_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

I'd go.

Avatard

A bit disappointing, really.

Lulz at "Avetar"...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/

maybe corny

the cgi blue "people" look pretty cgi

duh i guess. some nice visuals otherwise.

funny how District 9 which cost maybe a 10th of what this cost still has better looking cgi characters.

cgi cgi cgi

So much for the "revolutionary" CGI. Looks like one big video game cut-scene

AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The film was first conceived by Cameron 14 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers 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.

Every time I see this title I think it's that Bruce Willis Second Life spoof.

cue ishtar joke?

wow does this ever (unexpectedly) look like one of those cheap direct-to-video super-scifi cheap CGI thingies.

no sign of the "whole new world of real-feeling characters thing". seems way more Polar Express than gollum...

will the .1 of 5.1 be used to immerse us in this bold, new vision???

Kind of gives off a Matrix sequels vibe too. Maybe it's the dreadlocks

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uFjeiKOmMxQ/SnpLPhyv-II/AAAAAAAABHk/KYSRmzX773E/s400/Avatar+Action+Figure.jpg

http://cache-foo-02.gawkerassets.com/gawker/assets/images/8/2009/08/504x_Avatar-48.jpg

this looks so fruity

http://www.cultflicks.net/wp-content/uploads/finalfantasythespiritswithin2001.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9LW53BBFuek/So2komr4tlI/AAAAAAAAAag/evAEh5rADxI/s400/Avatar001.png

lol roger dean

Best summary of the trailer I've read so far: "Ferngully with guns."

hahahaha otm

Preview reminds me of the slow build-up that worked so well in Aliens and (yes) Titanic. Second half looks like a '69 Nam hookah trip.

This ... looks terrible.

The preview is unpromising, but I wouldn't mind being proved wrong. At least it seems ambitious, which after a long summer of nothing-but-sequels as far as mainstream Hollywood big budget, high concept stuff goes, is kind of refreshing.

I'm with you on that, sciolism - watched the trailer quite a few times and I've gone from initial "meh", to thinking this might actually be pretty cool. It also feels a bit premature to dismiss it from a 2 minute trailer on a 19" computer monitor when it's been made to be watched in IMAX 3D.

i just hate the quasi-furry design of the characters..gross gross gross

like the part where the main dude is grinning in the lab says "this is great"...it's ugh ugh ugh uncanny valley creepy to the max (plus mongoloid eyes and stupid fantasy kangaroo ears)

amazing how far we have progressed since this

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TA56OMBmFyA/Sbjg_5jSgdI/AAAAAAAAAJA/XvsLJ08COZg/s400/232980-jar_jar_binks_large.jpeg

I mean, I could easily torrent some old shitty Thundercats episodes if I had some burning need to see anthropomorphic tiger-people shoot bows and arrows at each other.

Cameron's done some cool stuff with creatures...the aliens in The Abyss were neat!

Why does this shit have to look so much like a lame-ass fantasy novel cover?

Bleaurgh.

Bleaurgh.

Bleaurgh!

"If we make money, I guarantee there will be more," Cameron said. "If we don't, we'll pretend it never happened."

it may be two years old, but I still love this touching display of pride in yr work.

http://img.denihilation.com/delgovatar.html

what the hell is delgo

i think your question answers your question

they do reminds me of the Mission To Mars alien a bit :[

the second half of the trailer looks like an ad for herbal tea

Worst thing imo is the font, absolutely hideous.

thought they would write it

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And this didn't look cheesy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHXIIyd8nM

Avatar isn't a kids film tho

Well hey, they already released the videogame tie-in:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-08/48772041.jpg

http://www.avclub.com/articles/floppiest-flop-case-file-126-delgo,16751/

Bender the Magnificent

23 Dec. 2008 | 5:04 PM CST

You're a mindless idiot.

The steadily mounting reactions from an apparent Israeli screening of some "Avatar" footage has been resoundingly negative. FWIW:

https://twitter.com/cinemascopian

^from that "we might have another Speed Racer on our hands here".

I AM NOW PSYCHED!

Looks stupid.

That looks JUST A BIT Kincade in space.

what a horrifying reveal. The guy who made such cold, dark science fiction is now making a garish, tacky fantasy starring furries.

How come there are giant rocks that can hover but the guy is stuck in a wheelchair?

Also, Papyrus font has been a no no for at least ten years now.

I'm excited for the new one too but I can look at enormous CGI trees and characters jumping on floating rocks all day. I understand 200% why people would get nothing out of this franchise

I enjoyed the first one fine at the time but have barely thought about it since and can’t imagine spending an entire career on this thinly imagined nonsense.

the coded racial stuff felt v icky & outdated to me in 2009, its hard for me to imagine it playing any better in 2022

My wife hadn’t seen Avatar and we started watching it together recently. After an hour she didn’t understand why she was watching a boring film that looks like a video game without the fun of being able to play it and decided to stop watching – and I totally got her point.

xp

I mean it’s not particularly sophisticated in its deployment, but ‘industrialized colonists v. naturist natives’ is kind of an archetype and I’m not sure what coded racial stuff is in there that’s particularly icky? Seemed intentionally broad. Unless you’re referring to something specific that I’m forgetting.

I liked Avatar. I mean a lot’s been written about how it made a bazillion dollars yet made absolutely minimal cultural impact considering. It did evaporate off of me almost immediately. But, y’know, had fun seeing it in IMAX, good spectacle, action set pieces were solid.

I’m actually kinda stoked for Part 2. I’m a sucker for underwater shit.

I rode the 3D Avatar ride at Disney World in February and it was awesome. It made me want to see another Avatar movie. (Because it would be a lot cheaper than going to Disney World again.)

Avatar: The Way Of Holding Your Water:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-runtime-1235251391/

Film expert Gregg Turkington (as seen on AMC) just called this the greatest movie of all time

nonsense. that would have to be either The Greatest Show on Earth or The Greatest Story Ever Told.