_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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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

gotta say the film might actually be reasonably okay looking if he simply chose to have these aliens be something other than aggressive smurfs

the disney smurfiness feels especially grating and out of date after District 9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

max, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Gotta love the titles of the first seven bits:

1. “You Don’t Dream in Cryo…”
2. Jake Enters His Avatar World
3. Pure Spirits of the Forest
4. The Bioluminescence of the Night
5. Becoming One of “The People”
Becoming One With Neytiri
6. 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."

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link

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

1. “You Don’t Dream in Cryo…”
2. Jake Enters His Avatar World
3. Pure Spirits of the Forest
4. The Bioluminescence of the Night
5. Becoming One of “The People”
Becoming One With Neytiri
6. Climbing Up – “Iknimaya – The Path to Heaven”

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

the disney smurfiness feels especially grating and out of date after District 9

― 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)

fel (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link

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

And now it's the interactive trailer! (As proudly linked on the bottom of the page.) And it's important, see:

The "Avatar" Interactive trailer is actually more of a program or application than your usual run-of-the-mill teaser. With Cameron's film taking years to complete, the trailer even took a while to develop, too, with a four-month creation time.

"We kind of look at it as the next generation of movie trailers because it allows users to interact and delve deeper into the content of the movie," says Fox's Jeffrey Godsick, executive vice president of marketing and digital content.

Built on Adobe AIR software, the application not only plays trailers, but also helps you keep track of news about "Avatar" through all kinds of social media. Like the Virtual Echo desktop for "Dollhouse" (RIP), AIR also can be made portable and not browser-based. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube all contribute to the feed that will fill up your entire screen if you choose.

With all of that, the trailer is the centerpiece, and with it are other video pieces that give the user more insight into the creation of the movie. "Hot spots" during the trailer allow users to see vignettes about creature and technological designs and hear character profiles from many of the film's stars.

It can be a bit overwhelming when you first see it cover your whole screen, and for fans who are really anticipating the movie, the officialavatar tweeter pops up with updates even when the program is minimized. It's all a cool interaction, but I wondered how much input Cameron, the tech godling, had in the program's development.

"The incorporation of technology has always been really important to (Cameron). He's really been supportive of the idea because it's cool, but also because it really does allow people to get involved in this world. He and Lightstorm have actually been involved in the creation of some of the content pieces," says Godsick.

The program will continue to be updated as the movie nears. It was also mentioned that Cameron's Lightstorm is developing a Pandorapedia to launch in December that will give an even more in-depth look at the world "Avatar" has created.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm seriously waiting for the interactive MMS from Cameron himself to everyone in the world telling us to go see it or he'll cry.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link

I imagine it will be 2 hours of "that looks kinda cool" that will be quickly forgotten and never watched again.

^^^^^ on this. I want to see it, but I'm not in any particular hurry.

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link


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