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."
"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...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 November 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
What had been missing in motion capture was the 'E'
aha
― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Sunday, 15 November 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
motion captur?
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 15 November 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
if you give audiences the 'E' -- the drug ecstasy -- before screening the response is overwhelmingly positive
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 15 November 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
They have shirts of this movie for sale at Hot Topic, but only in the girls' section.
― milliband (Abbott), Sunday, 15 November 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't you read in that new yorker profile how cameron only shops for clothes in the girl's section of hot topic?
― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Sunday, 15 November 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
South Park offers some anticipatory criticism
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that was actually kind of hilarious, something this season of South Park has not had too much of
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 囧 (dyao), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh boy, the game!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
gotta say the film might actually be reasonably okay looking if he simply chose to have these aliens be something other than aggressive smurfs
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
sexy smurvs
― SMH (ice cr?m), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i played the game in 3D.
it kinda gave me a headache/eye twitchy feeling
― mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
That's called a 'boner' in smurf world M@tt.
― five minutes of iguana time (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
james cameron gargameled my boner for life
― mr. que, covering up the vital parts, lest he embarrass the ladi (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
the disney smurfiness feels especially grating and out of date after District 9
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe the smurfs get all pukey tho
― SMH (ice cr?m), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Soundtrack tracklisting revealed plot spoilers blah blah. The "My Heart Will Go On" of this thing is called "I See You." Uh.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
last track:
"death of all the avatars and our lead villain"
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
remember when the "single" from the attack of the clones soundtrack was "qui-gon's funeral"
― max, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
NICE PLAY SHAKESPEARE
Gotta love the titles of the first seven bits:
1. “You Don’t Dream in Cryo…”2. Jake Enters His Avatar World3. Pure Spirits of the Forest4. The Bioluminescence of the Night5. Becoming One of “The People”Becoming One With Neytiri6. Climbing Up – “Iknimaya – The Path to Heaven”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Six bits, seven bits, WHATEVER.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"Tell me of your homeworld, Jake."
The "My Heart Will Go On" of this thing is called "I See You."
If it's the Juliana Hatfield song that might be kind of fun.
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I was hoping it was short for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbdYmFSfrcU
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Becoming One With Neytiri = sexin smurfette
― SMH (ice cr?m), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
You know, this will be totally ridiculous, but I still wanna see it.
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
probably best to treat it like Cameron made it ten years ago but you never got around to seeing it. "smurfs, wtf, well it was 1999."
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
probably best to not see it at all
― Jack Kirby's Orangutan Surfing Civilization (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
obv i'm referring to the titanic fans who can't resist
― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's just the smurfiness of it or what but it just seems like th most horrible movie ever made to me. I would sit through a Uwe Bolle film festival before I'd watch this.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
this makes me want to see it more than ever
half of these ought to have ": sounds of the rainforest" appended to the end
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
otm.
― fel (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
(not that district 9 was a perfect masterpiece or anything)
Guys I gotta put in that James Horner did turn out some k-awes film scores back in the day (not so much since he got fat off Titanic though). Wrath Of Khan, Brainstorm, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Land Before Time, Sneakers, those were all awesome scores.
That said, my intuition tells me this isn't gonna be his most inspired music.
― five minutes of iguana time (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
this is gonna be such a trainwreck on so many many levels
― fifteen minutes of iguana time famous (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i wanna see james cameron's house if he has a wax pope under his stairs
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
No way is his house as cool as Emmerich's, let's be real.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously.
― fel (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it could be if its a smurf cottage
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
if cameron really lived up to his persona he would be living in a submarine
― fel (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if Avatar is about smurf frottage.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
cameron has the prop machine guns from aliens mounted on the walls of his house that shoots foam in case of fire. true story.
― mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
has the avatar downfall/hitler rant thingy been posted in here? that's kind of lol.
― wilter, Friday, 20 November 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/objects/800318/avatar/videos/avatar_hardware.html
― DavidM, Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
This is very Aliens - except this time the aliens are the good guys!
― DavidM, Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
60 Minutes has a piece on Avatar tonight, fyi.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Pushing this so hard at the cinema tonight. They've had plastic credit card-like Avatar gift cards printed up so you can "give the gift of Avatar" tickets as Christmas presents, too.
― stet, Monday, 23 November 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
saw the 60 minutes piece on a nice HDTV at a restaurant tonight.... and I kind of enjoyed just zoning out and watching the scenery.
I imagine it will be 2 hours of "that looks kinda cool" that will be quickly forgotten and never watched again.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 23 November 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link