I got a tv catalog in the mail today and most of the tv hade Avatar pics on them.
Man this is mainstream!

  >>13213

Well... Remember the times, when they were putting stills from "Titanic" or "Star Wars" or whatever?

In the meantime: one possible inspiration for "Avatar": "Emerald Forest".

BRASILIA, Brazil — A Brazilian judge on Monday suspended for a second time bidding on a massive hydroelectric dam project opposed by environmentalists, Indians and "Avatar" director James Cameron.

The ruling can be appealed by Brazil's government and a spokesman for the National Electrical Energy Association said the auction will proceed as planned on Tuesday if the decision is overturned. He declined to be named in line with association policy.

Bidding on the Belo Monte dam was suspended by the judge last week in response to a claim by the state attorney general that it could have serious environmental and social consequences. But a court in Brasilia overturned that ruling.

A federal tribunal in northern Para state released a statement late Monday saying judge Antonio Carlos Almeida had once against ordered bidding on construction of the Belo Monte dam halted.

The planned $11 billion, 11,000-megawatt project to dam the Xingu River, which feeds the Amazon, would be the third-largest such hydroelectric project in the world.

Cameron has lobbied to stop the project, visiting Brazil's Indians and even comparing their struggle against the dam to the plot of his blockbuster movie "Avatar."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOmjsdsbVVWGuWZNrXPK-XMBn9iwD9F6FD8O0

>>13272

he'd better be careful, he does this too much he'll get kidnapped for a few years

>>13273
Will they "dissapear" an American?

>>13137

OK, it was said that Tsu'tey is Pandora Tought Guy or Reversed ':3' Dude, but what we could say about Eytukan?

>>13274

happens all the time

>>13290
Father figure that may seem hard but is soft on the inside?

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/20/avatar-theatrical-re-release-in-august-with-additional-footage-s
equel-will-focus-on-oceans-of-pandora/

RERELEASE CONFIRMED

>>13314

"Avatar II: Pirates of the Equatorial Sea"

Tomorrow! You!

>>13334

Noooooooooooo! Hold out for the director's cut!

>>13337
Rent it!

http://www.gamereactor.se/nyheter/22060/Avatar+s%E4ljs+p%E5+Coop+nu/
Oh damn!
Oh right swedish... Its about a Coop store brakeing the street date. One day before you guys! HA!

>>13137

Sam Worthington: a new star of action cinema?

Well, I think its time for me to sum up my feelings on the Na'vi with one word.

"Pity"

For alot of reasons, most having to do with what they are up against...

>>13378

not as a CGI catman he's not

>>13137

"James Cameron's misguided crusade in the Brazilian rain forest."

>But though Cameron might be right on the merits of the case, his intervention risks turning it into a debate over Brazil's ability to manage its own affairs. In an interview with the Associated Press after an injunction against the project was overturned, he blamed "entrenched interests and billions of dollars" for creating a "steamroller." In fact, Brazil's attorney general is quite properly acting as an independent watchdog, and the courts have carefully considered the constitutional issues at stake. The system of checks and balances, in other words, is working much as it should. Although there is a serious case to be made against the project, attempts to impose a Hollywood narrative on the situation ignore the energy needs of Brazil's growing economy, trivialize the political issues, and undermine the credibility of international environmental campaigns.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/22/pandoras_box?page=full

>>13389
>ability to manage its own affairs
>implying any south american country can "manage its own affairs"

>energy needs
>implying the dam actually produces significant energy and it's not a front to build 60 more dams and open up the entire area up for destruction

>>13443
Oh, for fuck's sake, go back to /n/.

>>13389
>attempts to impose a Hollywood narrative on the situation ignore the energy needs of Brazil's growing economy,
This may connect to something that kind of bugged me about Avatar, which was that there was absolutely no sympathy for the human race and their dying planet. I'm not saying that their actions against the Na'vi were justified, but it seemed like Cameron was saying, "Well, that's what you get for leaving the forest and inventing metallurgy. Tough titties."

>>13454

heh lucky for him his aliens are the stereotypical one mind people and don't have different cultures and societal differences that could cause inter species conflict

>>13457
Well they are being "controlled" by a world mind. And all clans do have their own style!

