Oh and it wasn't me who started all of the Mating talk!

Shame on you people for type-casting me!!!! My thoughts were pure

Any woman that can ride a six legged horse like she can, earns browny points from me!
Can't wait for Avatar2.

--really, it was me w/ the mating talk

--it was kinda handled in an off handed way w/ the alien making the comment "now we are mated for life" which made me wonder if the connections they had w/ animals transferred to the partner of choice, i believe the answer is yes...imagine that connection boys!! your thoughts transferred hmmmmmmm to get into the male mind at such moments probably left in the sci-fi realm...

--harry, go see the movie already, what are you waiting for? an invitation??

Sorry mar! I should have realized it was you that bought up the sex subject.

Sorry Brit! Should have realized you wouldn't talk about a subject you know very little about!

Thank-you for clearing-up my confusions.

What am I waiting for? Well, I'm still stuck here in Australia, and
they charge an arm and a leg to go to these new-fangled 3-D
cinemas here, so I'm saving-up. (Or I might wait until I get back to China,
so I can see it there!, in a big cinema, in downtown Bengbu, or Hefei, maybe, in
the company of a thousand
raucous baiju-swilling patrons - a nice, immersive atmosphere to watch
it in!?).

But do you think it'd be as good as the classic sci-fi movies of the 50s?
My favourite is this one, from 1957, The Giant Claw.
It has a gigantic alien flying buzzard that devours airliners, people,
and trains. Was protected by "anti-matter" - yes sirree, this film
was based on real, scientific fact - none of this contemporary mysticism-stuff.

Before you look at this still from this terrifying movie, I'd recommend caution to those
of nervous disposition........

mar wrote:
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-- which made me wonder if the connections they had w/ animals transferred to the partner of choice, i believe the answer is yes...

Just a minute!! Mar, are you now telling me that Mr Cameron has
included scenes of "connections with animals" in his magnum opus????

Why, I think this sounds absolutely OBSCENE!

Harry,

When you and IMP were an item, what did he tell you was his favorite poetry? He told me he was a big fan of Walt Whitman and Leonard Cohen.

Is Avatar as good as the Wizard of Oz or Gone With the Wind? Does it have some memorable songs I can sing to my son?

So far, no one has said anything that would get me to rush out and see it. Sounds like a movie with a splashy gimmick but a lame story. Those movies never stand the test of time.

His favourite poetry?

ummm, I don't recall him mentioning the 'classical'-type
odes too much. I recall that he was partial to witty limericks though.

He'd often come out (oops! unfortunate expression!) with that
one "I served three years on a China-lugger, .............",
and the one about that unfortunate poor-soul from Nantucket...

"Leaves of Grass", hmmm, now, wait a sec, yes, he did quoth
that quite a lot. Why not ask him to fill you in on this?

Well, an amazing coincidence just occurred here.
Only about an hour ago, my two grown-up daughters told me that
they were heading-off to see 'Avatar' tonight, at some nearby
mega-lossal-plex. Nahh, they didn't invite me along, (but I can't
say I blame 'em - nobody in their early-20s takes their stupid-old-fogey
'dad' to the movies with them).

So, right at this minute, my daughters are sitting there
watching this amazing film (about 18-foot aliens having affairs
with Gen Custer's boys, down in South America).

alright, alright, I'll keep my dumb gob shut about Avatar until I finally do
go to view it!

Taken from: www.movieline.com/2010/01/avatar-box-office-update-china-swoons-on-opening-day.php




Avatar Box-Office Update: Chi'na Swoons on Opening Day

Written by S.T. VanAirsdale | 06 Jan 2010, 7:30 AM | Comment

avatar_100_bill_small.jpgThe debate about what Avatar can and can’t make at the box office has finally reached China, where the blockbuster took in 33.03 million yuan on its opening day. That amounts to about $4.8 million, which nobody in the country’s state-run film office can verify as a record but is presumed to be the first step to knocking off 2012’s record 460 million yuan ($67.3 million) in the month ahead. So where does James Cameron’s mint stand overall to date?

Well, it’s a lot. As noted here over the weekend, I was more than a little conservative in my forecast for when Avatar might break a billion dollars worldwide, and as of Tuesday the film was flirting with the $1.1 billion mark. By Monday the film’s holiday run had cooled off somewhat, knocking it all the way down to $8 million for the day — its lowest-yet daily take by more than 50 percent. But! Perspective is key, as one analyst reminds us: That is still the third-highest grossing third Monday ever, behind The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (whose third Monday fell on Dec. 26) and Twister (whose third Monday fell on Memorial Day).

And now, with China approving? Yuan fire, Jim Cameron. (Sorry.)

· Avatar races to $4.8M opening day in China [AP]