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24.11.09 # Movie Preview Critic # 8 Comments
It’s James Cameron’s first movie in 12 long years. It’s pushing the boundries of filmmaking with new 3-D technology. It’s a reminder of what it’s like to watch movies based on creative inspiration, not adaptations or remakes. Watch this in depth Avatar movie Preview Review BEFORE you see it, and spread the word.
Avatar is released on December 18th.
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As much as I would love to side with the MPC I’m worried that the story might just suck. I think there is quite a positive buzz about this at the moment, so I’m looking forward to midnight reviews at movie moron.
BTW, Sam Worthington really looks like Ewan McGregor in this review
Nice (p)review, but I think audiences have already showed they’ll support original tentpole projects this year – District 9, Paranormal Activity and The Hangover are are a testament to that. Support of Avatar will more likely be seen as an embrace of 3D and mo-cap than original cinema.
I’m with you all the way Movie Preview Critic.
I have no doubt the film will be at least solid. And I don’t think embracing 3D and mo-cap is a bad thing at all, it just brings more variety to cinema.
The difference between District 9, Paranormal Activity, The Hangover and this is that those were all low budget in Hollywood terms ($30m, $15k, $35m). The bigger the budget, the less original a film is allowed to be. That’s why Avatar is important.
It’ll only bring variety until EVERYONE WANTS TO DO IT. Which is already happening. Remember how it was nice to have some CG animations to go along with the hand drawn ones, and then they stopped making hand drawn ones?
And haven’t big budget original movies always existed provided the director has a track record? I think you’re overestimating Avatar’s value in that regard. It’s a game-changer, but not for original big budget movies. The directors that can command big budgets simply choose not to make original films most of the time, so we get Tintin and the like. I’m not complaining so much as making the observation.
Man, this is turning into a forum post
I actually Think James Cameron Avatar will probably mark a new step in the 3-D(a very important one).The Story looks cool but It depends on how Cameron will envolve the characters.Neytiri and the Na`vi Concepts are amazing!And the way that the movie looks,tells that Avatar will be Big
!.Talking about Buisness the movie will at some point hit the market with big numbers,well thats what they want with a big budget of $500 aprox.My expectation are Big…maybe its nothing after all but at the moment Avatar looks like the Best Movie of 2009 and maybe Of All Time!
I watched Avatar this afternoon, it is visually stunning! I was in awe of the catlike creatures …. the message seemed to be about an evil corporation using the USA military to exploit the natural resources of a foriegn planet..sound familiar? The 3D was revolutionary and amazing. Avatar is a masterpiece!
It looks stunning, breaks new ground, but its blue space pixies in cloud threnody land.
Zodiac had a big budget and is a great film. The assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is visually stunning and is a great film. Avatar has the mentality of a Disney channel special. I like some shockingly poor unoriginal schlock. But I like it because I like to switch my brain off and engage with my inner moron. Avatar is asking you to think about things not worth thinking about. its a dumb movie that doesn’t know its dumb. good space pixies v bad military people. ooh something about the environment and love conquering all. its woolly and vague and infantile. it’s what happens when you take all the brains out science fiction and the counter culture and mulch the remains into a big faux hippie stew.
But it is great on a big screen.
I thought Cameron’s Avatar is briliant. I was really surprised that the Academy didn’t recognize Avatar at the Oscar’s. The same thing happened with Titanic. What does James Cameron have to do to get approval from his pears?