zazen Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 I believe two eyes are required for 3D vision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Rumour has it that Cameron has so far rejected 8 different trailers supplied by the marketing department at Fox, and now he is working on his own trailer. Good boy. Too often a trailer either ruins or misrepresents a film.. Jesus christ now this guy is hyping up his own goddamn trailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Avatar Footage Will Be Shown Today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 edit: nvm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 i, for one, hope this IS something amazing. not because of any particular way i feel about cameron, but because movies could use something new. last ten years (and more) have largely been recycled bullshit. theater movies, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 sounds like some footage was shown at Cinema Expo, details so far are sketchy http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/avat...inema-expo.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoppit Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Pictures! http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/more...atar-party.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 So Cinema Expo is a film trade show running this week in Amsterdam, and yesterday, 24 minutes of 3D Avatar footage were shown to a select crowd of about 1200 people, all of whom had to sign non-disclosure agreements. Descriptions of the footage are now coming through on the internet, and the blogmaster over at MarketSaw (one of the blogs following Avatar) is wetting himself with excitement: The consensus of those chosen ones who filled the seats of the RAI Auditorium for the Avatar presentation is that they witnessed something historic ... Awe is the second major reaction. The inability to articulate what they just saw. Or perhaps more aptly, the knowledge that their efforts to communicate the experience are completely futile. For Avatar is not something that can be put into words-It is an emotional experience, utilizing technology that shouldn't exist for 10 years or more. It is dreaming with your eyes open. some of the tweets: @gjkooijman: still can't process the Avatar presentation he saw. It's nothing you can imagine, it's real. Cameron made a new planet and took a cam there. @NafRas: OMG keep this in mind James Cameron's AVATAR this Dec. it's gonna rock the way u see movies! Preview @ cinema expo leaves me wanting more @sperling: It's official! The footage from "Avatar" shown at Cine Expo was amazing. Absolutely stunning in 3D. Should be a huge hit. @UCSNord: "Avatar" footage at #cinexpo: CGI was photorealistic, characters look really real. Believe the hype, this movie will be massive! @UCSNord: Footage from "Avatar" at #cinexpo was stunning, literally jawdropping. Amazing visuals unlike any before seen, with incredible detail. more here (contains spoilers) What is most imporant about this movie: Everything lives and breathes ... There's a shot of leaves somewhere which is so photorealistic you don't want to think it's CGI. You believe this world from the get-go. It's there, you don't need to believe it because you will experience it.The cast and Cameron came back on stage after the last clip, took a VERY VERY VERY long round of applause and the houselights came on. The audience afterwards was stunned. Everyone just gasped, wondered and just couldnt believe what they saw. Cameron is so proud of this movie and still handles it with great suave like he just folded a paper plane. I am just mindbaffled how a genius like that can contain himself with something like this. This movie will change the industry. It can now enable me to play a character in a studio, then to be transferred into something different on screen so an audience will believe I am that different character. This is not the Polar Express style 'change of character'. This will enable actors to act without them being cast on looks, but on bodylanguage from now on. Another account here and also here What I'm taking from this is that the footage is going to be impressive, however the plot sounds something like » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « 'pocohontas' with pterodactyl and mech-suits, or, if we are lucky, 'dances with wolves' with pterodactyl and mech-suits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 Pictures! http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/more...atar-party.html yeah, these are apparently pictures of the artwork from the Avatar 'afterparty', so they're not screencaps of the actual movie, but they are official avatar artwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Feel like I'm going to be seeing this for the sheer spectacle. Mechs don't do it for me, the plot doesn't sound all that interesting, but who knows! Also, when you've directed two awesome Terminator flicks and Aliens, anything you make kinda demands to be seen at least once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 What I'm taking from this is that the footage is going to be impressive, however the plot sounds something like Soldier falls in love w/ a native, but they cant actually be together in a physical sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 searching around for leaked footage and I havent found any (not suprising because it would be hard to film a 3D presentation anyway) but i did find this loloriffic 'teaser trailer' made by a fan: worth it for the music, the classic cameron footage from past movies, and the last frame. just a shame that he used Times New Roman font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoppit Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I can't wait for this... ...but if it turns out to be a crappily scripted CGI monstrosity like Revenge of the Sith, then I will be the most disappointed I have ever been since the time when I was 7 years old and I snuck downstairs on Christmas Eve to take a peek at Santa Claus, and he raped me and stole all my presents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 i wear glasses and i've never tried contacts. am i gonna have to double up with dorky stereoscopic glasses? will it work at all?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 What I'm taking from this is that the footage is going to be impressive, however the plot sounds something like » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « Soldier falls in love w/ a native, but they cant actually be together in a physical sense. yeah that, and also possibly we're in for a » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « heavyhanded message of enviromentalism and respect for tribal peoples, which is a sentiment I agree with, but is also a sentiment that has shagged up many a script but whatever, i'm going to go and see this movie for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 i wear glasses and i've never tried contacts. am i gonna have to double up with dorky stereoscopic glasses? will it work at all?? I wear glasses and I've been to see quite a few 3d movies at the London iMax. Its fine - the 3D glasses are massive so they just fit over the top of your regular specs. edit: the 3d glasses are just polarised filters, so they can go on top of your normal glasses without interfering with the optics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 searching around for leaked footage and I havent found any (not suprising because it would be hard to film a 3D presentation anyway) but i did find this loloriffic 'teaser trailer' made by a fan: worth it for the music, the classic cameron footage from past movies, and the last frame. just a shame that he used Times New Roman font. LOL! Your eyes.. Will be FUCKED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 The first public (as opposed to private) screening of 3d Avatar footage will be at Comic-Con on Thursday July 23rd. A trailer might be coming in mid August, end of August: http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/avatar-navi-description-trailer-update.html (Cameron) told me he has a trailer, but isn't done with it. He wants it to showcase what the world is like, rather than impress with 3D because in his opinion most people will watch the trailer online... ... "Just heard from my contact that the cut of that trailer isn't final. It's what Cameron has now to give FOX an idea of the direction he wants to take the trailer. It was shown to fox execs at the Cinema Expo this morning (June 23rd). It'll be heavily tweaked and won't be expected until mid/end august to be shown online/cinema's etc." Also, someone from the crew talks about the creature and foliage designs: http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/avatar-letter-from-crewperson.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playbynumbers Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 i've never seen so much hype for a movie, and i've been obsessively following movie news since the internet began, basically it can't possibly live up to the hype, it seems clear; if only in terms of plot/story (think of every james cameron film; the abyss? aliens? titanic? not exactly bastions of great writing) ... but visually, it seems very possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I can't wait for this... ...but if it turns out to be a crappily scripted CGI monstrosity like Revenge of the Sith You're talking about James Cameron here, please remember. His ego is so big he will always find a way to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 aliens? dont you fucking dare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I don't know why, but everything I've read about this movie makes me think it will be a failure - I'm most certainly wrong though, so I'll remain open-minded until it hits theatres or a proper trailer is released. What was the last James Cameron film to come out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 What was the last James Cameron film to come out? Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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