New AVATAR trailer....
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EdelBrock wrote: of course, when they need a tough, badass, smarter individual... they are always Marines
Ah YEAH!!:D
EdelBrock wrote: of course, when they need a tough, badass, smarter individual... they are always Marines
...as played by Australians...
Finally gives a kind of explination as to the story line, but still looks pretty shit and cheesy. i'm a mug for technology though i'll still go to an imax to see it in 3-D
Well I think it looks nice talking of the FX, but I'm not into those pathos movies with "bad guy turns to understanding good guy on the other side". We'll show that in 3-D at my working place and I suppose it will become THE x-mas adventure for almost the whole family (not for the small ones I suppose). Which means a lot of work for me and my colleagues :\ohwell: .
CTB wrote:
EdelBrock wrote: of course, when they need a tough, badass, smarter individual... they are always Marines
...as played by Australians...
Exeter wrote: meh.....
my first impression also... trailer makes it seem almost like a parody.
I hope/presume the dated looking CGI works way better in the cinema than on youtoob. Looks like some crappy kids console game
I keep seeing trailers of this, and it looks like a fucking Muppets/Fraggle Rock/Never-ending Story wank movie with shit loads of CGI, and no bloody Limahl.
Someone please watch the damn thing (the most expensive movie in history??) and tell me I'm wrong.
Cheers..
Burt.
x
WOW! its like dances with wolves but with BLUE KITTIES!!!
Its gonna be a meeeow of a good time!
Burt Reynolds wrote: I keep seeing trailers of this, and it looks like a fucking Muppets/Fraggle Rock/Never-ending Story wank movie with shit loads of CGI, and no bloody Limahl.
Someone please watch the damn thing (the most expensive movie in history??) and tell me I'm wrong.
Cheers..
Burt.
x
Never Ending Story! that's it, i knew it reminded me of something!
I've just got back from "Where the Wild Things Are". I'd forget "Avatar" and go and see this instead.
Would make a perfect double-bill with "Let the Right One In". Just perfect.
eskamiyä wrote: WOW! its like dances with wolves but with BLUE KITTIES!!!
That's exactly what I expect. But I suppose I won't watch it anyway. Even if it's in 4D or 5D.
If you didn't know it was for a movie you would almost think that ad was for a dorky video game.
Video games try to imitate the movie experience, but Cameron thought he would make a movie of the video game experience?
Unless this is really big with the kids or the trailer is deliberately editing out aspects of the story to make it seem just a simple cliched action/ adventure fantasy (they of course will dumb down trailers for the masses), it seems like a potential to be labeled a bust.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: I've just got back from "Where the Wild Things Are". I'd forget "Avatar" and go and see this instead.
Would make a perfect double-bill with "Let the Right One In". Just perfect.
Aye, Let The Right One In is a good film
eskamiyä wrote: WOW! its like dances with wolves but with BLUE KITTIES!!!
That recent South Park - "Dances With Smurfs" - was supposed to be a dig at Avatar, wasn't it?
They said so on BBC Breakfast so it must be true. 
What a fucking amazing film! Took Jonny to see it at IMAX,which is the best place to watch it first. It's the first time I've seen 3D used to transport you into a film rather than just throw random stuff at you. Critics are gonna pull this apart for the blatancy of trying to replace actors.It's bollocks,expressions,emotions..every little tick is up there,because they're still driven by actors.So the NA'VI are basically actors' Avatars.Think of Gollom....but 7 ft tall! You actually forget ater a few minutes that they're not real.The way they move,the way light reflects on them No expense spared. From the opening shots of paraplegic Jake floating around in zero G,to the gunships,to PANDORA. Pandora is joy to behold, the floating "mountains" (what's that all about),to the glowing fauna. So when the bulldozers come in,let's say it's very easy to side with the natives. Sigourney Weaver's there,plus Michelle Rodriguez. Can't say a fave moment,there's too many,couple of pastiches in there,a good APOCALYPSE NOW shot of the general drinking coffee while firing on The Tree Of Life, a definite DANCES WITH WOLVES vibe, plus a reversal of the great ALIENS beast vs Powerloader "Come and have a pop at Daddy". Oh yeah the big battle! It's up there with the big LOTR Return of the KIng battle,aerial assault,mounted troops on six legged creatures,bow and arrows against powerloaders. Right I'll shut up now.
