_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Flight of the Na'vigator

The Avartark Knight

"Na'vi 5 is alive."

Avatarmageddon -- directed by Michael Bay

Pearl Avatar

"Sir we've seen the breasts. They're the size of Texas." xp

Another old quote from way up near the start:

Said Cameron: “We know the oncology and composition of the atmosphere, the geography and species of plants, the culture and the history of the Na’vi people.”

...and all we got were these lousy furries.

Ishavatar

xpost i can always tell when directors haven't figured out the oncology in a sci-fi movie

“Yes,” Cameron said flatly. “The atmosphere has to have an appropriate mix of nitrogen and oxygen in the troposphere to ensure that vertebrates who don't have gills can develop via accepted evolution-based theories.”

also i'm guesssssing he meant ecology unless there's a cancer subplot

are they only showing one type of terrain (jungle+floating rocks) of this planet? presumably there would also be ice wastes, deserts etc. if no reason to show them

"We also know, like on earth, that there's only one intelligent species, and that they all look and talk alike and possess the same language."

$50 million was spent on Na'Vi research

Can't wait for that DVD extra.

and about 1 million on ontological research; bad prioritites

Oh hey, read the book!:

A field guide to Pandora—the mesmerizing world of James Cameron's Avatar.

Four years in the making—and 15 years since its conception—Avatar is a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivering a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

In Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora we are introduced to Pandora—a pristine and beautiful moon in a distant solar system—its exotic ecosystems, and the indigenous race called the Na'vi. By piecing together photographs, scientific field notes, and research data, citizens on Earth have collected the information in this field guide as a way to highlight the lessons Pandora can teach the people of Earth, who have struggled to survive as their planet's critical resources are depleted.

Though Pandora has proven to be an exceedingly profitable source of natural resources, the environment—from its gravity-defying floating mountains to the small but venomous hellfire wasps and the gigantic carnivorous thanator—poses continual dangers to RDA. Catalogued with unparalleled precision and access, this field guide provides highly detailed descriptions of the unique creatures and plants found on Pandora, the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, as well as RDA technology and weapons.

Eager to save the Earth, the activists have culled this information in hopes to expose the corporate greed and disregard for the native inhabitants and their environment that governs RDA's presence on the foreign moon.

This is the evidence in their case to save Pandora—and themselves.

You can kinda hear the "DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN!" after that conclusion.

if only they had the board lawyer power of ILX

Wait:

Pandora—a pristine and beautiful moon

It IS Endor!

Kinda appreciate how the aliens are giving us the finger here:

http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/0/9780061896750.jpg

David Lynch had like 5 movies in the 90s for which he couldn't drum up enough money (10-20m).

but 500m for 3d furry porn is doable.

"When the monkeyfurrycatpeople die, everybody gonna cry."

and that they all look and talk alike and possess the same language

arrrgh fuck off

:-D

Hey look what I found at Target:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_gx9UOgOAfb0/Sxb_rKzeH7I/AAAAAAAAAow/kqZ2mAocQQI/s512/IMG_0652.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_gx9UOgOAfb0/Sxb_sVnFn-I/AAAAAAAAAo4/iKzkaPJgpfE/IMG_0653.JPG

it looks like they are in the big womb things that keanu wakes up in during teh matrix

hate this movie solely for ruining my ability to appreciate this shade of blue ever again

Future bargain bin finds xp

So is the audience meant to take the side of nine foot tall furries over humans?

Let's see, it's been 24 hours, there should be a slew of stupid new quotes and behold:

Cameron, whose filmmaking has always been notable for its technological innovations, explained it simply: “I basically sat down and put everything in this that I ever wanted to see in a movie – and that’s why it’s such a grab-bag of visual concepts.”

With a cup of coffee in hand and looking relaxed and in a pair of jeans and casual shirt, he was talking in his private projection room after screening 30 minutes of Avatar to a small invited group. It is impossible not to be fascinated and enthralled by his action-filled 3D vision of adventure and battles in an iridescent jungle on an alien planet, where hideous, dragon-like creatures appear to leap off the screen, flora and fauna wave in the air and a heroic avatar does battle with a pterodactyl-like beast before subduing it and soaring off on its back.

“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.”

And what's today, kids?!?!

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/a/avatar/live_stream/448x252.jpg

The time is here folks. Stop reading and proceed directly to the MTV Movies home page. Why? Don't you know by now?!!?!?!? "Avatar" director James Cameron, along with stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are answering questions from fans -- submitted on MTV.com or via the Facebook event page -- about the movie in a special MTV live stream event.

What are you still doing here? Go watch (starting at 3pm EST/12pm PST)!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_NAXpDHZ4

“Yes,” Cameron said flatly. “They have to have tails.”

for someone whos hair is on fire, she doesn't seem fazed. she does have boobs tho

Oh wait, another one from that first link:

“We’re telling the story of what happens when a technologically superior culture comes into a place with a technologically inferior indigenous culture and there are resources there that they want,” said Cameron. “It never ends well.

“It’s also a love story about an awakening of perception through the other person. That person must teach him something and there has to be a greater reason for him to be in love with her other than she’s a hot blue alien chick.”

I hope this means an introductory scene where they tell Sam Worthington's character they picked him because of his hot blue chick fetish.

If you have such an unfortunate fetish, this movie must be a godsend. "Finally, something for ME."

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,390,000 for smurf fetish. (0.55 seconds)

oh god no

Hey, we had the corner on blue-skin fetishes first!

http://www.trekp.com/posters/gw051-andorians.jpg

bonus points to whoever can rustle up the first porn cartoons of these smug blue motherfuckers

Based on that quote from Cameron, he already did those cartoons when he was 15.

andorians?

The more you know... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorian

In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, four-person Andorian marriages were extrapolated into four sexes--the two roughly male thaan and chan, and the two female-like shen and zhen. The novels imply that the rarity of compatible foursomes produced extremely low reproduction rates which, in tandem with genetic weaknesses, led to the species' near extinction.

"That person must teach him something and there has to be a greater reason for him to be in love with her other than she’s a hot blue alien chick"

You are one sick puppy, Mr. Cameron.

http://www.sonofmacenstein.com/images/blue_paul1.jpg

Is there really a race of blue people?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/17-12/ff_avatar_cameron2_f.jpg

You think for the amount of money Cameron has to play with he could afford something a bit nicer than a friggin' Behringer Eurorack mixer.

Sigourney doesn't look all that into 3d smurfs.

A clip of Sigourney and Giovanni that will make your brain bleed:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=12414

omg i want this to fail so badly
i normally don't have these feelings
but i'm going to say i want this to fail
that clip is so bad

so you can pick up unobtainium, but you can't sit it on a desk, it has to hover on a special levitation coaster?