Avatar: Should We Believe The Hype?

not unless you watch it high as a kite, weed makes shitty movies better!!

I did not see that on avatar day... But that trailer when I went to see that HORRIBLE movie Transformers 2 showed me enough to tell me that, that movie is going to be bad as well... Remember DragonBall Evolution? Enough said...

Technically it will be epic, the special effects will probably be the best ever seen in film.

However Transformers has already shown that you can have amazing special effects but still have a rubbish film so it's a difficult call.

Plus he hasn't released a movie in nearly 11 years. And his last one was titanic (one of my most hated films)

This will be the better of the two movies entitled Avatar, as the Last Airbender will be terrible.

I'd like to believe that Avatar will be another vast leap forward. Terminator 2 because it had a solid story backed up with brilliant blew me away.

I just hope that Avatar can do the same. There are a lot of films with brilliant special effects and nothing else. In the end if there is no emotional investment then whats the point?

Well I don't mind a lot of 3-D and effects in a movie, but I really want real actors. Plus we all know if they make CGI/ 3-D whatever people, they wont be diverse about it. (In terms of race/ body type/ body weight/ facial features ect.) They only use what they deem as 'sexy'.

if you went to the mall and asked people if they thought the new film avatar was worth the hype, they would ask you what film you were talking about ("you mean the movie with the robed kid holding the staff?").

if this film is as hated as titanic is on these and other nerd-worthy boards it should do just fine. i thought titanic was a great piece of hollywood filmmaking which has been lacking since...i don't know, before i was born.

Has anyone here seen it yet? Nope.

But it looks to be fantastically *entertaining,* at the very least.
Besides; James Cameron is no Michael Bay.
When I think James Cameron, I think "Aliens" or "The Abyss," etc. - not "Love Boat with Iceberg."

Saw the 3D preview footage at the cinema. Very hard to say whether it's going to be a good movie from what they showed us.

The 3D is impressive, although i do have a feeling you might come out with a headache after watching 2-3hrs of through those 3D glasses. The system does make everything slightly blurry, and struggles on fast camera pans.

The CGI is extremely good and blends really well with the live actors.

I suspect it'll an interesting experiment... Just very hard to judge at the moment if its go a decent enough story to carry it.

I've heard him talking about this for ~10 years now. I am doubtful but James Cameron has delivered in the past.

Well, if one looks at the ground-breaking movies: Aliens, The Abyss, and T2 one has to give this director his due. Considering T2 and Aliens were unarguably the best in each of those series.

James doesn't do anything half-ass.

I'm looking forward to Avatar. What does it take anymore to move jaded Americans - a second coming?

Gees.

I saw the trailer and wasn't very impressed. it seems like it was going to be really cheesy...idk if i'll be seeing this one. but i'll be seeing the last airbender because i watched the original show and the stories could give some really great depth and entertainment to the silver screen.

I personally can't wait.

Hopefully the story will be strong enough to work alongside the effects, to make a great movie. I am looking forward to what it has to bring to the cinema experience.

What? What's Avatar Day? Hype? What's Avatar? Remind me who James Cameron is. 3D you say? Alter the way that movie-goers view films? That sounds kinda important, that bit. Why was I not told? You'd think that would be the sorta thing that would get known about, you know? I just don't understand what's happening here. what the fuck is avatar. something to do with myspace? is myspace making a film about 3d avatars? whould wanna see that shit

I now try not to look at sites to do with games and films (tho I am currently failing with WoW:Cataclysm xD) because I know I'll just get dissapointed (see Killzone 1, Indiana Jones 4, and the dual HDMI slot equiped PS3)

The future of cinema is a furry's wet dream?!

the future of cinema? you must be reading entertainment weekly. james cameron and this movie are skilled, above-average nuggets of pop cinema.

I think this is a bit much hype. I don't think the trailer looked that awesome. I was a bit bored.

Cameron deserves respect and is a fabulous director, but I don't see what everyone's going on about with this movie. It's looks good, not ground-breaking.

I'll need to see a full trailer before making a solid decision though.

Its promising visually. I'm not too sure on the plot but I've sort of lost interest in the fantasy and science fiction genres.

FUCK YEA!

I have been following news on Avatar very closely since I heard of it about a month ago, and after attending Avatar day's 15-minutes of preview footage, I'm considerably MORE HYPED.

I have no doubt this is going to be an incredible film, and I strongly suspect it could be the "Star Wars" of a new era of special effects. First of all, the story is about as good as stories come, a sort of Romeo & Juliet of intergalactic imperialism. But you can read that all elsewhere.

This new system used to film (if you can even call it that) the acting allows the actors' performances to be transplanted in both body and location. That means the CGI animals here have some of the most diverse and lifelike motions and faces ever seen on screen. While plenty can be said of how gracefully the CGI is fused with live action, the incredible ingredient here is how completely real and fleshed out the CGI world is.

Not only the actors' movements are transported to these characters, but their faces to a very high degree, albeit not PERFECT, of accuracy. Enough accuracy that the skin of the Na'vi seems to have a texture, and their muscles a weight.

And more importantly than these unbelievably nuanced details, their culture has color, a language, dangerous rituals of initiation. In one scene from Avatar Day we see the main character (a human in a Na'vi body) trying to become a Warrior to the Na'vi he is bonding with. They require him to tame a large toothed teradactyl-type monster to become his airborne transportation. The thing that is hard to express in words to people who have only seen movies filmed with physical cameras in real worlds with real actors, is the way the film captured a very raw, very exciting sense of tangible experience.

James Cameron has created a way to film human beings and then change the character, and move the camera around in post-production, through a world so fanciful it's taken him the last eleven years to flesh it out to its current state. It reminded me of being in a hyper-realistic dream, except that unlike a dream, where plenty of details are almost casually missing, here everything is realized to an insane level.

I'm a guy who had problems with Pan's Labyrinth for only having three rooms of Del Toro's imagination. And I'm near bonkers over how fleshed out and real this completely different world felt. I'm absolutely going to be buying the video game before it comes out, which Cameron says will have no spoilers, just to get a more fleshed out feel for this planet that will be my home for a few hours on December 18.

Cameron is a smart money maker. He makes money off of todays issues in an over budgeted industry standard making film. Just another side effect of our political money system. I never believe the hype. Greed is Greed.