_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Earth Girls Are Easy...? Anyone...?

Wait is this about Avatar or The Fountain, and which one will history smile on more?

That said, it's still better than Emnacht fucking up the only TV show I can think of that I actually like. (Not that I ever watch it or anything, but the point still stands.)

I look forward to a highlander stylee battle between Cameron and Shymalan.

I would pay money.

Avatar... the Nickelodeon show has been on since Feb 05. Dibs.

We can do better than that.

I had forgotten I'd started this thread. Which article of ultrahype/'will change movies forever!' has amused you most?

http://origin.aintitcool.com/images2009/avatarship.jpg
http://origin.aintitcool.com/images2009/avatarwaterfall.jpg

This movie will change the way I view 3-D James Cameron movies entitled Avatar, that I'm sure of.

i'm off the Sam Worthington train if this is terrible

Comic-Con bits:

The audience, many of whom camped alongside the “Twilight” fans for the privilege, were treated to a sequence of scenes condensing the tale: Jake Sully is a paralyzed Marine who volunteers to become an Avatar -- a genetically engineered human/Na’vi hybrid. He suffers several brushes with some dinosaur-types, a violent flirtation with a Na’vi princess, and an even more violent Na’vi rite of initiation.

Cameron will get to test-run the film on an even bigger crowd on Aug. 21, which he’s declared "Avatar Day." The filmmaker announced he’ll be taking over IMAX and 3-D theaters around the world to screen 15 minutes of the film for moviegoers for free.

In introducing the film, Cameron said it was made “for the 14-year-old boy that is very alive and well in the back of my mind.”

But don’t expect a film for kids. In fact, I'd wager “Avatar” is going to be kind of heavy.

“I don’t want to say it’s important, because then it sounds like you’re making a documentary,” Cameron said. But it’s “something with a conscience. In the enjoying of [the film], it maybe makes you think about the way you interact with nature and your fellow man.”

After the screening, it was clear cast members Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang had become as immersed and invested in Pandora as the filmmaker himself, speaking of the Na’vi as though they were a historical fact.

A professor at USC worked two years on develop their language, and Saldana said all the actors had to take movement classes to “de-humanize” themselves. She also trained in Wushu, horseback riding, archery and weightlifting to play Na’vi princess Neytiri.

Said Cameron: “We know the oncology and composition of the atmosphere, the geography and species of plants, the culture and the history of the Na’vi people.”

Dehumanize yourself, via all these human activities.

Plus more geekery via Nikki Finke's cohorts.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eJ_G3PHZ_6I/Rzgb8QqE1QI/AAAAAAAAAdw/ewzinJgfbfM/s400/black-sabbath-dehumanizer.jpg

TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBRFJ9RArc

I'd go.

Avatard

A bit disappointing, really.

Lulz at "Avetar"...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/

maybe corny

the cgi blue "people" look pretty cgi

duh i guess. some nice visuals otherwise.

funny how District 9 which cost maybe a 10th of what this cost still has better looking cgi characters.

cgi cgi cgi

So much for the "revolutionary" CGI. Looks like one big video game cut-scene

AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The film was first conceived by Cameron 14 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film, disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

Every time I see this title I think it's that Bruce Willis Second Life spoof.

cue ishtar joke?

wow does this ever (unexpectedly) look like one of those cheap direct-to-video super-scifi cheap CGI thingies.

no sign of the "whole new world of real-feeling characters thing". seems way more Polar Express than gollum...

will the .1 of 5.1 be used to immerse us in this bold, new vision???

Kind of gives off a Matrix sequels vibe too. Maybe it's the dreadlocks

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uFjeiKOmMxQ/SnpLPhyv-II/AAAAAAAABHk/KYSRmzX773E/s400/Avatar+Action+Figure.jpg

http://cache-foo-02.gawkerassets.com/gawker/assets/images/8/2009/08/504x_Avatar-48.jpg

this looks so fruity

http://www.cultflicks.net/wp-content/uploads/finalfantasythespiritswithin2001.jpg

No he wasn’t

nobody was good in that terminator

DJP you actually put it best years ago

ftr this movie was a diseased dick

― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, January 22, 2010 2:12 PM bookmarkflaglink

My lack of depth perception cancelled out the only reason I've ever heard to watch this.

hardtofindium

I don't remember that Terminator movie being particularly good or memorable, but I don't recall it being bad because of him.

it was shit because of McG.

