Obdurium???

[Celebrim]

Obdurium (or Endurium as it is sometimes called) is a substance which can appear to be almost anything - metal, stone, or even wood - but which is harder and stronger than any other substance because it is embued with the power of plot.

See also: Techniques for railroading.

 

[kitsune9]

Oddly enough, the post was made in 2007 and most people only know the term unobtanium from Avatar, which came out in '09.

Looks like someone took a certain flux capicitator or police box to make the joke.

 

[D'karr]

I thought it was related to hardonium, but I was mistaken.

BTW, the movie The Core (2003) had unobtanium before Avatar, so it's a possibility that they needed to mine Pandora to continue to reach the core of the planet for a tourist attraction. It's the type of thing that one of Cameron's Evil Corporations would definitely do.

 

[Nytmare]

BTW, the movie The Core (2003) had unobtanium before Avatar...

Wait, there are people who actually watched The Core?

 

[Mark CMG]

Wait, there are people who actually watched The Core?

The writer of The Core is an EN Worlder -

John Rogers - IMDb

EN World: Your Daily RPG Magazine - View Profile: jonrog1

- though he's been very busy the past few years and hasn't even been around since last October.

 

[D'karr]

Wait, there are people who actually watched The Core?

I listened to it.

 

[Nytmare]

I'm hoping that wasn't an attempt to spin a comment about a schlock action movie that made back about 2/3rds of its 60 million dollar budget into some kind of personal attack against one of the writers.

There's no need to rally to his defense.

 

[Squire James]

No need to feel too bad about it... there are a LOT more movies with profitability like The Core than there are movies with the profitability of, say, The Titanic. There are plenty of good products that just didn't make a profit (Planescape Torment, anyone?).

 

[Pheonix0114]

I feel ashamed that I liked The Core now, though to be honest I was 13 at the time.

 

[El Mahdi]

To be honest, I'd be less ashamed to publicly acknowledge I liked The Core, than to pubicly acknowledge I liked Titanic...

"My heart shame will go on..."