_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

john why did that article make you interested? this seems like the exact opposite of the types of movies you usually like

welcome to pandora!

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I didn't know someone made a stage version of Thundercats!

john why did that article make you interested? this seems like the exact opposite of the types of movies you usually like

Well, I'll admit I was greatly put off by this: "The third act of “Avatar” contains what Jon Landau, the producer, calls “the mother of all movie battles.”" But I think the movie seems like it could be a visual wonderland, especially in 3D. And I like high-concept sci-fi like A.I.

Yeah I loved that article but did not come away feeling like i would want to be in proximity to james cameron under any circumstances.

Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! He’s a fierce-looking sonuvabitch.”

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:10 PM

ahaha fuck lol

"Maybe I’m getting high on my own supply.” He was practically out of breath. “The banshee lives! I am the reason LARPERS sing 'The goddess wears a thong!'"

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“the mother of all movie battles.”"

CGI-driven gigantic battle scenes are usually pretty boring IMHO.

Exactly.

New trailer

And various reactions to same.

Everything about that just makes me think Cameron woke up one morning and decided "You know I liked the technology in the forest bits in The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith, why didn't George make a full movie out of it?"

it's pretty amazing how a guy who was once, like, the toughest mfer when it came to writing and directing action films has turned into such a weirdo furry.

Creatures and "jungle wonders" still look cheezy as hell, and the sawed-off jarhead dialogue sounds worse, but the new trailer does make it look like an entertaining (and perhaps even moving) Aliens/Abyss-style military adventure flick. In, yeah, a weirdo furry kinda way.

CGI-driven gigantic battle scenes are usually pretty boring IMHO

xxp Well it was always there. See the The Abyss.

at least i think i got tired of it after 2003 xp

It would be so, so awesome if everything we've seen/heard about "Avatar" was actually restricted to the first 30 minutes of the movie, and the rest was all, like, talk. Sort of like the opposite of "Aliens."

I say with tongue obviously in cheek, because a) this would never happen and b) Cameron is actually a pretty weak writer, classic line-or two and bits of "The Abyss" aside. "Avatar" just seems like such an obviously, well, obvious allegory - and lo and beyond, the primitive other has lessons to teach us all! - that it would take a really clever, perceptive screenwriter to transform it from spectacle to anything substantive. Giant blue Thunder-Ewoks don't help matters.

That author of that b.s. "New Yorker" profile, by the way, clearly had seen little to no more of the film than any of us plebes have. Either that or he was legally obligated to keep it confidential.

"Should I talk about the bit where they -- "

"Shut up, you."

"Sorry."

Oh, by the way - what fucking bureaucrat would call the planet Pandora? That's just asking for trouble! What were the runner-ups? Pompeii? Krakatoa? Hades?

Titanic, Hindenburg and Lusitania were also under consideration.

Also, Last.fm.

(ba dum bump)

"we're headin' to the planet warsaw ghetto..."

New trailer

― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 30, 2009 1:51 PM

ha yeah thats the one i saw

lol giovanni ribisi

That’s a great trailer. Anyone who H8s on this is dead inside and should move on to another career.
Comment by Movie Fan — October 29, 2009 @ 12:03 pm Reply to this post

Okay, is it me or does this sound like a James Cameron sock-puppet?
Comment by G. Lira — October 29, 2009 @ 2:13 pm Reply to this post

i'm the king of the world woo

The design of this whole thing, right down to the title font is just atrocious. It's like his aesthetics just woke up from cryosleep.

district 9 meets ferngully

I read that thing in the New Yorker last week. His hyper-detailed approach to everything (getting special cameras made, special underwater techniques on The Abyss, etc. etc.) EXCEPT the actual writing is quite astonishing. "We can hire an entire division of an aeronautics company to make us a special camera plane but we can't hire ONE. SINGLE. FUCKING. ACTUAL. WRITER. Nor do we think writers actually do their jobs very well or we would have hired one."

Cunt.

uhh, that's because he writes.

Would you prefer he hire dozens of script doctors like they did for the first Charlie's Angels movie?

ANd what's with that Woody Allen not passing along work to some screenwriters anyway?

James Cameron's Interiors

That author of that b.s. "New Yorker" profile, by the way, clearly had seen little to no more of the film than any of us plebes have. Either that or he was legally obligated to keep it confidential.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 30, 2009 2:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what's your point?

it's a great fuckin' profile!!

this looks sorta awesome u_u

I think a lot of folks are failing to view this trailer/film thru the eyes of a naive 11-year-old sci-fi geek. Seems like that's who it's aimed squarely at, and on that level, carping about the font seems ridiculous. "The Little Mermaid was charming, but that font!"

but this doesn't look charming at all

Aye, this just looks gash.

is this a sudan allegory btw

nah brazil

the movie or

or?

so this has nothing to do with airbending right

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I wasn't carping about the font inasmuch as it seems to punctuate the awful look of this movie's design and overall aesthetics--as far as looking at it from the POV of an 11 year old... I was 11 when Terminator came out--that shit looked scary and cool.

could see this being a movie where a surprisingly wide range of non nerds are all that was cool

all that was cool in an effed up world.

... in 3D!!!