are you sure you dont seem them take a bite Seamus? i though they did when Neytiri and Jake enter the place where everyone eat ( after getting his loin cloth otu of his you know what) he step on a queue and im pretty sure we see Eytukan/Mo'at/Tsu'Tey eating?

Yes you see them chewing... but you never see lips and teeth on food, tearing a piece off. There is one person in the background in the scene you just mentioned, who has their hand to their mouth, obviously taking a bite or a sip of soup or something like that, but their mouth is hidden.

I think that if eating were any more prominent in the film, it would cause people to notice this food-hiding-mouth pattern. (Well, I noticed it the second time, when Jake bit the fruit) JC didn't want to take any attention away from the story, so he kept the technical handicap at bay with sparse mealtime footage.

Besides, eating is not a pretty action, even when beautiful people are doing it. To wit:
http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/unca...ies_eating.jpg

that is the second funniest picture i have seen in the past 10 minutes.

I didn't really recognize half the people in that pic. :shy: But you're right, it was probably just too much work on the renderers' part.

I think this is true. Anyway, it's not like needing to eat would make Neytiri less beautiful or something...

why does clooney seem like he's trying to eat that dog snake style?

funny tho.

Eating is for mortals. When someone is that awesome, showing them eating is a waste of their time.

^LOL!!! Our brains would have exploded with more footage of Neytiri :D

lol seamus - thx for the picture of george ;)

I second(or third) the cgi rendering explaination. Tearing and Semi-Malleable taught objects flexing around stationary ones is da** hard to create, let alone the time to render. Just look at some of the Phys-X demos. They are somewhat lifelike, but no where near acceptable.