Is it just me or is the kid in the botom corner a young Tsu'tey?

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/299951/avatar-blu-ray-looks-amazing#post_3683435

>Good BD's have an average weighted bitrate around 22Mb. "Avatar" has an average weighted of about 34; peaks at over 40! (40.8), and never drops below 25. The DTS-MA track is also near perfect. with it's base rate at near 3.6Mb, high rate of 5.2!

>Both of these absolutely press the boundaries of spec. People had wondered how to equate this, and they had shrugged off "superbit" comparison, but I don't know of any other way. There is no title released that I can think of that carries even close to the bitrate. And a large number of titles that we think of as "good" that are encoded at around 1/2 the bitrate.

Is it bad that I almost don't want to wait for the Spec. Ed. or 3D versions?

>>13479

But they could be even superer.

  oh boy oh boy oh boy

>>13461


Quite possible.

This is why he so hate Sky People; they had shoot kids in Grace's school.

>>13498
Yeah, and most note worthy http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Sylwanin

Forgot my pic, and did not same it from the wiki... Sorry about the low rez!

>>13479
Oh, just rent it already!
Also have some hope and d'aww!

  >:3

  For reference, this is the kind of mocap Cameron is advocating.

It's one actor with three different bodies.

>>13538

ohhh yea good example of why Hollywood would be pissed. Handful of good VA equals the entire cast of a movie. and that would put a metric ton of people out of work Hollywood. And can anyone name the VA's we would hear everywhere?

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5511887/RiffTrax_-_Avatar
I'm BAD!

  Top 10 interview questions for James Cameron about Avatar; past, present and future

http://www.youtube.com/user/officialavatar

  yaaay

Actor STEPHEN LANG is "disgusted" AVATAR missed out on the Best Picture Oscar - because he's convinced the sci-fi epic was the best movie in the category.

James Cameron's blockbuster was snubbed in favour of his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow's war drama The Hurt Locker at last month's (Mar10) Academy Awards.

And Lang, who played Colonel Miles Quaritch in the biggest grossing movie of all time, is still fuming over the decision.

He tells British TV show Live From Studio Five, "We were kind of prepared for it. I was slightly disgusted, I would say, but I saw every picture that was nominated and they're all marvellous pictures. If I happen to think Avatar is the best of the lot you can forgive me for that.

"I would never want to in any way disrespect another film or director but having said that, we should have won."

Lang isn't the only Avatar star to voice his anger over the Oscars results - earlier this month (Apr10), Sigourney Weaver launched a scathing attack on Academy Awards bosses, insisting Cameron should have won the Best Director prize instead of Bigelow. Avatar won prizes for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects at the annual ceremony.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/lang-disgusted-over-avatar-oscar-snub_1140432

"Avatar" was an unprecedented sales sensation for home-video retailers, as it nearly tripled the existing record for single-day Blu-ray sales set by "The Dark Knight."

Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" sold 600,000 copies on Blu-ray in the United States when it hit stores in December 2008; on Tuesday, "Avatar" racked up about 1.5 million copies sold, according to sources at Fox.

The DVDs and Blu-rays of "Avatar" were also clearly coveted as a black-market commodity: According to a report issued by the procuraduría general de justicia (attorney general of justice) in Mexico City, 3,409 DVD and Blu-ray copies of the film were taken at gunpoint from a delivery truck belonging to Technicolor Home Entertainment Services of Mexico.

The report said that the truck driver was assaulted by an armed robber in the Mexican capital’s Alvaro Obregon district. According to the report, the stolen cargo had a total value of 669,454 pesos (about $54,873).

Here in the States, retailers reported that a significant number of people bought a Blu-ray player and a copy of "Avatar" together, suggesting that the best picture Oscar nominee was a tipping-point product for format change.

For DVD and Blu-ray combined, "Avatar" sold "north of 4 million units," a Fox executive said, a record for a single day of home-video sales.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/04/avatar-shatters-sales-records-and-inspires-armed-heist-in-mexico-city.html

  >>13637
And part twooo.

>>13697
How can a man who played such a supreme badass be such a whiny bitch?

