Ep. 690 - The Avatar (2009) Episode

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

It's an all Avatar all the time episode! To celebrate the recent Avatar IMAX re-release, David, Devindra, and Jeff dive into Avatar's cultural significance (or lack thereof), the recent IMAX release, its problematic themes, and its success as a piece of sci-fi action entertainment.

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Intro - Avatar's cultural relevance, overall quality, and themes
Featured Review (~1:07:40)
Avatar

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies. I'm David Chen and James
0:24.8	Cameron made the highest grossing film of all time, but there's no way he could do it again, right?
0:30.2	Joining me today is David your hard work. As I always like to say, I'm a warrior of the pot head clan,
0:35.4	you know, and I cut a line from the movie Avatar, everybody. Yeah. And Jeff Kanata.
0:45.2	I just want to go back to 2009. Can we please?
0:48.8	Yeah, everything was simpler than yeah, those are of course all vague and oblique references to the
0:54.8	fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be discussing the James Cameron film Avatar.
0:58.8	We got a special treat for you folks today. All right, it's going to be all Avatar all the time
1:04.5	on this. Yeah, nobody has been asking for right? It's different from our regular show. How
1:09.6	David exactly? Not at all. Not at all. Well, I feel like this is a what do you call this in a
1:15.7	wrestling match, right? The final showdown. This is the final match. We will not be discussing
1:21.6	the aspects of cultural relevancy in Avatar anymore after this. That is that is that is the operating
1:27.2	fear in person that leaves the ring. Yeah. So yeah, retirement match basically, basically folks,
1:35.1	for those who don't understand what exactly I'm getting at, it's that today's episode of the
1:38.4	podcast is all going to be focused on Avatar, the 2009 film that was recently re-released
1:44.4	and is out in theaters right now. I saw it in laser iMacs 3D. It's going to be curious to hear
1:50.4	how you guys saw it. We're going to be discussing everything about the movie. We're going to be
1:53.6	discussing the conversation around the movie, the cultural relevance around the movie, the themes
1:58.0	of the movie, and then we're going to be diving into the movie sort of sequenced by sequence,
2:03.1	act by act, and talking about this movie in detail. So that is the whole episode. Yeah.
2:09.4	And hopefully by the end of this, you don't feel that this premise has been drawn out way beyond.
2:13.4	It's what it can handle. It is, it is, you know, sometimes unfortunately, listeners,
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