RE: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:43 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS) > > > Avatar sounds like a high tech remake of Dances With Wolves. Pretty

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
I haven't seen the movie but tonight I saw TGWTG's Bum review of it. I think I understand what you guys are saying now... maybe http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews/15043-ep036 (he calls them "smurfy-cats") Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eas

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread William Bowen
I think Wil Wheaton described it best: "Thundercat-Smurfs" :-D On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM, morgan l wrote: > > Or Ferngully. > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM, G Money wrote: > >> >> Avatar sounds like a high tech remake of Dances With Wolves. >> > > > ~

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread morgan l
Or Ferngully. On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM, G Money wrote: > > Avatar sounds like a high tech remake of Dances With Wolves. > ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House

RE: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread LRS Scout
I always think back to the scene with the old timer with the airborne tattoo That'll be me someday :) -Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:47 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM, LRS Scout wrote: > I've read most of them. > > None of them compare to Endgers Game. That's what I am afraid of. I think it's hard to keep that "ah-ha" moment in each book's ending. Ender's Game had a fantastic ending and I think it's very difficult to replica

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > I too liked the Postman. And Costner in it. Wasn't enthralled with > Waterworld. Same - I enjoyed Postman, didn't love Waterworld. -Cameron ... ~| Want to reach the Co

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
the book. >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM, LRS Scout wrote: >> > >> > Haha, I have to be the only person in the world that liked those movies. >> > >> > -Original Message- >> > From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] >> >

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread Jerry Johnson
t; Haha, I have to be the only person in the world that liked those movies. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:51 PM > > To: cf-community > > Subject: Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker f

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
es. > > -Original Message- > From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:51 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS) > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Cameron Childress > wrot

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I've given up on Card's work after reading Folk of the Fringe. A good book but his attitude to non Mormons was more than a bit disturbing. Then when he got into the Prop 8 controversy and made some quite ugly comments, I sold all of my books by him. At least I got my money's worth from the novel v

RE: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread LRS Scout
Haha, I have to be the only person in the world that liked those movies. -Original Message- From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:51 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS) On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM

RE: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-22 Thread LRS Scout
I've read most of them. None of them compare to Endgers Game. -Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS) I have recently started re

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-21 Thread G Money
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > Yes, made by white people, who should be forbidden to make such movies. > > Wellif someone would have stopped Costner after Field of Dreams and DWWwe might have been spared The Postman and Waterworld. -- We're baptized in th

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-21 Thread Dana
I am trying to finish something so I have not read Gel's article However, in passing, I have the following perhaps irrelevant points: 1. I thought Ender's Games was great. I could not get through his other books though, as I recall. 2. I have not seen Avatar. 3. There's a respectable case for o

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-21 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM, G Money wrote: > Avatar sounds like a high tech remake of Dances With Wolves. Yes, made by white people, who should be forbidden to make such movies. -Cameron .. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusi

Re: Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-21 Thread G Money
Avatar sounds like a high tech remake of Dances With Wolves. On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > I have recently started reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's series of > books (http://tinyurl.com/m4hz3u). I started by re-reading "Ender's > Game" over Thanksgiving, and t

Avatar and OSC:Speaker for the Dead (SPOILERS)

2009-12-21 Thread Cameron Childress
I have recently started reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's series of books (http://tinyurl.com/m4hz3u). I started by re-reading "Ender's Game" over Thanksgiving, and then "Speaker for the Dead" shortly after. I find a number of similarities in Speaker for the Dead and Avatar. Spoiler Warning (f