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News Corp’s UK newspaper The Sun claimed it had the Avatar trailer numero uno. Then again, Apple/iTunes actually had first dibs for a 24-hour window. Now Fox is sending “take down” notices to everybody else. What a cock-up. I’m so sick of all the hype and secrecy. But now we can presume to know why Twentieth Century Fox and Jim Cameron were keeping it under wraps for so long. The Avatar trailer makes it look, um, er, like a Disney movie. I swear Twink was in there. Maybe a Pixar character or two. A lot of you think Cameron caught Lucas flu and express surprise Jar Jar Binks got his own movie. Others fear this is Dances With Wolves set in space. Please, Jim, guarantee us this is not another The Abyss. Or worse.
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It looks interesting but it doesn’t look like anything groundbreaking. It looks like standard movie CGI.
If it’s “Dances with Wolves” set in space, I won’t be too impressed. The noble natives, evil white man thing has been done to death, and it seems like he’s returning to the same ground as Abyss (floaty fairy creatures, nasty military machines and soldiers, etc. etc.)
I’m sure it’ll be good though; just nothing earth-shattering. I do like that the music in the trailer wasn’t the standard Hollywood strings n’ horns bullshit.
Apocalypto + LSD = Avatar
More like ISHTAR!!!
I think you have to see it in the IMAX theater to get the full effect.
Andy,
I remember Gollum fondly as well. He had lots of character and was really a great performance/CG creation in that he had lots of life (thanks to Andy Serkis and the fine animators at Jackson’s SFX house).
All that being said…if you truly look at the results, they’re not SPECTACULAR as so many are prone to say. Take off the rose colored glasses and look at the effects in LOTR for what they are. Gollum hardly matches the water when he’s trying to catch the fish from the river.
This looks better in terms of incorporation into environments (possibly because the environments themselves rely more heavily on CG).
I think the film is being sold completely incorrectly and more importantly just doesn’t have a story with a broad appeal.
Fox was willing to spend $300 million on this but not $150 on Halo?
C’est la vie,
T
Looks like Cameron delved no further than his stash of 70′s Prog Rock albums for the look of this film.
So, they can cross the universe but can’t repair a spinal cord injury? Just saying…
my expectations have been dashed. =(
I’m sorry, I just have a negative reaction to hype. I’m sure the movie is fine, maybe great, but the push and expectation is gross.
Would you really rather watch paint dry, Greg? Your life must be fun.
I can’t wait until this film comes out…
so studios can give up their wet dreams about not having to hire actors ever again. That’s the groundbreaking CGI?
300 million dollars, and the clips of the CGI characters were missing everything the clips of the human characters had going on on their faces just by virtue of them being real people.
Ferngully with guns?
First off, please do not base your opinion of this trailer by watching a “streaming” version on a small or even larger computer screen. Secondly Trailers are specifically designed and targeted to a specific base. This trailer is not designed to inspire the ” fan base” but a broader more titanic type of audience. Personally I do not like trailers in general, but I understand the need. If it were up to me I would have just had a very plain Avatar “Teaser” without showing much of anything. But obviously the studio big wigs would not go for that.
I applaud James Cameron and the studios for creating Avatar and not just rehashing another remake or sequel. I am glad we will have something fresh and new to watch. It is a huge gamble. I am sure that James Cameron has put his heart and soul into this project and I hope that it will do well. I am so sick and tired of rehashed sequels and old movies being redone. Let’s hope originality prevails this year and Avatar kicks some serious butt!
Well I happened to LOVE the Abyss.
This will bomb so bad it’s ridiculous. Nothing can live up to the hype of “ground bread new technology” or “14 years in the making”. If you read the synopsis on Apple trailers, or anywhere else, it says more about Cameron and the time/effort it took to make the movie than about the plot itself. It’s almost as if their trying to dazzle everyone with the technology because they know the story can’t hold up.
Having said that, as most people have pointed out, the CGI isn’t even that great. James Cameron’s legacy is gonna take a hit on this one I think.
Nikke, did you just diss The Abyss? If so, you just showed you have shitty tastes in movies. I am starting to think you have a stick up your ass when it comes to anything “geek”. You should pull it out and you might actually enjoy more things.
I hope the 16 minutes I see Friday changes my mind about the flick. The trailer is bad.
The movie will stand or fall by its story, like every other movie; the level of detail visible in any given frame is neither here nor there.
My reservation about AVATAR has always been that any tale involving remote viewing, virtual reality, dream reality – anything where the protagonist is projected into a world that we know he doesn’t actually exist in – kills any real sense of involvement.
I Still look at this GCI crap and it still looks fake. Even if it is pretty neither the aliens nor the aircraft look like actual objects in space. As far as I’m concerned it still might as well be “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” because those aliens look about as real as Jessica Rabbit.
I’m super disappointed. It looks cartoony that’s for sure. I’m afraid we may be looking at the cinematic equivalent of “Chinese Democracy”, I hope I’m wrong though. I like James Cameron movies usually.
Cameron has yet to make a bad film. And Dances With Wolves in space sounds pretty good to me. Flame on, but this has great potential.
Someone upstream talked about noble-natives-evil-white-people being “done to death.” Really? Examples, please.
I am not impressed with this trailer! It looks like Ferngully meets Finding Nemo in a Tarzan environment. I now understand why this trailer has been under wraps for so long. Good Luck 20th Century Fox; YOU WILL NEED IT after this trailer.
Ah. Its trailors like these that make Facebook execs smile.
Less eyes on the big screen, more eyes on the little screen.
Whatever happened to this so called New World James Cameron would introduce us to?
Guess that world will be, Don’t Spend To Much Money On One Movie.