765: Precognitive Moon

The Incomparable Mothership

Moisés Chiullán

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The highest-grossing film of all time is straight-up sci-fi and yet in 15 years at this place we’ve never talked about it. That ends now, as we put on our oxygen masks and venture out into the moon of Pandora to meet the local Na’vi and the interloper Sky People and discuss why James Cameron’s “Avatar” became an enormous hit and then disappeared entirely (other than the theme-park attactions) until re-emerging with a sequel that was also an enormous hit....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 765, May 2025.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.2	This episode is about a little film that was the biggest grossing movie of all time.
0:19.8	And still is, in fact, even when adjusted for inflation,
0:26.0	it's the second highest grossing movie of all time.
0:29.6	It made a lot of money.
0:31.0	It was very popular.
0:32.6	And I haven't watched it since then.
0:35.0	And I think that's true with a lot of people,
0:36.4	but we watched it for you,
0:39.1	this rare cult film known as Avatar, written... Has nothing to do with air bending. No air bending,
0:46.9	written and directed by James Cameron, the story of a moon full of blue people and the humans who want to kill them and steal their rocks.
0:58.0	Here to talk about the highest grossing movie of all time with me are these wonderful panelists.
1:04.8	We have two Brians again. Be alerted. Be alerted. Brian Warren is one of them. Hello. Brian Warren.
1:12.4	Good evening, everybody. Well, I don't know. It could morning could be afternoon but hello how do you tell time if you're on a moon
1:16.4	orbiting a gas giant around alpha centauri too it's hard it's hard to figure that out do you use
1:22.3	moon time or planet time or i don't even know brian hamilton is our other brian brian if you
1:27.0	hadn't guessed that already.
1:28.4	Hello, Brian Hamilton.
1:30.3	Hi, my name is Brian Hamilton.
1:32.4	It is 2025 and I'm doing a podcast with Jason and Erica and Brian.
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