MONTY wrote: What a fucking amazing film! Took Jonny to see it at IMAX,which is the best place to watch it first.
Saw Superman 3D at an IMAX and swore never to see another movie there. Did they have you take on and off the glasses like they did for Superman? Were there also close ups of the actors where you felt more like a fly on a nose rather than watching a movie (couldn't get into a movie where a head is 40 feet tall)?
EdelBrock wrote:
MONTY wrote: What a fucking amazing film! Took Jonny to see it at IMAX,which is the best place to watch it first.
Saw Superman 3D at an IMAX and swore never to see another movie there. Did they have you take on and off the glasses like they did for Superman? Were there also close ups of the actors where you felt more like a fly on a nose rather than watching a movie (couldn't get into a movie where a head is 40 feet tall)?
No I saw SUPERMAN RETURNS at IMAX and a liitle "glasses" IKON came on at bottom of screen,to say when it was 3D. This was ALL 3D; and apart from one bit where Jake's running with his "new legs" and soil's thrown up in your face,the 3D actually complements the film,rather than be an excuse to throw stuff at you. It's gives a feel of immersion into the film,like the bit where he's met Neyriri his first Na'vi contact,and they're running along this huge tree branch,and either side of this branch there's an x-hundred foot drop. The PANDORA wildlife is something to behold,you'd expect a voiceover by David Attenborough,but all the creatures,big and small are just in the imagination of Cameron/WETA. His attention to detail spot on,whether it be mechanical,or the look on Jake's face after he has to come out of his Avatar back into his crippled body.
Lat IMAX film I witnessed was the Golden Compass, that film has turned me off the experience forever. More like the Golden plotless tbh. But Avatar is promising in a world of crap films, such as "Sherlock Holmes", what drivel.
Monsieur Round & Round wrote: Looks as fake as the first one. CGI is fast becoming yesterday's news...
Having said that, I'm going to see it next week. I just need to decide wether on 3D or on the more traditional 2D...
Monsieur Round & Round wrote:
Monsieur Round & Round wrote: Looks as fake as the first one. CGI is fast becoming yesterday's news...
Having said that, I'm going to see it next week. I just need to decide wether on 3D or on the more traditional 2D...
Got to see it in 3D!!
MONTY wrote:
Monsieur Round & Round wrote:
Monsieur Round & Round wrote: Looks as fake as the first one. CGI is fast becoming yesterday's news...
Having said that, I'm going to see it next week. I just need to decide wether on 3D or on the more traditional 2D...
Got to see it in 3D!!
saw it at the imax in manchestoh, still seeing blue and jungle shit
Saw it last night. Alas, I knew I wouldn't like it and I didn't. I detest the color blue.
To sum it up: Commando + Alien (+ new King Kong) in a world that is set right in your face to resemble that of an aquarium (corallike plants, flying jellifish & blue people).
Women are completely asexual, they have kinda boobs but they're covered. I guess Adam & Eve from planet Earth had something to do with it.
As for the film's idea, I'm afraid it's buried too deep under tons of napalm and debris of helicopters.
Did I tell you it's a long ass movie that lasts 2.5 hours.
A friend of mine saw it yesterday with his 2 sons. They all loved it.
I haven't seen it yet, and probably wont see it either.
saw The Road instead. great film. forget the smurfs, and i wont even mention the other stinker thats out.
It's a film where the visual effects detract from a scheme F story. Sad that a lot of people like it just because it's 3D.
Anyone here dare to tell me that I'm wrong and that it's an amazing new innovative story?? Would you have watched it if it has been just 2D?
Why didn't anyone go see "The Fountain" then? That's what I call "visual and story both amazing"-movie.
Sorry I'm working in a multiplex as most of you should know. And I don't get the hype. We have 2 (of our 14) cinemas with 3D technique and they are booked out for 2 days in advance (24/7) 
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Allez le bleus... 
*Edit: And let me guess who gets all the OSCARs.
In one great American word: AWESOME!
