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Post by: Tutonic on August 20, 2009, 06:52:20 PM
So, the trailer's out...

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

Colonial Marines? Mechs?!

Colour me impressed.
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Post by: DarkAngel on August 20, 2009, 08:54:49 PM
Saw it on the new tonight, seems they want to release a 15 minute preview soon? And they want it in 3D!

Im very impressed, any looking forward to release :woot2:.
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Post by: Luminance on August 20, 2009, 09:36:00 PM
I so loved the anime, can't wait to see the movie :woot2:


Edit:

Hmm this isn't avatar the last airbender movie (link didn't work for me, so I tried google and found another movie called avatar said to be released in dec 2009 lol, which wasn't true, its 2010 :()

Edit 2:
Found the correct avatar trailer (which worked for me). Looks pretty cool, almost like an mmorph lol. will be checkin it out in the cinemas
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Post by: T-Bag on August 20, 2009, 09:43:36 PM
This film is going to be good if you look at some of the other ground breaking films he's worked on. Worth a look in the cinema.
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Post by: delankster on August 20, 2009, 10:05:50 PM
WOW looks breathtaking can't wait !!!!!!:woot2:
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Post by: Snokio on August 20, 2009, 10:38:40 PM
that link didn't work for me :sad:
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Post by: Rabbi Bob on August 20, 2009, 10:48:57 PM
Quote from: Luminance;286904I so loved the anime, can't wait to see the movie

Edit:

Hmm this isn't avatar the last airbender movie (link didn't work for me, so I tried google and found another movie called avatar said to be released in dec 2009 lol, which wasn't true, its 2010 :()

Yeah, that's the M. Night Shamallama live action Avatar movie.  Hopefully he doesn't bunk that up (finishing up season 3 with my kids right now actually).
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Post by: Dr Sadako on August 21, 2009, 06:11:52 AM
The entire movie was filmed with 3D technique. The post production is still going on and have been for 1 year. The premiere awaits. :)
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Post by: ChimpBoy on August 21, 2009, 06:22:52 PM
Really looking forward to it, as James Cameron can do little wrong in my eyes.

However, looking at the trailer, no matter how sexy the CGI on a film like this, I can never suspend my disbelief over the CGI characters.  They always look CGI, no matter how realistic.  Worries me a little, as I was hoping for something spectacular, now I just worry that it'll be Jar Jar Binks all over again.
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Post by: Marduk on August 22, 2009, 09:10:35 AM
looks amazing. Lumi, reserve us some tickets! wer going an thats final!
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Post by: Luminance on August 22, 2009, 04:03:11 PM
Quote from: Marduk;287072looks amazing. Lumi, reserve us some tickets! wer going an thats final!

Yes master, want some lemon juice with that? :lmfao:
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Post by: Marduk on August 23, 2009, 07:47:57 PM
Quote from: Luminance;287111Yes master, want some lemon juice with that? :lmfao:

Nope but i will have some popcorn or nacho's,  thank you :P
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Post by: Gh0st Face Killah on December 17, 2009, 12:28:53 AM
Just been to see it. Utterly amazing visuals, story is quite predictable but OMFG the visuals are something else. Go and see it in 3D if you go its well worth it!!!!
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Post by: delanvital on December 17, 2009, 07:28:46 AM
Quote from: Gh0st Face Killah;299422Just been to see it. Utterly amazing visuals, story is quite predictable but OMFG the visuals are something else. Go and see it in 3D if you go its well worth it!!!!

Will see it in 3d on Friday :) can't wait!
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Post by: Tutonic on December 17, 2009, 12:35:07 PM
I'm off to see this in 3D on Saturday, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Cameron for the win.
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Post by: Padding on December 18, 2009, 02:08:33 PM
Saw the movie last night, very worth seeing. Yes, the plot isnt hard to guess but the effects and james-cameron-no-bull-scenes was well worth my time

Run time was somewhat over 2,5 hours, but i enjoyed every moment of it
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Post by: OldBloke on December 18, 2009, 04:36:03 PM
Mark Kermode he say .... "Wow!"

His film of the week too. :)
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Post by: delanvital on December 20, 2009, 10:38:24 AM
I see you!
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Post by: Tutonic on December 20, 2009, 12:05:02 PM
You need to see this movie in 3D, it is simply astonishing.

The plot may just be Dances With Wolves in space, but Cameron totally manages to pull it off - awesome.
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Post by: delanvital on December 20, 2009, 12:50:09 PM
Quote from: Tutonic;299668You need to see this movie in 3D, it is simply astonishing.

Indeed!
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Post by: ChimpBoy on December 21, 2009, 11:04:44 AM
Saw it on Friday night in 3D at the London IMAX.  Visually stunning, and utterly unlike anything you may have seen before.

The plot is basically Dances with Wolves in space, as mentioned here already, but that is in no way a bad thing.

Staggering - just don't leave it so long next time, please Jim.
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Post by: Carr0t on December 21, 2009, 11:25:41 PM
Quote from: Tutonic;299668You need to see this movie in 3D, it is simply astonishing.

