trailer break: ‘Avatar’ teaserTake a break from work: watch a trailer... I always welcome a new James Cameron movie, and this looks pretty much like, you know, a James Cameron movie: I see flashes of Aliens in this, and The Abyss, and that’s fine. But I simply cannot conceive of the 3D being so mindblowing as to push it into a whole ’nother realm. I hope I’m wrong, of course: I’d love to feel, while watching this movie, the way people felt the first time they watched a movie with synchonized sound. I’d love to feel the way I always feel when watching The Wizard of Oz, and the black-and-white switches to Technicolor. That would be awesome. I wasn’t terribly impressed with Sam Worthington in Terminator Salvation, but one little moment in this trailer makes me really like him:
That slow, sweet, gentle smile is a heartbreaker. Then, of course, he morphs into a CGI person. I hope Cameron found some way to keep the Sam-ness in the cartoon. Avatar opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on December 18. support
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posted by Cate (Wed Aug 26 09, 4:56PM)
The blue CGI avatars/aliens look very, well, CGI.
posted by d wender (Wed Aug 26 09, 5:22PM)
Sam Worthington to play Australian war surgeon Craig Jurisevic in new drama. Story covers Jurisevic' experience during the Kosovo war
posted by JoshB (Wed Aug 26 09, 7:33PM)
Meh. The aliens look so close to human that there's barely a point in making a big deal out of the cgi. I don't understand how you can have Neville Page working for you and still go with such a bland design.
posted by Saladinho (Wed Aug 26 09, 7:45PM)
You're right about that smile (but not in a gay way). I watched the trailer up till that moment and was like: "Oh yeah. This is going to be wonderful and inspiring and this guy's going to be a star."
Then I see the rest of the trailer and the actual aliens(they're so unimaginative)and now I'm pissed. Plus, his smile as the alien is so off putting, it's like: "Here we go again. Another tool."
And I'm not sure why the guy needs a wheelchair in a universe where they can transfer your consciousness into an alien body.
posted by MaSch (Thu Aug 27 09, 8:10AM)
Somehow, the trailer reminded me of "The Dark Crystal", which may be good, may be bad, but feels rather like "well, not soo original after all".
I'm perfectly lukewarm towards this film, so naturally, I will be there on opening ay to see whether it is any good or not.