YOU LOST. Get over it.

>>13708

Quaritch would blow Chuck Norris into oblivion... and get back home in time for dinner.

Quaritch uses the Home Tree as a toothpick.

Superman wears a Quaritch pajamas.

Quaritch taught Guile how to Flash Kick.

Miles Quaritch was first in his class at Top Gun Academy...without the use of an aircraft.

Quaritch does not obey rules, rules obey Quaritch.

That feeling you get like someone is watching you... it's Quaritch.

Quaritch's keyboard does not have an Escape button.

Once, Quaritch got pulled over, but he let the cop off with a warning.

When Quaritch sends you a facebook invitation, there is no ignore button.

Quaritch's exo-pack doesn't keep oxygen in. It prevents his breath from getting out.

The Hurt Locker is what Quaritch calls his laundry basket.

If there was a AMP suit planet, some AMP suits would wear Quaritch suits for battle.

Quaritch does not smoke.... his guns do.

Quaritch once ate three 72 ounce steaks in an hour, he spent the first forty-five minutes drinking coffee.

The quickest way to a man's heart is Quaritch's fist.

One day Quaritch went swimming. A few hours later, Titanic sank.

Quaritch once walked down the street with an erection.... nobody survived.

Quaritch was originally the hero in Lord of the Rings, but he took the Dragon and an AMP suit and destroyed Mordor in time for dinner.

Quaritch puts the laughter back in "manslaughter"!

Quaritch ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got it.

When Quaritch has surgery, the doctors get anesthesia.

Quaritch, Chunk Norris and God played Rock, Paper and Scissors. God used Paper, Chuck Norris used Scissors, and Quaritch used a live grenade.

The Devil gets goosebumps when he thinks of Quaritch.

Quaritch can mine for unobtanium alone, with his face.

Quaritch is an ultra-potent mix.

The Na'vi use a poison that can stop your heart in 1 minute. Quaritch's fist can stop your heart in 1 second.

Quaritch munches on barbed wire like chewing gum... and swallows it.

Quaritch can obtain unobtainium.

Quaritch has no home security system, he dares people to break in.

The President has Quaritch on speed dial, just in case.

It's not the fall that kills you, it's Quaritch waiting at the bottom.

A solar eclipse is really when the sun is hiding from Quaritch.

Quaritch is toxic to the air on Pandora.

When Quaritch goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.

The word "lesbian" derives from an old Latin phrase that roughly translates as "She who has not yet been introduced to Quaritch."

Quaritchs pulse is measured on the Richter scale.

Quaritch likes to drink boiling acid... as an appetizer.

Quaritch made it to Pandora in 2 years... without a ship.

The Hallelujah Mountains were the result of Quaritch running out of airlocks to kick in.

A Na'vi is about 3 times stronger than a normal human... Or to put it in layman's terms... 1/1,000,000 the strength of Quaritch.

Quaritch only uses guns so he'll look less intimidating.

Quaritch once raped a Na'vi female, making her pregnant, then he tore the fetus right out of her. With his teeth.

Quaritch doesnt need oxygen to survive Pandora, Pandora needs methane and chlorine to survive Quaritch.

If you pay attention, you'll notice Quaritch is not driving an AMP Suit at any moment in the movie, he just ripped off his shirt in furious anger.

>>13708

He knows they were just being little bitches because this is a new medium that would upset the Hollywood studio system...again

>>13716
OOOH, motion capture. How new and groundbreaking. That's only been around as long as there have been movies.

>>13711
Yeah, but his only fault is that he is too hot headed to think ahead sometimes...
He needs a "no"-man sidekick too help him take a step back and think about a strategy!
Like a Captain Pellaeon to his Grand Admiral Thrawn.

>>13717

yea but every time someone comes up with something that would actually make the studios get off their aging duffs they throw a fit then act as if they came up with the idea later.

>>13716
You know what? I'm getting tired of this excuse. I really wish you would at least consider the idea that it was just not that great of a movie. It got awards for its visuals, which were undeniably the film's best qualities. However, its story just didn't make the grade.

