_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

some ripley

good to see stephen lang getting a good or at least sizable role

"What are the differences that we can deal with, without it becoming a barrier? Skin color is great, and it's also great thematically, because skin color is obviously such a big issue on our planet. All the warm tones — from pallid Canadian pink, to beautiful warm browns, and, well, pallid Australian pink — were all taken. So, we were down to blue and green basically — and green had been taken by all those Martian movies with the little green men. So, we have big blue women, not little green men." —James Cameron on why Avatar aliens are blue

The movie was named "Shitanic" at one point

― da croupier, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 3:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

pallid Australian pink

Worst Crayola color ever.

seeing this tomorrow morning and am stupid excited abt it tbh, like, excited enough to wake up early and walk through over a foot of new snow excited

lol it's true, cameron is pallid canadian pink

So, we were down to blue and green basically — and green had been taken by all those Martian movies with the little green men. So, we have big blue women, not little green men

is this his keen scientific mind in action

I would be more excited about seeing this movie if it featured Zoe Saldana in a tight costume as opposed to a gangly blue cat creature voiced by Zoe Saldana.

for someone who is seemingly driven by the "SHOW EM THE TITTIES!" rule of filmmaking, dude seems remarkably hell-bent on bogarting all the titties

seeing this tomorrow morning and am stupid excited abt it tbh, like, excited enough to wake up early and walk through over a foot of new snow excited

lol it's true, cameron is pallid canadian pink

― paragon of incalescence (rrrobyn), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 1:38 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see u there :D

whoo!
btw i am going to cry for sure. and laugh, obv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_7_2hpANo&feature=player_embedded

fu mtl insiders

(And I'm going to the London premiere; such is the nature of my job, I've now seen it multiple times, but not yet on a big bloody screen in 3D. This thread has been hugely entertaining).

Holding out on us! So is it any good?

is it a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation

did it change blue people porn forever

we're not actually "allowed" to say anything directly/publicly about it until Dec 18 (at least in canada)
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but we're not in Canada!

Non-disclosure agreement, guys. It's like the Dr Who threads - I just have to sit on my hands, shaking my head slowly.

Everything everyone has said upthread is factually correct.

this, my dears, is the internet!

Rrrobyn, take a boat to the middle of Lake Ontario and broadcast the news in the great land of freedom of speech.

I shall report back on the Prem, yeah? Without mentioning the xxxmin we spend all facing the same way.

(xxx = I'm probably not even allowed to say how long it is).

I would just like to point out that this question was posted before MJones's penultimate post:

is it a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation

so I am assuming the answer is an emphatic "YES"

james cameron is watching the internet
AND he's canadian! ooooeeeooo

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it is the americans who make these embargos re: hollywood movies in the first place!

Fine, blame us.

then TELL US

You know it sucks.

well yes, but precisely HOW does it suck

thanking youuuuu Dan

Yes, we want to count the ways. xp

shall i compare thee to a miserable day

Actually, not being able to contribute to this thread in any substantial way has been nothing like as excruciating as last summer's The Happening thread. Oh, boy. I really was bursting to tell people about that.

So it doesn't suck but isn't very good.

wink twice if it sucks

xpost once if it doesn't

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2243240/leak-main_Full.jpg

You should go see it when it comes out. You all should.

Maybe it's a movie that plays better in French.

oh come on I'm not giving James Cameron any of my money

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You should go see it when it comes out. You all should.

Don't you see, the embargo WANTS you to say things like this!

what happens if you do have an opinion btw? hunted down by a terminator? someone blows up goodison park? all your friends and family are subjected to torture via blue furry porno?

Shot thru a building on the end of a missile IIRC

i'm pretty sure that movie publicists are in fact terminators

i'm download this because floating rocks and blue tits look better at low bitrate - more left to the imagination. hopefully i'll find a foreign language version with english subtitles to really enhance the magic.

Can you say if it's better than Delgo?

i saw this.
and feel a need to share that completely neutral fact delivered in an emotion-free and criticism-devoid tone.
back dec 18.

LOL i signed a non-disclosure thing once before a test screening of Natural Born Criminals in Seattle but I hated it so goddamn much I wrote a review in The Stranger the next week...

Obv I had no plans to be a movie reviewer tho

Various Twitter responses posted here.