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spoiler free! Avatar 2 Ilu appreciation post.

not me and my friend screaming in the theater when these guys showed up and one of the first things they did was cuddle 🥺

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Ok but like

Do they actually know the tulkuns are sentient?

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Avatar The Way of Water spoilers without context:

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YOU KNOW WHO THIS MOTHERFUCKER LOOK LIKE LOWKEY??

LOOOOK

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# 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐢'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥

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If you do not intent to watch Avatar 2 here is the one and only thing you need to know: Sigourney Weaver is not only playing the Alien Virgin Mary, she is also Space Jesus

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i’m sorry. the alien domestic bliss got me.

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Neytiri calling Jake hers

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He just wants to fit in, man

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Ravens Play in Snow by Wildlife World

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hi what do you think of [leading question trying to get you to say something i can use against you]?

oh! i think [answer rattled off in about two seconds that doesn't account for every possible counterpoint or life experience every person might have, which will later be interpreted as a statement vaguely referencing some discourse i have never heard of and don't care about]

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A bad miracle

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This from Nope's wiki makes me think about how Jordan Peele could have even been communicating how humans see horrific spectacles and have this twisted need to worship it as well as exploit it.

Like how many religious beliefs come to mind when you think about that (looking at you evangelicals)

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The best part of Nope was OJ's dedication to his horses. There was nothing heroic about him staying at the house or going back after Jean Jacket hovered over the property to intimidate them. He was simply a man who "had mouths to feed" and "work to do." He was a cowboy who loved his horses enough to risk his own life in order to take care of them.

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The way that the alien in Nope's final form looks like an old studio camera. The way the opening credits take place inside its stomach, shown as an endless darkness framed by billowing sheets - the blanket-like hood of an old camera that the photographer hides under. The way Jupe calls the alien The Viewer. The way Jupe makes stuffed animals of what he imagines the aliens inside the "ship" to look like subconsciously reference the camera magazines on the set of Gordy's Home with the body of a monkey. The way that Jupe was only saved because the table cloth kept him from looking Gordy in the eyes. The way that OJ and Em signal "I see you" before the final showdown. The violence of attention. The all-seeing eye. The panopticon. The camera obscura. The dark chamber. The spectacle.

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We are being surveilled by an alien species I call 'The Viewers'

Nope (2022) dir. Jordan Peele