The Avatar Trailer Has Not Changed My Life
Avatar trailer, you guys:
Well. There you go. After months of nerd heat and virginal excitement. Our first glimpse at James Cameron's first movie since Titanic*, the one that is supposed to staple our minds to the ceiling. Now, admittedly, the trailer is just a tiny screen on our computer monitors, and not the all-encompassing, visual field obliterating, revolutionary magic 3D showcase that the final product is supposed to be. But, um, so far so shrug? Shouldn't 3D movies, even technologically revolutionary 3D movies, simply enhance the experience of regular movies? Should the regular movie without the 3D seem so unexciting? Don't get me wrong, I've heard really great things about World of Warcraft. It sounds like a lot of fun. People seem to really enjoy it.
Obviously, I will see this. You will see this. Your mom will see this. She will call you and say "your father and I are going to see the Aviator." It will be six weeks after the movie came out when you get that call. But for now I remain non-plussed. NON-PLUSSED!
(HD version here.)
*Titanic was a terrible movie. Has everyone forgotten that? It's awful. Why are people so excited for his first movie since his last terrible movie? I mean, he has made some good movies. If you were like "this is Cameron's first good movie since Terminator 2," I would be like, "OK." But his first movie since Titanic is like "oh, you mean my enjoyable 12 year break from having to watch a terrible thing is finally over?"
Posted by Gabe at 11:00 AM in Trailer
Tags: 3D | Aliens | Avatar | James Cameron
I spotted the robot dude from Gramma's Boy. OMG IM SO THERE! Wait, what is this about?
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This looks like its strictly for the Titanic crowd. PASS!
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I don't understand the text description on the embedded video. It claims that "Avatar takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination" Surely if the movie is beyond our imagination the our head won't be able to understand it at all. The statement is either really dumb or just beyond my apparently limited imagination.
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Yeah, I'm not going to be seeing this. My mom's going to have to find somebody else with whom she can discuss this movie.
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James Cameron has achieved a major breakthrough in the field of movies that look like video-game cut scenes. HE IS THE KING OF THE WORLD.
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I liked when the two blue things touched heads, saying "Our love is forbidden, our blue love." Also, again with the mechs?
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This is the part where I mention that I still have not seen Titanic. And still won't.
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As cynical as we're being about this movie, this has potential to be the best-looking (if not the best--clearly not the best) film of all time and we would probably do ourselves a disservice not to see it in theaters before passing judgment. If only I could get in my Hot Tub Time Machine and get to the release date.
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That said, it does sorta look like Lord of the Blue Rings
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Jack and Rose, reincarnated as blue alien creatures. Your mom will love it!
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good to see matthew lillard working again.
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as far as trailers go i can't remember if anyone ever 'changed my life'. but this is one good looking trailer. i just don't understand if this is going to be full cgi 3d or half-full cgi 3d??
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m. night shymalalalamamatheworst is also making a movie called avatar. what is hollywood these days! oh and on the official website of (james cameron's) avatar, avatarmovie.com, you can watch sixteen whole minutes of the movie! but not until "avatar day" which, as we all know, is the federally mandated day of recognition for this movie, and also august 21st. tweens were all "obama, bring back james cameron!" and obama was all "tweens, i hear and i'll one up you," because tweens are the most powerful political constituency in america, duh. next on the agenda: twilight day.
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They actually changed the name M. Night Shyamalan's movie to "The Last Airbender" a while ago in order to alieviate confusion among the masses.
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Wow, James Cameron... 10 years and 400 million dollars to make a 2-minute movie trailer that looks like a Pixar screen test from 20 years ago. - Be prepared for 'STARSHIP TROOPERS 4: AVATAR."
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I hate when movie trailers give away so much of the plot.
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Let's not forget James Cameron directed that Marlyn Manson video where he and his girlfriend were rolling around having sex in blood.
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Let's.
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anyone else totally underwhelmed at the sub-par plot of this movie? other than some pretty pictures, this doesn't appear to be much in the way of mind-blowing movie making.
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Frankly it looks like Halo drops in on World of Warcraft.
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This is ass on wheels. Why were they afraid of filming that earth-looking foresty bamboo forest instead of rendering it? Were they afraid that a curious panda might stray into the shot?
Down with hollywood - overpaid ninnies.
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I liked the first trailer better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBRFJ9RArc&feature=player_embedded
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Why is everyone forgetting that Cameron directed Aquaman? Wasn't that the hugest movie of all time?
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This is both hilarious and making me want to weep uncontrollably for some reason
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What the hell did I just watch? CATS in the year 2025? This looks like crap.
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Papyrus? Really, fuckers? Papyrus? Don't these Hollywood bitches realize there are other typefaces besides Papyrus. That's the most cliché and overused font since prehistoric man first scrawled on cave walls with bloody rocks.
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They should've used Comic Sans. Rookie move, hollywood.
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Maybe I need my special fanboy glasses, but I don't have any idea of what this is about or why anyone would be excited for its arrival. Are the blue people supposed to look fake? Is that part of the nonexistent storyline? Or do they look awesome when you add the third dimension? And will they find that old lady's shape-shifting cyborg diamond on the alien world?
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be cranky all you want. this is a 2d version of a 3d movie. i'll be there with my 3d glasses enjoying it come december.
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Did they bring back Tone Loc for this? This is Fern Gully 3:Revolution right?
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Close. This is actually Turok the Dinosaur Hunter: sharkboy and lavagurl 3D
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Place two pot plants either side of your monitor and move your head backwards and forwards a bit. Voila. 3D.
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That looks amazing! I can't wait to play it!
