_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Maybe this whole thing is a plot just to wrap this decade up in one convenient place and sink it in the bottom of the ocean.

You know, the game cover image is ten thousand times better than the actual stills because this really DOES look like a cover of a game from 1986 or something:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gamelife/2009/11/avatar_game_box_350.jpg

All I ask schadenfreude-wise is that this movie make less (at least in the US) than Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakel.

James Cameron's JOUST: THE MOVIE

...actually why hasn't that been done yet? Seems a logical choice these days.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/f8KUB-Ufric/0.jpg

“Yes,” Cameron said flatly. “They have to have tails.”

surely it should be The Squeakening

'Munkment Day

Revenge of the Alvin

Tailiens

All I ask schadenfreude-wise is that this movie make less (at least in the US) than Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakel.

― da croupier, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 4:09 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just what we need, another unnecessary squeakquel

2 Alvin 2 Chipmunks

A Chip Off The Old Munk

28 Squeaks Later

Actually, going back to my first post on this whole thing:

Both actors have signed on for possible future installments as well because Cameron and Fox see "Avatar" as a potential franchise.

Fear.

Alvatar

Avatar 2: Avatarly

more like AVATARDED

Avaturd

Avatars On Vacation

Avatar 2: Avatarder

Weekend At Na'vis

Flight of the Na'vigator

The Avartark Knight

"Na'vi 5 is alive."

Avatarmageddon -- directed by Michael Bay

Pearl Avatar

"Sir we've seen the breasts. They're the size of Texas." xp

Another old quote from way up near the start:

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.”

...and all we got were these lousy furries.

Ishavatar

xpost i can always tell when directors haven't figured out the oncology in a sci-fi movie

“Yes,” Cameron said flatly. “The atmosphere has to have an appropriate mix of nitrogen and oxygen in the troposphere to ensure that vertebrates who don't have gills can develop via accepted evolution-based theories.”

also i'm guesssssing he meant ecology unless there's a cancer subplot

are they only showing one type of terrain (jungle+floating rocks) of this planet? presumably there would also be ice wastes, deserts etc. if no reason to show them

"We also know, like on earth, that there's only one intelligent species, and that they all look and talk alike and possess the same language."

$50 million was spent on Na'Vi research

Can't wait for that DVD extra.

and about 1 million on ontological research; bad prioritites

Oh hey, read the book!:

A field guide to Pandora—the mesmerizing world of James Cameron's Avatar.

Four years in the making—and 15 years since its conception—Avatar is a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivering 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.

In Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora we are introduced to Pandora—a pristine and beautiful moon in a distant solar system—its exotic ecosystems, and the indigenous race called the Na'vi. By piecing together photographs, scientific field notes, and research data, citizens on Earth have collected the information in this field guide as a way to highlight the lessons Pandora can teach the people of Earth, who have struggled to survive as their planet's critical resources are depleted.

Though Pandora has proven to be an exceedingly profitable source of natural resources, the environment—from its gravity-defying floating mountains to the small but venomous hellfire wasps and the gigantic carnivorous thanator—poses continual dangers to RDA. Catalogued with unparalleled precision and access, this field guide provides highly detailed descriptions of the unique creatures and plants found on Pandora, the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, as well as RDA technology and weapons.

Eager to save the Earth, the activists have culled this information in hopes to expose the corporate greed and disregard for the native inhabitants and their environment that governs RDA's presence on the foreign moon.

This is the evidence in their case to save Pandora—and themselves.

You can kinda hear the "DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN!" after that conclusion.

if only they had the board lawyer power of ILX

Wait:

Pandora—a pristine and beautiful moon

It IS Endor!

Kinda appreciate how the aliens are giving us the finger here:

http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/0/9780061896750.jpg

David Lynch had like 5 movies in the 90s for which he couldn't drum up enough money (10-20m).

but 500m for 3d furry porn is doable.

"When the monkeyfurrycatpeople die, everybody gonna cry."

and that they all look and talk alike and possess the same language

arrrgh fuck off

:-D

Hey look what I found at Target:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_gx9UOgOAfb0/Sxb_rKzeH7I/AAAAAAAAAow/kqZ2mAocQQI/s512/IMG_0652.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_gx9UOgOAfb0/Sxb_sVnFn-I/AAAAAAAAAo4/iKzkaPJgpfE/IMG_0653.JPG

it looks like they are in the big womb things that keanu wakes up in during teh matrix

hate this movie solely for ruining my ability to appreciate this shade of blue ever again

Future bargain bin finds xp