>>13728

>structured reasoning supported by interviews = excuses
>my opinion that it wasn't a good story = legitimate reason

Ok, I'll bite.

>>13731
What interviews? No seriously, I'm terrible at keeping myself informed about this kind of thing so I probably look like an idiot now.

But all I'm saying is that it's not impossible that they shared my opinion. Whenever something loses a contest or whatever and people say that it was just too progressive, I automatically become suspicious of their claims.

>>13728

oh of course the story was shit. It was a very pretty film but the story was utter recycled nonsense. Same goes for Titanic with shitty acting and story but it looked nice for the time. As stated its really nice MoCap tech (I like the Henson system better) but CGI is CGI and no matter how much you try fake people still look like fake people...just with freaky huge pores usually since they cannot control texture settings. Its just the same thoughts that torpedoed Sky Captain those many years ago. Any film system that practically cuts out the almost entirety of a studio work force (and that cannot be labeled a "cartoon") as well as not having pretty simpleminded whores they can parade across the stained carpets of Hollywood since it was just three VA's doing the stuff and they don't look as fake as the rest of the tools then what are you gonna do?

>>13747
That last sentence kind of stumbled over itself.

But if the movie didn't deserve an Oscar, why complain about it not getting one, even if it was for other reasons?

>>13137

James Cameron is smarter than you can think:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html

Also, he is just overgrown geek.

Avatar creator James Cameron wants to create a voluntary movie industry watchdog group to maintain 3-D movie momentum and to avoid “stupid stuff” like the recent Clash of the Titans makeover.

Having set a new benchmark for 3-D realism with techniques his team developed for Avatar, Cameron told The Star he wants to encourage other filmmakers to make the best possible use of the third dimension. He perceives fears about the current 3-D revival that he’d like to address.

“What I’d love to do is put together some kind of a forum with the DGA (Directors Guild of America), let’s say, and maybe the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) and we’d have to do it in Canada, too,” the Ontario-born Cameron said from Los Angeles.

“And let’s just have a dialogue with the creative community. On the one hand, to allay their fears, because a lot of people are stepping back from 3-D and they’re afraid of it. They think it’s complex or they think you have to have a budget like Avatar to be able to do it. That’s not the case.

“And on the other hand, I think some quality standards do need to be discussed. I think the studios and big distribution companies need to be included in that dialogue. Let’s not do stupid stuff that’s going to hurt this burgeoning marketplace.”

As an example of “stupid stuff,” he pointed to Warner Bros.’ after-the-fact transformation of its current Clash of the Titans remake from a 2-D release to a 3-D one, using a controversial post-production process that took just seven weeks but which failed to impress either critics or moviegoers.

“They worked against themselves with that film,” Cameron said.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/799551--cameron-to-hollywood-we-need-3-d-watchdog?bn=1

  Cameron on Hardball With Chris Matthews

>>13748

no complaints about it not getting the top picks. Just giving the possible reason as to why they would choose to thump him in such a public way.

>>13750
If he makes this work I will have newfound respect for him.

>>13752
Okay, thanks for clearing that up. I thought the sentiment was that the film's animation techniques were the only possible explanation for Avatar not getting an Oscar. I'm glad we had this talk.

  James Cameron at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

  more

  moar

Guess what my dad have got him self!
On blu ray!

Oscar-winning director James Cameron is helping NASA develop a high-resolution 3D camera for the next Mars rover, Curiosity, due to launch in 2011.

The director of "Avatar" and other sci-fi flicks believes the public will better understand the mission if the rover has 3D imaging capabilities, according to a CBS News report.

Budget overruns had forced NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to rethink plans to mount a 3D cam on Curiosity, but Cameron apparently convinced NASA administrator Charles Bolden that wasn't a good idea.

Cameron is working with San Diego-based Malin Space Science Systems to build the 3D camera, which will be installed on a mast aboard Curiosity.

Malin has already delivered fixed-focal-length lens cameras (34mm and 100mm) to NASA for the mast system and is currently working on getting the 3D camera to the agency before final rover testing next year. The Mastcams will be used to image the area around Curiosity as well as the distant horizon.

