_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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.

interesting on the reviews...two dudes i work with saw about 1/2 hour of it at E3 and were raving about it, but i have been arguing with them ever since saying they were just being fan boys and shit cuzza the 3D and all. but who knows? maybe it is good.

mmmmMMRFMFFFMmmm.

Play some loud evil music, s1ocki. It'll distract you.

i feel like sigourney weaver in aliens where she's trapped in the lab by burke and she's banging on the glass and nobody can hear her tbh

Rupert Murdoch turns off the monitor...

bang 'em on the glass

(sorry)

in a 3d IMAX theater noone can hear you scream iirc

Pardon my dubiousness at suggestions I "...make sure you can say you were there when the future of cinema began." The real game-changers - from "Jaws" and "Star Wars" to "The Matrix" and even "Terminator 2" and "Titanic," to some degree - arrived without this kind of carefully managed hype.

Haters to the rear!

Haha, "Star Wars" started the whole practice of selling your event movie at sci-fi/comic conventions!

The real game-changers - from "Jaws" and "Star Wars" to "The Matrix" and even "Terminator 2" and "Titanic," to some degree - arrived without this kind of carefully managed hype.

i wasn't alive for "jaws" or "star wars", though i know that they had near-unprecedentedly large simultaneous releases (oi-oi), but dude you have got to be shitting me on the last three. they had the shit hyped outta them. if they felt "less present" it's mainly because they were pre-mass-uptake-of-the-internet so you didn't have them in your face at your work-station. but "titanic" was the most expensive film of all time (inflation possibly not adjusted) and "the matrix" was hailed *as a gamechanger* and so, really, was "terminator 2" for its effects work.

ya it's not like titanic quietly slipped into theaters and modestly blew everyone's minds

T2 was EVERYWHERE for awhile; I remember seeing it in the theaters on opening and then like six times more and the place was always packed
^HS SFX nerd

3 of those 5 movies are horrible

avatar more like ashitr

I'm too young to really remember the ad hype around "Jaws" or "Star Wars" but I do remember taking them as given facets of existence, like kitchens and driveways, so I infer from that that there was a significant amount of hype around both of them if it could reach through the consciousness of a 2/4-year-old living off of a gravel road out in the country.

can't believe your parents made you eat gravel

times were tough, we (literally) scraped by

what a rockin post

it made me grit my teeth

I hate my job

pebble

I was gonna make a joke about drinking a mr. pibb in france but then I just couldn't do it

"joke"

there's a pile of reviews on AICN now, so I'd say the embargo is effectively over.

wonderfully formed embargo

reviews are everywhere now

might as well spill the beans