Comments on: Avatar Trailer To Play In Front Of Transformers 2?

By: MrA

MrA — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:55:03 +0000

John, I feel you on not knowing enough. I like Cameron a lot, believe me (enough to question referencing Transformers 2 as T2… but not enough to really care), but the hype behind it isn’t enough. I’m too skeptical these days to lend any faith before I actually view something. I like the promise of new tech to make a picture, the effort Cameron may have put into it, the idea he supposedly waited for tech to catch up to what he had envisioned… etc; but I read the scriptment, and while decent, I just don’t know about it holding up to the hype.

By: tj

tj — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:57:32 +0000

HEY, this is gonna be a trailer for The Last Airbender not James Cameron’s Avatar.

Been confirmed by Last Airbender Producer, Frank Marshell

By: obi-wan kubrick

obi-wan kubrick — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:45:56 +0000

Imagine back to 1998 and Cameron winning the Academy Award and wondering when his next film would be. If someone had told you you would have to wait until Christmas 2009? You would call them crazy.

By: obi-wan kubrick

obi-wan kubrick — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:44:06 +0000

I can’t wait to see the sequel to Avatar in 2024.

By: thatguy78

thatguy78 — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:49:05 +0000

I had the pleasure to talk to an onset producer and a studio exec about Avatar recently, and both left me shaking my head and smiling my ass off about how cool this thing is gonna be. No-one really knows too much, and the script seems to have been tweaked from the copy floating around on the web back in 2001, but it all just seems very fresh and immersive. The technology being used is jawdroppingly kickass and totally groundbreaking – Stereoscopic 3D tech that’s hard to get your head around, but supposedly puts you right there in the alien world he’s creating like nothing else. NOT Monsters Vs Aliens. Something far better, and obviously with liveaction. Really only Zemeckis and Spielberg/Jackson (TinTin) are the only guys pushing it all forward. Studio folks haven’t seen anything as far as I was told. No rushes, no scenes, no nothing. Which sounds scary (though also cool that it’s THAT top secret), but is probably because he has something truly special and doesn’t want it spoiled by anything out of his control. All they’ve heard from the very top is that this film will make you connect with alien characters in such an intimate way, that we’ll all feel like we’re watching ET as a 6 year old again. I for one am down.
I guess the only thing I’m even slightly worried about is how preachy the message of the film is (Captain Planet style). The script I read years back was pretty ‘Fern Gully’ at times.

We HAVE to trust Cameron. He’s one of the only trustworthy ones we have left.

By: gooch811

gooch811 — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:27:22 +0000

John… one reason why this movie is getting so
much hype….!!!!! James (Fuckin) Cameron!!!!
Need I say more… ??? Where have you been…?
With this being his first actual movie since
(Academy Award – Best Picture… DUH) Titanic, I
can already tell you… this movie will Fucking
Own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can say all you want but I only have one
thing to say that shoots whatever questionable
comments you may have….

James (FUCKIN) Cameron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The prove is in the man’s body of work!!!!
You figure it out….

Looking Forward to this!!!

By: fullmetal_medji

fullmetal_medji — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:08:16 +0000

This sounds a little boring to me. I don’t want it to be like Superman Returns though. Now Avatar will be visually stunning because Cameron is using this 3-d fusion camera system or whatever it’s called. At a budget of 300 million this should be the most gorgeous we have ever seen. Titanic was a marvel to look at and the ship tragedy aspect was very well done. In my opinion, the film was plagued by wooden acting, dialogue, and an average script. I still do not know why Titanic was so successful, but whatever. If avatar is executed right and has a good story along with revolutionary special effects, then this could be a very successful film. If it fails it will be a spectacular failure. Nevertheless, Everyone of Cameron’s films have been successful commercially and critically so he should be fine.

By: Matt K

Matt K — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:49:39 +0000

John,

maybe you should read this artcile.

http://www.killerfilm.com/articles/read/avatar-trailer-will-not-be-with-transformers-2-7570#comment-5962

By: John

John — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:33:24 +0000

Yeah Alfie,

Cause heavens knows there’s no such thing as middle ground. It’s only one extreme or the other.

By: alfie

alfie — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:29:10 +0000

yeah this top secret stuff sucks.

I prefer to know every single thing about a film before I see it so there is nothing left to surprise me when I see it. then I can bitch and moan about how average it was or boring it was and how they gave everything away in the trailer.