Easter egg: On Disc 3 of the Blu-Ray "Extended Collector's Edition", highlight the "Live Extras" and press the down button. This will display a "Theatrical Trailer 3D" and "Pandora Discovered 3D" option. Viewing these requires a 3D-enabled Blu-Ray and TV.
Avatar (2009)
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Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Joel Moore
Continuity mistake: When Jake first gets into the "syncing" device and he says, "This is cool," Grace's hands are already on his leg. In the next shot she reaches for his legs, where he replies, "Don't, I got this."
Trivia: During the final battle, Lyle Wainfleet's AMP Suit gets knocked down and crushed by a charging Hammerhead Titanothere. Wainfleet utters a Wilhelm scream just before he's crushed. (02:21:05)
Question: There is a scene where Parker is telling Grace that the piece of ore he is holding, called "unobtainium", is why they are on Pandora. This same ore was used in the 2003 movie, "The Core", to build the manned drilling machine to bore through Earth, to the core. Was the use of the same ore name in Avatar, done with permission from the earlier movie? Or was it a mistake?
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Chosen answer: The Core didn't originate the name - it's been used since the 50's and even has its own Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium. There it's described as "any fictional, extremely rare, costly, or impossible material, or (less commonly) device needed to fulfill a given design for a given application."
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