_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

Holding out on us! So is it any good?

is it a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation

did it change blue people porn forever

we're not actually "allowed" to say anything directly/publicly about it until Dec 18 (at least in canada)
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but we're not in Canada!

Non-disclosure agreement, guys. It's like the Dr Who threads - I just have to sit on my hands, shaking my head slowly.

Everything everyone has said upthread is factually correct.

this, my dears, is the internet!

Rrrobyn, take a boat to the middle of Lake Ontario and broadcast the news in the great land of freedom of speech.

I shall report back on the Prem, yeah? Without mentioning the xxxmin we spend all facing the same way.

(xxx = I'm probably not even allowed to say how long it is).

I would just like to point out that this question was posted before MJones's penultimate post:

is it a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation

so I am assuming the answer is an emphatic "YES"

james cameron is watching the internet
AND he's canadian! ooooeeeooo

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it is the americans who make these embargos re: hollywood movies in the first place!

Fine, blame us.

then TELL US

You know it sucks.

well yes, but precisely HOW does it suck

thanking youuuuu Dan

Yes, we want to count the ways. xp

shall i compare thee to a miserable day

Actually, not being able to contribute to this thread in any substantial way has been nothing like as excruciating as last summer's The Happening thread. Oh, boy. I really was bursting to tell people about that.

So it doesn't suck but isn't very good.

wink twice if it sucks

xpost once if it doesn't

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2243240/leak-main_Full.jpg

You should go see it when it comes out. You all should.

Maybe it's a movie that plays better in French.

oh come on I'm not giving James Cameron any of my money

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You should go see it when it comes out. You all should.

Don't you see, the embargo WANTS you to say things like this!

what happens if you do have an opinion btw? hunted down by a terminator? someone blows up goodison park? all your friends and family are subjected to torture via blue furry porno?

Shot thru a building on the end of a missile IIRC

i'm pretty sure that movie publicists are in fact terminators

i'm download this because floating rocks and blue tits look better at low bitrate - more left to the imagination. hopefully i'll find a foreign language version with english subtitles to really enhance the magic.

Can you say if it's better than Delgo?

i saw this.
and feel a need to share that completely neutral fact delivered in an emotion-free and criticism-devoid tone.
back dec 18.

LOL i signed a non-disclosure thing once before a test screening of Natural Born Criminals in Seattle but I hated it so goddamn much I wrote a review in The Stranger the next week...

Obv I had no plans to be a movie reviewer tho

Various Twitter responses posted here.

Sorry, Natural Born Killers, duh

fucking piece of shit.

well, unless those are all socks I guess my optimism was at least a wee bit justified?

thanks for making my hollywoodlaw-abiding ways even more painful to me, ned

i dont think they mind when you effusively OMFG!!!! yr twitter, right?

wanna draft an agreement that you can positively review avatar whenever, otherwise u gotta stfu forever.

"You have officially been to your last Con in which blue people, spoken Navi and the word "hometree" were absent."

there's this bullshit on the guardian tonight: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/10/james-cameron-avatar-preview

i assume most of the british tabloids will have a 100 words on the film itself in their celeb section report of the premiere tomorrow too. the sun already has some stuff, i think.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/2765598/We-get-first-look-at-3D-blockbuster-Avatar.html

haha yeah i guess in the age of the internet they totally expect a breach tbh

'You have officially been to your last Con in which blue people, spoken Navi and the word "hometree" were absent.'

This is extremely useful because it clearly demarcate who will want to see this movie.

The near-impossibility of faithfully bootlegging a 3D polarized movie must have been a huge selling point for the movie execs.

I hope 'hometree' is Avatar's attempt at inventing hipster slang.

All I can is, when they all lined up on stage, Ms Weaver was tallest. Then we watched a film.

Ms Weaver is so awesome
i mean, generally, obv

lol embargo

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/avatar-film-review-1004052868.story