James Cameron Sci-Fi film AVATAR

[alanp]

I know you guys will think I'm on drugs, but I put Cameron way above George Lucas as a story teller.

EDIT:

By that I mean Cameron has so many good projects to his credit.  Outside of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Lucas' stuff isn't quite up to par.  Cameron doing both Terminators, Aliens, Titanic, Rambo 2, etc.  He is just that solid and consistent.

[Omra]

I know you guys will think I'm on drugs, but I put Cameron way above George Lucas as a story teller.

EDIT:

By that I mean Cameron has so many good projects to his credit.  Outside of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Lucas' stuff isn't quite up to par.  Cameron doing both Terminators, Aliens, Titanic, Rambo 2, etc.  He is just that solid and consistent.

And since the 'Indie' movies were made with Speilberg you can't even really call them Lucas films, he was never even behind the camera.

Oh, and don't forget 'The Abyss' one of my favorites!

[Bryancd]

I know you guys will think I'm on drugs, but I put Cameron way above George Lucas as a story teller.

EDIT:

By that I mean Cameron has so many good projects to his credit.  Outside of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Lucas' stuff isn't quite up to par.  Cameron doing both Terminators, Aliens, Titanic, Rambo 2, etc.  He is just that solid and consistent.

And since the 'Indie' movies were made with Speilberg you can't even really call them Lucas films, he was never even behind the camera.

Oh, and don't forget 'The Abyss' one of my favorites!

Oh, I agree 100%, Alan. This trailer looks terrific!

[Ktrek]

The trailer looks interesting but it does not give enough information as to what it's about. The sfx scenes of the aliens looked way too much like video game CGI. It's hard to tell whether you are watching a CGI cartoon or a live action sci-fi fantasy film or both.

Kevin

[X]

What I don't understand is people complaining about not showing enough or showing too much. I'd rather them not show enough and have to read a blurb about the movie than them showing too much.

It's Cameron ... when has he ever skimped on story or production values?

[Rico]

What I don't understand is people complaining about not showing enough or showing too much. I'd rather them not show enough and have to read a blurb about the movie than them showing too much.

I agree completely!  Trailers, especially the first teaser one are meant to do just that - tease you and entice you.  This isn't the movie yet.  I myself love getting just a little bit of it so far and let my imagination sort of fill things in, for now.  And frankly, for me it's not at all hard to pretty much figure the basics of the story even from this short glimpse.  It also looks beautiful.

[Omra]

Plus from what I have heard from people who watched the trailer at ComicCon the 3D is amazing!

[Geekyfanboy]

And frankly, for me it's not at all hard to pretty much figure the basics of the story even from this short glimpse.  It also looks beautiful.

Well obviously you are a much smarter man then I.

[Rico]

And frankly, for me it's not at all hard to pretty much figure the basics of the story even from this short glimpse.  It also looks beautiful.

Well obviously you are a much smarter man then I.

Didn't mean anything by that Kenny.  This is just what I mean from seeing the teaser trailer:  Crippled guy gets alien body, aliens hunted by man, man in alien body find hot alien girl, man must choose what to do.  I think it's kind of cool that there's basically no dialogue in the trailer (one line) and you can still pick all that up.

[sheldor]

So, what's it about anyway?

Not really spoilery, but I'll tag it just in case:  [spoiler]  In the future, mankind has traveled to a planet that appears Earth-like, but discover that the atmosphere/environment is toxic to humans.  The dominant intelligent species on the planet is a race of large, blue cat-like aliens. 

The humans create AVATARS- mindless 'meat-puppets' modeled after the aliens.  The humans are able to download their consciousness into these Avatars and control them remotely.  The Protagonist of the story is a human who's wheelchair bound, so the Avatars provide him the chance to finally experience walking, running, etc. 

From what I can gather, the humans are out to exploit the planet.  the human protagonist forms an emotional bond with one of the female aliens, and has to decide which side he's going to support.  [/spoiler]

Ok - thanks for the info.

[psikeyhackr]

This looks like the sci-fi movie that is going to beat the pants off Star Trek this year.

AVATAR - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

psik

[Bromptonboy]

Holy Toledo!  This looks good!  I guess they Avatar's are bio-creations that are 'remote controlled' or somehow consciousness is 'downloaded' into them?

[Rico]

Already a thread going for this movie for a little while now.  Merging them.

[psikeyhackr]

Jesus H Christ!

Late for the party AGAIN!

I just learned about it a couple of weeks ago.

I think this trailer totally blows away the one for the Trek film.  This movie looks like it is about something not just something made up to make a movie.  That helicopter attack looks like something out of Vietnam. 

psik

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Gah, I'm getting confused with this Avatar and Avatar the Airbender Series. 

Sheesh.  :P

King