Avatar - Trailer

Largest of Als · 21st August 2009, 8:11am

Hmmm... not overly impressed with the trailer.. possibly just too much hype in the build up to this..

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/

Al

Jaemi · 21st August 2009, 8:58am

Hype?

The first I seen/heard of this movie was on the morning news.
I thought it looked pretty spectacular.

pANDAS Radio · 21st August 2009, 9:19am

First I've heard of it is this thread. The trailer was pretty dull, showing off the CGI rather than featuring any of the story. I looked up the synopsis, don't think it sounds too great.

Jaemi · 21st August 2009, 9:24am

I think it's all about the CGI to be honest.
It's supposed to be an immersive 3d experience, rather than having pointy things coming out the screen at you.

poprock · 21st August 2009, 9:54am

Hold on a minute, folk have seriously not seen all the hype for this? It’s been getting pushed heavily for at least the past three years. Most expensive movie ever made, etc etc. Cameron’s pet project, for which he has pretty much single-handedly funded the development of modern 3D moviemaking techniques. His first piece of fiction since Titanic. Grand folly of our times, all set to rival Waterworld for epic fail-ness.

Somehow, the advance word is that this film is roughly twenty million times better than it should be. Everyone’s ready for Cameron to fail spectacularly but word is that he’s pulled this off big time and made a truly great movie.

Largest of Als · 21st August 2009, 9:57am

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Originally Posted by poprock

Hold on a minute, folk have seriously not seen all the hype for this?

Thats what I was thinking.. but then again.. a lot of the hype has been in the 'movie buff' circles.. not the general public...

Al

Jaemi · 21st August 2009, 10:06am

Seriously, the first I'd heard of it was today.

pANDAS Radio · 21st August 2009, 10:14am

Same. I never really bother looking at movie sites, so perhaps that's how I've missed it.

Xames Zan · 21st August 2009, 10:36am

Can't say i'm that impressed with the trailer, but still looking forward to seeing it

MarkMono · 21st August 2009, 11:52am

Ah crap, I was under the impression that this was a movie version of Avatar - The Last Airbender.

Tool_ogt · 21st August 2009, 11:56am

A massive amount of hype about this movie, I read somewhere that the 1st 9 min got showed at a film festival and people were amazed.

Looking forward to it sadly I can't see the trailer at work tho.

poprock · 21st August 2009, 12:43pm

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

Ah crap, I was under the impression that this was a movie version of Avatar - The Last Airbender.

There is a trailer kicking about for that as well. Looks shite though.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramo...lastairbender/

Rev Scapegoat · 21st August 2009, 2:54pm

Was chatting to a mate about this, who's also a huge James Cameron fan.
I think if this movie is anything less than "Fucking amazing", Cameron is really going to regret the timing of District 9's release when the end-of-year breakdowns come in.

That said, I hope it lives up to its promise.
Trailer looks... deceptive. Could go either way.

Young Blood · 21st August 2009, 2:57pm

i only heard of it previously cos there's gonna be some game on xbox...

poprock · 21st August 2009, 3:31pm

Hahaha. The Defamer write up is the best report I’ve seen so far.

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Originally Posted by Defamer

You know that movie James Cameron has been working on for more than 10 years and spent more than $200 million dollars? Turns out it's just a bunch of blue cartoons? We feel cheated.

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