It’s 2021 and ‘Avatar’ Is About to Overtake ‘Avengers: Endgame’ as Highest-Grossing Movie of All Time https://t.co/HbjUKpdvkt pic.twitter.com/SsYaZZQK4i

— Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) March 12, 2021

not enough versions

Breaking AVATAR 2 news: NATO chief John Fithian in press session with #CinemaCon media just said that James Cameron's sequel "will have more versions" than any movie in history: IMAX, 3D, PLF, high-res, high frames-per-second rate, variable sound systems, in 160 languages, etc.

— Barry Hertz (@HertzBarry) April 26, 2022

lol the earliest "avatar 2" thread is older than many ilxors

“Avatar 2 (Version)”

I wanna see the 160 language version

Dogme 95 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IpgFIz9ng

More NATO aggression

"will have more versions than any movie in history" is a selling point on par with "from the producers of"

Avatar 31 will star Freddie Prinze, VI

Dogme 95 lol

Never in the history of art!

Lol, Neanderthal.

did roger dean ever get paid for any of this?

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/znJTFDTemj3st5vMC9KxnB-1024-80.jpg

ans = no: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/james-cameron-vanquishes-artist-in-avatar-copyright-lawsuit-111514

this shd be the next ALAB podcast

These sequels will never come out, won’t they?

They've just announced the release date of the first (December 16th), which is why anyone's talking about them - and the trailer will be in cinemas with the Doctor Strange movie next week

maybe they can combine it with the movie Anvil and make it Anviltar

james cameron give the (trans) people what they want... a battle angel sequel

I would watch the heck out of Anviltar tbh

And I’ll probably watch these sequels, actually

So you're the guy

it took me what, 13 years to see this? idk why except that ppl were like “it’s an incredible spectacle with pretty much nothing beneath it” and i was like “i don’t need another cameron film like that”

but at this point i’m pretty down with a movie that suggests we need to connect to the lifeforce that binds us to the earth and to each other to destroy all colonists

gimme avatar 2

I love avatar unabashedly

me too. some folks I know IRL (who think Wes Anderson is the GOAT and sneered at this film) did a lot of mental gymnastics to hold this film to different standards than other action movie spectacles.

(the discourse was much better ITT). also lol at jjjusten takedown of Shakey and Dan rejoinder upthread.

I refuse to believe any of you are excited about this. I mean, I believe it, but at the same time, I refuse. Love me some Cameron, hate that he's wasted his time with these Smurfs.

I'm excited for the new one too but I can look at enormous CGI trees and characters jumping on floating rocks all day. I understand 200% why people would get nothing out of this franchise

I enjoyed the first one fine at the time but have barely thought about it since and can’t imagine spending an entire career on this thinly imagined nonsense.

the coded racial stuff felt v icky & outdated to me in 2009, its hard for me to imagine it playing any better in 2022

My wife hadn’t seen Avatar and we started watching it together recently. After an hour she didn’t understand why she was watching a boring film that looks like a video game without the fun of being able to play it and decided to stop watching – and I totally got her point.

xp

I mean it’s not particularly sophisticated in its deployment, but ‘industrialized colonists v. naturist natives’ is kind of an archetype and I’m not sure what coded racial stuff is in there that’s particularly icky? Seemed intentionally broad. Unless you’re referring to something specific that I’m forgetting.

I liked Avatar. I mean a lot’s been written about how it made a bazillion dollars yet made absolutely minimal cultural impact considering. It did evaporate off of me almost immediately. But, y’know, had fun seeing it in IMAX, good spectacle, action set pieces were solid.

I’m actually kinda stoked for Part 2. I’m a sucker for underwater shit.

I rode the 3D Avatar ride at Disney World in February and it was awesome. It made me want to see another Avatar movie. (Because it would be a lot cheaper than going to Disney World again.)

Avatar: The Way Of Holding Your Water:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-runtime-1235251391/

Film expert Gregg Turkington (as seen on AMC) just called this the greatest movie of all time

nonsense. that would have to be either The Greatest Show on Earth or The Greatest Story Ever Told.