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OK. They got me. I’m there on December 18.
MUCH better than the first trailer…I was getting shades of AYBYSS with the first trailer. Now I just hope we don’t have to go through the mess of an extremely editing process. I’m for all the extra bells and whistles with Cameron’s films and I’m sure we’ll get it wit “Avatar”, al I’m saying is if it’s worthy of screen-time, put it on the damn screen.
On, the line “Gentlemen, your not in Kansas anymore still sounds like it’s coming out of a mouth of a “friend/of/Dorthy.’ Robert Duvall could be saying it and it still relects our AFFINITYwith FRANK L.BAUMS classic.
Long and boring.
kudos to the vendor who cut this together, whoever that may be.
That’s a great trailer. Anyone who H8s on this is dead inside and should move on to another career.
Okay, is it me or does this sound like a James Cameron sock-puppet?
Hey G. Lira, still think imma a sock-puppet? One question for you as you pursue your new career: Can I get a table on the patio?
Devin Feraci from CHUD exposed! Well, it is a long story and actually quite a convoluted one, long story short, Devin actually got upset that he could not attend an advanced preview (as a member of press) to see an advanced preview of a picture that shall remain nameless. He also has a personal grudge against Jim Cameron himself. This i will explain, Devin has been blacklisted by FOX execs, the reason for this is partially down to the fact that Devin was obnoxious in reviews insulted core members of various teams and insinuated lies and lawsuits. This can even be seen today in his writings on AVATAR`s plagiarism claims. There is also it has to be said a great deal of backdoor shenanigans involving Devin and the hierarchy of FOX. In short Devin is blackballed. Devin found this out via his own message board forums. Now im not standing here trying to defend FOX`s output for the last 6 years, how could i ? What i am trying to inform you on is this… This is personal, This has nothing to do with fan expectation, it has nothing to do with the progress of cinema…
IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH A PERSONAL EFFORT TO DERAIL THE PRODUCTIONS IMPACT.
Yes it is pathetic, yes it is childish, but if you read Devin for any amount of time, you realise childish is exactly what Devin is. the whole AVATAR deal on Chud.com is what the online industry describe as “Leaf littering” take your core audience turn them onto your ideals and use that in turn to attack your enemies. Very simple and very effective. It has been done before and it will continue to happen. It can be a good thing, however when the motives become personal and not representative of the greater fact, that is when moral issues arise. I have it on high authority FOX and in particular Jim Cameron is highly upset with Devin and the continuing abuse he keeps throwing at not just the production but the people who this movie is aimed at (which by the way, is everyone). If you were to lay out the level of abuse aimed at AVATAR and pin that to the production outgoings, you will clearly see that Chud and the level of attack has steadily gone up with the anticipation, until finally we see an attack so blatant and mean that it will make even the most skeptic sit up and pay attention, Devin is literally trying to get third parties involved to actually file lawsuits against the core creators of AVATAR, in particular James Cameron. I am told this is serious stuff, and fox is itching for Devin to step a foot out of line so he can be drawn over the coals. This is a very childish and personal situation Devin has created for himself. My guess is the biggest backlash will eventually fall on Devin
Brilliant! Let’s see what the haters say now. Eat their words…
Sucks about as bad as the first one. Turkey.
Wow, that CGI is very impressive. Pandora looks beautiful, but I’m not so sure Cameron’s one liner heavy dialogue will fly in the age of TDK and District 9. That aside, this trailer blows the last one out of the water.
I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I’m in.
Wow! This is a great trailer! I thought the first one was not that good, but this really sets the story up much better.
I am excited to see this film now!
Looks like it would be a great movie – without all of the cartoons.
