Avatar: FernGully 2: Pocahontas Dances With Smurfs In Space In 3D On Ice

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I've seen avatar...



...i'm totally a hypocrite for thinking before the fight started "Ha, you blue tree huggers...our race was built on 10 thousand years of bloodshed and piled bodies, you really think you can win?!"
 
xcellerate said:
So I was watching "The Core" this weekend and guess the name of the metal their ship was made out of....


unobtanium.
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Yes, I groaned when watching Avatar because of that name. Both for the Core connection and the name's origin. The word was invented for physics/materials engineering thought experiments. Basically used when they need a "perfect" element or substance to reduce variables or otherwise construct a hypothetical system, and shouldn't have ever been used outside those realms. I'd think that anyone else who's taken those classes in college must have thought this was pretty lame.

James Cameron invented an entire world and all its creatures. The inhabitants have their own damn language for Christ's sake! Why the hell couldn't he have come up with his own name for a damn mineral?

EDIT: Okay, Oakley has even trademarked the damn name for their own materials. There's no way they can enforce that.
 
Just watched it for the fourth time in IMAX.

Epic.
 
I foresee an Avatar MMORPG in the future.
 
The first game in the history of gaming that requires a mo-cap studio to play? :V
 
I think it's kinda weird how searching "Avatar" still brings up more Avatar: The Last Airbender than James Cameron's Avatar.
 
Fun fact: once M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar comes out, everyone will forget how much they hate James Cameron because uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Seriously how did that even happen. "Hey we need someone to direct our kid's action movie based on a cartoon for kids HEY THIS GUY MADE A MOVIE ABOUT PLANTS THAT MAKE YOU KILL YOURSELF OKAY SOLD."
 
The movie premise and it's spectacular use of CGI sold it. I think it's safe to say James Cameron had next to no affect of its success at all :l
 
The premise and use of CGI weren't his ideas?
 
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/avatar_oscarnom_gallery/

Wired has a bunch of behind the scenes videos up. Honestly, the more I see of it the less I'm looking forward to seeing it. The harder they try to make CGI look "real" the less real it looks, imho. Those hammer head things, for one, look like crap, unless they're supposed to be made out of metal or something I guess. The whole movie seems like it was meant to appeal to the "ooooooh shiny!!" crowd so maybe they're perfect, I dunno.
 
Because only easily distracted idiots enjoyed Avatar. :dozey:

And from here on out, I think people are required to actually see the whole running movie on a large screen before they start to shit on the film's CGI.
 
Hear, hear! Though I readily admit I AM an easily-distracted idiot, particularly when it comes to movies.
 
Eejit said:
The premise and use of CGI weren't his ideas?
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The premise certainly wasnt his idea, and the decision to use CGI doesnt give him any credit for it. That would be like saying the decision to buy and drive a mustang means you created the mustang.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Fun fact: once M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar comes out, everyone will forget how much they hate James Cameron because uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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How did M. Night Shyamalan even get to make the movie anyway ? Don't the studio executives know that M. Night movies have been sucking since well Sixth sense ?
 
I meant, people went for the CGI, not because Cameron did shit to shit to make the movie. Cameron played a role in the creation, but his creation soaked up the limelight.

It's like rooting for the coaches of Federa when he won the open.
 
Why everyone talking about the old CGI?

The only new things were the 3D cam and the facial tech as far as I know.

It's a good movie, like Gladiator was a good movie. Nothing unbelievable plot-wise, but it has a good story.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Fun fact: once M. Night Shyamalan's Avatar comes out, everyone will forget how much they hate James Cameron because uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Trust me there's room enough to hate both.

Absinthe said:
And from here on out, I think people are required to actually see the whole running movie on a large screen before they start to shit on the film's CGI.
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Oh, darn it. I guess that rules out my opinion then? However if I did go to watch it on a big screen in a movie theatre, that would mean coughing up the dough, and the makers of this movie are not getting my money.
 
You're not going to be able to judge the overall quality of film's CGI from a few screencaps and trailers. There is quite a lot to see in the film and it's absolutely retarded that people can sit here on this forum and say shit like "LAWL VIDYA GAMES LOOK BETTER". For every moment where the film may look "off", there are hundreds more where it's spectacular and believable. Please note that I am talking solely about the CGI here. There's enough room to argue over the movie's plot and characters, but I have to put my foot down when people are disparaging its visuals without actually having seen the damn film.

I really only request that people endure the film's running time. That said, I do believe this is one of those movies you should catch on a big screen while you can. It's tailor-made for a cinema experience.
 
I can't believe there are still people out there that haven't seen the movie yet lol.


GO GET GUYZ
 
Despite the RDA just being a slightly modified version of the Aliens' Marines, I really liked how the foot soldiers looked.

They had the Space Marine look, with the addition to the nice gas mask, which I really liked for it's simple clean design.

(big picture)

 
Conform, dammit! You long to be just like everybody else, deep inside.
 
Eejit said:
The premise and use of CGI weren't his ideas?
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Actually, yes, they were? Pandora, Na'vi etc. are his creation, done 15 years back. While the execution is not entirely his (obviously), everything in Avatar is based on Cameron's ideas and guides.
 
Actually I knew that mikael, I was just being facetious.
 
http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/blog/44-avatars-color-controversy

According to director James Cameron, 20th Century Fox had some initial apprehension that his $2 billion-dollar-baby delivered the wrong kind of message -- the message of environmental conservation.

Cameron recollects the studio's warning as being: "We really like the story. It's great. But, well, is there a way to not have so much of this tree-hugging, 'Ferngully' stuff in it?"
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Instead of backing down, Cameron, instead, reveled in the environmental themes leading up to the climatic conclusion of "Avatar". "I think there's something amazingly satisfying when the hammerheads come out of the forest and start mowing down all the bad security enforcers. Nature gets to fight back," he said. "It's 'Death Wish' for environmentalists. When did nature ever get to fight back in a movie?"
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Oh, who the **** stretched this thread again? Was it you, ZT? Oh, what a surprise, it was. Goddamnit I'm giving you an infraction next time you cause this kind of inconvenience to forum users.
 
If you weren't so intimidated by me you'd just give me one now!
 
Sulkdodds said:
Except that Cameron pretty much built the car.
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Facial mo-cap isnt new. They way "he" did it was just a better way. And I put "he" in quotes, because he didn't do shit to make it, Weta pretty much came up with it for him. Plus its not like the mo-cap was what made the CGI, it was just a tool for the actual artists to use. Just like a computer.


HOLY SHIT BILL GATES MADE AVATAR!
 
I just saw it last night. I gotta say I was into the story, though it did drag on quite a while. I liked Neytiri. She was hot. I liked her even though she was the standard aboriginal hot bitch in the beginning.

"Stoopid hueeman! You ar nat welcame!" *parkours away*

*stupid determined human follows*

Anyways, the story was very meh, but at the same time it tugged at all those old heart strings you used to have <3. So I liked it. The effects were awesome, even though the environments did remind me a lot of the Outlands in WoW.

It was just worth it. It's not Star Wars (though definitely much better than all of the prequels) and it's not deep, but it made me feel fuzzy and warm. Definitely not worth $300 million though.
 
She's hotter pre-mocap.

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Holy **** she's Uhura from the new Star Trek?!
 
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