really clever at all as a child, and so you decided to try to become a "film buff" so that you could have a subject where you could at least pretend to be on equal terms with the people you envied growing up.
In short, your existence seems completely sad and useless, and while I've had a few personal setbacks over the last few years, I'm just really, really fucking glad I'm not you.
Also, PD, you're missing the point. You're missing it more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor.
Even if this is 100% inarguable FACT, it doesn't fucking matter, because the point is that it's fucking distinguished mentally-challenged to say that a film will be forever relegated to the dustbin of history just because it failed to win Best Picture.