NASA's decision to include the 3D Mastcam will give Curiosity the ability to film cinematic sequences of Mars. For "Avatar," Cameron and colleagues developed a lightweight 3D digital camera system, the Fusion Camera System, that provided audiences with an unprecedented visual experience.

Curiosity, officially known as the Mars Science Laboratory, will launch in the fall of next year, but we got a preview of a full-scale model last July. Its mission will be to study the habitability of Mars and whether it can or did support microbial life. If any life forms are found, we'll be seeing them in stereo.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20003827-1.html

20th Century Fox may be thrilled to see how well Avatar is selling on Blu-ray, but the studio can’t be happy about the film’s through-the-roof piracy rates.
TorrentFreak reports that the Blu-ray version of Avatar was downloaded more than 200,000 times within four days of release. At this rate, it should have no trouble becoming the most popular pirated Blu-ray download of all time.
Avatar’s Blu-ray version measures roughly 10 GB, and the number of downloads is small compared to the film’s DVD version, but no other Blu-ray film comes close on the BitTorrent charts. This makes sense given that the movie crushed day one Blu-ray sales records through legitimate outlets.

TorrentFreak notes an interesting trend, however: A “relatively high percentage of downloads” (the site didn’t give specific numbers) come from the United Kingdom and Australia. That may be because 20th Century Fox released the film in the United States on April 22, and in the United Kingdom on April 26. The time difference may have played a role in peoples’ decisions to download, especially given that a weekend passed between the U.S. and U.K. release dates.
A small percentage of users may have also become frustrated with copy protection on some older Blu-ray players, which require a firmware update to play Avatar. Because these updates weren’t available when the movie was released, users may have turned to piracy instead to watch the film they already paid for.
The silver lining for Fox is that it’s planning to release Avatar on Blu-ray again later this year, packing bonus features and possibly 3D playback (although that may come in a special 3D edition in 2011). People who downloaded the movie this time around may be compelled to buy the disc for those perks.

http://www.myce.com/news/avatar-to-shatter-blu-ray-piracy-records-29217/

Movie nights over and all I have to say is: all who say that it dont translate well to the small screen is full of shit!

>>13830

I have known this for years.

>>13749

I fukken love this guy.

It has been found!
Just look.

>>13937

James Cameron is a busy man.

The hit director behind “The Terminator,” “Titanic” and “Avatar” said his flight into Columbus marked airport No. 114 that he has traveled through in the last three months.

“I’m due for a day off any month now,” he said.

Before Cameron delivered his lecture to students at Ohio State on April 28, he made rounds across the globe to raise awareness on the themes he presented in his last film, “Avatar.”

“I’ve been contacted by so many groups from around the world dealing with environmental issues, indigenous rights issues and so on that I’ve been busier than ever,” Cameron said.

Cameron decided to take a break from activism to give his first-ever college lecture in the Ohio Union’s Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom.

“It seemed like an opportunity to share my life experience and the journey that I’ve had and see if people can find some way of mapping it to their individual journeys,” he said.

Now, with “Avatar” in his rear-view mirror, Cameron is taking some time away from filmmaking, but is currently talking with 20th Century Fox about an “Avatar” follow-up.

“If we make it right away, it won’t even be out for three-and-a-half years,” he said. “But it will be a continuation of the story and deal with some of the same themes, but in surprising ways.”

http://www.thelantern.com/arts/james-cameron-sits-down-with-the-lantern-1.1469905

Oh fucking wow, just found this in a Disney concept art thread on regular /co/.

>>13968
Considering everything else is ripped off, I wouldn't be surprised.

*giggle* (Gold star if you guess the animals)

>>13989
What's blue adn yellow supposed to be?

>>13995
Those hammerhead Dinosaurs and the Viperwolf?

>>14048
Half right!

>>13969

Nothing is new.

Blue cat people...

>>14055

...night elves...

>>14056

...dragon riders...

Everything was somewhere, sometime...

>>14057
Don't forget paraplegics being transported down to hostile jungle planets in the form of genetically engineered remote controlled bodies.

>>14063
You guys need to read this book, it good!
http://www.berfrois.com/media.html#callmejoe
Also can you help me find the other books on this list? I want to read them myself!
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/12/10-possible-sources-of-avatar-in.html

>>14057

Also: flying mountains...

