Take 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.
The blue CGI avatars/aliens look very, well, CGI.
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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.
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.