_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

it makes sense to be a tall blue person

megalolz at everything to do with this film.

I think I want this to be a huge embarrassment now. Except it will still rake in the cash.

i saw on the quidities thread that he watches cgi blue alien mayan-style pr0n on his iphone in public

i am actually doing that right now

http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/images/2007/07/27/ekk4.jpg

"chubbies"

Yet another sneak peek story? Yeah they're getting nervous:

Inside a dark mixing stage at 20th Century Fox a few weeks ago, writer-director James Cameron, surrounded by nearly a dozen colleagues, stared at a clip from his upcoming movie, "Avatar," unhappy with the look of the precipitous peaks on the horizon.

Circling the summits with a red laser pointer and speaking to his computer-effects team at Weta Digital in New Zealand via videoconference, Cameron came up with a Muhammad-like solution: Shift the mountains to the left.

"Moving a mountain," the 55-year-old filmmaker said, laughing, "is nothing."

...

As part of his research and development, Cameron directed the 3-D documentaries "Aliens of the Deep" and "Ghosts of the Abyss," which visited the Titanic's underwater wreckage. To overcome what many critics regard as the great flaw of motion-capture animation, the "dead-eye" appearance of characters, Cameron mounted tiny cameras above the faces of his "Avatar" actors, recording their smallest facial expressions and most intimate eye movements.

"What had been missing in motion capture was the 'E' -- the emotion," said "Avatar" producer Jon Landau.

The real test of this hybrid technology, the filmmakers acknowledge, will not be in the 3-D illusion of sending a rocket hurtling toward the audience, but in whether it enhances the tale's emotional resonance.

Hath not a blue alien lifelike eyes?

Oh and:

In August, the studio declared "Avatar Day," showing 16 minutes of the movie for free at 130 IMAX theaters around the globe, seen by 50,000 to 60,000 people, according to Fox estimates. Initial fanboy reaction wasn't all positive. "If Cameron thinks a film that looks like an Xbox game is the future of cinema . . . then he's mental," said one Web critic.

"I thought anyone who saw the early footage would be a convert," Cameron said of the IMAX previews. "It just seemed that everyone who had seen the footage wanted more."

Dude...

What had been missing in motion capture was the 'E'

aha

motion captur?

if you give audiences the 'E' -- the drug ecstasy -- before screening the response is overwhelmingly positive

They have shirts of this movie for sale at Hot Topic, but only in the girls' section.

didn't you read in that new yorker profile how cameron only shops for clothes in the girl's section of hot topic?

South Park offers some anticipatory criticism

that was actually kind of hilarious, something this season of South Park has not had too much of

he "dead-eye" appearance of characters

it's funny cause his models have some of the deadest looking eyes in computer animation - hint you don't compensate for this by making their eyes bigger

Oh boy, the game!

gotta say the film might actually be reasonably okay looking if he simply chose to have these aliens be something other than aggressive smurfs

sexy smurvs

i played the game in 3D.

it kinda gave me a headache/eye twitchy feeling

That's called a 'boner' in smurf world M@tt.

james cameron gargameled my boner for life

gotta say the film might actually be reasonably okay looking if he simply chose to have these aliens be something other than aggressive smurfs

the disney smurfiness feels especially grating and out of date after District 9

maybe the smurfs get all pukey tho

Soundtrack tracklisting revealed plot spoilers blah blah. The "My Heart Will Go On" of this thing is called "I See You." Uh.

last track:

"death of all the avatars and our lead villain"

remember when the "single" from the attack of the clones soundtrack was "qui-gon's funeral"

NICE PLAY SHAKESPEARE

Gotta love the titles of the first seven bits:

1. “You Don’t Dream in Cryo…”
2. Jake Enters His Avatar World
3. Pure Spirits of the Forest
4. The Bioluminescence of the Night
5. Becoming One of “The People”
Becoming One With Neytiri
6. Climbing Up – “Iknimaya – The Path to Heaven”

Six bits, seven bits, WHATEVER.

"Tell me of your homeworld, Jake."

The "My Heart Will Go On" of this thing is called "I See You."

If it's the Juliana Hatfield song that might be kind of fun.

I was hoping it was short for this:

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

Becoming One With Neytiri = sexin smurfette

You know, this will be totally ridiculous, but I still wanna see it.

probably best to treat it like Cameron made it ten years ago but you never got around to seeing it. "smurfs, wtf, well it was 1999."

probably best to not see it at all

obv i'm referring to the titanic fans who can't resist

I don't know if it's just the smurfiness of it or what but it just seems like th most horrible movie ever made to me. I would sit through a Uwe Bolle film festival before I'd watch this.

1. “You Don’t Dream in Cryo…”
2. Jake Enters His Avatar World
3. Pure Spirits of the Forest
4. The Bioluminescence of the Night
5. Becoming One of “The People”
Becoming One With Neytiri
6. Climbing Up – “Iknimaya – The Path to Heaven”

this makes me want to see it more than ever

half of these ought to have ": sounds of the rainforest" appended to the end

the disney smurfiness feels especially grating and out of date after District 9

― da croupier, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

otm.

(not that district 9 was a perfect masterpiece or anything)

Guys I gotta put in that James Horner did turn out some k-awes film scores back in the day (not so much since he got fat off Titanic though). Wrath Of Khan, Brainstorm, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Land Before Time, Sneakers, those were all awesome scores.

That said, my intuition tells me this isn't gonna be his most inspired music.

this is gonna be such a trainwreck on so many many levels

i wanna see james cameron's house if he has a wax pope under his stairs

No way is his house as cool as Emmerich's, let's be real.

seriously.

it could be if its a smurf cottage

if cameron really lived up to his persona he would be living in a submarine