_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

my entire profession was just undermined brutally and i do not know what to do

all critical discourse around movies has been debunked for all time :(

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Starring The Guy Who Didn't Get To Be James Bond!

x-post Um, Cameron has stated specifically that the effects will be groundbreaking, "a game changer." He has not called the script a game changer, or the amount of money the movie will make a game changer. Pretty obvious that if he delivers on the FX front, then the former's deficiencies will be negated and the $$$ will be massive enough to justify the bravado. Whether people will be dressed as these blue things next Halloween is another matter.

uhh just saw trailer (thx world series!) and this looks like a trailer for halo and the font for the movie's name looks like papyrus.

seeing the trailer for this on tv while not paying much attention makes it look just like some dippy video game. digital effects very much included. tho obviously my tv is not 3-d.

xpost! haha

Pretty obvious that if he delivers on the FX front, then the former's deficiencies will be negated and the $$$ will be massive enough to justify the bravado

If anything, it'll scrub the memory of Transformers 2 out of our brains.

Ugh, I still hate that fucking Papyrus font.

real talk

True fax.

nothing will scrub t2

Saw the trailer at the cinema, blimey, it looks a bit ropey.

PLAYBOY: We seem to need fantasy icons like Lara Croft and Wonder Woman, despite knowing they mess with our heads.
CAMERON: Most of men's problems with women probably have to do with realizing women are real and most of them don't look or act like Vampirella. A big recalibration happens when we're forced to deal with real women, and there's a certain geek population that would much rather deal with fantasy women than real women. Let's face it: Real women are complicated. You can try your whole life and not understand them.

PLAYBOY: How much did you get into calibrating your movie heroine's hotness?
CAMERON: Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals. I designed her costumes based on a taparrabo, a loincloth thing worn by Mayan Indians. We go to another planet in this movie, so it would be stupid if she ran around in a Brazilian thong or a fur bikini like Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.

PLAYBOY: Are her breasts on view?
CAMERON: I came up with this free-floating, lion's-mane-like array of feathers, and we strategically lit and angled shots to not draw attention to her breasts, but they're right there. The animation uses a physics-based sim that takes into consideration gravity, air movement and the momentum of her hair, her top. We had a shot in which Neytiri falls into a specific position, and because she is lit by orange firelight, it lights up the nipples. That was good, except we're going for a PG-13 rating, so we wound up having to fix it. We'll have to put it on the special edition DVD; it will be a collector's item. A Neytiri Playboy Centerfold would have been a good idea.

PLAYBOY: So you're okay with arousing PG-13 chubbies?
CAMERON: If such a thing should ­happen—and I'm not saying it will—that would be fine.

okay so that is just wrong

When did this thread have sex with the Idolator one?

god gross

We had a shot in which Neytiri falls into a specific position, and because she is lit by orange firelight, it lights up the nipples.

well okay then

Guys, this was how Von Sternberg shot Marlene Dietrich.

shot her with light-up nipples

Most of men's problems with women probably have to do with realizing women are real and most of them don't look or act like Vampirella. A big recalibration happens when we're forced to deal with real women, and there's a certain geek population that would much rather deal with fantasy women than real women. Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.

<3

Now imagine the AvaTwilight crossover slashfic. Being made by somebody, somewhere, right now.

Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits,"

great quote

he is amazing.

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that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.

^^ man, no pill worries or anything

it makes sense on another planet to be dressed like 12th century mayan but not like a 21st century brazilian

kinda lol mostly sad

megalolz at this useless fuckwad's quest for "realism"

a non-placental mammal having tits = hey that's okay, but wearing a brazilian thong?!?! THAT'S CRAZY

it makes sense to be a tall blue person

megalolz at everything to do with this film.

I think I want this to be a huge embarrassment now. Except it will still rake in the cash.

i saw on the quidities thread that he watches cgi blue alien mayan-style pr0n on his iphone in public

i am actually doing that right now

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"chubbies"

Yet another sneak peek story? Yeah they're getting nervous:

Inside a dark mixing stage at 20th Century Fox a few weeks ago, writer-director James Cameron, surrounded by nearly a dozen colleagues, stared at a clip from his upcoming movie, "Avatar," unhappy with the look of the precipitous peaks on the horizon.

Circling the summits with a red laser pointer and speaking to his computer-effects team at Weta Digital in New Zealand via videoconference, Cameron came up with a Muhammad-like solution: Shift the mountains to the left.

"Moving a mountain," the 55-year-old filmmaker said, laughing, "is nothing."

...

As part of his research and development, Cameron directed the 3-D documentaries "Aliens of the Deep" and "Ghosts of the Abyss," which visited the Titanic's underwater wreckage. To overcome what many critics regard as the great flaw of motion-capture animation, the "dead-eye" appearance of characters, Cameron mounted tiny cameras above the faces of his "Avatar" actors, recording their smallest facial expressions and most intimate eye movements.

"What had been missing in motion capture was the 'E' -- the emotion," said "Avatar" producer Jon Landau.

The real test of this hybrid technology, the filmmakers acknowledge, will not be in the 3-D illusion of sending a rocket hurtling toward the audience, but in whether it enhances the tale's emotional resonance.

Hath not a blue alien lifelike eyes?

Oh and:

In August, the studio declared "Avatar Day," showing 16 minutes of the movie for free at 130 IMAX theaters around the globe, seen by 50,000 to 60,000 people, according to Fox estimates. Initial fanboy reaction wasn't all positive. "If Cameron thinks a film that looks like an Xbox game is the future of cinema . . . then he's mental," said one Web critic.

"I thought anyone who saw the early footage would be a convert," Cameron said of the IMAX previews. "It just seemed that everyone who had seen the footage wanted more."

Dude...

What had been missing in motion capture was the 'E'

aha

motion captur?

if you give audiences the 'E' -- the drug ecstasy -- before screening the response is overwhelmingly positive

They have shirts of this movie for sale at Hot Topic, but only in the girls' section.

didn't you read in that new yorker profile how cameron only shops for clothes in the girl's section of hot topic?

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