>>14069

...psychedelic landscapes...

>>14070

White people gone native...

>>14069
>>14070
Welcome to every JRPG.

>>14103

Before JRPG there were Roger Dean.

  I'm so glad this song is not fucking us in the ear evreywere we go unlike the titanic one.
Also sort of like it...

>>14132

Same here

SUPERMARKET chiefs are living on another planet - they are teaching their staff Na'vi, the alien language from AVATAR.

Workers in one Asda store will be wishing shoppers a warm kaltxi - er, welcome - tomorrow to celebrate the launch of the smash hit film on DVD.

And branches around the country will have shop signs translated into Na'vi.

But it could be a problem if you have an urgent need for the tutan (gents).

Asda research has identified Pudsey, West Yorks, as the town with the most diehard Avatar fans.

So the store there is being given a complete make-over to resemble the mythical world of Pandora.

The store's customer services desk, café, toilets and greeting signs will all be given the Avatar treatment.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/794866/Asda-people-learn-to-speak-Na-vi-Supermarket-managers-are-training-their-staff-to-speak-the-Avatar-languag
e.html

Last week, I had the good fortune to part of a packed house in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium when director James Cameron came to Caltech on the evening of April 27 to talk about the fictional world called Pandora that he created in the blockbuster film Avatar. Moderated by astronomer and visualization scientist Robert Hurt, of the NASA/Caltech/JPL Spitzer Space Telescope Center, the panelists watched clips from the film and analyzed them for their real-world relevance, focusing on the intriguing question: "Is Pandora possible?"

Well, no, not likely, but that doesn't mean there isn't a great deal of science that went into building Cameron's fictional Other World. There is a massive amount of back-story information that never found its way onscreen. Much of that has been gathered on an interactive website called Pandorapedia, an official "field guide to the moon of Pandora and the world of Avatar... contain[ing] comprehensive information about the Flora and Fauna of Pandora, the indigenous Na'vi people and the technology of the RDA." It's now up to 300 pages of exhaustive information, and counting.

Personally, I was very impressed with the huge amount of research Cameron had clearly done in exploring the underlying science, and how well-versed he was in the scientific aspects he'd incorporated into his world. He easily held his own onstage, chatting with the scientists. He's an avid scuba diver, for example, and some of the unusual undersea life he's seen on dives inspired some of the flora that populate Pandora -- specifically, those gigantic red "flowers" that retract at the slightest hint of pressure. And I hadn't even noticed, until Cameron pointed it out, that the flying Mountain Banshees feature bright colors in coral patterning.

Cameron didn't want to deal with classic sci-fi tropes such as warp drives and wormholes, so he located Pandora near enough to Earth that humans could get there in 5-6 years, while in a state of cryo-suspension -- thereby obeying "the speed laws of physics." When Caltech geologist and panelist John Grotzinger mentioned that he was disappointed by not seeing volcanoes on Pandora, Cameron responded, "Volcanoes fell off the to-do list. We did one thousand shots in six weeks. We’ll make it up in the sequel." Ooh! SEQUEL! (The other panelists were Jess Adkins, a chemical oceanographer at Caltech, and microbiologist Jared Leadbetter -- also from Caltech -- who studies bacteria.)

http://news.discovery.com/space/james-cameron-at-caltech-the-science-of-pandora.html

>>14191

Volcanoes are mentioned in the book as contributors to the atmosphere on Pandora. Just a tidbit.

>>14190
You know what? This is stupid. Even if Avatar was a great movie among great movies, this would still be stupid.

>>14191
>James Cameron has revealed that he shot early test footage for Avatar with Lost star Yunjin Kim.

>Speaking to Popular Mechanics, the filmmaker said that he convinced studio 20th Century Fox to spend $10 million so that he could film the scene where protagonist Jake Sully first meets Na’vi alien Neytiri.

>“We shot a five-minute scene,” Cameron said of the early prep work. “I hired two actors, turns out one of them is now quite well-known - Yunjin Kim who is in Lost. There was Yunjin and a guy named Daniel Best. I took these two young actors and just did the scene. From that we took 40 seconds, because that’s all we could afford, and had [visual effects studio] ILM take it through to a finished product.”

>Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington went on to fill Kim and Best’s roles when the sci-fi blockbuster eventually went into production.

>>14190

WTF? Too much hype is unhealthy.

Also: the blue color is obvious choice for good guys.

Always.

>>14190

WUT?!

GODDAMN IT!!

>>14190 who needs that when we got http://www.learnnavi.org/downloads/

>>14209

>>14223

Codename and uniforms are one thing, and skin color is another.

I love the feathery getup they end up putting on. It's even sexier with war paint.

>>14325

Anyone noticed, that Neytiri have stamp of five-fingered hand on her breast?

>>14328
Ages ago! Its on the wiki trivla...
Slowpoke-na'vi.jpg

>>14328>>14331

Slowpoke reporting in.

I like it.

>>14328
NIGHT ELVES ARE JUST WOOD ELVES IN DARK ELF SKIN

Needs moar of her

>>14343 Yes we do! Was looking for more pic at:
http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_Ikran_Clan_Leader but got jack... She is seen in the start of the battle leading the Ikran riders.

>>14375
On the page, there's a news article about her actor.

Alicia Vela-Bailey's career literally has taken flight.

The 27-year-old Kailua dancer and gymnast appears as a stuntwoman in the blockbuster "Avatar," and also performs stunts in Tim Burton's highly anticipated flick "Alice in Wonderland," which lands in theaters in March.

We recently had a chance to talk to the Kalaheo High School grad and former 24-VII Danceforce member about "Avatar," dancing and rubbing noses with big Hollywood stars.

http://honolulu.metromix.com/events/article/alicia-vela-bailey-soars/1721466/content

>I did all the stunts for Neytiri, Zoe Saldana's character, a little for Sigourney Weaver's character, and played my own Na'vi characters toward the end

Na'vi jewelery:

http://www.avatarturkiye.org/alisveris-navi-takilari.html

>>14377
You know, she is one who I hope gets a toy!
I also hope for:
>Faceless(helmet+nonclear exopack) RDA grunt for armybuilding
>Grace in lapcoat
>Neytiri in warpaint
>Final batte "human" Norm with exopack
>More exo-packs and warpaint in general
>Quaritch with shirt and better face or a coffee cup
>More Banshee repaints like Seze
>A Sturmbeest bull
>Other cool non-movie stuff like the Slinger or the SWAN
>Two Samson, an RDA one and a War paint one
>And to top it all off: A Dragon playset like "the" Falcon or just a playset in general!
I may not buy it... But the idea's are sound! Rigth..? Maybe you got some better one? Tell me.

>>14388

>Final batte "human" Norm with exopack

Do want

>>14388
>Neytiri in warpaint
I would buy one

>>14386
What would be good occasions to wear them?

>>14419
Forest orgy?
Also awnsome custom I saw on ebay ones!

I just came up with a name for a prequel book!
>Avatar: the first dream walker
...Maybe not the best but still...
Well what ideas do you have on names?
Also would read a book called
>Na'vi: first contact.
Even if that name is a bit you know...

>>14469
I'm going to guess it's only going to be titled "James Cameron's Avatar", and not omething original

>Na'vi: first contact
I'd read it if they shooped the Star Trek: First Contact poster and replaced everyone appropriately with Avatar chracters

Also, for Windows 7 fags if you're not already using this, Windows 7 Avatar theme
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/personalize

Uh, I've seen these threads around, but I've never posted in them.
I have one question and I'm not trying to be an ass or anything. I'm genuinely curious.

Do you guys all think that Avatar should have won best movie?

>>14491
Nah, I hoped for District 9!
But I will say that Avatar was more epic.

>>13137

Just a question.

What it would be, if Frank Frazetta made a poster for "Avatar"?

SEOUL, South Korea -- "Avatar" director James Cameron said Thursday that 3-D will replace 2-D as the standard, mainstream format for film, television and online content in less than 25 years.

Viewers will soon not only enjoy films in 3-D theaters but all forms of entertainment, including sports and music shows on TVs and laptops, Cameron said at a technology forum in Seoul.

