James Cameron’s Avatar Teaser Trailer
Posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Posted on 08/20/2009 9:30:34 AM PDT by AreaMan
The teaser trailer for James Cameron’s new film Avatar has arrived.
The clip isn’t yet properly live at Apple, the site meant to be hosting it in the US, but you can see it in 1080p with this link, or at the French MSN site.
Here’s the quick recap: Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) arrives (in his wheelchair) on Pandora. He sees the planet’s beauty and, though him, we’re quickly introduced to the ten-foot tall alien Na’vi avatars. Implanted in his Na’vi body, Jake leads us on an exploration of Pandora. We see Zoe Saldana’s Na’vi character and Jake’s imprinting session with Pandora’s version of a dragon. (Hey Anne McCafferey, did you get a royalty check?) There’s even a glimpse of Pandora at night, and a little bit of the new power suits in action, which weren’t much seen in the Comic Con footage. We don’t see Sigourney Weaver, but do get a glimpse of Drag Me To Hell’s Dileep Rao as one of the Avatar technicians.
And, much as I thought when seeing footage in Hall H, it all looks a bit like a big adult Pixar movie. Which people are probably going to take as a pejorative, given that the whole thrust of Avatar so far has been that it is a game-changing experience. But when is being compared to Pixar ever an insult?
The real insult is from Fox, which keeps mismanaging Avatar’s debut. First there was the Avatar ticketing server crash and subsequent confirmation confusion, and now the teaser launch has been screwed up. In the long run this isn’t a big deal, but creating hype for a film is all about getting the moment right and that hasn’t been happening so far.
Official Plot Synopsis: AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The film was first conceived by Cameron 14 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film, disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.
Don't forget the religious fanatics in that POS....can't forget them.
And here I thought it was going to be about the Air Bender.
How dissapointing.
Whooosh....the sound of you missing the point.
Titanic is set in the Edwardian era. Class issues were a fact of life. Do the class issues in Dickens annoy you?
The Abyss was boring. Great special effect, well acted, but it just wouldn’t end. And I say this as a person who worships the 330 minute version of Das Boot. It’s funny because I REMEMBERED The Abyss as actually a good movie from seeing it when it first came out, but then I actually watched it again, and just wanted to gouge my eyes out of my head.
Isn’t that great? She is cute. Except the EVOO thing.
Really? Hmm...I wonder if she is still doing that thing with the melted chocolate and the wooden spoon..:)
I’ll probably check it out when it comes out, but I’ll see it at my local $5 movie theater.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
Avatar
Premise
The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully, is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. In order to participate in the Avatar program, which will give him a healthy body, Jake agrees to travel to Pandora, a lush rainforest environment filled with incredible life forms – some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also the home to the Na’vi, a humanoid race that lives at what humans would consider to be a primitive level, but are actually much more evolutionarily advanced than humans. Ten feet tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Na’vi live harmoniously within their unspoiled world. But as humans encroach on Pandora in search of valuable minerals, the Na’vi’s very existence is threatened – and their warrior abilities unleashed.
Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies in the real world, controlled by a human driver through a technology that links the driver’s mind to the Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Moreover, he falls in love with a young Na’vi woman, Neytiri, whose beauty is matched by her ferocity in battle.
As Jake slides deeper into becoming one of her clan, he finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Na’vi – forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.
Folks...without “Titanic”, we would have never had “The Propeller Guy”.
I enjoyed the movie. Heck, it was just a movie with some good effects and a story most people could relate to in some way.
Everyone uses the Titanic as a reference point in some way...”Rearranging the deck chairs...” and so on...:)
Yes. I'd like a movie where our side is actually the side of the good guys. Where "noble savages" are actually portrayed as they typically are in real life: nasty and brutish.
NOT as another "Dances with Wolves".
LOL...okay, I did see the phrase “military-industrial”, so there isn’t any mistaking where they go with this.
Do we see Noam Chomsky and Thomas Freidman with starring roles as advisors?
I seriously doubt I’m missing your point. But I do really appreciate the link. Seeing the trailer makes me want to see it even more...probably more than once. So thanks.
Then you should go out and make the movie of your dreams.
Good luck with that. Let me know how it goes.
Hey speaking of Bastards. That Inglorious Bastards looks pretty cool.
A recurring theme throughout Leftist literature and philosophy, starting with Voltaire.
Yes he is one of the best directors and writers.. Aliens is the best sci fi movie ever.. And well Terminator one and two are just well the terminator.. And also shhhh dont tell any one I loved Titanic also...
Having said that The Trail of Tears was more than a little hard to justify. Chief Joseph was still a great man and the United States was unquestionably the bad guys in that incident.
If there is anything conservatives should know it is that the nature of people does not change.
Kind of like telling people you like Karen Carpenter's music.
That said, I know a person who works at Bose, and he says they often use Karen Carpenter to check the systems they are calibrating for production runs because her voice is exceptional.
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