Avatar Special Edition Theatrical Release on Aug 27th
Posted by Rodneyon 08. 07. 2010in News Chat
Because James Cameron just can’t be out done by … James Cameron, he is re-releasing Avatar in a Special Edition that will feature a staggering 8 minutes of additional footage.
Deadline Hollowood reports:
Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron today announced that AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION will be released in theaters August 27, in a limited engagement and exclusively in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.
This version of Cameron’s history-making and groundbreaking epic will include more than eight minutes of new footage.
I really like when a film gets re-released so I can relive the excitement of that film in all its big screen glory. But of course there tends to be a decade or two between viewings for me to enjoy this. There is little nostalgia over a film that came out 8 months ago.
Now there is the 8 minutes of additional footage. Really? 8? This is what I am waiting for the extended version??
The stated reason for this release is that with the success of Avatar, there has been a boom in available 3D screens, and those poor souls who had to suffer through the traditional presentation of this mega-hit will now have the opportunity to further pad the boxoffice record set by this film.. er.. I mean they will have the opportunity to see it as Cameron intended. Of course he intended you to watch it 5 times, so this gives you that opportunity.
Its a complete money grab and as much as I did enjoy the film, and I did enjoy the 3d. I wont be going to see this again this soon.
Talk to me in 10 years when we can marvel that we used to have to wear glasses to watch 3d films.
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Lots of people will attack this move. And sure, while it is a money grab, it also allows those who didn’t get to see it the first time around in theaters, the chance to, as well as those diehard fans that really enjoyed it to see it on the big screen again.
i never saw it in 3d and i can’t miss the re-release to experience it.
COOL
Hey Guys, does anyonr remember back in the early 80′s when “Close Encounters of the third kind” came out on re-release bragging about additional footage and all we saw was the inside of the ship at the end? I can still remember feeling jipped then and this sounds like the same ol’ same ol’
the movie was great but this has a stench all over it.
you probally wont hear the numbers this time around.
Will it be the Sex scene?????
What they should do is trim the movie about 30 minutes…like say the 30 minutes of nonsensical flying? I mean, it’s cool he created a world but there was so much extra shit to the movie that could’ve been trimmed. I normally love long movies, if the running time is just. I love Magnolia, Das Boot, There Will Be Blood, Watchmen, Gone With The Wind, The Unbearable Lightness of Being…but those films had great story lines that were necessary for the length. I can’t imagine that movie even 8 minutes longer. I’m not trying to be a hater because I did like the effects, the war scenes were great and all but fuck…aside from the aesthetics, I really don’t feel it’s a great movie, like everyone praises it to be.