Happy Face 29 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Director James Cameron has unveiled the first glimpse of his highly anticipated new 3D film Avatar at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam. Film industry workers were treated to 24 minutes of footage from the movie about a battle on a distant planet. Despite a media ban reporting on the clips shown, people at the event posted anonymously online that the footage was "jaw-dropping" and "stunning". Avatar is released in cinemas in the UK and US on 18 December. Speaking at the event, James Cameron said: "Three years ago, I stood up here and said the 3D renaissance is coming and from what we've seen in the business, we can now say it has arrived." In introducing the footage, Cameron said much of it came from the first third of the film but that there were also glimpses from unfinished portions of later battle scenes involving warring sides clashing over control of the fantasy world Pandora. 'Amazing visuals' Cast members including Sigourney Weaver, Terminator Salvation's Sam Worthington, and Star Trek's Zoe Saldana were also present to talk about their characters in the film. Industry newspaper Hollywood Reporter, which was one of only two media outlets in attendance, reported that the clips were met by a standing ovation. One Twitter user, who was also at the event wrote: "This will change movies forever," while another said: "Footage from Avatar was stunning, literally jaw-dropping. Amazing visuals unlike any before seen, with incredible detail." An anonymous industry insider told movie website IESB.net: "It makes me want to create a time machine like Cartman from South Park, so that I don't have to wait until 18 December to watch the finished movie. "If it's anything like the scenes I saw, it's going to be one of the best movies of the decade." Filmed using a mix of CGI, motion-capture animation and live action, Avatar is Cameron's first feature film project since 1997's Titanic. It has reportedly cost $300m (£181m) to make. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8116494.stm Not content with Aliens, Terminator and Terminator 2 (and to a lesser extent The Abyss and Xenogenesis), seems he could be about to do it again. Best Sci-Fi director ever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Director James Cameron has unveiled the first glimpse of his highly anticipated new 3D film Avatar at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam. Film industry workers were treated to 24 minutes of footage from the movie about a battle on a distant planet. Despite a media ban reporting on the clips shown, people at the event posted anonymously online that the footage was "jaw-dropping" and "stunning". Avatar is released in cinemas in the UK and US on 18 December. Speaking at the event, James Cameron said: "Three years ago, I stood up here and said the 3D renaissance is coming and from what we've seen in the business, we can now say it has arrived." In introducing the footage, Cameron said much of it came from the first third of the film but that there were also glimpses from unfinished portions of later battle scenes involving warring sides clashing over control of the fantasy world Pandora. 'Amazing visuals' Cast members including Sigourney Weaver, Terminator Salvation's Sam Worthington, and Star Trek's Zoe Saldana were also present to talk about their characters in the film. Industry newspaper Hollywood Reporter, which was one of only two media outlets in attendance, reported that the clips were met by a standing ovation. One Twitter user, who was also at the event wrote: "This will change movies forever," while another said: "Footage from Avatar was stunning, literally jaw-dropping. Amazing visuals unlike any before seen, with incredible detail." An anonymous industry insider told movie website IESB.net: "It makes me want to create a time machine like Cartman from South Park, so that I don't have to wait until 18 December to watch the finished movie. "If it's anything like the scenes I saw, it's going to be one of the best movies of the decade." Filmed using a mix of CGI, motion-capture animation and live action, Avatar is Cameron's first feature film project since 1997's Titanic. It has reportedly cost $300m (£181m) to make. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8116494.stm Not content with Aliens, Terminator and Terminator 2 (and to a lesser extent The Abyss and Xenogenesis), seems he could be about to do it again. Best Sci-Fi director ever? Yes. Aliens, T1 and T2 along with the monumental Abyss were all benchmark movies for me. Although Ridley Scott's 'Alien" is still the best of that franchise imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Happy Face 29 Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 I thought you'd have placed the combined efforts of Alien and Bladerunner higher. ...which would have been a mistake because Ridley Scott's a div Pitfall well avoided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I thought you'd have placed the combined efforts of Alien and Bladerunner higher. ...which would have been a mistake because Ridley Scott's a div Pitfall well avoided I hope they don't fuck about and release a chunky 2 1/2 hr version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 (edited) Thought it was slotted for summer. http://www.avatarmoviezone.com/ Edited June 25, 2009 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AgentAxeman 199 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 (edited) one things for sure my bands gonna get some free publicity Edited June 25, 2009 by AvatarAxeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 New Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 Oh dear. Looks like a bunch of giant Jar Jar Binks are attacking the marines from Aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 (edited) ...and the nerds of the internets agree.... We get a look at an array of