OMG I can't wait for Avatar! ;)

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Just bought three tickets for Avatar: An IMAX 3D Experience at Manchester on Saturday (two weeks from now)

CANTTTTTTTTT WAIT!
 
Well considering its James Cameron's first movie since Titanic, which, btw, is the biggest grossing movie of all time.

It's also got 3D Technology and visuals that are set to shake and define the 3d world of movies.

so yeah, the buzz is big.
 
If the Twilight threaRAB on here warrant an "OMG" situation when they are total trash, then the new film from James Cameron should be some kind of "SUPERHOLYSH*TOMG" situation by comparison.

Short answer: Yes, it is an "OMG" situation.
 
It may be some of the best tech ever seen onscreen but is that what everyone really wants? Cameron should have realised how wary everyone was going to be after the Star Wars prequels debacle (they still made plenty of box office though...) and how Peter Jackson going all-out in that way with King Kong resulted in a LESS-enjoyable film (the big T-rex fight, yes technically brilliant, but it really is yawn-worthy indulgence).

His best film, Aliens, was 23 years ago. It's just impossible for him to have that sort of form in him anymore. Even Titanic was over 12 years ago. We can't just say 'oh it's James Cameron it's gonna be great'. A long time has passed. Look at what Spielberg, another 'master', recently produced, the dire Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It just goes to show...
 
Why is it impossible? The only dodgy film that he's ever done is Piranha II, and that was his debut film. Titanic was aimed at a different audience than Aliens/Terminator, hence why it constantly gets a backlash from the geeks on the internet. With Avatar, Cameron is back in his comfort zone of sci-fi fantasy, I really can't see it being a dud.

Saying that Cameron has lost his form purely because of the time frame between Aliens and Avatar is stupid, not to mention baseless. It's like saying Hitchcock lost his form once he left the UK and started making films in the US without having seen any of his US work...

I really wish people would wait and watch the film before slating it, because until then it's all biased opinion based on either a 3 minute trailer or the 16 minute preview, which hardly gives an accurate representation of the full 2 hours+ film. If after you've watched it you hate it, fair enough, but at least then you'll have watched the damn thing.
 
its not stupid, sometimes artists lose their touch over time, the creative spark dies. look at francis ford copolla and other directors that faded away. other times they gain too much power and probably think too much of themselves. then you get lucas or spielberg..



its just that it was sold as something amazing, but the trailers were simply a bit uninspiring. we shall see, it might kick ass who knows, but so far i'm skeptical. its not a done deal by any stretch that it'll be good. alien had iconic character design, you saw the alien and it was like omg that is awesome. the cat people? its like omg please don't be jar jar.

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OMG (yes OMG) thanks for reminding me of The Dark Crystal. THAT movie rocks.
I have to buy the DVD now you have brought it back to my mind.
The MOMI (when it was in Waterloo) had one of the original Skeksi models in its display window.
Amazing movie - overshadowed by the inferior (IMO) ET.
 
Those blue cat people look shite to me in the trailers. I don't find it convincing at all. Touch of the "I Am Legend" about it if that makes sense.
 
someone on telly recently commented that Avatar looks like one of those dodgy pulp sci-fi novel covers from the 70's, how right he is.

Surprisingly the hype for this has been moderately quite, I was expecting another case of Slum dog Millionaire (which was peddled on a daily basis for about 3 months, especially by BBC's Breakfast) but perhaps the hype machine hasn't started with this one yet.
 
Show me a videogame with that level of detail.

This is another thing that bugs me about the complainers that are against this movie. You could say that all of Pixars films look like a cut scene from a videogame if you go by that logic, and yet nobody does. It's CGI, get over it.
 
I think the thing with Pixar is that they have managed to create their own visual identity, whereas Avatar looks like it got it's visual inspiration from video games such as Halo and the ilk, it doesn't present anything visually original, that's my take on people's criticisms.
 
Exactly - thanks.

Also my point was that opening day, or weekend sales mean little.

I remember when 'Independence Day' was one of the biggest opening weekenders in history, yet it turned out that most people were extremely disappointed with the movie ( I know cos I was an usher in a West End Mulitplex at the time).
 
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