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James Cameron's Avatar

Postby ZephyrStar » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:53 am

Does anyone else think this looks pretty mediocre/bad? Honestly I was expecting something a little more original. Way into the future, humans have mastered the civil and technical feats of interstellar space travel, and we go to a planet to steal some rocks out from under some blue cats. GG humans.

And when the fuck are we going to get over 'space marine' syndrome? All these designs stem directly from Alien/Starship Troopers or some form thereof. It's really that far into the future, and we're still shooting chunks of lead at things, and wearing huge bulky metallic suits? Where's the biotech? Where's the nanotech? Where the fuck are the LASERS! Or better yet, fuck lasers, those are old and busted too. WHERE IS THE SHIT THAT WILL REPLACE THE LASERS?!?!?!

And heaven forbid we just throw out the weapons alltogether and go on a PEACEFUL MISSION to send an Avatar in and get to know the local flora and fauna. "Oh but there's no action in that, it wouldn't be entertaining" bullshit, hire the right writers. "But we wouldn't make any money" ah, you got me there. That's right, the public is pretty dumb, I forgot.

I won't judge this completely by the cover (despite having just done so). I mean, maybe the trailer is done the way it is to get people into the theater, maybe it'll be some amazing new masterpiece, maybe they didn't just really give away the entire story in the trailer. Maybe. I doubt I'll see this in theaters though.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Kitsuner » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:29 am

I saw the trailer twice and I still don't understand what was going on.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Otohiko » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:34 am

It sounds a little overwrought to me, i.e. it's like they're coming up with a lot of very complicated excuses to basically abuse CG and fucking space marines. I'm not convinced the story is actually good. There is nothing wrong with over-the-top action and gar ass-kicking space marines, but this just seems like it'll get ruined by unjustified pretension at being proper sci-fi.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:05 pm

it looks purty to me O:
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Brad » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:06 pm

Papyrus.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby mirkosp » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:19 pm

Brad wrote:Comic Sans.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby ZephyrStar » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:05 pm

Brad wrote:Papyrus.


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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby guy07 » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:01 pm

Kitsuner wrote:I saw the trailer twice and I still don't understand what was going on.

It's a story about how a mexican kid save the world. :nose:
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Athena » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:59 pm

Grasers or Masers will replace Lasers.

Grasers specifically are gravity based weapons. Also, gamma ray/x ray emitting warheads are good too.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:08 am

I've never watched the series so I pretty much have no interest in it whatsoever. :book:

And I'm so unhip that I read the subject line expecting to see an 'avatar' ie: image. >>
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Athena » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:25 am

This has nothing to do with the cartoon. This predates the cartoon by years. Screenplay was written by Cameron in 1996, iirc.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby ZephyrStar » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:56 am

Moonlight Soldier wrote:I've never watched the series so I pretty much have no interest in it whatsoever. :book:

And I'm so unhip that I read the subject line expecting to see an 'avatar' ie: image. >>


I guess this could be made into an avatar avatar :>

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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:11 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:I've never watched the series so I pretty much have no interest in it whatsoever. :book:

And I'm so unhip that I read the subject line expecting to see an 'avatar' ie: image. >>


I guess this could be made into an avatar avatar :>

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That's freakin creepy OMG.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby Garylisk » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:00 pm

They sued and won against M. Night Shaymalan for the name "Avatar" - so now the Avatar movies will have different titles, like the first movie, which is just called "The Last Airbender" now: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/

So BLECH on this movie, even if the pics from Airbender scare me.
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Re: James Cameron's Avatar

Postby guy07 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:11 am

Weirdest looking mexican ever. :|
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