From JAMES CAMERON…
The maker of TITANIC… and JAMES CAMERON’s career…
Comes a movie from the director of TITANIC…
And the genius behind JAMES CAMERON’s IMDB page…
And such classics as TITANIC…
In addition to CAMERON, JAMES…
The TITANIC director presents…
JAMES CAMERON’s follow-up to TITANIC…
…JAMES CAMERON’s AVATAR…
i mean, you simply make no sense whatsoever. titanic is the highest grossing film of all time (appeals to the female audience) and touting aliens/true lies gets the potential male audience testosterone going.
all along the claim about avatar has been the theater experience. viewing a relatively thin plot most likely doesn’t do justice to the notion of an “avatar movie experience”
i think james cameron is exceptionally egotistical, but too be honest, with good cause. he has made billions for fox, and it would be foolish for them not to brag about his past successes.
if you’re not excited about avatar, that’s fine, it’s not going to sell 6 billion tickets. but, come on now.
CRAPTASTIC! (”All I needed was something to fight for.” )
I knew there was a live action ‘Smurfs’ in the works but I had no idea there was already a trailer out for it.
Okay, that’s not really a fair comment. . . but it is hilarious.
Great trailer. I wasn’t sure about this movie after watching the sneak peek that nikki posted before but this trailer definitely makes me want to see it. This trailer along with Cameron’s track record should make it hard for most people to resist. Avatar should be a blockbuster.
Let me see if I understand what this is about…..
White man wants a priceless jewel that exists on another planet that is inhabited by odd looking colored creatures. White man disguises himself as odd colored creature in order to infiltrate, kill and retrieve.
The End?
No, no… it’s white man goes native and leads the odd looking creatures to victory against his own kind. It’s Dances with Wolves with play dough sock puppets.
Absolutely more impressive than the first trailer.
This film is going to be a modern Heaven’s Gate. With it’s budget over $300 million (sorry Time magazine, your initial estimate was correct, despite your retraction), the only way Avatar will earn its money back is if every man, woman and child in America sees it twice. That ain’t gonna happen, not by a long shot. I’ve seen over 40 minutes of the film and it’s weak, weak, weak.
Cameron’s folly will most certainly fail. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella.
Absolutely more compelling than the first trailer.
I agree with the first poster on that.
I haven’t seen anything like 40 minutes of the movie (all I’ve seen is the 3D footage released on “Avatar” day) but that Jar Jar Binks/Ferngully conversation has been had to death.
so while I still agree that it looks like a cartoon – this trailer makes me actually give a shit for at least a little bit…
I’ll wait to order it on Netflix.
GI JOE meets the SEA MONKEES
I was thinking The Phantom Menace meets The Last Samurai.
Ah ha ha. I used to love sea monkeys, when I was a kid.
Then they moved into my house and kicked out my parents.
i hate to judge something based only on the trailer, but this makes me really, really nervous. it looks cool, but man does the story seem thin. nonetheless, this is a james cameron project, and so that alone means it deserves benefit of the doubt.
Looks weak. Another variation on the “white man joins the natives and takes up the fight” genre. The dialogue sounds like a collection of tired, tough guy action movie cliches (”You are not in Kansas anymore” and “this, this is our land”). I also don’t think it is a good idea to have characters state their motivations (All I need is something to fight for). I don’t see what the excitement is about.
Ferngully: The Last Starfighter.
or is it…
Revenge of the Ewoks
I can’t decide…
I’m excited to see this movie unlike any other movie I’ve seen in a long time after seeing that trailer. My anticipation for The Dark Knight was high as it was for the first Batman, Fight Club, and The first Star Wars prequil, but this film offers a new world that looks absolutely fantastic and a story that appears to be of epic proportions. Cameron is sure to hit all the right notes and sweet spots.
While obviously targeted toward males, the romantic elements presented in the trailer may be enough to draw in signifant female viewers considering the romantic elements in Cameron’s previous hit and should have all the girls who were dragged to the movie by their boyfriends and husbands also leave the theater satiated and with a sense of exileration.
I’ll be sure to make my first advance ticket purchase in the best 3-D theater I can find for ‘AVATAR.’
