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#1 User is offline   Johnny V 

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Posted 30 September 2009 - 07:36 PM

AVATAR <------- MOVIE PREVIEW
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Posted 30 September 2009 - 08:01 PM

I'm not too much into the whole sci-fi stuff... but I have a feeling the boyfriend is going to use the paraplegic angle on this one for me to go watch it :)
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Posted 01 October 2009 - 03:40 AM

too bad he is not a true paraplegic...only acting. i guess soon real paraplegic's will be in popular movies though. This is still a must watch for me.
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Posted 01 October 2009 - 04:01 AM

Does anyone know if it's a para who just happens to be a para, or if they're working the para story angle?
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Posted 01 October 2009 - 04:13 AM

View Postchickadee, on Oct 1 2009, 12:01 AM, said:

Does anyone know if it's a para who just happens to be a para, or if they're working the para story angle?


He is not a para, he was one of the stars in terminator: salvation. his name is Sam Worthington. But i guess its kinda cool he acts as a para.
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Posted 21 November 2009 - 09:19 AM

This movie looks awesome! Definitely going to see it. :)
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Posted 21 November 2009 - 01:43 PM

Thios is a must for me regardless of a wheelchair user being in it! Just hope it is a good film as the preview looks tops!

Actually durrrrr I guess it had to be a wheelchair uder! D'oh!

Who made the chair???
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Posted 24 November 2009 - 12:39 AM

This looks like a top movie... my mates want to see it just coz he is a para, and see how they portray the whole, "lets get you walking again". The guy in the wheelchair in the show "Glee" is able-bodied in real life. It would be good if the prop designers did more research before filming able-bodies in wheelchairs. Their wheelchairs for the actors are always the same large hospital type chairs.
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 06:55 AM

View Postbradgrove, on Nov 23 2009, 04:39 PM, said:

This looks like a top movie... my mates want to see it just coz he is a para, and see how they portray the whole, "lets get you walking again". The guy in the wheelchair in the show "Glee" is able-bodied in real life. It would be good if the prop designers did more research before filming able-bodies in wheelchairs. Their wheelchairs for the actors are always the same large hospital type chairs.


I have noticed that in a bunch of stuff, like in LOST, when there was a character who was a paraplegic, he had a clunky hospital type chair. I also just watched the movie Gattaca (excellent movie, incidentally) which has a character who is a para. Despite being set in the future, he also used a cumbersome hospital type chair.

But I've noticed in Glee, the wheelchair that Artie (the para) uses seems much more realistic for a para, and from the trailers I've seen for this, the main guy's chair looks pretty snazzy too.

Honestly, I'm really freaking excited for this movie. Partially because of the fact that the main character's a para, which is often interesting, but mostly because it looks really freaking awesome!
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 08:26 AM

View Postkate42, on Dec 2 2009, 07:55 AM, said:

I have noticed that in a bunch of stuff, like in LOST, when there was a character who was a paraplegic, he had a clunky hospital type chair. I also just watched the movie Gattaca (excellent movie, incidentally) which has a character who is a para. Despite being set in the future, he also used a cumbersome hospital type chair.


Lost was totally ridiculous. The guy in the chair would have probably only had an aisle chair as his proper chair would have either been lost in transit or irrepairably damaged beyond repair by the ground crew. I don't know why in Gattaca they didn't have hover chairs. It was probably just a prop for the "token cripple" guy which they only dust off from the back of the props when a bit of "minority money" is thrown at them by the governmental agencies. The chair is probably worth all but $5 since it has probably been written down via tax depreciation a number of times since purchase from a garage sale in 1963 but possibly earns 50k each time they drag it out in the interests of "equality".

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Posted 02 December 2009 - 04:47 PM

View PostSlowlegs, on Dec 2 2009, 12:26 AM, said:

View Postkate42, on Dec 2 2009, 07:55 AM, said:

I have noticed that in a bunch of stuff, like in LOST, when there was a character who was a paraplegic, he had a clunky hospital type chair. I also just watched the movie Gattaca (excellent movie, incidentally) which has a character who is a para. Despite being set in the future, he also used a cumbersome hospital type chair.


Lost was totally ridiculous. The guy in the chair would have probably only had an aisle chair as his proper chair would have either been lost in transit or irrepairably damaged beyond repair by the ground crew. I don't know why in Gattaca they didn't have hover chairs. It was probably just a prop for the "token cripple" guy which they only dust off from the back of the props when a bit of "minority money" is thrown at them by the governmental agencies. The chair is probably worth all but $5 since it has probably been written down via tax depreciation a number of times since purchase from a garage sale in 1963 but possibly earns 50k each time they drag it out in the interests of "equality".


I can understand why they didn't have hover chairs; it did say it was in the "not-too-distant future" so I don't think we'd necessarily have hover chairs yet. However, it would have been nice to see at least a somewhat high-tech-ish wheelchair. At least one that looks like a good chair from nowadays, if not somewhat futuristic. Just my opinion.
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