those power-loaders we're now fairly familiar with; it all looks pretty Aliens by now, and all looks pretty good. Then comes the CGI-fest in the forest, and it becomes apparent that the Pan creature, now controlled by Worthington is facing the greatest nemesis any sci-fi protagonist can hope to avoid: a Cameron-penned love-story. Worse than that, the CGI of the creatures looks like an animatic for The Two Towers. The movement looks tweened and fake, the finish glossy and Bryce-like, the eyes dead and cartoony. It feels as if The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button never happened, for most of the Avatar footage. For some of it, it feels like Lord Of The Rings never happened. Since these VFX have entered the most-anticipated trailer of the year, I can only assume they're fully finished and offered as some kind of prime example of what we can expect in Avatar. I'm sure the 3D glasses will help, and I'm curious, in fact, as to whether Cameron's revolutionary new 3D camera has made CGI work so problematic as to preclude the very best character animation. I wonder, in fact, if this trailer is being released to actually tone down the incredible excitement that has built up for the movie in the last twelve months, rather than accelerate it. http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/306246/the...er_oh_dear.html Edited August 20, 2009 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 It's beautiful and strange and lush, but while the landscape and spaceshippy imagery looks wondrous, the character models do seem a tiny bit... videogame cut-sceneish. http://www.totalfilm.com/news/avatar-trailer-is-here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6939 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 It looks like a cartoon. District 9 looks good - on a side note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Can't see how anyone seeing it in 2D can comment on it's cinematography, given that's it's made specifically for 3D cinemas? sounds like a lot of online movie geeks shooting something down as soon as it's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Can't see how anyone seeing it in 2D can comment on it's cinematography, given that's it's made specifically for 3D cinemas? sounds like a lot of online movie geeks shooting something down as soon as it's possible. Pfft 4D or nothing. (sure that movie has already been a computer game though ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2814 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Can't see how anyone seeing it in 2D can comment on it's cinematography, given that's it's made specifically for 3D cinemas? sounds like a lot of online movie geeks shooting something down as soon as it's possible. Isn't that the norm though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 Can't see how anyone seeing it in 2D can comment on it's cinematography, given that's it's made specifically for 3D cinemas? sounds like a lot of online movie geeks shooting something down as soon as it's possible. Isn't that the norm though? Nah. The geeks spunk all over shite like Transformers, X-Men and Watchmen no matter how bad they are just because the effects are cool. The effects (not the cinematography) in this trailer look like they were done by Eidos in the 1990s. If they don't want it judged on a 3 inch 2d screen, they should only issue the trailer ahead of 3d movies on 30 foot screens. There's 15 minute snippets being screened in cinemas today, so we'll see what people think of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 To be fair the geeks spunk over whatever takes their mood. I dismiss most of the online reviews because the guys reviewing have no depth to their reviews. They get fame through sensationalism. I'd take Wossy's opinion before I take these fellas. and to say "If they don't want it judged on a 3 inch 2d screen, they should only issue the trailer ahead of 3d movies on 30 foot screens." sounds a little petty. They want the buzz to get out there, unfortunately most cinemas can't spunk £80k on upgrading their system off the back of something that might not even take that much money. I'm going to watch this, if for no other reason than to catch a 3D movie at the IMAX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 21, 2009 Author Share Posted August 21, 2009 The film is a rare, madly ambitious attempt to not just show, but to immerse cinema-goers in an alien landscape. And judging from what I saw on screen earlier today, Cameron has pulled it off spectacularly. Instead of looking like a far-flung corner of our own world, the lush, verdant planet of Pandora is like nothing we have seen before. The plant life here is shockingly unearthly, while the inhabitants appear to have followed a completely different evolutionary path to those we are used to; the sentient ones are sleek, ten-foot tall, blue-skinned creatures called the Na'vi. There's a moment in the footage I saw this morning, just after Jake has been rescued from a pack of baying, canine types, by a radiant, dread-locked Na'vi lady (who appears to be the flick's romantic interest) when he looks around and takes in his surroundings for the first time. And it's here that Cameron is most successful - not in the action sequences, which are admittedly remarkable and make excellent use of 3D, nor in the superb scene onboard the spaceship in which Jake's brain is first fused with his alien body. I felt completely immersed in the sublime, bizarre beauty of the Pandorian rainforest, both comforted by its warmth, and unnerved by its inherent perversity. And that, certainly, is tribute to the 3D work - the dripping fronds almost seem to lick your face, the humidity makes you feel you should be perspiring. But will it have the narrative warmth and humanity to transcend its geeky space opera roots and reach out to a wider audience? There has been much hope that the film would follow in the vein of Cameron's