A lot of 12-year-olds will see this. Older than 12? Unlikely. Looks like a stiff given $300-400M production & distribution costs.
Oh come on, the studio flaks aren’t even trying anymore.
I do Geek. I love Cameron’s sci fi movies. However, this movie looks absolutly horrible. He made the aliens cartoony and disney movieish. What an overhyped piece of garbage.
You have very well stated the exact points I was thinking. Thank you.
I am a great fan of fantasy and some sci-fi, but this just looks too juvenile to me. That’s fine (not hating on the kiddie stuff, trust me-it has saved my butt plenty on the kids sleepover weekends), except this is being sold as a movie for grown-ups. Not sure it’s hitting on that level….
“Avatar” looks like nothing more than “Dancing With Wolves” in outer space with a $250 million+ budget in 3D: White Knight joins a conquering army determined to wipe out a native population and rob them of their land and resources. But White Knight has a change of heart, sees the light, gets with the natives and their way of life, and decides to stand with them in defending their land against his former band of genocide-mongers. Oh, and White Knight falls in love with a native woman along the way. 10 points to anyone who can name five other Hollywood movies with this same story-line or a similar variation.
Star Trek: Insurrection
Yah – can’t imagine how it will make it’s money back… but nobody thought Titanic would either, so I’ll reserve judgement.
Titanic was just okay for me, but this movie is SOOOO NOT Titanic…..
Not by a long shot….
Lucas-esque. And, of course, not in a good way.
errr, nice getting whiplashed by James Cameron’s resume every two seconds… thanks.
It’s gonna take more than yet another ‘You want war? I got war!’ type soundbite to get me to bite. And no… the naked Star Wars rejects flying around don’t do it either.
Pocahontas meets Delgo
As much as a Cameron fan as I am I can not believe that he would be involved with a film that looks fantastic but is nothing more than a repeat of what the White Man did to my ansestors-”Let’s Forceably relocate the locals for our profit”. This is their home but we need to make money off of what is theirs.
Completely agree. The whole concept looks endlessly predictable — the marine who’s going to change his thinking once he’s in his Navi body, who’s going to fall in love with one of the natives, and guaranteed there will also be one sympathetic human to his plight too.
As much as this is supposed to be “groundbreaking” it’s basically DANCES WITH WOLVES in outer-space, and I’ll be thrilled if it’s not as cliched as it looks.
Let me get this straight:
“Evil white men” working for an “evil corporation” seek to take over a foreign land and control it’s energy resources until a marine “goes native” and helps them fight back?
Sheesh. Every liberal in this country will see this 10 times. Just substitute Haliburton for the corporation and Iraq for Pandora.
I appreciate the thoughtful posts for and against this movie, but you bring nothing to the conversation here. I think you are posting on the wrong site.
Well Cookmeyer let me guess your white right? And either you or someone in your family works for the oil company or the government right! If not then basically your response actually brings nothing to this conversation, since all of these post are individuals posting their opinions and view of what they think of this movie. Which is what this space is for, thats why it says POST YOUR COMMENT! not post only positive things about this movie so we can make big bucks off it.
Would it kill them to throw one original idea into that mess?? At least they were kind enough to save me 20 bucks!
Okay, let’s take bets on how many of these comments praising it were done by Fox and Jeff Godsick.
great, “can’t be seen in Canada”, who the f*#k is preventing COMMERCIALS from crossing the border, in what world is a good idea to NOT ADVERTISE a movie.
I get it…”walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.”
Good, so now I don’t have to see it.
How many of these are they gonna make this year?
NEXT!
I mean really, think about what has come before in the last 12 months. Delgo, Battle for Terra, Monsters vs. Aliens, District 9, Planet 51..etc. Just how many of these, “Look at life from the other side” type movies are gonna come out this year?
This film will underperform and never make back it’s money. Mark my words.
This film can perform fantastically and still not make back its money. $300 million production budget + god knows what P&A by the time it’s all said and done = Better do Pirates or Spiderman business or else.
