James Cameron’s Avatar Announcement
2 Comments// Posted in Reviews by Sean on 12.19.09.
This is not a review. This is an announcement for you to immediately go out and watch James Cameron’s Avatar in 3D. Do not wait until this is out on DVD; it’ll still be awesome, but only half as awesome as it would be in 3D (and let me add that I wore the 3D glasses over top of my “normal” glasses and it looked perfectly fine. This movie was made to be shown on a huge screen with the best sound available, and in 3D. And this 3D is the best 3D I’ve ever seen. When watching the recent Pixar movies, I’ve always felt like the screen was blurry and hurt my eyes whenever there was any action on screen.
And I can’t stress this enough: the trailer does not do Avatar justice. I thought the movie kinda dumb from the trailer. It looked like a scifi FernGully or something. But it is way more than that. So instead of watching that crappy trailer, watch this instead. It is a behind the scenes making of the movie. And you’ll see that Avatar is the greatest technical achievement for a movie that there has ever been.
“This is not an animated movie,” as Cameron says. Every single thing scene Avatar was filmed by real actors, with them actually acting everything out with capturing devices on them, not just voice acting. A special camera was even built to specifically look at their face to capture their exact facial expressions and recreate on screen. Cameron even built a special “virtual camera” for him to see what the final product will look like as the actors are working! This movie is what people will compare movies in the next decade to, just like they did with Cameron’s ‘Titantic’ years ago.
Cameron said that he wrote the script for this movie 14 years ago and waited until recently to actually create Avatar since technology has evolved to the point where he could actually portray what he envisioned onto the screen. And I am so glad he waited.
So back to what you actually see on screen when you go to the theater. The world, Pandora, shown in Avatar is SURREAL. It is without a doubt the most beautiful scenery ever created for a movie/video game. I’ve heard others say this before I saw the movie and I agree, that I almost teared up during a part of the movie; not because any emotional involvement with the characters, but because what you are seeing on screen is just so awesome (the part I’m talking about is actually what Cameron says in the video above is his favorite part of the movie–where the two main characters are flying with each other for the first time). When you go to the theater to watch this movie you are entering the world of Pandora. You’re not watching a movie; you are having an experience unlike any other.
Avatar is on an epic scale on the same lines as Lord of the Rings. Tolkien fanboys might burn me at the stake for saying that, but if they do it’s because they haven’t seen Avatar. The movie is 2 hours and 40 minutes long, but it didn’t feel long to me for 1 minute. I wanted more as soon as I walked out of there. I may even get the most-likely-crappy game (as most movies built on movie IPs generally are) just to re-enter the world of Pandora.
This may be my favorite movie of all time, but I’ll have to see how it holds up watching it in my tiny TV (42 inches?) in my home before making that decision. Everyone needs to go see this movie in 3D as soon as you can. It might be a little experience for some people to see it in 3D (it was $14.00 at my local IMAX 3D), but it is well worth it. James Cameron has said that he looked at doing the 3D in this movie as another light, another tool to make the movie a more intimate experience, not a gimmick thrown on to make more people come see it. GO SEE AVATAR!
[ Oh yeah, and Michelle Rodriguez is awesome, even the little bit that she's in this movie. Some how this image alone in the film made me go "hah! awesome!" It makes more sense in context... ]
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this movie is absolutely awesome-amazing special effects-i actually got emotional watching this movie-academy award for best movie best special effects best everything. thank you to everyone involved in this fantastic movie. cant wait to see what youll come up with next.
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