Is anyone excited? It's getting glowing reviews- currently 90% on rotten tomatoes, in spite of all the hype over it for the last couple of years.

 

Apparently they worked with WETA to even get rid of the last of the uncanny valley that's been plaguing CG humanoids this decade, and the alien world is more fully realized than most anything before.

 

I wasn't sure about it when I started hearing about it, but it seems like most of my reservations have been taken care of. Now I'm hoping the plot is strong enough to carry the burden of both the hype and the concept.

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8]YouTube- Avatar Movie Trailer [HD][/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDQoXEBkGw]YouTube- AVATAR - Official International Launch Trailer (HD)[/ame]

It looks awful, but some of it was filmed in New Zealand so I'll watch it.

Yeah, the trailers seem to really suck. Everyone hates them and then says that they leave out everything good about the movie.

 

You'd think with a 3 or 5 hundred million dollar movie they could at least hire someone competent to do the PR. :tongue:

Shit movie

 

Shit director

 

Shit 3D

 

Shit.

 

I really hate the whole idea of the film and I hate the idea of 3D technology becoming the norm, so basically this can fuck off :nice:

I don't really like those kinds of movies, but this one looks really stupid. :\

Plus I hate that CG crap.

^^ This..

Actually, after watching the second trailer you posted, it doesn't seem that bad.

Ok seriously, I posted the trailers for visual aids only. They are bad. Don't judge by them.

 

Plus I hate that CG crap.

What about Gollum?

 

This is the same people with an updated version of the same technology. It's more like an actor with a cg suit on than one of those souless Zemeckis dolls.

I did want to see this at first. And honestly now, I don't. :confused: I don't know, just grew out of me.

I'll have to see it... :shrug:

So excited to see this movie:nice:

 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/

I don't get it honestly.

I might go see it,.......

I don't get it honestly.

What exactly don't you get? (I mean that curiously, not aggressively.) To survive on a toxic alien planet, future humans grow alien bodies for themselves so they can interact with the local population. The main character goes to sleep as a human and wakes up as an alien. And then goes native, Dances with Wolves style.

 

The way I see it and based on what I've heard, it's a story about an alien world- a moon in Alpha Centauri's solar system. It has microgravity and a consistent environment formed around that. Everything I've seen has actually been designed based on function, making it seem (if impossible) very, very real and plausible. Based on the environment, an 11-foot elongated sentient blue species sort of makes sense.

 

And then it became the most expensive movie ever made so it could look real too. In 3d.

 

No one has ever done that before: put an immerseive, consistant, and consistently alien world up on screen with an appropriately big budget.

 

Like a lot of the critics have been saying, until someone invents holo-technology or perfects space travel, it just might be the closest we'll get anytime soon to seeing a convincing alien world for ourselves. For people like me who have dreams of that, it's exciting. :dance: :dance: :dance:

What exactly don't you get? (I mean that curiously, not aggressively.)

 

Hahaha! Its funny how things sound when written down. Uhh thats all...

i have to see it to check out what´s the deal with this movie... but i don´t think it´s too awful... i like the actor :wink3:

Looks horrible.

I can immerse myself in a world without the gimmick of 3D technology.

I can immerse myself in a world without technology at all. :p In fact I do frequently. Heck, I should be the one who wrote the movie- elements of it are so close to dreams I've had and he based it on one of his dreams...

 

But I do think it's interesting that the first really good 3D I ever saw was one of the undersea documentaries at IMAX about 15 years ago, right after our IMAX theatre opened. I was enthralled. It was like actually being there underwater. Cameron has been spending all this time doing deep sea diving and filming documentaries. What he saw underwater had a huge influence on the world in the movie, and it's been shot in imax 3D. It's like it's come full-circle.

Avatar has been getting some poor reviews in the UK. It came out today so I went to see it. Overall I'd give it 8/10, a bit long for a CG film and the plot seems to wander but some great imagination. Don't think I'll see it on DVD though.

The fact that James Cameron has been working on it for over a decade actually has me curious. That's a damn long time for a movie.

this movie in 3D is awesome!!! :D

 

my fave are the scenes with the floating mountains area.

 

however, story wise, it's good only. got loads of elements of James Cameron's other movies. & the plot's rather predictable...plus a bit on the long side for an action movie.

I wondered why so many people thought it looks horrible, despite the fact it hadn't been released.

 

And then today I saw the trailers on sky movies. And yes, it looks horrible.

 

The action scenes are the worst, and really fail to capture any real excitement or danger, the movement is typical CGI and floaty.

I see no point to this film, just a bunch of (apparently amazing) special effects and a ton of money in its budget.

 

I bet movies I have seen made for a few hundred thousand are much much better.

Not too keen on the story, but I would like to see this in IMAX.

 

Heh. The nearest IMAX theatre is in... Amsterdam? :freak:

 

Crap.