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AVATAR - Sci-fi epic by James Cameron @ COMIC-CON
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Zeliard said:
Don't buy it. By that logic anything new you haven't seen before would look fake even if it was in real life.
I can think of lots of movies that showed fantastical things that were indistinguishable in detail from the rocks they were placed next to. "It's CGI" is triggered by subtle things like incorrect lighting, moving with no weight, etc.
Busty said:
Look, I've been where you were until I found out more about the movie. CHUD is not to be followed for any reason. It's not "Oh, he disagrees with me so I hate him." No, it's the fact that he has a long history of spreading bullshit about movies that he doesn't care about. He did it famously with Star Trek earlier this year, telling how Chekov was going to die and the whole thing was going to be reset anyway. Nothing like that was even close to what happened, but he sold it as gospel.
He and his small group of followers are the worst kind of film-school failures that hate anything that could be popular and go against anything that has popular acceptance. Kind of like GAF but on a much more dickish scale.
His 'fact' that the Nav'i look just like that has been debunked in this thread just a few pages up.
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Zenith said:
No creature in Avatar is going to look so real that you think it is real... just think of Gollum, and how although you know he is fake, because he seems so real it doesn't matter as long as you let yourself get into the story/film
It would seem that Fox have taken legal action to bring down pictures of the Jake Avatar toy from teh Internets.
But they may as well release better quality film stills at this point as the damage 'has been done' with the awful toy design no doubt saved to hundreds of thousands of hard drives at this point.
The laughably bizarre and totally mismanaged three ring circus that is Avatar's marketing campaign continues.
But they may as well release better quality film stills at this point as the damage 'has been done' with the awful toy design no doubt saved to hundreds of thousands of hard drives at this point.
The laughably bizarre and totally mismanaged three ring circus that is Avatar's marketing campaign continues.
SpeedingUptoStop
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of marketing for Avatar Day. They just don't expect people to walk into the theater and be like "hey, I can see 15 minutes of this movie i know nothing about - for free!", do they?the walrus said:
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Well, my view is that, without any sort of trailer before AVATAR day, there's no way they are going to get audiences into the theater to see this 15 minute preview. Not to mention, just think of every way FOX has already botched the marketing for this movie, wouldn't suprise me if they fucked up this stage too.
Plus, we're already in August. I mean, there's only one chance to see this preview, so they better let the general public know when and what it is before it's too late.
I'm not sure what you are trying to imply here by gauging fanboy reactions across two different films, different genres .. the kind of reaction of Venom (SM3) still remains to be topped and we know how the movie turned out .. :lol Fanboy reaction != success or failure, it guarantees that fanboys will either attend or not attend the midnight screening.Cheebs said:
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jett said:
ILM ftw. WETA cries bitter tears.
Davy Jones was INCREDIBLY well done
DieNgamers
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Yeah, he was. I didn't like the movie, though. I enjoyed the first one so much..I don't know how they did it but I couldn't sit through the second and third movie. 
So Aug 21 is two weeks away and there still isn't a list of screens worldwide confirmed to be carrying the 15min shit? Why do I have this feeling that Fox just thought of the idea right before Comicon, and started arranging deals then? if that's the case, I expect tons of places around the world to not bother with this since it's too soon and there were no plans made before hand.
duckroll said:
I'm not going to see it in cinema, since it probably won't show up in mine. I only live a few blocks away from the theater too. Not a good idea from FOX. Really not good.
Comic-con was the right time to debut. Missed chance.
SpeedingUptoStop
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Didn't they say "every Imax theater nationwide" too?duckroll said:
Cheebs said:
True. But, don't give it too much credit, they used actual sets for that movie. can you believe it? SETS? That said, I didn't even know JarJar was CG, I guess nobody told me, I honestly thought he was just a guy wearing a shitton of costumes on, sort of like C3PO. Not that he looked real or anything, I just tried not to look at him.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Slightly higher res:
Though I still don't believe this is the official teaser poster. Especially when released in this res on the interwebs.
Though I still don't believe this is the official teaser poster. Especially when released in this res on the interwebs.
SketchTheArtist
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Scullibundo said:Slightly higher res:
Though I still don't believe this is the official teaser poster. Especially when released in this res on the interwebs.
