_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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the disney smurfiness feels especially grating and out of date after District 9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

I wonder if Avatar is about smurf frottage.

cameron has the prop machine guns from aliens mounted on the walls of his house that shoots foam in case of fire. true story.

has the avatar downfall/hitler rant thingy been posted in here? that's kind of lol.

http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/objects/800318/avatar/videos/avatar_hardware.html

This is very Aliens - except this time the aliens are the good guys!

60 Minutes has a piece on Avatar tonight, fyi.

Pushing this so hard at the cinema tonight. They've had plastic credit card-like Avatar gift cards printed up so you can "give the gift of Avatar" tickets as Christmas presents, too.

saw the 60 minutes piece on a nice HDTV at a restaurant tonight.... and I kind of enjoyed just zoning out and watching the scenery.

I imagine it will be 2 hours of "that looks kinda cool" that will be quickly forgotten and never watched again.

And now it's the interactive trailer! (As proudly linked on the bottom of the page.) And it's important, see:

The "Avatar" Interactive trailer is actually more of a program or application than your usual run-of-the-mill teaser. With Cameron's film taking years to complete, the trailer even took a while to develop, too, with a four-month creation time.

"We kind of look at it as the next generation of movie trailers because it allows users to interact and delve deeper into the content of the movie," says Fox's Jeffrey Godsick, executive vice president of marketing and digital content.

Built on Adobe AIR software, the application not only plays trailers, but also helps you keep track of news about "Avatar" through all kinds of social media. Like the Virtual Echo desktop for "Dollhouse" (RIP), AIR also can be made portable and not browser-based. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube all contribute to the feed that will fill up your entire screen if you choose.

With all of that, the trailer is the centerpiece, and with it are other video pieces that give the user more insight into the creation of the movie. "Hot spots" during the trailer allow users to see vignettes about creature and technological designs and hear character profiles from many of the film's stars.

It can be a bit overwhelming when you first see it cover your whole screen, and for fans who are really anticipating the movie, the officialavatar tweeter pops up with updates even when the program is minimized. It's all a cool interaction, but I wondered how much input Cameron, the tech godling, had in the program's development.

"The incorporation of technology has always been really important to (Cameron). He's really been supportive of the idea because it's cool, but also because it really does allow people to get involved in this world. He and Lightstorm have actually been involved in the creation of some of the content pieces," says Godsick.

The program will continue to be updated as the movie nears. It was also mentioned that Cameron's Lightstorm is developing a Pandorapedia to launch in December that will give an even more in-depth look at the world "Avatar" has created.

I'm seriously waiting for the interactive MMS from Cameron himself to everyone in the world telling us to go see it or he'll cry.

I imagine it will be 2 hours of "that looks kinda cool" that will be quickly forgotten and never watched again.

^^^^^ on this. I want to see it, but I'm not in any particular hurry.

http://www.eggcityradio.com/sharity/xra.jpg

yeah but in 3-D

Wired has a series of stories out:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_cameron/all/1
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_5steps/