Disagree with the bunch of sneerers on the board, it does have a good storyline. But most importantly, its the first movie where 3D isn't a bunch of gimmicky crap... it is part of the movie. Some of the best classic novels spend time describing scenery, and that's what this movie does best. The depth of visual description on the background is unprecedented.
Definitely a must see in the theater, 2D dvd will take away from the best part of the movie... (which is far more than ooooh, aahhh CGI effects).
Went to see it today on Imax, jesus that film was shit, i'm still wiping the parmesan off my face it was that cheesy, i don't quite get what all the fuss is about to be honest,
The story is poor to say the least, and been done many times before. and alot quicker it was so drawn out.
The CGI is good,the landscape scenes were impressive but i just kept thinking as i was watching is this it, whens the blow me away stuff coming, and i didn't think it ever did.
i'll say one thing though, i've never seen such a diverse age group of people in a cinema, so Cameron has succeded on that level. and i guess so has 20th century fox's hype department.
Going to see it tonight, with my son. And a friend of mine and his son. In 3D.
Hopefully I'll have something good to say about it later.
Read today that Avatars grossed a billion dollars faster than any other movie
Thats all,as you were
Ok, it was pretty cool. A bit to long and all that, but pretty cool with the 3D thingy.
Kids loved it, and that's what matters for me.
I don't think I'll be rushing out to see Avatar.
But this looks shit-hot!
Big fan of the original,brilliant!First film I ever saw at the flicks.
Interested to see what they've done with this one
Release The Cracan!
Boatraceface wrote:
Big fan of the original,brilliant!First film I ever saw at the flicks. Interested to see what they've done with this one
Release The Cracan!
Ahhh... original was a Harryhausen stop-motion classic.
Saw it in 3D this afternoon. Certainly the most visually impressive film i've ever seen but the storyline didn't really give much of a lasting impression once out of the cinema.
Er, why did it take so long for a scenario to arise where Jake Sully's Avatar was out cold because Jake wasn't connected at that time when Netari or any of the N'avi or whatever they're called were awake? So every time Jake was disconnected from his avatar all the rest of the N'avi were asleep were they? Or maybe i wasn't paying full attention as usual.Only much later after Jake's avatar had spent a lot of time with Netari and the natives did the situation arise.
Final battle was impressive though, aye.
Burt Burterson wrote:
Boatraceface wrote:
Big fan of the original,brilliant!First film I ever saw at the flicks. Interested to see what they've done with this one
Release The Cracan!
Ahhh... original was a Harryhausen stop-motion classic.
A remake of a mythologically incorrect storyline? I could let it go for that one film, but they are going to persist with the meshing of Perseus, Jason and the Argonauts, and Hercules as one storyline? Would have much rather see the remake of this film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057197/
This had the best claymation skeleton warrior sword fight ever!
I thought the special effects were great. Threy really did bring Pandora and the Navi to life, and you can see the real actors' facial expressions.
However, the story was nothing special. It was OK, but a bit trite. I'd give the special effects maybe a 9 or 9.5, and the story a 6.
Avatar was well made, but a great shame that it was plotless once you take away erm... the plot from Dances With Wolves. It was the same story, but with blue cartoon people.
I wouldn't recommend seeing it unless it's on Film 4 and you have nothing better to do. Better still, just watch the director's cut of Dances With Wolves - far superior in every way, which is unusual for Kevin Costner.
Films that may appeal more and certainly did to me, were:
Inglourious Basterds (US "elite" troops in WWII lead by Brad Pitt - you think it's serious, then Tarantino's humour shines through. Interesting film)
An Education (Film 4 release, English production - 1960s, Young Girl "coming of age")
Waiting (A "Clerks" vibe - nothing happens, but it happens interestingly)
Paranormal ("Blair Witch" style, but better filmed and with more "scary bits")
Nothing But The Truth (True story of female journalist imprisoned in the US for refusing to divulge her sources)
Harry Brown (Michael Caine helps pensioners get their own back. And no, I'm not talking about urine soaked matresses)
Outlaw (Sean Bean, Bob Hoskins, Danny Dyer - amateurs become vigilantes - the younger man's version of "Harry Brown")
Vantage Point (Forrest Whittaker, Dennis Quaid - the same story told from several different vantage points. Keeps you guessing and the editing is pretty good too!)