Isn’t this a bad remake of The Emerald Forest?
so it is Delgo then?
Maybe Cameron should of used title with a “T” in the begining..you know..just to keep the kharma flow..
Why should I be excited about this again? My old Playstation 2 games probably have a better story than this with graphics almost as good. At least the first trailer didn’t give away the thin plot and awful dialogue as much.
Oh and not to mention the scene with Giovanni Ribisi talking about the “Savages or messin up their operation” and in the background is a bow and a dreamcatcher in a case like it is some Damn trophy or something.
The Iraq metaphor is really heavy-handed. That alone might alienate some of flyoverland. They’re making Marines the bad guys? Not bright in a time of such political oversensitivity.
I didn’t realize James Cameron was doing a political movie about the Iraq insurgency.
I didn’t realize Cameron was doing a bad Michael Bay movie.
Or is it a bad George Lucas movie?
Comments?
Hilarious! We’re being punked, right?
Jon Landau compared making this to Kennedy’s initiative to putting astronauts on the moon.
Fully, loaded Smurf crap.
Is it me, or is this Aliens meets Apocolypse meets Revenge of the Jedi? I’ll wait to see Forever War by Haldeman.
Not sure if the net profits will be all that worth it, costing 300 million to make. Even after watching the trailer I feel I can wait until it hits DVD and then rent it from Netflix. This is a good trailer however (and I hope it’s not true) I can’t stand movies that show all the best parts of the movie in the trailer and the rest of the movie is just ok if not boring. We will just have to wait and see.
“Dances with Jar Jar Binks” meets “The Treasure of CGI Madre” meets “More Bloated Dialogue from THE KING OF THE WORLD!”
Looks pretty. Lots of explosions. Neato spacecraft. Love love love Sigourney Weaver. But it looks really really really really really really really really really really really really stupid.
I feel the same way, oddly, about Hollywood + Highland. Lots of parking, true. But they had $100s of millions to spend, and THAT’S what they built? They could have built anything, but that’s what they ended up with?
Cameron had a decade and unlimited cash to spend. And this is how he chose to spend his talent? I mean, I just saw CHRISTMAS CAROL. Robert Z made USED CARS, BACK TO THE FUTURE, and ROMANCING THE STONE (a bit dated, but still a fun flick) and so he’ll always be my hero, but he chose to spend two years of life and, I dunno, $200 mil to make that stinking pile of mo-cap crap? The best thing about XMAS CAROL is that the mo-cap has rendered Jim Carrey completely unrecognizable, resulting in his best performance ever.
Never mind. I’m sure it’s brilliant and will make piles of cash. WTF do I know? I just don’t understand these A-list director dudes anymore. They should be making a movie a year, every eighteen months, minimum. They turned movie-making into rocket science; they’re more interested in the technology that the story. And that makes my eyes rain!
Avatar will do great with the 13-33 year old audience. And let’s face it – there is no real difference between a 13 year old and a 33 year old anymore, except a 33 year old can drink and drive and feel no shame when they play shoot ‘em up war games while their peers are getting blown to pieces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
this is one of the most exceptionally TRUE statements i have heard in a long, long time. thanks for posting.
Sorry, all style but no substance. I LOVE Jim Cameron. But just as when the first trailer of this film came out, it’s just as boring. Confusing. Not relative to the human condition. It’s warped and disjointed and has no substance in reality. The Abyss. Titanic. GREAT films. WHY? WE COULD RELATED TO THEM! What is this movie about????? More importantly, who cares. Technology suffocates, destroys and drowns the TRUTH!!!! Where is the truth, Jim. I love you, but where is the truth???? With great power you have great responsibility and as bad as this hurts me, you have failed. That’s okay. You’re a great talent. Just not this picture. Sorry, but thumbs waaay down. 1.5 out of 5 stars.
