James Cameron's AVATAR

[Timmy666]

For those that don't know, Cameron's AVATAR is a top secret film that apparently has used new technology to create PHOTOREALISTIC CGI and 3D that makes the images on screen look holographic. Now up until last week, nobody had seen even a frame of footage but Cameron brought 24 minutes of his 3D adventure to a cinema expo in Amsterdam and the reaction is that it is almost unbelievable what was seen.

Here are some articles and excerpts from what was seen:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/avatarnews.php?id=56535

"It's the third scene where my heart begins to pound like crazy. Jake and Norm will inhabit their Avatar for the first time. They enter some sort of capsule and - flash – their mind enters the blue creatures, now lying on hospital tables. And not before long Avatar Jake wakes up. And it took my breath away. I thought--just like you guys--that I've seen it all with Gollum, or The Hulk, but Cameron has done it again. These creatures seem so real, that within minutes you forget you're watching an enormous and very blue CGI character. Even the eyes are totally convincing. The characters have real personalities and a soul."

http://www.no-spoon.net/article.php?news_id=504

"It is simple: such a level of realism and immersion, it was never seen before"

http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/avatar-navi-description-trailer-update.html
http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/exclusive-avatar-footage-impressions.html

"Until now, all we saw was the base in 3D, mostly humans and now the 2 N'avi Avatars.
They look NOTHING like the drawing you've seen. They're living creatures with blue skin, bigger yellow eyes than humans with tails. The avatars even look like their human connectors. You will NOT believe the detail. Jake's character will get a wound in a scene we saw later, it looked so real. You could see beneath the skin's first layer, like only real wounds show."

"the audience afterwards was stunned. Everyone just gasped, wondered and just couldnt believe what they saw."

No footage has been released to the public. The film wrapped production over two years ago and since then, everything has been post production. Nope, not even a teaser trailer. According to certain sources, a trailer will drop at the end of the summer and AVATAR will be released on December 18, 2009.

[Alvar]

official trailer

[youtube=425,350]26QzkbPn0CQ[/youtube]

:O

[bright lights, big city]

Sweet. I have never been a fan of anything 3-D when it comes to movies, but now I am hopeful.

[Jacob]

is this based on the anime Avatar?

[shine down unshy]

is this based on the anime Avatar?

Nope..I thought the same thing.  It's some project James Cameron's had in mind since before he made Titanic...just never had the technology to produce it until now.

[Mikey]

the funny thing is that there is an avatar movie coming out based on the anime. It is being directed by m night.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/

one of my buddies looked at me weird when i said that this avatar movie is supposed to be badass... he was like, the anime movie.... it took like two minutes for both of us to be on the same page.

[shine down unshy]

Holy shit Mikey that's an awesome find.  I was kinda disappointed when I found out Avatar wasn't based on the anime.

[devilinside]

<3 Ang!

And funny...the guy playing Sokka is the guy who played Jasper in Twilight. lol

[Jacob]

Holy shit Mikey that's an awesome find.  I was kinda disappointed when I found out Avatar wasn't based on the anime.

hehe, that's the reason I asked - I vaguely remember reading there would be a movie based on the anime

[bright lights, big city]

yeah but M Night Shyamalan hasn't made a decent movie in years. Signs was the last thing I enjoyed of his.

[Jacob]

really? I tend to like his movies. at least the has the guts to do something different.

anyways, I just watched the teaser for Avatar and while the movies looks awesome, I gotta agree witth Theis... the CGI looks terrible and it really clashes with the real-life scenes. it looks like CGI videos from a game. actually, I'm pretty sure I've seen better in a game.

[nonesuch]

signs was complete crap

the happening was almost ok

[Deft11_17ones]

Come on Cameron direct Aliens again, I never get tired of that movie. Anyway alien is being brought back with a pre-sequel directed by Riddley Scott, maybe now we sci-fi fans will know what the hell was that big gun and alien at the beginning of the movie.

[Nailec]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jockey_%28Alien%29

[Timmy666]

Not a fan of Cameron's AVATAR thus far. Fuck CGI.

[Jacob]

Not a fan of Cameron's AVATAR thus far. Fuck CGI.

yeah, I'm not a big fan either. I mean, there are some awesome CGI effects done in movies, but in general I really prefer them using models and old-school effects.

[Timmy666]

Not a fan of Cameron's AVATAR thus far. Fuck CGI.

yeah, I'm not a big fan either. I mean, there are some awesome CGI effects done in movies, but in general I really prefer them using models and old-school effects.

Abso-fuckin-lutely

[theis]

Got 11.20AM tickets for tomorrow.

I'm going in with fairly low expectations.

[wither-I]

looks like the death of film...


gonna have to see it though

[theis]

looks like the death of film...

That doesn't make sense.