A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site “Naviblue” that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
Video: Depressed after ‘Avatar’?“Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar’ I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na’vi made me want to be one of them. I can’t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it,” Mike posted. “I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in ‘Avatar.’ ”
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
This movie was shown in three formats. IMAX 3D, regular 3D and 2D. I wonder if one of the formats had a more profound impact than the others. None of my family or friends who went to see it on the IMAX had any such nuttiness as is expressed in this weird article.
Found by Jason Baker.
In a related story at The Onion:
News agencies with nothing to write about again attach themselves to pop culture phenomena in an attempt to raise their failing stock and questionable relevance.
Just kidding, The Onion hasn’t written this… yet.
Avatar…Do you meand “Dances with Smurfs?
Now where’s that bullshit-meter graphic when you need it?
ELMO makes me depressed!
Perhaps these people should get out of their parents basement and go explore the beautiful world that we do live in
#22. “Avatar…Do you mean “Dances with Smurfs?’
HA! Now that’s funny. I also thought the story was a rip off of Dances with Wolfies.
Whether or not this suicidal story is true, people who are going to kill themselves over a movie or over a band or over anything similar, are already mentally unstable and need professional help. Just reading the story struck me as someone who is deeply troubled and also incredibly immature. Anyone who even entertains the thought that if they off themselves, they’ll come back as a blue dude in another fantasy world… needs help.
I saw it. I liked it. I didn’t want to kill myself but I did wish a huge-ass meteor would pierce the Earth. I always wish for that though so its not a consequence of Avatar.
If anyone took their entire family to the IMAX viewing and looked at the total cost…THAT could lead to suicide.
So if living in this Avatar (Dances with Wolves) utopia is so great, then why has NO “advanced civilization” walked away from it all and gone back to the jungle??
Why is it when every “primitive” culture, when shown t-shirts and toaster strudel, couldn’t wait to get out of the jungle??
Anybody lame enough consider suicide over a comic book style story, they don’t need help, they need natural selection.
This movie was OK, but suffers from the same defect most films from Hollywood do these days, weak story. You get the impression they wrote the movie keeping in mind they wanted to produce a video game and threw in the typical 3D gimmicks to boot.
There are plenty of good authors out there. I’d like to see a decent adaptation of Willam Gibson. Yeah I know, Johnny Mnemonic, it sucked, but that was because they totally ignored the book when they wrote the screen play. Mona Lisa Overdrive or Virtual Light, if done right could rival with the Matrix easy.
#30 Ah-yea….When you locate an “advanced civilization” please let me know. I’d like to join.
#29 No kidding! Family of 4, $62 + $10 parking. Ouch! It was cool to see in IMax 3D though…
This sounds like a good way to thin the herd.
I’ve offered my services with a legal contract like Kevorkian but I’m sure he won’t take it like many of you. Offer still stands on CO2 and stuff if you need “proof.”
“Movies” are a business enterprise. Made to make money. Money is made by appealing to people who will go to the same movie 15-20 times and consider suicide as a logical reaction: AKA your average teenager.
If you want your cultural products to appeal to your intellect or to move an adult mind: go READ A BOOK!!!!
aka: The medium is the message.
How does someone hate Forrest Gump? Jeez.
#36 Bobbo
Aw, c’mon… Hollywood used to have some pretty good products! There’s no reason they can’t make comic book films, and stuff for people with other tastes too. Back in the good old days they used to produce the low budget B movies for teenagers, now for some reason the stories for teenagers are similar, but the budgets have gotten huge.
What horse shit. After seeing Star Wars I wanted to be a Jedi, didn’t make me depressed cuz i couldn’t be one. After seeing Ghostbusters, I wanted to be a ghostbuster, bustin’ ghosts, but it didn’t make me depressed, let alone suicidal. Those were fun little fantasies I had as an adolescent.. At least I had video games to play out those fantasies (and still do!)
But this movie is so “special” people can’t “get over” the drama and emotions induced from this over-hyped movie? For fucks sake what is wrong with people?
It’s not because this movie is special and amazing. Maybe it’s because when I grew up as a kid MY parents were forcing me to take prozac, ridlin, or those other mood altering drug that doesn’t LET a child mature mentally.
oops.. Correction: I meant to say my parent’s WERE NOT making me take drugs.