_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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

161 minutes...

It's every fairy tale about flying dragons, magic plants, weirdly hypnotic creepy-crawlies and feral dogs rolled up into a rain forest with a highly advanced spiritual design.

Should be on the poster, that.

Ned, is there an IMAX in Irvine?

How long until we have AI-CGI, generative movies that essentially make themselves? That seems to be where we're heading.

but who would be there to tell the computer that the characters need boobs, and if they already have them, they should be bigger?

are the trade papers powerful enough to where the studios won't enforce an embargo on them? Variety

we already have that; it's called world of warcraft xxp

i totally saw this already but i'm a class act and won't break the embargo even after it's released.

I didn't realize so many ILXors are film critics!

Read a film thread and see.

Ned, is there an IMAX in Irvine?

Yup, down at the Spectrum.

I've read them, but I thought people were just enthusiastic about movies.

no they are film critics

Violating an embargo will *at most* earn you a nuisance lawsuit that gets thrown out but leaves you with a legal bill for having to go that far (not against the law, tbh), and will *at least* get you blackballed by an annoyed publicist who has already negotiated exclusives across the media. For some publications/people, a flout is a snide way of saying 'actually we don't need you or your cheesy clients'.

In his months with the Na'vi, Jake experiences their life as the "true world" and that inside his crippled body locked in a coffin-like transponding device, where he can control his avatar, is as the "dream." The switch to the other side is gradual for his body remains with the human colony while his consciousness is sometimes elsewhere.

^^^^^ review written by cameron's groundbreakin ProlixRobotix AI movie reviewing technology. no humans or writers necessary.

Really looking forward to this tbh. Today I bought tickets for two showings.

The word is good:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6786507/Avatar-The-first-reviews.html

5 stars from both Empire and Total Film as well, which was to be expected really. Even so...

So, this is like The Matrix, right?

I'm not a critic, I just have a very low status job within the film & TV industry, somewhere between mucking out Trigger's stables and ironing Gok Wan's shirts. I worked pretty hard (in my own tiny way) on this film, hence the prem invite.