Helllooooo stewardess!

There is one — and only one — movie that has ever been released that I thought did 3D well. That was Avatar. The only reason it worked well was that it was almost all CG, and they created ground-breaking new techniques to virtually “film” it.

I have never seen a movie that was filmed in 2D, where they “added” 3D to the movie later, and where the result was anything better than … pudu.

Have you seen Hugo in 3D? That was the best 3D I've seen.

I agree that any 2D movie with 3D added isn't worth my time. I'll just see it in 2D because the 3D isn't that great or worth the extra money.

3D works best when you don't actually see it but feel it. 3D that stands out is almost a distraction. Avatar worked so well because after the first ten minutes or so you stopped noticing the 3D it just became natural.

Also just as a side note Avatar would have been a better film if they had added one line of dialogue. If the corporate ******-bag just said something to the effect that this Unobtainium stuff not only powered the world but kept billions from starving. By doing just this little thing you al of a sudden give this 2 dimensional character some depth and the issue of mining this stuff into something more of a moral quandary. More thought provoking.

Also just as a side note Avatar would have been a better film if they had added one line of dialogue. If the corporate ******-bag just said something to the effect that this Unobtainium stuff not only powered the world but kept billions from starving. By doing just this little thing you al of a sudden give this 2 dimensional character some depth and the issue of mining this stuff into something more of a moral quandary. More thought provoking.

I can't wait for Avatar 2, wherein the plot consists of a secondary team from Earth following up what happened to the first team and then bombarding the natives and their Tree of Life back to the stone age from orbit. All the harmony with nature will do you zero good when a technologically superior force wants your resources and gets all Base Delta Zero on your ass to claim it.

I heard rumours that Avatar two would be on another planet.

But yeah I agree with you. I was afraid Avatar would end like this .

I can't wait for Avatar 2, wherein the plot consists of a secondary team from Earth following up what happened to the first team and then bombarding the natives and their Tree of Life back to the stone age from orbit. All the harmony with nature will do you zero good when a technologically superior force wants your resources and gets all Base Delta Zero on your ass to claim it.

Not if Quiddich (or whatever he was called) was in charge. He could command a force of hundreds of star destroyers against a lone, blind, lame ewok, and still manage to humiliatingly lose. The most incompetent clown in movie history. Plus, he got killed by a girl.

Also just as a side note Avatar would have been a better film if they had added one line of dialogue. If the corporate ******-bag just said something to the effect that this Unobtainium stuff not only powered the world but kept billions from starving. By doing just this little thing you al of a sudden give this 2 dimensional character some depth and the issue of mining this stuff into something more of a moral quandary. More thought provoking.

To be honest Greg, I don't feel Avatar - any more than Star Wars - was going for moral quandaries. There were good guys to root for and bad guys to boo, and the good guys won.

Something that occurred to me the other day is that in order for Luke & Lea to have inherited a strength in the force from their father, (something that has been established as true) the strength would have needed to have been in Anakins genetic code not because of the number of midiclorians in his blood. Super basic biology here but when Little Anie knocked up Padme all he put inside her was his genes. Nothing else. The little swimmers that made their way to the two eggs inside padme contained nothing more than half of a genetic code.

Midiclorians would need to have found their way into Luke after he had been born.

Therefore the potential to be a strong force user has nothing to do with the presence of midiclorians. They might facilitate it, or feed of it, or whatever, but they are not the source of the potential.

The alternative, midiclorians also being injected into padme with the swimmers, but then not affecting her seems ludicrous.

Unless Mom was strong in the Force too? She just never tapped her potential?

Maybe midi-chlorians bond with you semen.

Eeeeeew

There are now two threads on these boards that have gone in similarly weird and unexpected directions.

Lucas has a lot to answer for.

Something that occurred to me the other day is that in order for Luke & Lea to have inherited a strength in the force from their father, (something that has been established as true) the strength would have needed to have been in Anakins genetic code not because of the number of midiclorians in his blood. Super basic biology here but when Little Anie knocked up Padme all he put inside her was his genes. Nothing else. The little swimmers that made their way to the two eggs inside padme contained nothing more than half of a genetic code.

Midiclorians would need to have found their way into Luke after he had been born.

Therefore the potential to be a strong force user has nothing to do with the presence of midiclorians. They might facilitate it, or feed of it, or whatever, but they are not the source of the potential.

The alternative, midiclorians also being injected into padme with the swimmers, but then not affecting her seems ludicrous.

That is a very well reasoned post and a theory new to me. To be fair, we don't know how long it would take for the midichlorians to reach levels where they would have a noticeable effect so you can't rule out that they had accompanied the swimmers. We only see Force usage (that I recall) from children of several years age. About nine upwards is the earliest I recall. If it takes nine years for the Midichlorians to achieve a level of significance then Padme could have been affected - she just didn't live long enough for them to take root, as it were.

To test this, one would need to survey people who had sexual relations with Jedi around a decade earlier and see if a disproportionate number of them had become Force-sensitive. So basically just getting someone to follow Quinlan Voss's historical footsteps and asking around should do it.

The whole reason midichlorians were introduced was to back away from the religious aspect of the Force. It's to make the story as neutral as possible for everyone in the world. This is why people do not like it. It was a retcon of something that didn't need to be retconned. Just like Vader being the best pilot in the galaxy and han ambushing an alien under the table in some bar were changed.

I just rewrote the scene with Anakin in my head canon to the unit of measurement the Force detecting device they used being explained away to an 8 year old in a way he could understand. We all know Anakin's player used Int for his dump stat.