Remakes and bullshit, dude. Hollywood is paralized with fear. When they eventually get their act together, their audience will have moved online or be deep in video games that offer a much more satisfying experience than cliched, paper thin stories wrapped around some fancy 3D technology.
A Baccarat or Waterford apple looks beautiful, but guess what? You can’t eat it. Go back to the orchard, Jim. We go to the movies to eat apples. Enjoy their uniqueness. Freshness. FAMILIARITY. Reminding us what it was like growing up a kid in the midwest. Not just gaze and stare at them from afar, not having any previous intimate knowledge of them and remark how beautiful they look. The secret is in the seed, Jim. You forgot to plant the seed.
Ooooooook? Now that I’ve seen what a genetically altered Garfield looks like… I think I’ll treat myself to a blueberry enema. Meow!
Much better than those ponderous first trailers that said nothing and showed way too much sfx vs. real people. Still, the storyline feels as retreaded and stilted as Titanic’s did. Though of course, JC made up for it w. the grandeur of his filmmaking and that great 2nd half after the iceberg hit. Perhaps it’ll be the same here.
Yup. I’ll see that one in the theater.
Yeah. It does kind of look like The Last Samurai meets Dances With Wolves meets Stargate Atlantis.
Kind of cheesy storyline. I mean, if they really do want to get rid of all the aliens and clear the land… why not just drop a few dozen atomic bombs???
You’re not in Kansas anymore? Wow, did they say that?
The good news? Cameron keeps half the town working.
The bad news? Cameron will make more hybrids like this.
The good news? It will take another ten years before we suffer another Cameron film.
The Bad news? If this makes money we get to see more Cameron gloating.
The Good News? Once it hits DVD it’ll be lots of fun to laugh inappropriately.
Sorry, but this seems just as bad as the last trailer. The dialogue is atrocious, the Navi still look ridiculous, and the plot seems bog standard. You’d think ten years would give Cameron enough time to come up with something original.
It’s a very good trailer…except for the times when the Na’vi appear. I have to assume the cgi just looks really, really good in 3D, otherwise, I’m not sure what to say. Then again, even if the cgi truly does look like “actors in makeup”- as Cameron has claimed- the whole design of the Na’vi is still a bit silly.
The other problem is that we’ve all seen this story before- in everything from Dances With Wolves to Star Trek: Insurrection. I’m just not convinced that these little blue people are going to make it any better. I’m honestly still surprised by how silly the Na’vi look.
On a side note, the premise is that Sam Worthington’s character is controlling the Avatar from inside a machine. So if he helps the Na’vi overthrow the humans, he’s obviously not going to get to stay with his little blue woman. I guess that will be the big emotional ending, unless Cameron goes the Splash route and has the human run away with his strange new love.
Seems like I’ve seen this before. The only difference being the name of it’s first incarnation; “Battle For Terra”. Anyone else see the plot similarities? Sure, the visuals are dramatically better. But give us an original story, please!
Win, lose or draw, I’ll see it no matter what, and there’s very few films I’m willing to drag my ass to the theater to see win, lose or draw these days. Looking forward to seeing it in a nice big theater, big screen, 3D, good sound system, the whole spiel.
Whatever you think of Cameron, I wouldn’t count him out. Even if it doesn’t live up to the expectations or the hype, I still think it will be pretty damn good regardless.
If you have a choice, the images and the colors will look BEST using Dolby’s 3D system (the orangey-silvery mirrory glasses). Reel D has a hard time pumping enough light through all of the polarization. The Arc-light uses both, I believe. Dolby’s system is newer and not as well established.
So let me get this straight, they can grow the main dude a complete, whole Avatar with their future-hi-tech-gizmos, but not new legs or repair his spinal injury? Sounds lame, so to speak…
EXACTLY what I was thinking. Not even a mechanical exo-skeleton thing. Shit, Dean Kamen invented a wheelchair that can go up stairs. Five years ago.
This is what happens when you take 10 or 12 years to make a science fiction movie.