last fiction film, 1997's box-office megalith, Titanic, whose enormous success was partly down to appealing to both genders. Avatar, thought it does bear an uncanny resemblance in parts to the early Star Wars films - in particular Return of the Jedi, with its scenes on the forest moon of Endor - still looks to me like a film with a certain type of man in its crosshairs. "I think it was good; I didn't think it was mind-blowing," said Joanna Davison, a 28-year-old technical director from Kilburn, and one of the few women who attended this morning's screening at the BFI IMAX in London. "I think girls will probably go and see it with their boyfriends, but I'm not sure it's this big romantic epic. They don't seem to be marketing it on the story, they seem to be marketing it on the 3D. But it will definitely appeal to kids." Student Ali Jawad, 20, from Kingsbury, meanwhile, thought the footage was "very impressive', although he also thought the CGI was "a little blurry at times". He added: "It was nothing like as bad as Transformers though. You could definitively see what was going on. I'll certainly be back to see the film - I'm a big fan of James Cameron, but I'm not sure it should be judged in the shadow of Titanic. It's a completely different genre." The full version of Avatar doesn't arrive on UK screens until the winter, so there's still plenty of time for Cameron and his team to consolidate the hype required to justify the $250m plus budget. Today's screenings were a big part of that, but the jury remains out on whether Avatar will revolutionise cinema and cinema-going habits in the way Cameron has suggested. Ultimately, no matter how caught up audiences are in the 3D world of Pandora, they'll also need to feel involved in a romance between two big, blue Thundercat-type creatures, one of which is being controlled by a wounded squaddie. This could yet turn out to be Cameron's greatest challenge. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/20...d-james-cameron The planet’s jungle environment has a gorgeous iridescence and depth in three dimensions. This preview unleashed its biggest wow when Worthington’s avatar, as part of a tribal initiation rite, must grapple with and subjugate a pterodactyl-like thing, which he then mounts for a dizzying ride between mountaintops. Sigourney Weaver makes her promised appearance as the head scientist in charge of the body-swap technology, and takes her own turn in glittering, digitally-altered alien form as well: it’s great to see her. They’re being rightly cautious with plot points - all these scenes come from the first half of the movie -- but the rendering throughout is sensational, and Cameron’s new world looks rich and strange enough to give you wanderlust. Quibbles? There’s a chase with dinosaur-sized predators which lacks real tension out of context, and looks too reminiscent of Jurassic Park and King Kong, among other films. Feeling his way around such an organic, heavily foliated world (as opposed to the biomechanical one of Aliens, coupled with the trademark fetish for hardware throughout his work) is a forte Cameron has yet to prove. But the highlights here go a long way to compensate for that skittish, underwhelming trailer. By the end, I felt - yes - goosebumps. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/fi...3D-preview.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 To be fair the geeks spunk over whatever takes their mood. I dismiss most of the online reviews because the guys reviewing have no depth to their reviews. They get fame through sensationalism. I'd take Wossy's opinion before I take these fellas. and to say "If they don't want it judged on a 3 inch 2d screen, they should only issue the trailer ahead of 3d movies on 30 foot screens." sounds a little petty. They want the buzz to get out there, unfortunately most cinemas can't spunk £80k on upgrading their system off the back of something that might not even take that much money. I'm going to watch this, if for no other reason than to catch a 3D movie at the IMAX Judging by the reviews of people following seeing the 15min IMAX trailer, it seems Dave is right. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8214896.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 the trailer was unbelievably bad i'm still in a state of shock 10 years and he gives us that it scares me to think what he'd come up with in the normal 2-year time span... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Can't see how anyone seeing it in 2D can comment on it's cinematography, given that's it's made specifically for 3D cinemas? sounds like a lot of online movie geeks shooting something down as soon as it's possible. the trailer was unbelievably bad i'm still in a state of shock 10 years and he gives us that it scares me to think what he'd come up with in the normal 2-year time span... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 It will be awesome. No doubts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 the trailer was unbelievably bad i'm still in a state of shock 10 years and he gives us that it scares me to think what he'd come up with in the normal 2-year time span... Ah, cool, which 3D cinema did you see this 3D film in? You should maybe temper your sensationalism until you've seen it via it's intended medium? It's like shooting down Toy Story after someone should you a flick book version. "Still in shock", take a look at yourself man, it's a trailer for a film, not proof of the Yeti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Don't see why you can't slag off the trailer, just because it's not in 3D. That's like saying you can't slag off a colour trailer if it's in black and white. That's got nowt to do with it. If all it has is the gimmick of 3D then it most definitley WILL be shit. ....and the trailer was horrific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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