Avatar (James Cameron) [SPOILERS]

[upsidedownwalrus]

10ft tall blue cats kissing each other. This is supposed to be revolutionary and instead it looks like an expensive episode of Thundercats.

It looks like it might actually make the Star Wars prequels look pretty impressive

 

[mwgdrwg]

The Avatar reminded me Nightcrawler from the awful teen Xmen cartoon...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Avatar reminded me Nightcrawler from the awful teen Xmen cartoon...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Hmm...not sure that trailed did much for me....looks like another expensive film with all the money spent on special effects that look like special effects.

 

[Jorum]

Dances With Wolves with aliens.

accurate review in 5 words
"Gone native" taken literally

 

[elevendayempire]

The plot is the exact same as DANCES WITH WOLVES. Its like every single 'white man saves the barbarians' movie out of Hollywood for the last 30 years.

This. It was written in the early 90s, and it reeks of that era's well-meaning but inept "Native Americans were all magical fairy beings in touch with Gaia" bollocks. Y'know, the stuff from Dances With Wolves and (to a lesser extent) Last of the Mohicans. I think Wes Studi even plays one of the Magical Native American Blue People.

I've seen the 15 minutes of footage. The CGI's very good, very photorealistic (and they'll never be able to turn off that switch in your head that tells you that 10ft tall Smurfs cannot possibly be real so you're always aware that it's CG). All this talk about Avatar's 3D being the Future of Cinema is bollocks, though; looked okay when it's still, but as soon as it starts moving it goes all blurry/flickery. The design work's not that innovative; Colonial Marines from Aliens versus the tall Martians from John Carter of Mars (and they're called the Na'vi - FUCKING RANDOM APOSTROPHES, one of my Shit Sci-Fi bugbears).

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Last of the Mohicans wasn't like that actually. It actually showed the Native Americans as just as raw and warlike as the whites. Good film.

This looks dreadful though. Cameron's past it. The big directors of today are Nolan and Abrams...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It looks fucking awful, like an Azimov book cover.

 

[rhod]

It looks like it might actually make the Star Wars prequels look pretty impressive

Now, that's a bit below the belt

 

[likesfish]

hmm mysterious aliens with wierd powers what do we do now sarge?

orbital bombardment time init
then we kill anybody who's left.
bit of an OCP unless you have some seriously hidden firepower or the culture turn up on your side

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Now, that's a bit below the belt

 

[Beanburger]

hmm mysterious aliens with wierd powers what do we do now sarge?

orbital bombardment time init
then we kill anybody who's left.
bit of an OCP unless you have some seriously hidden firepower or the culture turn up on your side

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

 

[likesfish]

but your just a grunt no offense
would'nt make much of a movie Captain Blackadder leads a regiment that discovers a beutiful new planet populated by exotic aliens armed with a wide variety of alien fruit and uses them as railgun targets

 

[Beanburger]

but your just a grunt no offense

I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

 

[fubert]

I think if we all look into our hearts, and think for a moment, we'll all come the conclusion that a couple of films aside, James Cameron is really pretty shit..

 

[Beanburger]

I think if we all look into our hearts, and think for a moment, we'll all come the conclusion that a couple of films aside, James Cameron is really pretty shit..

Heretic!

 

[gsv]

The most optimistic spin I can put on this is that the CG still has a lot of work to go.

GS(v)

 

[gabi]

The most optimistic spin I can put on this is that the CG still has a lot of work to go.

GS(v)

Apparently it got a standing ovation at comic con. So the 3D must be REALLY good. Or they must have handed out a shitload of free booze before the screening.

 

[PacificOcean]

What's different about this 3D than that is already in cinemas now with those Disney and Horror films in 3D?

 

[gabi]

What's different about this 3D than that is already in cinemas now with those Disney and Horror films in 3D?

He's developed a new camera.. Not sure about the technical details..

 

[Santino]

Saw the trailer for this. It looks dreadful.

 

[mwgdrwg]

There's an exclusive 3 minute clip available on the Xbox 360's new Zune marketplace.

It's unfathomably shit

Avatar out-shouts an enormous beastie...then says something to the effect of "Yo Bitch, wanna piece of me"! I was cringing. Also, there's a Sigourney Weaver alien and all I could do was look at it's Sigourney Weaver Teeth.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I'd love this to be good.

 

[kyser_soze]

I think if we all look into our hearts, and think for a moment, we'll all come the conclusion that a couple of films aside, James Cameron is really pretty shit..

Not really:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116/

 

[100% masahiko]

I'm so waiting for this...Avatar looks like my kinda film...then Cameron has had a major influence on my sci-fi childhood.

 

[ChrisFilter]

It's going to be unmitigated tosh, but I'm going to fucking LOVE it

 

[g force]

I'm of this opinion...it will be shite and psuedo-intellectual preachy envrio shite at that. Still gonna go to the cinema to watch it

 

[kyser_soze]

It'll either do a Titanic (which everyone said was going to be shit, then went on to be the highest grossing film ever) or it'll sink without a trace.

I suspect it'll be the former - Cameron has a knack for being able to make genre films which appeal to a really wide demographic.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It's going to be unmitigated tosh, but I'm going to fucking LOVE it

Thing is though, there's unmitigated tosh, and then there's cack-handed allegory. This looks like being the latter...

 

[DotCommunist]

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