Comments on: Avtar’s Black Spot; Cigarette Smoking Grace Augustine

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:25:47 +0000

I noticed it right away because it was so bizarre. The movie is set way in the future on another planet, this chick is working in a LAB and she lights up a smoke?

Obvious product placement. That pathetic kind of obvious.

The fact that she makes such a big deal out of it was weird, too. Just grab a smoke and leave it at that, but no, it’s like the main point of the scene.

The only thing that would’ve been more out of place and distracting would be a Jonas Brothers T-shirt.

They didn’t get paid for it? I call BS.

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[...] Avatar’s Black Spot; Cigarette Smoking Grace Augustine Smoking in Avatar Ruffles Feathers and Highlights Hypocrisy So, what do you think? Should the ratings on movies be raised if there is smoking or significant amounts of smoking in a film? Our big tobacco companies paying off directors to get smoking in films? [...]

By: altyazi

altyazi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:09:57 +0000

Not to break anyone’s heart, but not only am I a regular reader here and somewhat progressive, but… gads…I also smoke! And it just so happens that I know an environmental scientist that smokes.

Can you imagine? Shocking!

Personally, although I am not a big fan of smoking in general (and wish I didn’t), I agree with Ms. Weaver wholeheartedly, not to mention that just because the act of smoking is not a “progressive thing to do” it does not necessarily meant that it is a “conspiracy” or that someone was “paid off”.

By: jathome

jathome — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:54:52 +0000

It’s a character in a film smoking…so what. It doesn’t make her evil, it exposes her as fallible she has a weakness.

And Weaver effecting young girls smoking habits? Really? Weaver is as old as my mother and I have a daughter in middle school. Do you recall grandma being cool and hip when you were a youngster?

By: Maarthy.cz

Maarthy.cz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:55 +0000

I don’t smoke either, but this kind of whining makes me wanna go and light up one “coffin nail” right away. I wonder that people don’t protest against movies from 30s era viewed on TVs as well as they complain about Avatar. People back then were smoking ALL THE TIME! I don’t wanna know what’s gonna come up next.

What bothers me the most is that people really pay attention to this crap, but there’s no doubt that smoking is a lethal habit. BUT… thanks to the “black lung” thingy I begin to think that these rolled “anti-stress sticks” are not that bad at all, ’cause we might return back to debate of Films affecting Human Behaviour :-)

(btw, I’ve spend 15 years playing violent videogames, watching violent films (go Arnie!), I like listening to black and death metal, I also love Natalia Imbruglia and I drink alcohol. So, why the hell am I not a dull, violent, blood-thirsty, virgin raping satanist who tends TO SMOKE?!?!)

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:05:33 +0000

I was not planning on watching Avatar, but now that it is getting critsism from anti-smoking groups, I will buy a ticket on my next day off.

I don’t smoke for a variety of reasons, but that dosen’t mean that I believe nobody should. People smoke today, they will tomorrow, they will for a long while, and people saying that smoking is the worse thing you can see in a movie (and there are pelnty of things worse than smoking out there) won’t change that. Who are you to tell me what I should be offended at?

Every time I see a story like this it makes me want to watch/buy/use the product protested, just to piss off those who think they know how to live my life better than I do.

By: lipreader

lipreader — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:12:00 +0000

Nas-tay…nobody wants to look at someone smoking or pooping their pants, OK?

By: Paul Revere II

Paul Revere II — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:36:03 +0000

None of you get it- They put it in there because the point of the film is that people are bad… Right

SOOOOOOOO… the people behind it feel this way- That’s why it’s the story they picked- Right – when he said we killed our mother “the earth”

SOOOOOOOOOOOO…. They put in Ciggarets cause they want you to die.. NOT THAT HARD

By: thekk

thekk — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:57:05 +0000

I didn’t think the smoking added anything to the film. In fact, it struck me as out of place. Grace could just as easily have been sucking down shot after shot of espresso. She’s a classic type A with her staff, and most of us who interact with those types of bosses don’t take their cues from their smoking habits.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:30:41 +0000

I am totally against smoking, have never smoked and never will. But just because a character in the movie smokes doesn’t mean it is promoting it. I do think grace would think more of her Avatar body and some people, even doctors and scientists do smoke. I agree that role model characters should not smoke in movies but she was hardly that, in fact I think that is part of the reason why she seems like such an arrogant jerk in the beginning of the movie.