This is the official teaser poster. Doesn't represent very well the beauty of this character in the film.
Reminds me of this:Scullibundo said:Slightly higher res:
Though I still don't believe this is the official teaser poster. Especially when released in this res on the interwebs.
Don't know if it's the colours or something, but this actually looks more detailed :/
Nizz
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ILM is one of the best special effects companies out there. But they're probably also the priciest.Cheebs said:
Weta does good work also. I thought Gollum looked impressive, as some other effects as well. King Kong looked great, and I liked what they did with the Silver Surfer.
I'm pretty anxious to see some of Weta's work in Avatar.
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Scullibundo said:Slightly higher res:
Though I still don't believe this is the official teaser poster. Especially when released in this res on the interwebs.
That looks awful. The proportions are REALLY weird. Makes it look like bad CG. If this is the official poster, ouch.
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Ether_Snake said:
Umm, she's an alien?
Doesn't look too bad to me, but certainly not the greatest poster I've ever seen.
Still waiting on that trailer...
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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So much doubt.
In Cameron I trust.
In Cameron I trust.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Jibril said:
Erm, no its not. :lol
SpeedingUptoStop
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This is seriously some of the worst marketing ever. If they didn't throw down Avatar Day, I'd be shitting all over this.
ToyMachine228
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I'm blind in one eye and therefore 3D stuff doesn't work for me. Fuck you Cameron!
SpeedingUptoStop
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It could be a Christopher Nolan film and I'd say that poster is awful.gdt5016 said:
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Jibril said:
This image is suppose to be of Zoe Saldana's avatar Neytiri. Jake's avatar look different:
http://i26.tinypic.com/29pdwut.jpg
ArachosiA 78
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Technically, isn't the face on the poster that of Neytiri, a Na'vi rather than an avatar?
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Honestly, I don't expect photorealistic CG in this movie. I expect some of the best, if not THE best CG that's been done, but I don't expect photorealism.
Basically, I just want the world to be convincing. I want to look at it and be able to be drawn into it without it seeming fake or overly digital looking.
Basically, I just want the world to be convincing. I want to look at it and be able to be drawn into it without it seeming fake or overly digital looking.
SpeedingUptoStop said:
It's going to be interesting to see just how much noise FOX makes about this 'Avatar day'.
Are we talking national TV and radio spots? Or are Fox going to make this a net only campaign?
There's been some speculation that Fox came up with the idea of 'Avatar Day' not long before SDCC and there were still alot of details to be ironed out.
But they don't have long left so they better move quickly. Because at the moment Avatar's marketing thus far has been nothing but a catalogue of errors.
FirewalkR said:
I'm a little surprised how much 'bad buzz' the poster is generating among some people.
I wonder if people's expectations are now so high that even a teaser poster can be seen to disappoint.
The buzz created by the disasterous campaing (or lack there of) that Fox has been running thus far needs to be turned around.
The trailer had better deliver. And deliver huge.
The Davy Jones - Avatar CG comparison is irrelevant and wrong.
IIRC, for Davy Jones they had a real actor who filmed all the scenes involving Davy Jones and they applied CG in post-processing over that actor. Avatar on the other hand has fully CG characters, correct? It's a totally different thing.
IIRC, for Davy Jones they had a real actor who filmed all the scenes involving Davy Jones and they applied CG in post-processing over that actor. Avatar on the other hand has fully CG characters, correct? It's a totally different thing.
The more I think about it, the more it seems totally bizarre that Fox is taking such an 'experimental' approach to marketing what is very likely the most expensive film of all time.
They both use motion captured actors. For some scenes they shot actors in mo-cap suits on live-action backgrounds, which is the same thing that was done with Davy Jones.shuyin_ said:
Have anyone who has seen the footage commented on the difference between Avatar and Pirates in terms of CG?
The argument that 'it doesn't look real because these things don't exist' is not valid, because Davy Jones looks 100% real to me, as far as real can be without having seen the character in real life.
I thought he was done with amazing animatronics when I saw the film.
The argument that 'it doesn't look real because these things don't exist' is not valid, because Davy Jones looks 100% real to me, as far as real can be without having seen the character in real life.
I thought he was done with amazing animatronics when I saw the film.
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