So you think its realistic in any way that a race og beings who are FAR more powerful than us would allow themselves to be put into those types of living conditions? I mean we could even use there technology. A more realistic solution would have been that they come down and haggle their way to more fuel sources and food and trade us something.

As for political specificness, D9 was just stupid. I'm mean c'mon Nigerians living inside controlling everything? Yeah, like the US would allow such a thing considering the potential of those weapons and overall technology in the mothership. It was just a stupid scenario.

Whereas Avatar's reverse setup is not only *exactly* what we do no (i.e. US and other colonial powers) to every other weaker nation on Earth (just research diamonds in Africa), but its highly conceivable in relation to a weaker non-human species (akin to how we handle animal populations now).

Like I said, the only far-fetched ideas in Avatar were the actual Pandoran species and connectivity. However, that is plausible considering the biological physiologies of our own Earth based species. Once we figure out how to use computers to communicate via simple mind control, how hard do you think it would be to map simple reactions to animals brains as well? Only difference is Pandora's was via evolution.

I didn't say there wasn't anything to do, just far less.  Plus, doing things generally took a lot more effort.  I can entertain myself just sitting in front of a computer or TV all night.  Cars are much more widespread.  There's always something to do now if you want to have fun.

Movies dominated pop culture during that era.  Any sort of history class or book from the era will show you that.  Going down to the theater and paying a dime to see the picture show was analogous to our Saturday morning cartoons for many children of the time.

Cool! Actually I wasn't totally sure about it, but my memory served me right.

Also, I like it that Titanic is No 1 rather than Gone with the wind or Star Wars. Titanic was a bit cheezy, but it was epic!

Yea I noticed this too, so I ereased it. Don't know why I did that.

Just one more thing, inflation rates in each country are different so thats why boxofficemojo don't have an inflated worldwide gross chart.

So the inflation could actually look quite different

Totals from foreigh countries were converted to US currency then inflation was added.

Dude, this a video game site, but the forums are open to discussing other things.

If you havent been to south africa or havent read much about their history, you wouldn't have much clue as to what subtleties District 9 had, that I'm talking about.

I thought they handled it in a good way. The south african governement could've stopped the United States from interfering because they were interested in the technology. They were even experimenting on them to find a way to use their weapons.

I will agree that the apartheid thing was a little heavy handled, but Avatar did no better.

The government/military in Avatar was just so ridiculously and obviously evil, I couldn't help but chuckle. Specially at that colonel.

Do you know Noah Antwiller (aka the Spoony One)? He made a review with his brother that pretty much sums up how I feel about the movie. The thing is really unscripted and long (they go on for about 35 minutes and that includes a lot of stuttering and "hums...", so be warned)

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/12/20/vlog-12-19-09-avatar/#disqus_thread

how is avatar so far?
looking likely to be he highest grossing movie ever?