Comments on: James Cameron Under Fire for ‘Avatar’, Accused of Ripping Off ‘Call Me Joe’

By: visser3

visser3 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:01:18 +0000

I’m stuck on Jupiter!

By: Muzyk

Muzyk — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:20:35 +0000

There was a short story “Scapegoat” by C.J. Cherryh, with simmilar themes as the Avatar. I read Call me Joe before I saw the avatar, and to be honest, the movie wouldn’t make much money if it would stay strict with the novel, as the novel was an example of Hard SF, when the movie was more Adventure SF, may be the Avatar 2 will reveal it as a Space Opera?

By: Amera

Amera — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:27:38 +0000

Man, where is the ‘like’ button on this thing?

By: Amera

Amera — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:26:45 +0000

Avatar is a very moving movie, I loved it and am also learning their langauge. Similar minds think alike, this is the reason they are similar, jackass. Get the fudge over it.

By: Amera

Amera — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:24:31 +0000

… So James got the idea from that book, who cares? He liked the idea and made it better. A lot better. If this Poul guy wanted to make his book into a movie, he should speak up about it, not let the stupid bloody media blow everything out of the water. Just a note to the media, too.. Screw you. Tell the /truth/, not some random shitty ass rumours and blowing everything up saying we’re all going to die from some tidal wave when a storm hits.

I always got told that if you like someones idea and use it, it’s fine because it means that they like your idea and it was a good one. If Poul thinks it’s an insult he can get over it and make something better, if he really wants to.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:28:37 +0000

I don’t think he was ripping off anyone even if he did take some ideas from a book he still made a Fantastic movie and it reminded me of my favorite books “The Wheel of Time” series by Robert Jordan I am on the seventh book and I was on the fourth when I saw Avatar and I loved it. It’s my new favorite movie.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:25:09 +0000

I agree with you. I was reading the shadow rising at the same time I watched Avatar and I was so amazed at the similarities
I can’t help but wonder if he read the books which he probably did. I’m glad someone else thinks the same way I do.

By: James May

James May — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:06:16 +0000

Dear friends, on the question of possible source material for Avatar it is hard to overlook Christopher Rowley’s Fenrille series. The books, particularly The War For Eternity and The Black Ship, are set on a planet with an indigenous people like Avatar’s that must live in harmony with a hostile forest eco-system. Armed and militarized mercenary units come to this planet to obtain a fabulously expensive life-extension drug obtainable only on Fenrille; the mercenary transport and weapons are much like Avatar. There is also a world forest that is interconnected planet wide – a brain as it were, like Avatar’s and like Avatar’s, also capable of defending itself. Some of the trees are truly gigantic like the one in Avatar. I think it highly unlikely that this is not source material for Avatar; it’s too much. The indigenous people are also very similar to Avatar’s, native American types, and similarly hostile to outsiders other than their human allies who live out in the hills and forest with them but on heavily defended enclaves to protect themselves against the mercs. The human allies who share the ecosystem are, of course, unlike Avatar but much of the rest is virtually a mirror image.

By: DJC

DJC — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:26:37 +0000

Hey it’s an Andalite!

By: Point

Point — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:08:07 +0000

or shall we say that the Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford stole the idea of “the smurfs” from Poul Anderson ?
small blue creatures called Smurfs, Smurfette who was evil at first until Papa Smurf make her a real smurf !