Not sure if I see a moneyshot here... Concerning.
http://avatar.substance001.info/

It is my understanding that it's the 3-D that really sells this movie, but you're right, no money shot. It looks nice, but not light years ahead of humanity. It doesn't look that much ahead of the curve of that nonsense Zemeckis has kept himself occupied with instead of making real movies. And I'm only saying this based on this one trailer, but I can't imagine that this is a movie that would appeal to the masses to justify it's massive budget.

Also, this is the lamest character design ever:

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Meesa worried...

...at San Diego Comic-con. They worshipped Camereon there. Sigorney Weaver, "I'm not a terminator" australian dude, the black girl who plays the blue girl, and the military guy were all on the panel.

Any-who. The 3D effects were good and so were the animations. The facial expression in particular looked very expressive and real. However I got the feeling that if you took dark crystal, dances with wolves, and the smurfs together and mixed it up in a blender, you'd have someting like Avatar. It all seemed kind of already done. I'll definitely go see the movie, but I don't know how mind blowing revolutionary it will be.

Odd Marc.

Dug the hitler post link alot... thx yo

Haha I noticed! The Ferngully reference is really what sold it for me.

New Trailer...

I'll see it no matter what.

That trailer is so much better.

I thought all the hype was for Avatar: the Last Airbender. That's really gonna rock.

No, that will for sure be awful.

"Amazing looking 3D"? Really?

That's sooooo 1998.

He kind of lost me when he claimed that 'It will revolutionize the way movies are made' whenever people say that they are up their own ass.

I heard that the movie begins when they land and find alien eggs but people become the aliens this time, then a huge battle against aliens takes place and this all happens on a sinking ship.
Sounds like a typical James Cameron movie to me.

Avatar better live up to the hype.... Please live up to the hype, because not many do.

Uh oh...



A song from Avatar.... yikes...

Well... I wanted to make some kind of correlation between the song being about seeing 'you' and he crazy eyes that seem to follow you wherever you go, but I just can't seem to come up with anything.

This film can go either way. And in "way" I am referring to the fact the hype could destroy this film (remember Star Wars Episode I?) or this film will literally blow peoples minds. When I bought 'The Matrix' for my sister years ago, I thought it would be shit. I was dead wrong. I would go and see Avatar and judge for myself.

The hype didn't ruin Episode I, the fact that it was a really, really shitty movie did.

"The hype didn't ruin Episode I, the fact that it was a really, really shitty movie did."

Hehe.

I fell for the hype on Episode I. It nearly kept me from being able to watch II and III. I've so far fallen for the hype on Avatar. Looking forward to seeing it, but I'll wait for the first round of moviegoers to respond first.

Yeah I'm going with the wait and see approach also, it doesn't help that we're expected to get 20" of snow around here this weekend. It's like the snow gods are telling me not to see it.

And yes I know for all you northerners 20" doesn't seem like that much but for Baltimore it's a damn Ice Age.

You're right 20" (50.8 cm) is nothing. I'm in Ottawa,Ontario and currently we are in the second day of a cold snap. I don't mind the snow, and the mild temperatures (-2 C to -10 C) I can handle, but its the "Death Cold" that I hate (-25 C or below with Windchill factor).

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caon0512

All and all I think waiting it out and hearing what other people thought of the film is a good idea. No point wasting your $10 on a shitty movie.

Take care.

Hey Dante. The third photo (the floating blocks of land) reminds of another CG animated series: Sky Land

http://www.skylandtv.com/main.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyland

So just saw this in 3-D. Yikes, uhh, not good. Often pretty, but I never want to see it again.

Dante can you elaborate on your last comment? As if you haven't posted enough in this thread already....

What would you like to know?

I know the nay sayers have been out in full force for this one but I still wanted to see it. I always go to the hyped up, "tent-pole" movies.

I'm well aware of the "Dances With Smurfs" joke, but I didn't really care because most things borrow from something else, right? Well, I was a little surprised, because this isn't borrowing. It's literally the exact same story. Except that all of the characters are dull as dirt and the dialogue is often eye rollingly bad.

The movie is very pretty to look at and technically the neatest looking cartoon I've seen yet. But I was hoping for some interaction between the real and the fabricated, and there is almost zero. You are either watching live action, or you are watching a cartoon. No in between.

If you just love seeing things in 3D, then by all means, that is the print you need to see. But the 3D adds nothing new here as has been advertised. This movie doesn't do anything different with 3D than Up or A Christmas Carol did. It's just a movie brought to 3D after the fact.

Also, found it boring. Style over substance is okay sometimes, but this flick can't shake the fact that it's just dull. If you aren't watching this in a big theater or IMAX with your 3D specs, it is flat out not wort watching at all. There is zero entertainment value without a helluva lot of technical help to boost it up. By contrast, I could watch something like Terminator 2 on my little 19 inch TV in my kitchen, and still be entertained. Though I wouldn't sit in front of it to see 20 minutes of Avatar.

I will have to see it to find out what is so visually stunning about it. From the stills and character designs nothing is visually appealing to me right now, but that could change.

I heard about the 3D being "new" and "different" and with all the 3D movies I've seen I wondered how it could be.

Like I read in another review online, the writers in Hollywood have been outnumbered by the Special FX guys.

It's gorgeous. The character designs for the Na'vi are dopey, yes. But Pandora is a completely realized world. It is breathing with life. Every bit of wildlife, from the animals to the forrest itself is incredibly creative, beautiful to look at and superbly animated.

Hit submit too soon.

Basically, it is technically leaps and bounds above anything else in that aspect. It looks real. I feel that anyone who watches the movie and takes a "been there, seen that" or "it sucks" type attitude to the technology on display is simply naysaying just to go against the grain.

That's the answer I was looking for. Thanks