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Pandora depression: AVATAR audiences experiencing post-most doledrums



It's true: The geeks are sad.

CNN reporting in depth about AVATAR audiences leaving theaters, and going to message boards to talk about how blue they are .. The fact is: They want to stay on Pandora.. in the 3D world where all is blue and wonderful..

James Cameron's flick is now in the billion dollar club, and it's reigned for four weeks at the box office, with no signs anything will severely derail its train.

CNN also reporting about fans becoming super-obsessed with AVATAR, with one user on an AVATAR related movie forum writing that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie!

"Ivar Hill posts to the "Avatar" forum page under the name Eltu. He wrote about his post-"Avatar" depression after he first saw the film earlier this month.
"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world.""

CNN concludes,
"Within the fan community, suggestions for battling feelings of depression after seeing the movie include things like playing "Avatar" video games or downloading the movie soundtrack, in addition to encouraging members to relate to other people outside the virtual realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities"

Using the soundtrack and game to feel better is like telling a drunk to just sip the bottle instead of downing it..

What it appears, more than anything else, is that this film has affected lives like no other movie, in some weird new way. Movies have had a long history of moving audiences, such as the fear during TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE or tears of happiness during WIZARD OF OZ.. But are we different now? So much so that we yearn to live in a 'virtual' world where nothing is real except the false reality we create? We sit for hours playing Farmville on Facebook but rarely go out anymore.. Rarely leave the house for social interaction.. We escape online in false Pandoras.. But Pandora doesn't exist. Neither do avatars. We do. Why not just live on earth since we're here..?

BRYAN SMOLOCK HORROR REPORT SATURDAY 8:47 AM 1/16/2010

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