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what is this i dont even
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James Cameron, desperately trying to come up with ways to remake his only good movie, Abyss, apparently struck Ideatown watching Jurassic Park while staring into a mirror on acid. "Deep down, we're all the dinosaur, man."
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Wait, sorry. That was the only 30 seconds of my life where I forgot Aliens existed. Sorry, Aliens.
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Aliens is better, but...T2 bro, T2.
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Abyss? Really?
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As soon as the blue people appeared, I knew it was going to be a bad movie.
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Sam Worthington. More like Sam....Not....Worthington.
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It's like E.T. fucked Lord of the Rings.
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“It’s a serious film about serious issues, but it’s in 3D. And when you see it, you go — well, of course! This is so natural, this is the way it should be!,” said Weaver. “It’s so state of the art, it’s going to transform, at least, what people expect of the big movies.”
Because when we see a movie full of CGI, that is natural.
It'll "AT LEAST", transform what we expect. Really? Cause I expected this to be crap and it still looks like crap. James Cameron, The Worst, and Most Overrated Director ever. The end.
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"this is great!" - end of discussion, guys.
(this is not great)
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I can't believe they hired James Cameron to direct the sequel to Delgo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJ0Mn5cTs4
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The first thing I thought when those blue fuckers showed up was, "This is what Delgo would've looked like if the filmmakers had a budget of more than $4 and a box of Ritz crackers"
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Haha the best part is that the guys who made Delgo probably wish that's all it cost them. It'd be a lot easier to recoup that 4 dollars than the 40 million.
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It seems like it would make a fun video game, until they make it into a video game that isn't fun. I'm gonna dust off my Genesis.
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This movie looks like someone in Hollywood was all, "Steven Spielberg has all the good ideas. I want to beat him at the idea game. But I don't have any ideas. So let's just take every Sci Fi/Fantasy blockbuster from ever, like Star Wars and Jurassic Park and Lord of the Rings, and combine it into one giant movie with a TWIST (3D). Who can we get to direct this who costs less than Spielberg? How about that guy who is kind of like Spielberg in that he also has some sort of facial hair and makes really long movies, but less Jewish?" Next step, profit.
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With a cameo by Jar-Jar, I hope?
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i doubt this will recoup what was spent on it. it doesn't have the teenage girl hook that Titanic did.
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I don't get it, are there 3 movies out right now called Avatar?? How does that work? people are gonna get so confused!
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Man, maybe i'm the only one seeing this, but the Avatars or whatever they're called, look like furries. They look like James Cameron and/or his art director took inspiration from deviantart pages.
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I don't care, I want to see this. (I liked Titanic.)
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and so did millions of other people which made it the highest grossing movie of all time.
I can't believe the assholic comments here about Avatar when none of you can show me a film that mix real people and CG characters together so realistically.
Terminator, Screenplay for Rambo II, Aliens, T2, True Lies, Titanic, and you torrent raping idiots are going to doubt the man who stole the show at the '98 oscars?
Avatar was made to be shown in 3D, so you demonoid swamping faggots get off your asses and go see what will be a revolutionary 3D film.
Until any of you can show me a 3D ACTION film, go enjoy your telesync of that bullshit Transformers and GI Hoe.
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I understand your righteous fury over our blasphemous mockery of your lord and savior, Jimmy Cameron, but could you please explain the reasoning behind your repeated references to BitTorrents?
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Having more stuff coming at/from the camera than ever before does not a revolutionary 3D film make. Especially when the story and character design have been ripped right from Delgo 2: The Delgoing.
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haha you are so right! I think Avatar looks stupid because of all my love for Transformers and GI Joe are clouding up my thinkbox! Guys, we need to cut this movie some slack. It's not Transformers 2 after all.
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These comments are hilarious, because most of them I was actually thinking while watching this trailer. I WAS going to post something like you see above, but there are so many who beat me to it, Jar Jar...Halo...Starship Troopers...the FONT...the Pocahontas Pixar Version...etc...I even tried to restrain my hype-over-hype-suspension sense, just to see if there is a good movie in there I want to see...I don't. It doesn't look 'terrible' but it certainly doesn't look appealing to me...Jar Jar Elves and Starship Troopers meet Pocahontas and Phantom Menace is what I see, with the CGI amped up to a videogame cut-screen. 3-D or not this story just doesn't look that intriguing, it looks like a shiny veneer on something I've already seen before...I was really hoping for a James Cameron breakthrough, or just a decent Cameron movie, this just goes on the list of films I may or may not see if there on cable... it is actually depressing...the synopsis read so very cool...ah well...there's always Sherlock Holmes...blah
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HUGE letdown. this looks extremely awful.
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Non plussed actually means plussed. Everyone uses it wrong.Sorry to be that guy. But if I am not that guy, nobody will be. So today I am that guy.
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People never cease to amaze me. No matter what is given, there will always be a majority of negative asses that instinctually need to complain. Keep it up. I’m sure down the line we’ll be left with nothing but crime dramas and insipid love stories for entertainment. I thought the trailer was great. I can’t wait to see this.
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Please. We're open-minded people, we'd totally allow for insipid crime/love dramas.
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This was one of the lamest cartoons I have seen lately.
Pocahontas 2: distress in space.
I can't believe people are actually hyping this as a "game changing film". Sure it changes the game, as from now on cartoons will have to look like Final Fantasy with a couple of actors thrown in ...
Blue giant elfs? Dinasours? Flying dragons? Boy-meets-tarzan-girl? WTF? Maybe my little 7 years old brother will enjoy.
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my husband is working on this and he says it looks awesome.
but he's been wrong before.
he thought the new indiana jones was looking awesome, too, before the final cut.
also, he predicted titanic was going to be a huge flop because it was so terrible.
so he was both right and wrong about titanic.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPyipuT-Jg
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