The Magic is Gone...

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

Originally Posted by Vauktu

No. Luckily for her, she has an IMAX near her who will have Avatar playing all the way through June, July, and August.

[Vauktu]

Originally Posted by Dreaming Of Pandora

Tell me about it.

[Human No More]

It hasn't really happened for me...

I haven't watched Avatar for 3 weeks, because of my problems with feeling at the moment, when I tried I just wasn't reacting, so I had to stop
Now I'm getting my feeling back, I'm really looking forward to watching it again...

All I can suggest is to maybe take a short break from seeing it, try to watch it when you aren't that tired, and in a fairly neutral mood to start with, try to recreate your first time... Remember, the magic is still there, just because you aren't directly reacting as much doesn't mean it isn't always a part of you now

[Na'vi_supporter]

I agree what HNM noted. A trace of this magic will remain in us, doesn't matter if watching the movie brings the same strong feelings as for the first time. Just imagine you didn't see avatar...now you see the difference, or not ?

[Migg3006]

^I agree with that, but I would like to feel the first, second and 3th watching again, that was so awesome. I guess the feeling will come back whit the come out of the sequel.

And I think waiting a little bit between each view and don't overexpose to the movie is a good idea.

[caveman]

Well, I can't say I feel the same. I have yet to see it again. But perhaps some advice from someone in another perspective might help...

First, the idea of waiting anxiously to watch it and expect some extreme emotions to re-emerge is not a good approach. Why? Because you're forcing it. You can't expect yourself to get the same emotions each time you watch it. Did you expect these emotions the first time? No, and it just happened.

It is important to remember where many of these emotions come from - seeing that ideal life that you don't have (PAD). But, it looks like many of you are over the PAD (which is good right?). So now you look at Avatar, and your life is totally different from the first viewing. Perhaps you are more environemntally conscious. Or you spend more time outside. Whatever the case is, your life has changed, and Avatar doesn't bring that sharp contrast between real life and fantasy - there is no depression...because there is nothing to be depressed about. Nothing is missing in your life now...

So although you don't feel those overwhelming emotions of depression/longing for Pandora (they are kinda addicting), please remember that "not feeling depressed is good". So, if some of the "magic" is gone, maybe it is more of a good thing than bad...

Also, consider the seasons...it was winter when I saw Avatar. I woke up from an excellent dream of Pandora, and was thrown into the cold darkness of winter. Of course I was sad afterwards, who wouldn't be? I felt this longing for Pandora, just to escape the dirty snow and nasty weather...but then...Summer! I look outside now, and all I see is Pandora. No wonder why PAD and many of the emotions are gone, its beautiful out!

So, I wrap up my advice with this - don't force it. Just let it happen. Enjoy it, don't expect anything special to happen every time. If you do, you'll just get annoyed. Also when you do watch Avatar, watch it in different perspectives. For example, the next time, just sit back and enjoy it, use it to reflect how far you've come. Or maybe watch it as a pure action movie and root for the Na'vi. If there's emotions, there's emotion and if not, well, then there's not. You can control where these emotions take you, you just can't always control when you have them.

On a last note, remember that the real "magic" is here, on this forum. For me, AvatarForums has been just as much as a journey as the movie itself, and it has little to do with Avatar, and more with real, live, people. I just hope you understand that...unfortuantely, these emotions and excitement do fade with time. But one thing I've noticed that remains constant is the people and connections on these forums. And that "magic", will live forever...

Peace,
CVMN

[rasomaso]

we'll talk about that once you reach 22 oh I remember my 8th viewing, those were the times...

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

Im not really afraid that the initial "magic" has gone from Avatar, what I am afraid of is a movie that comes out that I like better than Avatar. I know it's unlikely but I wouldn't know what to feel if that sort of situation were to happen. I'd be very reluctant to bring Avatar down to number 2 but you can't just ignore a love for a movie.

[Na'vi_supporter]

Originally Posted by Dreaming Of Pandora

Im not really afraid that the initial "magic" has gone from Avatar, what I am afraid of is a movie that comes out that I like better than Avatar. I know it's unlikely but I wouldn't know what to feel if that sort of situation were to happen. I'd be very reluctant to bring Avatar down to number 2 but you can't just ignore a love for a movie.

Uh , would be very scary for me too

[Helicoradian]

Originally Posted by Dreaming Of Pandora

Im not really afraid that the initial "magic" has gone from Avatar, what I am afraid of is a movie that comes out that I like better than Avatar. I know it's unlikely but I wouldn't know what to feel if that sort of situation were to happen. I'd be very reluctant to bring Avatar down to number 2 but you can't just ignore a love for a movie.

I've seen many films that affected me in some way, but nothing has done so on the scale that Avatar did. Honestly the only thing that could top the "magic" of Avatar would be the sequel, and even then I have my doubts...

[rasomaso]

dreaming of pandora: you would feel orgasm?

[Fighter-of-Wars]

Much of the magic has been lost for me as well. Of course I wasn't hit has hard with PAD as many here were. I was already surrounded by forest and wildlife that I wasn't affected so much by that as the people and how they behaved to each other and how the Na'vi could do what they could do.

Some of you may have heard how I got in shape after seeing Avatar and started eating healthier like the Na'vi do. The last time I watched Avatar I couldn't finish it, it was only 5th or 6th viewing too. I felt so sad when I finally hit the stop button. I had so much on my mind that I wasn't really focusing on Avatar. I had all these ideas running through my head on a fanfic that I should write which I did start. (see signature)

But much of what Caveman is true, after we change our lives to mirror much of what we saw we were missing in Avatar we don't get the feelings we originally did. I see the Na'vi and how they can run, jump and swing through Hometree and I think that I could do that now if I wanted to. Where before I longed so bad for it.

I wish it would come back though, the feelings I got from the first and second time I watched Avatar because it gave me the deepest and greatest motivation I had ever had to change my life.

[txen]

I really only had the intense experience the first time I watched the film. I went to see it three more times in the theater, but I never again recaptured the intensity. Watching the DVD just isn't the same. It is still good though.

I tend to think of it this way. The magic was not in the film. The magic is contained within you. Watching the film brought out that magic. If you don't feel the magic when viewing the film, you need to find it in other places. For example I just got back from a few days in the Sierra Nevada working on the trails way out in the middle of nowhere. The magic found me there. It always does. I can't wait to go back.

The magic exists around you. You just need to find it again. You have to be open to it. It's there waiting for you.

[Human No More]

Possibly the reason it hasn't gone for me is that my PAD is as strong as ever... It just shows me the life I want, and makes me think about how pointless everything here is...

Maybe that's the key... Think about it, about what is it of Pandora, of the Na'vi, how you want to be there...

[caveman]

I miss the emotions too sometimes, but I still think not having those emotions means more good than bad - there is less missing in my life. I was depressed then, and even though such powerful emotions are addicting, I'm happier now...that's good right?