It is also good to see Giovanni Ribisi playing Paul Reiser from Aliens.
I thought exactly the same thing!
I remember hearing a lot of gloom and doom about Titanic…. This movie will do humongous #s. If I had $500 mill burning a hole in my pocket, I’d buy it from Fox in a second.
Does anyone know what song is featured in the first part of the trailer? I know it has been used in other trailers (notably 7 pounds) but I can never find the name of it…
It’s from The Island soundtrack.
This trailer is competent, but not challenging.
It doesn’t seem to commit the film to a feeling.
Cameron’s use of archetypes continue.
Many older geeks with kids who normally Netflix, etc will see this in 3-D. Myself included.
I don’t know if this can close with women tho. It’s mechs, man.
Any movie with Sigourney Weaver has one good thing going for it. Probably not fair to judge the cgi since it’s designed for the new 3D. I’ll admit the story doesn’t grab me, but neither did Dances with Wolves until I saw it. So, I’ll reserve my opinion for now. I hear they may do another Alien movie with Sigourney and I’d go see that, as long as it’s not like the last one. I’m still waiting for the next Blade Runner, so I’m really picky.
The music from the first part of the trailer is from Michael Bay’s movie the Island. The movie that Dreamworks domestic fucked up but Warners international made money.
I think it looks good. But I still want to see Terry Gilliam’s 30 million dollar budgeted “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” more. And this cost 300 + million to make. Interesting.
Fern Gully
Nailed it!
The CGI may be great and it will be far more violent than a “family film,” but it still looks like the plot from Fern Gully. But now it’s been “Cameron-ized.” More ’splosions!
this movie isnt for adults just like the last 4 star wars werent for adults. this is a family movie. one of those family movies where dad doesnt mind going to it. You’re telling me a 9 year old boy is going to see someone riding a flying dinosaur and wont want to see it? Hell I’m a 25+ year old boy and i want to ride that dinosaur.
Family movies make money. And who here really cares if it makes money. Its not gonna go into your pockets if it does anyway. Let it just be art. You cant tell me that trailer didnt look vivid and beautiful
Cameron made a pet project to create new technology. And it works, and it’ll change the way CGI based movies are made. Maybe not today but there is now a platform to start from.
everyone of you on this board would do the same if someone gave you a blank checkbook. expect your cast wouldnt be as good. and you havent won a ton of oscars.
I’m not the biggest Cameron fan (see Harlan Ellison) but when I read posts where people just come here to slam his project or anyone’s project for that matter, immediately I think, what the fuk have you done lately?
Talk about uninteresting, look in the effing mirror, douches.
what the fuck have I done lately? ummm, lets see, not make a shitty movie. Even if I did, I wouldnt sell it as the second coming, Frank you suck and so does your comments.
Uh, all you haters are so boring. I’m female, 30’s and I hate Sci-Fi and that trailer makes me want to go see this movie. It looks stunning and unique, don’t let your jealousy and bitterness get the best of you.
and who cares if you’re female and hate Sci Fi, its more telling if you’re a Sci Fi lover of all things Sci Fi and you cant stand to see this silly mess.
Epic FAIL.
Finally a film to supplant Ishtar.
Did they put all the movie’s cheesy dialogue at the beginning of the trailer or is there more like that to come?
Were the casting specs “find me the most unlikable and/or unrecognizable people in Hollywood”? (except for poor Sigourney, who should not be there at all).
It’s gonna be huge because people like big, bloated, stupid movies with cheesy, stupid, rehashed dialogue and cheesy, rehashed storylines just like this one. And lots of toys for the boys.
As long as it’s not nominated for best picture…
Jesus. Take a vacation for god’s sake. See the movie, don’t see it, but this is an awful lot of bile to vomit out over a trailer. Who put the hot sauce on your butt plug?
And from what I’ve heard, Sigourney is one of the most likeable people walking around.
