Avatar Looks Slightly Less Terrible! • Why wasn't this new Avatar trailer the first Avatar trailer? It is much better! Although I cannot believe James Cameron has been working for the past 14 years on a World of Warcraft expansion pack that actually includes the line "you're not in Kansas anymore."
Posted at 1:00 PM
Tags: Avatar | James Cameron | Sam Worthington | World Of Warcraft
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Those blue dudes look as real as former American Idol contestant Vanessa Olivarez's sense of humility when I met her that time.
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Your face looks as real as former American Idol contestant Vanessa Olivarez's sense of humility.
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sure, why not.
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Yeah, it looks interesting, but how can I take a movie seriously when half of the people in it are so obviously CGI'd? Like, this may be the best CGI ever, but nothing mankind will ever encounter in history will have the appearance of video game characters. EVER. So any interaction in the movie is just not going to seem real. Why take 14 years to make this and come up with that? Why not take 2 years and just paint some of the actors blue. I don't get it.
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Spoiler Alert: Everything turns out fine. The strip mining operation ends up being a huge success and everyone from the mining company gets super rich. The last hour of the movie is a Lord of the rings 3-like postscript where mining execs shoot the shit with David Spade in a hot tub full of candy.
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Excuse me, but I am confused after watching this. Who exactly is this James Cameron fellow? Has he directed any movies that I might have seen?
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He did one with a bunch of aliens running around a ship, and Sigourney Weaver had to save the flight crew from the aliens, and a little girl from the aliens too, and in the end she fought the aliens and won. I think it was called "Danger: Monster Spaceship!" #repurposingsimpsonsjokes
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Well, my dad is going to get really excited about this. Eventually. When the trailer is on during Survivor. He'll inevitably end up renting it for $1 at Price Chopper though. My dad probably shouldn't be any movie's target audience.
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Though I disagree with the idea of a 3 1/2 minute trailer, this is the best indication for Avatar so far. With all the rubbish going around about the effects I think people forget all about the characters and the fact that they actually have to be interesting. But Sam Worthington looks like he's up to the job. And the parallels between this and pretty much every war in the past couple of decades is a good starting point. Glad they aren't just concentrating on making everything look pretty
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Seriously, though, when will Sam Worthington's Australian accent NOT bleed through into his acting? It was obvious in multiple Terminator scenes, and I heard it at the end during the Braveheart speech.
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Nope, still looks awful.
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IM! POR! TANT! MUSIC!
PAY! ATTENTION!
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Wait, this isn't a trailer for the "Smurfs" movie that's in the works?
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Dances With Wolves 3000
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As a resident of the year 3000, I must say, your joke is in poor taste. Kevin Costner is a hero - nay, a Prophet - for his work on the piece you called "Waterworld." We called it "1500 years ago"
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looks like this movie will solve that whole environment thing
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Thank God. Kansas is a real shithole.
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oh. this is surrogates with aliens. okay.
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they don't let us see that trailer in canada for whatever reason, so without me knowing they had automatically started playing the next trailer for The Green Zone.
Hella confused as to why Matt Damon was getting kidnapped at gun point in Avatar.
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I cannot believe James Cameron has been working for the past 14 years on a World of Warcraft expansion pack
highfive, nerd.
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it's a bummer how nyeh the first sneak peeks were, because it got everyone even more pre-disposed to think this is going to be dumb.
my husband's working on this is post-production and i got to watch some on the sound stage and it was freaking AWESOME. admittedly, i'm a sci-fi nerd with very easily tugged heat strings, but i still think it's gonna blow people's minds.
also, did anyone else read the profile on james cameron in 'the new yorker'? because it's pretty great.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear
it made me a jimmy cammy fan 4 lyfe! (srsly. no homo.)
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Its like Ferngully meets Gamer meets Return of the Jedi?
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