what about this coke zero ad where GIROGIO FUCKING MORODER is watching from the wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APQ2OxgCNzE
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
very interesting piece about an earlier version of the movie's story:
http://chud.com/articles/articles/21969/1/PROJECT-880-THE-AVATAR-THAT-ALMOST-WAS/Page1.html
― ea™e (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah I feel Cameron played it safe w much if not all of the final movie, probably because you only get one shot at animating those scenes... you can't really shoot and reshoot scenes in the normal sense
― =皿= (dyao), Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
plot q: was it the upsidaisium that kept the mountains floating?
― abanana, Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw it at Leicester Square in 3d last night.
I'm not sure it's a good film, but the overall experience was very pleasant - something like a weekend abroad, with new sights to stimulate and refresh the visual cortex.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
>probably because you only get one shot at animating those scenes...
I don't know about that - unless Cameron works with CGI very differently than other (big budget action film) directors then he's got almost infinite control over the shots before they go through the final rendering process.
(I didn't read the whole of l'bloomer's link so may be missing the point here, though)
― Bill A, Sunday, 27 December 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I was reading that with the camera/tech/whatever he's got, he could film the actors in the empty space and through the viewfinder see an xbox-quality rendering of the fx of whatever he was pointing at.
boy that wasn't explained well at all.
― moron oil (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 December 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
no, no. made perfect sense and it's true.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 27 December 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i have purchased my ticket for an 11 pm 3d/imax avatarification. big blue people better bring it.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 December 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
some of the stuff in that article def does seem like it would have made for a better movie. but a lot of it, you can tell why it was changed.
― reagan & sarah (s1ocki), Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
avatar 2: tsu'tey tang
― cozwn, Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
estimated 2nd weekend gross: $75M, down from $77M. usually blockbusters will almost halve their box office in the second week. in comparison titanic made more on its second week than its first (largely because it opened on the same day as a bond movie).
it will definitely make its money back.
― abanana, Sunday, 27 December 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i now cannot escape papyrus.
― straightola, Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
do you think cameron will point at the audience and say "i see you" during his acceptance speech?
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
followed swiftly by him raising his oscar and ululating
― hear shart attack (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
well, that wasn't bad ... but it did ultimately make me feel guilty for spending $13.50 on an imax movie instead of, like, trekking in patagonia or the amazon or something. or hell, even being outside.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 28 December 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i was really feeling the ecomessages maaaaaaan
dud my imax ticket cost $17.50
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
chew on that 4 a min
Is it only when people are at death's door that the Na'vi all have to sit around the tree and spin and hold each others' shoulders and chant? If you had to do that every time someone got, say, a major injury, that would be a real pain in the ass.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Monday, 28 December 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ this qn should be part of the health care debate
― reagan & sarah (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
this was a good time and the story/dialogue is really not worse than hollywood norms. tons of movies have plots at least as ridiculous, and almost none of them ever make me feel like i'm dodging missiles on dragonback. and all the gaia worship stuff is hokey as hell but hokey gaia worship isn't really like a moral flaw imo. plus i liked how the whole planet seemed designed to be seen under a black light. i think cameron is kind of a suburban-basement stoner at heart.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 December 2009 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i kinda liked the hippy-dippy roger dean look of a lot of it.
― hear shart attack (latebloomer), Monday, 28 December 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The whole biolumescent look of Pandoran was inspired by the coral sea beds he witnessed during all the scuba dives he took between Titanic and this, wasn't it?
― DavidM, Monday, 28 December 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Toys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JWk_JIE3Ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAaOxjTKMI
http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/35110.jpg
― DavidM, Monday, 28 December 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.collider.com/2009/12/27/weekend-box-office-avatar-edges-out-sherlock-holmes-on-the-biggest-christmas-weekend-ever/
― DavidM, Monday, 28 December 2009 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
those videos are confusing
― =皿= (dyao), Monday, 28 December 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knH_rf0UxMU
― shartin jort (am0n), Monday, 28 December 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
promising young vlogger
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
*bookmarks youtube channel*
― my girl wants to sharty all the time (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
*buys james cameron directed happy meal*
― shartin jort (am0n), Monday, 28 December 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
*records vlog response based on own impressions of happy meal*
― my girl wants to sharty all the time (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i45.tinypic.com/wlb1ud.jpg
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
*creates happy meal action figure of vlogger that lights up when u vlog*
― shartin jort (am0n), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
*acquires rights to amon's prototype*
― my girl wants to sharty all the time (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
dude sounds like a remix
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Did it freak anyone else out how much Na'vi Sigourney Weaver looked like human Sigourney Weaver? The others it was like 'oh yeah I can see how that's an avatar of him' and Sigourney's was like 'oh my fucking god Sigourney what did they do to your face did we learn nothing from ANTZ.'
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i lold repeatedly @ blue sigourney
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
like big hearty barrel laughs whenever she was on screen?
― my girl wants to sharty all the time (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
giggling more like - particularly @ her scrunched up smiley face when jake graduated to alien manhood
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
is barrel laugh a thing or did i mean belly laugh
― my girl wants to sharty all the time (s1ocki), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
it freaked me out more that Sam W looked like Ben Affleck at times
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
xp a belly of laughs
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
the whole experience was a belly full of monkeys imo
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
also lold @ her cutoffs n stanford croptop look
― ice cr?m, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
blueski the Ben Affleck thing freaked me out too, when his hair was not buzzed & he had a few days of beard on him.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
do a barrel lol
― abanana, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thsc60UTUIE&feature=player_embedded
― hear shart attack (latebloomer), Monday, 28 December 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm gonna chime in to say that i totally agree with deej upthread. no props to jake sully for talking the na'vi into a suicide mission.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 28 December 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
tried to see this today at 1PM...shit was sold out!!
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 28 December 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link