As I said when the first trailer hit – with all the advanced, futuristic technology in their society the paralyzed guy still has to use his arms to propel his wheelchair?
And the CGI creatures look like a really bad video game.
i have to agree with the lot of you that this will definitely be one of the most overhyped, biggest box office bombs ever, it just looks absolutely silly
ahahaha…what a piece of s…can’t say it won’t be a success, titanic had a totally retarded love story, but this deserves to flop
I really wish that instead of spending hundreds of millions on effect they would just spend a little more effort on story and acting because those qualities will beat this teen male eye candy again and again when given a chance
This generation’s WATERWORLD!
I don’t want to go see a lamely scripted movie about an ugly blue guy and his ugly blue girlfriend. Pass.
I don’t think anyone realizes just how hard it is to make films…even 300 Million dollar ones. It’s one of the smallest most insular businesses in the world and all the people who slam the trailer make me laugh.
Go write a script, rent a camera, make a movie and get back to us.
Someone just did. It’s called Paranormal Activities.
The people responding to this trailer are probably the same people who burned holes in their VHS tapes re-watching the original Terminator. They want a great story first.
Welcome to the Transformers backlash.
Looks like the Sci Fi version of Dances with Wolves – I’ll watch it anyway.
CGI still looks like—CGI. Humans vs. Cartoons. Nice attempt at Edgar Rice Burroughs-like story, but “the most awesome movie ever made”? Uhm, don’t think so. I’ll wait to see Pixar’s John Carter.
“Dances with Aliens.”
Combining ground-breaking visuals with a story line that was tiresome the first time we saw it–and hasn’t gotten any better all the times we’ve seen it since then–seems like an awfully silly gamble to take with $300 million.
I might have spent $301 million and paid someone to come up with an original and somewhat watchable story line.
actually, wouldn’t it be the opposite? if you’re going to spend $300M on a movie, wouldn’t you want something tried and true?
but, on an artistic level, i totally agree with you.
I honestly think this trailer is no better than the last. It doesn’t help that it presents a film I feel like I’ve seen many times already. I’ve got faith in Cameron, but it’s admittedly shaken by this.
CGI is CGI. Knowing this alone prevents me from believing what I’m seeing. No 3-D gimmick will ever change that.
I’m just not feeling it.
I honestly don’t get all the hating. I’m as cynical as the next guy, but it looks to me, at worst, entertaining. is it the next coming of filmmaking? No. Was it too expensive? duh. Is it overloaded with familiar themes and overused set pieces? Yep. Does it have the potential to entertain and transport an audience? Probably. And if it does that without changing the world, even the entertainment world, does that mean the money was ill spent and Cameron deserves all this derision? I fear the business has become so difficult and oppressive that we look for any opportunity to crap on others’ work as a salve for our own frustrations.
You’re simply kidding yourself if you think this won’t do huge numbers. It’s big.
Interesting and impressive trailer. The story line seems a hackneyed though and what little dialog there was kind of trite. I’d be a very concerned about the cost. Does the 300 million include marketing and distribution? If not (hell, even if it does) this movie may take a very long time and all the usual avenues (boxoffice, pay-per-view, premium tv and dvd) just to break even. If it gets panned by the critics there may be a lot of blood on the floor at Fox.
It’s basically Cowboys and Indians all over again, but on a scale never before seen.
With all the money and talent that was thrown at this project you think they could have come up with something more original.
That being said – I saw this trailer down at Fox, in a nice theatre and in 3D, a couple of days ago, blew me away, at least visually, so I’ll be there on Dec 18.
Yep this is Dances with Wolves in a 3D video game. That said, it will pack people in and ultimately some day earn its money back. It would have been nice to have an original story but the audience will forgive that to go on this journey. Its a shame. But that’s how it is. Give Cameron his due. It takes brass balls to make this and do it without much of a story for so much money. Just think of all the new technology he will have invented on Fox’s dime that we will all benefit from in the service of better stories in the future by other film makers.