_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

That looks JUST A BIT Kincade in space.

what a horrifying reveal. The guy who made such cold, dark science fiction is now making a garish, tacky fantasy starring furries.

How come there are giant rocks that can hover but the guy is stuck in a wheelchair?

Also, Papyrus font has been a no no for at least ten years now.

How come there are giant rocks that can hover but the guy is stuck in a wheelchair?

― Nate Carson, Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

How can we can we take someone's mind and put it in the body of an alien, but the guy is stuck in a wheelchair?

Okay, so I saw the preview before Inglourious Basterds earlier tonight..still looks kinda dopey and the blue tiger people look awful but overall it definitely makes more sense and looks better on the big screen.

dude... lb... i feel u on wanting this to be good so bad but...

no.

just... no.

i just meant it looked better on the big screen! didn't say it was gonna be good!

yeah and i meant

no.

just... no.

hey, max is giving us permission to hate something, it's been a while so let's savor the moment

fwiw I thought Waterworld worked ok on the big screen what do I know hahaha

I sincerely hope Avatar opens with the Terminator guy pissing into a filter and drinking it...in 3D

waterworld's trailer was way better.

i agree

so was the trailer for the new john travolta/robin williams abortion

no mechs though

why is robin williams still getting starring roles

he's a genie!

The trailer looks like it's cutting back and forth between 2 different movies altogether.

this shit is for furries imo

it's like blue tiger ppl fuck this

http://images.elfwood.com/art/v/m/vmegami/kiitygirl.jpg

avatar story board exclusive
http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Mithril/BanjoForBlueJay.jpg

http://thunderbaseball.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/thundercats.jpg

http://www.mannythemovieguy.com/images/smurf.jpg

I haven't managed to watch the trailer, but saw a bit on TV. First thoughts were "ugh/lol, furries" and "roger dean/patrick woodroffe should sue" but WTF I imagine on a big screen, in 3D, it would be an entertaining enough spectacle. I agree w/whoever it was who said it looks like a game cutscene.

The 7 Eeriest Parallels Between Avatar and Delgo

Damage Control via io9:

Avatar Day has come and gone, poised to convert people disappointed by the trailer or confirm their worst fears. Make no mistake, though, Avatar will be a unique visual experience, but one that should probably only be experienced in 3D.

I will admit that I was thrown off by the negative reactions to the trailer. I was blown away by the footage I saw at Comic Con, but I was beginning to worry that I hadn't seen the movie I thought I'd seen. But after seeing the footage again and watching the trailer a dozen more times, I'm convinced that Avatar is an evil plot by James Cameron to force people to watch their movies in the theater if they want to enjoy the full experience.

The Avatar Day footage is more or less the same footage shown at Comic Con, although some scenes were truncated and a brief moment was added. They give you a taste of the immersive experience Avatar is. When a creature chases Sully in his Avatar form through the jungle, it's a visceral experience that simply wouldn't be the same in two dimensions. And when we get to stand still and really look at the background, there's the sense that you're really a visitor to Pandora, drinking in all the details of a fantastical world. Cameron and his fellows have infused these clips with an incredible amount of detail, from the way the Na'Vi ears twitch and move to a few stray moths in the background. Especially in the bioluminescent scene, Pandora feels like a real and breathing world, one with all the natural chaos of fluttering leaves and errant insects.

There are certainly design choices that could attract criticism from CG enthusiasts. Na'Vi skin is opaque, rather than slightly translucent like human skin, and of the animals we've seen so far, none have fur (there are also some wearying instances of Zack Snyder-style slowed-down action). But where Cameron chooses to focus his attention, the detail is remarkable. Rocks on Pandora look like rocks; hair comes in individual strands (though it is often bound up in braids) and falls naturally; and, while the animals don't have fur, their muscles pump and pulse beneath their flesh. Even the colors are richer when seen inside the theater.

All of the footage shown comes from the first half of the movie, so we don't get a very good sense of how the story will unfold. But the method behind Avatar's marketing madness is becoming clearer; no footage on your computer or TV can live up to the experience of seeing it in the theater, and Fox is hoping that Avatar Day word of mouth can sell tickets to the movie in a way no promo clips or trailer ever could.

http://www.candycomments.com/images/comment_sets/images/yeah-right.gif

Cameron stans beginning to pedal hard.

Hey, hopefully it will live up to all this big talk - if only on the cinema screen. From here though it looks like the "revolution" is off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk

this looks like something i would have drawn in my notebook during history class

but with smaller boobs

pics or we don't believe you.

i stopped drawing that shit after a girl sitting next to me saw it and asked to be moved to a different assigned seat.

story of my life.

I'm convinced that Avatar is an evil plot by James Cameron to force people to watch their movies in the theater if they want to enjoy the full experience

What is with this crap. If the story looks stupid then it ain't gonna fly.

James Cameron...Freemason?

i stopped drawing that shit after a girl sitting next to me saw it and asked to be moved to a different assigned seat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5y-66M4G9E

that might as well be a documentary, just replace boobs with spikey nipples for dicks

How long ago did Final Fantasy come out? This trailer really defines 'meh'.

Shit, there was a Magic Roundabout movie?

With Whoopi Goldberg doing a voice? What the fucking fuck?

Please do yourself a favor and read the Avatar article in the new Entertainment Weekly. They're discussing the likelihood of the movie's success based on near-universal praise from the fan community. Choice quote:

While some naysayers called the dialogue cheesy, other audience members were blown away: "My eyeballs were raped" was a common sentiment on Ain't It Cool News. (In fanboy-speak, that's a good thing.)

Uh.

hahahahahaha talk about spin

preliminary digging on AICN (which btw: gross) shows that EW did actually get that correct

EWw

Seeing the trailer the other day waiting for Inglourious Basterds did it no favors on the big screen.

it's weird to me how dead the blue people's eyes look...you get the feeling that the character designers purposely made their eyes almost anime-size to try to get a more lifelike effect, but it just doesn't work

James Cameron is a weird dude:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/10/the_truth_about_james_cameron.html

According to Titanic star Bill Paxton, the word "no" gives James Cameron an erection.

Many things about this sentence raise questions.

But where Cameron chooses to focus his attention, the detail is remarkable. Rocks on Pandora look like rocks; hair comes in individual strands (though it is often bound up in braids) and falls naturally; and, while the animals don't have fur, their muscles pump and pulse beneath their flesh. Even the colors are richer when seen inside the theater.