I have to say, I went to see it in 2D on Thursday and then 3D on Saturday to see what the difference was and I actually preferred the 2D version. To be more specific, there were lots of points in the 3D version where the object the cameras were focused on was not the closest thing in the scene (the most obvious example to me was one of the scenes when he was talking to his video log camera). In 2D this is fine, as your eyes are actually focused on the flat screen. In 3D, I found my eyes kept trying to focus on the object closest to me. Only briefly, just to check it out and then move back to what the director wanted me to focus on, but the fact that even when I 'focused' on the close object it was all blurry gave me a mild headache throughout the first 2/3 of the film. I'm not sure whether the last third just didn't involve such drastic up close differences or whether my brain had finally got used to the 3D view, but I didn't actually notice much 3D-ness at all for the last 1/3. If i'm not noticing it as particularly more impressive than the 2D version when it's 'working right', what's the point?

Loved the film though. Was really weird how much the Avatars looked like the real actors, which is apparently to do with the way they did the CGI. Instead of being fully computer generated, they took scans of the actual actors bodies and then applied certain distoring and stretching algorithms to create the alien shape. Though to add extra oddity to that, the woman who played the main female alien (Zoe Saldana, she played Uhura in the new Star Trek as well) is not someone who I personally find attractive, but I thought Neytiri was hot :dribble:.

Also, Sigourney Weaver. I'm sure I shouldn't think someone old enough to be my mother is smoking hot. But she is.
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Post by: delankster on January 10, 2010, 02:12:55 PM
saw it last night in 3D...... WOW !!

my first experience of a full length 3d movie and was totally blown away.

simple breathtaking :blink:
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Post by: DarkAngel on January 10, 2010, 02:30:14 PM
Indeed, its a 10/10 film for me. Simply amazing worth the 10 year production time and the 1/4 billion price tag.
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Post by: RizZy on January 10, 2010, 03:45:00 PM
I'm off to Brum on the 23rd to watch it in 3D at the imax, I think my brain might melt.
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Post by: Luminance on January 10, 2010, 07:32:07 PM
Watched it twice now. though a bit of the magic is gone the 2nd time (maybe because it was only 2.5 weeks ago), nonetheless awesome movie, not because of its story (which is pretty ordinairy) but even more the whole fantasy world and how everything moves etc.

First time I watched it in 3d in a regular movie theater, the 2nd time at an IMAX theater, with a huge screen, better sound and more realistic glasses (they don't have a red/green glasses, but one with special glass which allows you to see sharper (each glass give a 3d effect, rather then the combination of both colloured glasses) :)
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Post by: Carr0t on January 11, 2010, 08:23:49 PM
I thought all 3D cinemas these days used polarised lenses or whatever rather than red/green. Haven't seen different coloured for each eye in about 10 years.
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Post by: Luminance on January 12, 2010, 06:24:25 PM
Quote from: Carr0t;301379I thought all 3D cinemas these days used polarised lenses or whatever rather than red/green. Haven't seen different coloured for each eye in about 10 years.

Welcome to Holland, we get all the good stuff, years later.

Unless you count in the sex drugs and rock(and roll), that we have plenty of, and we are very progressive in that. As now 10 years later, even states in America is going to legalise it (and listen to it again).
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Post by: kregoron on January 20, 2010, 12:57:33 AM
absolutely stunning, 11/10 from me ;)
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Post by: Sithvid on January 20, 2010, 08:42:22 PM
I watched it Sunday,10/10
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Post by: Tutonic on January 21, 2010, 08:46:08 AM
I saw it for a 2nd time while I was in the US, except this time it was on an Imax screen...


Wow.
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Post by: delanvital on January 21, 2010, 09:57:59 AM
Quote from: Tutonic;302095Imax

I would LOVE to do that.. we have an IMAX down the road, but it does astronomy and concerts movies mostly
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Post by: RizZy on January 23, 2010, 09:43:33 PM
Just got in from watching this.

Avatar + Imax + 3D = :thumbsupsmileyanim: :yes2:
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Post by: Whitey on January 24, 2010, 10:26:11 AM
I went to see it in 3D last night and thought it was really good 9/10.
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Post by: BrotherTobious on January 26, 2010, 06:20:29 PM
I saw have only just seen it in the last week, got the oppertiunity to see in in IMAX 3D which was off the chart amazing.  It is just a special effect show real and not the deepest plot in the world but I started with my mouth on the floor and it stayed there the whole time.
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Post by: Luminance on January 26, 2010, 06:24:22 PM
Quote from: BrotherTobious;302581I saw have only just seen it in the last week, got the oppertiunity to see in in IMAX 3D which was off the chart amazing.  It is just a special effect show real and not the deepest plot in the world but I started with my mouth on the floor and it stayed there the whole time.

Was my first reaction, but If you watch it again, relatively soon after, then that fades very quickly :(
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Post by: RizZy on January 30, 2010, 08:25:24 PM
Just got back from watching Avatar again, took my mum to watch it, only film I've ever gone to watch a 2nd time, an awesome cinematic experience for me, love it.