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On Friday there's gonna be screenings of some stuff from Avatar in select theaters. Its 15 mins in 3d and its free, pretty nice way to kill some time. RSVP here:
http://www.avatarmovie.com/ticketing/
http://www.avatarmovie.com/ticketing/
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That's because they didn't offer enough theaters
Anyways, I believe the hype now, it looks amazing. The Na’vi have a serene, but somewhat disturbing look to them. On my list of movies to see Day One that's for sure.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=6056964#post6056964
So I'm calling it right now, movie ends with the main character becoming his avatar.
It reminds of the hype around the Final Fantasy movie that came out a while back.
Unless while you're watching it a hand comes out of the screen and jerks you off, it's just a movie.
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I am not aware of a single person who gives a shit about it being 3D.
omfg
It seems to have a very similar setting with a jungle-planet full of furries, and teched-up space humans being the bad guys.
Looks really awesome all around, I just hope it doesn't turn out to be a meat-handed "humans bad, idyllic blue space elves good" kinda thing...
Bit more complicated:
- the original natives are blue aliens;
- some humans get hybrid bodies cloned that they can remote control, but still remain human.
The story I've read does make some interesting uses of the concepts, by the way.
absolutely has nothing to do with it.
agreed that heli shot flying past the floating islands was super cool, as well as the dragon biting the guy outta the chopper. Im interested to see it for sure, just dont like the over abundance of zany creatures and seemingly everything being CG.
Monkey-elf people were nice too, but some shots left uncanny valley sort of feeling
The hangar scene, everything blends together, the same muted colours everwhere.
Prob alot better in 3d.
I'll find you
I know... as if it wasn't confusing enough, both movies are coming out around the same time (I believe), so it's going to be hard to discuss these when they hit.
Edit: Scratch that. I guess they'll be about 6 months apart
Nevertheless the visuals felt overly saturated and pretty cartoony (Final Fantasy Spirits within, Phantom Menace), nothing looked real which is what James Cameron is known for. In fact had you told me that it was being done by Tim Burton I would have believed you. That aside I feel that this film will kick ass as I have all the confidence in James Cameron's abilities as a master story teller.
Oh by the way the music for this trailer really hurt it as well. It's a cool track on it's own ( "off of the 28 Weeks later soundtrack") but felt out of place.
You're right, this looked like a mashup of Delgo, Final Fantasy, Jurrasic park, and Episode 1.
bent.
It's an alien planet with lower gravity and completely different atmosphere. How else should it be if not all CG?
From what I've heard, once you see a complete scene with them acting you'll understand why...
I really hope they go through the effort to explain, otherwise this has to be more fantasy than scifi.
Visually it looks pretty impressive, and I'm excited for the artistic spectacle, but I don't know how much of a film this will actually turnout to be.
What bugs me are the blue aliens, i mean they look aesthetically very nice but on the other side they could be also some crazy experiment that involves placstic surgery and merging a human with a cute cat any maybe some michael jackson and then on the end simply makeing that whole result blue. And that makes them kinda scary to me!
Creatures are cool and the environments are looking great, though they dont really look like from another world. But Im kinda grateful of this film because we need more innovative scifi films even when they are not so very innovative.
Don't forget Transformers 2 and GI JOE!!!!!
Can I take this statement as being sarcastic?
And why the hell did the trailer say, "From the director of Titanic" and not "From the director of Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 1 and 2"?? As if any sci-fi fan would give a shit about Titanic. Also, seeing the marines got me excited but only because it reminded me how badly I want a decent Aliens sequel.
I started ranting a bit there. Phew... Have a beer.
looks hawt for blue skinned cat people