James Camerons 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 Camerons new film Avatar has arrived.
The clip isnt 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.
Heres the quick recap: Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) arrives (in his wheelchair) on Pandora. He sees the planets beauty and, though him, were quickly introduced to the ten-foot tall alien Navi avatars. Implanted in his Navi body, Jake leads us on an exploration of Pandora. We see Zoe Saldanas Navi character and Jakes imprinting session with Pandoras version of a dragon. (Hey Anne McCafferey, did you get a royalty check?) Theres even a glimpse of Pandora at night, and a little bit of the new power suits in action, which werent much seen in the Comic Con footage. We dont see Sigourney Weaver, but do get a glimpse of Drag Me To Hells 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 Avatars 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 isnt a big deal, but creating hype for a film is all about getting the moment right and that hasnt 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.
If your point was about artistry rather than historical accuracy, one does not need to be an artist to critique art any more than one needs to be a chef to critique the taste of food. And, yes, I was overgeneralizing.
I see you’ve actually read “A Christmas Carol”. My apologies. But my point about comparing and contrasting with what Dickens wrote to how it is produced by modern leftwing television and movie types remains. And while you can say Marx was qualified to write about the same period, Dickens was no Marx.
...or, to answer your original question, the class issues in Dickens don’t annoy me but the way it’s twisted out of shape to make Dickens look like a Marxist by modern interpretations of Dickens does bother me.
Isn’t it easier to just trade with the blue people and then give em Small Pox?
I was responding to your post about artists doing their best work when they are young and hungry.
I think Spielberg has made great movies since achieving great wealth and fame with JAWS. Some of Hitchcock’s later movies were as good or better than any of his early ones. Another poster mentioned Ridley Scott. Scorsese also. The same could be said for Hawks and Ford.
I don’t think your post stands up to critical analysis.
Yeah, I suppose, but how would Cameron get a 2hour feature out of that? Unless of course the small pox caused lots of CGI enhanced explosions and gunfights.
Whoa...whoa...whoa, you mean my posts have to stand up to critical analysis? When did this start?
Cameron's sounds kind of weenie.
The story was absolutely impossible, but the effects/set were great.
I love to bash Titanic as the worst film of all time. I love it when it comes on tv so I can make disparaging remarks about it to my wife!
Change we can believe in. LOL!
Yes
Agreed.
Next, we'll have to start reading the articles too. ;-)
This has to be stopped.
Cameron’s one of the few Hollywood film makers who makes movies that are always worth the price of the ticket...
It’s not even close. Whatever else, it’s extremely well crafted and holds one’s attention from start to finish.
Cameron is good for the first two but fails miserably on the last one, in my opinion.
I was so happy when that boat hit that iceberg, as I thought it was the beginning of the end. But it turned out to be the end of the beginning. It was pure torture.
While Spielberg has made some good movies since Jaws, he also made (sort of) A.I. and Munich. And as a friend has pointed out, Jaws wouldn’t have been the movie it was (nor would Star Wars have been the movie it was) if Spielberg (or Lucas) had the unlimited budget and free reign that they have now. Spielberg wanted more of the shark and had to work around a mechanical shark that didn’t work right, probably making a better movie in the process. There are also plenty of directors who writers who hit gold early and never seem to be able to recapture the magic, such as M. Night Shyamalan.
Yes, I was over-generalizing but when more than a few moviemakers and authors got wealthy or successful, people stopped saying “no” to them, they stopped having to work around limitations, and they felt free to let their political hair down. Sometimes they still produce movies, yes, but Terminator, Jaws, and the original Star Wars were more than special effects extravaganzas in part because they couldn’t afford the special effects or the technology wasn’t there for them.
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