_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

People have been gunning so hard for this to fail that it almost makes me want to see it succeed.

But then I glance back at those screen shots and I'm all "fuck this shit"

“It came from all the science-fiction books I read when I was a kid and it just gestated over time,” he said. “I did a lot of fantasy art and I had drawers full of drawings of creatures, characters, robots, spaceships and all that sort of thing. So for me I was just going back to my roots.”

To be fair that is EXACTLY what this movie looks like: a bored 6th grade kid's notebook doodlings.

I seriously want someone to ask Cameron about the unobtainium hover coasters, since every element of this film is so painstakingly reasoned and all.

Why did the aliens all go to the English language school if they don't get on with the humans?

why did indians go to the English language school if they didn't like the colonialists?

this is just gonna be a hardcore cliché snoozefest once i stop laffing at how bad it is (in 10 years time when it is telly, as i will refuse to pay to see it)

it's been dubbed obviously

avatat

SPOILERS, if anyone cares

Over time, Jake integrates himself into the Na'vi clan, and begins to fall in love with Neytiri. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth and the Na’vi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of Pandora and the Na'vi.

Which side will he choose, I REALLY CANNOT GUESS.

his best friend is a talking pie

wow there are some moments in that clip that almost reach dr. tongue levels of 3d-shown-in-2d posing

when he held up the rock i was sure he'd start waving it back and forth

when the audience stands up and starts throwing toast at the midnight showings of this, you gonna be sorry you dissed it.

They're more likely to initiate furry sex.

The pelvic thrust really will drive them insane...

*throws toast*

unobtainium

x-post -- Terrible euphemism.

I just feel that needs repeating every ten post or so. Unobtainium - get some if you can.

I was thinking that there Cameron goes on about the atmosphere and culture and etc. and I'm thinking, "Okay sure it wasn't a setting you originally devised but in Aliens you just threw in some gunk about terraforming for two seconds and that's all anyone needed and anyone WANTED."

WE HAVE THEME SONG:

http://www.popeater.com/2009/12/04/leona-lewis-avatar-theme-i-see-you/

For the first few seconds I'm all "Imogen Heap?"

"Okay sure it wasn't a setting you originally devised but in Aliens you just threw in some gunk about terraforming for two seconds and that's all anyone needed and anyone WANTED."

Patton Oswalt's "I don't want to know where the stuff I love comes from, I just want the stuff I love" re: the star wars prequels would seem to apply here

Yup.

I cannot put my finger on who Leona Lewis sounds like on this song because it sounds like she's pastiching every single big solo female pop vocalist of the past 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

(Sometimes referred to as "Unaffordium")

As for song:

Of the creative process, Lewis says, "James and I spoke about the meaning and emotion of the song. He showed me clips from the film, which gave me insight into the characters and this whole other world that he had created. The song represents the feelings shared between Jake [Sam Worthington] and Neytiri [Zoe Saldana]; it's very powerful and beautiful."

Even the press release is a pastiche etc.

tbh I want this film to be good. Not sure why, but there it is.

At the very least it could be the most WTF SF feature since Zardoz.

Zardoz is a crap film with a lot of weird ideas in it. This is a crap film with no ideas.

Haha now imagine James Cameron's bouncing head at the start of the film making fun of us all.

Unobtainium also featured heavily in the movie The Core (the vessel they used to travel to the earth's core was made of it) so Jimmy is at least following in the footsteps of some great examples of hard sci fi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7ljBKqJdw

id love for this film to be good. i want all films to be good. but when they so obviously arent and the people behind it act like confusing arseholes, then i can easily sit back and appreciate the lols when it flops

Fuck you, synergy.

wow

looooooooool

reminds me of the Three's Company episode where Jack keeps holding up a copy of I'm In You by Peter Frampton he bought for whichever blonde roommate was on at the time.

"Lance? Very phallic name you've got there."
how can you NOT want this movie to fail

finally a sexy sci-fi movie for the sexing

it corrupts whatever it touches.
Leona sounding very enya at first and then very bad tina after

ugh, then just bad leona

mcguffinanium

http://kotaku.com/5419824/conan-obrien-now-picking-on-60+metascore-games

For Abbott -- Michelle Rodriguez talks about things.

The only reason I might ever watch this is for Michelle Rodriguez, but I doubt that's enough.

Only if Michael shows up and shoots her.

we can only hope that the movie is at least funny

Oh man Ned thanking you so much.

Eckhart gives a slight chuckle of disbelief upon hearing the name Unobtanium. There will be no such chuckles in Avatar. I have a feeling it will be filled with chuckles of a whole other nature (a gimme for the 30 Rock fans in our audience).