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YESSSS x2! AVATAR trailer #2 is NOW LIVE!!!! (mark ALL spoilers)
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Ashhong said:
Fox would be wise to not concentrate on trying to 'woo' the female audience more than any other demo with this marketing angle for two reasons.
A) Avatar will never replicate the success of Titanic with female audiences. Titanic's massive haul at the box office was almost exclusively down to the repeat business of the female (teenage) audience. Titanic had Leo whose poster was on every girl's bedroom wall. Avatar has ten foot tall blue aliens.
B) The Twilight sequel already has the sort the audience awareness and buzz, even at this point, that Avatar is desperately lacking. There is no way Sam Worthington or even James Cameron as a name brand is any match for James Pattinson at this moment in time.
You don't need to hammer home the potential romantic drama angle to bring in a female audience. Look at The Dark Knight. Women are interested in compelling stories and cinematic experiences as much as anyone else. Providing Fox don't push the military angle of the story too much of course.
SketchTheArtist
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Cheebs said:
Son of Avatar.
Neverender
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Bit-Bit said:
I met a furry once. We all thought it was funny, and would always refer to him as Steve the Furry. We were all hanging out some time, and I heard him talking to one of my gay friends about how he was so sick of people always referring to him as Steve the Furry. He compared it to how ridiculous it would be to always introduce my gay friend as Michael the Gay. I didn't really agree with the comparison but I felt really bad anyway.
Moral of the story: Furries are people too. :lol
Cheebs said:
Most actors who aren't major stars (and thus don't have the bargaining power) and are starring in a big studio picture sign multi picture deals with the studio making the film. So in terms of Sam Worthington and Avatar he'll likely be signed to Fox for three films which may or may not be Avatar related.
If it's a franchise picture then the standard rule of thumb is three pictures with an option for a fourth. You'll find that Christain Bale is on a deal like this with Warners for Batman and I imagine other 'franchise stars' such as Chris Pine will be on the same deal with Paramount for Star Trek.
However I know (for a fact cause he told me) one popular actor with GAF who was in a big fantasy franchise film a few years ago signed a multi picture deal with the studio who made the film. He bascially said he 'owed' the studio three more films.
One famous case was Ed Norton who signed a multi picture deal with Paramount when he was a young unknown actor for Primal Fear. The deal lay dormant for years only for Norton to be horrifed when Paramount 'activated' the clause in his contract and made him play the bad guy in the remake of The Italian Job.
The more you know.....
Cheebs said:
By "those guys" i meant the people who are adamant that Avatar is the worst thing they've seen, a cartoon with blue creatures, posting Davy Jones pictures etc...
The marketing moaners are a different complaint.
Bit-Bit said:
One of the young people i work with has recently taken to telling everyone that he is a furry with a glint in his eye.
ObviouslyTricky I Shadow said:
Jake, he's a traitor and his body is in the hands of humans. But lets see if Cameron has the balls to be stupid enough to have the humans kill Jake's body and for him to actually be a Na'vi thru some random magic bullshit and the final shot be a close up od his hand with only four fingers, if it's any of that kindergarden baby writing, Cameron's dead to me.
Scullibundo said:
Scullibundo you need to settle the fuck down otherwise Avatar will be the biggest disappointment of your life. James Cameron did not feel "real" in any way shape or form, dunno what the hell that guy was on. It was your average "two planes of depth" 3D. Avatar doesn't do anything new with 3D. You better realize this fact.
KennyLinder
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The guy in the wheelchair (coming out of the aircraft) at the start of the trailer is CGI. The fuck!!??
Krev said:
I was impressed by the footage in several ways, but the 3D in Avatar really wasn't anything new to me. Like I said before, for now I prefer the more subtle use in Ice Age 3. In IA3 3D was used to extened the depth of the image, in Avatar it's used to show a lot of crap in the foreground.
my question is why are they not releasing this trailer in 3D? There are plenty of films coming out that feature 3D why not put this trailer before Final destination or any of the numerous films coming out in 3D
I mean personally I think the cg looks cartoony and doesn't fit with the enviroments at points.Now everyone says you need to see it in 3D to experience it.I wasn't able to see the imax stuff so I'd like to see a trailer in 3D cause if it looks much better in 3D theni wanna see that before i see this film.
I mean personally I think the cg looks cartoony and doesn't fit with the enviroments at points.Now everyone says you need to see it in 3D to experience it.I wasn't able to see the imax stuff so I'd like to see a trailer in 3D cause if it looks much better in 3D theni wanna see that before i see this film.
Cmagus said:
I went to watch Under the Sea in 3d this weekend. There was a 3d trailer of AVATAR. However, it was nothing like the 15 minute preview. The shots are too quick for any of the 3d to sink in, so to speak.
The 3d trailer for A Christmas Carol was also very underwhelming. The movie looks interesting, but the 3d is nothing to write home about.
Lord Error
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I found his walking animation not realistic enough, but in the 2nd Pirates especially when you mostly see him sitting, playing organ etc, it looks perfectly real. There again, the only walking scene I remember, when he's in the rain, looked tiny bit jittery. But really, other than that, I think they nailed everything right.Jtwo said:
And yeah, pirates 3 is a weird movie that even lacks the funny action parts from the second one, which made that one entertaining.
CassidyIzABeast
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he's not cg. That scenes vfx aren't finished yetKennyLinder said:
deadhorse32
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Combine said:
Dragon furry
Anthropomorphism
Cat people
I won't begrudge someone who might find an attraction in something slightly inhuman, like the Na'vi. I think Cameron even admitted they needed to make the Na'vi with some physical appeal in order for Jake, a human, to become attracted to Netraya. I think he actually used the phrase "would you do her?" when having the artists come up with the design.
Although, the people who dress in those suits do seem kind of, unsettling.
Although, the people who dress in those suits do seem kind of, unsettling.
PrivateWHudson
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Jibril said:I see a male reproductive organ in that pic above, and now I can't unsee it.
Oh god! Not cool dude. NOT cool. I can't unsee it either now.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Yeah the website is shitty.
It should be noted that the 4 million hit bitchslap that AVATAR dealt out on apple.com was in LotR's direction (1.7million).
It should be noted that the 4 million hit bitchslap that AVATAR dealt out on apple.com was in LotR's direction (1.7million).
Kai Dracon
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Combine said:
No, the trick is that the anthropomorphized being must have features or be based on a zooilogical model that can be justified as potentially sensual or sexy by Internet nerds who are afraid of furries.
Therefore the Predator doesn't seem furry because it's hard for most people to imagine any human finding him sexy, if only for the face. Sexy in a powerful, ass-kicking way, maybe. After all, most FPS fans sexualize firearms plenty :lol (Maybe we should call FPS players Gunnies.)
Avatar's aliens, with somewhat feline features, are /supposed/ to be so close to human that humans are justified as finding them attractive. Therefore it's hell on wheels for geeks who are bent in pushing anything remotely "furry" away from themselves. Na'vi are furries for everyone! lol?
Oddly enough, the people who freak out over furries never seem to wonder if it's the /human/ part, rather than the animal part, that makes fictional creatures like the Na'vi sensual to say, authentic furry fans. People like sci-fi fans have found exotic humanoids sexy for decades. It's when the exotic humanoids have some features in common with Earth animals people recognize, like cats, that a whole category of geeks get really nervous. Hmm...
As someone said years ago in a thread (not on NeoGAF) where a bunch of Internet dweebs were ragging on some girl's "furry" art that had nothing to do with porn or even being sexualized: "you people are all the sick ones, who look at something innocent and see sexually perverted overtones."
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