Cameron directed the 3-D epic "Avatar," which won three Oscars and is the highest grossing film in history, with $2.7 billion in worldwide ticket sales to date. He has also directed other blockbuster films such as "Titanic" and "Terminator."

"Avatar" has proved that 3-D technology is not just a fad but a revolution changing how the audience chooses to consume media and entertainment content, the 56-year-old director said in a speech to the Seoul Digital Forum, an annual technology and media gathering.

"Quite simply, where they had a choice, the audience was selecting for the best possible way to see the movie," he said. "And they saw 3-D as the premium viewing experience."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051300196.html

>sequel to "Avatar,"
>The release date will be announced in a few months, he said.

>>14528
meh I just don't see it. I mean for visuals its great but for text? And besides there are some things I don't want to see in 3D. I like their vids but I don't want to see their mugs virtually in the same room with me.

>>14519
It would be WAY better then what we got as the dvd/blue ray cover!

>>14547

Well, this cover is better thasn shitty photoshop poster: >>13137

Just think about how FF would have done "Avatar" poster...

http://www.americanartarchives.com/frazetta_luana73_2.jpg
http://www.americanartarchives.com/frazetta_gauntelet77.jpg

>>14734
He well be back in A2. With a name this time!

>>14734
D'awww

  Have you seen this yet?

  Or this?

>>14984
>>14986
oh shi-
are they including this one the extended?

>>15116

I hope so. Extended version would be 5-15 minutes longer. Plus you have 40 unfinished minutes in extras.

>>15116
Dunno... Just found them in the side bar while watching toy reviews....

>A δτ-class2 or death world is a planet in which the native flora and fauna has evolved into naturally aggressive and dangerous forms. These eco-systems are finely balanced between continual destruction and lightning-fast reproduction. Death worlds take many forms, ranging from jungle-covered hell-holes with carnivorous plants and animals to barren, volcanic wastelands racked by ion storms.

>Humans can, and do, live on these worlds, but it is a never-ending struggle. On many death worlds it is as if the entire bio-mass of the planet were consciously motivated against human settlement - concentrating forces against intruders to destroy them.1 Death worlds with human settlements or colonies can have populations of 1,000 to 15,000,0002

>Death worlds are not usually inhabited, and are nearly impossible to colonise but still need to be explored which means establishing outposts and other facilities. Some planets have rich mineral wealth, animal life, vegetables or gases, so tithes might range from Solutio Tertius to Solutio Prima2.
HURR HE RIPED OF 40k DURR!!/joke
Fitting descriton non the less.

>>15295

Bad news for you: 40k had ripped this idea from Harrison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld

>>15297 So even with the caps and /joke you still took me seriusly...
And I did ask for links to this book and more at >>14067 so thanks!

>>13137

>Playboy seems the more likely source. Having been married five times (often to women who’ve starred in his movies), it’s no secret that Cameron has an appetite for ladies. The above picture of German model Veruschka von Lehndorff is from Playboy’s January 1971 issue, when the director would have been at the masturbatory young age of 16. Before Playboy, Veruschka steamed up the silver screen in Antonioni’s 1966 classic Blowup — a film Cameron is sure to have seen.

Sinewy tree-dwelling creatures with painted skin who have little interest in clothing? Ahhh. It’s all coming together now. Veruschka was probably Cameron’s first love and if she were any younger than 70, we bet she’d be his sixth wife.

http://movies.thefablife.com/2010-02-04/is-playboy-the-true-inspiration-for-avatar/

>>15363

-In "Firekind" aliens are gray not blue

-Both stories are inspired by european colonialism - with obvious plot developments

-Dragon riders and floating mountains are standard cliches of fantasy genre, in both cases incorporated into sci-fi setting

-What religion do you expected from neolithic natives? Bhuddism? Animism is the oldest and most universal set of beliefs in the world.

Its a, whats the word... Amalgamation?
So quit your bitching!

The reason that Avatar has so much in common with so many different things isn't because Cameron's a thief; it's because the story is utterly archetypal.

Everything on Pandora has four eyes, gills, six limbs, and two dick tentacles. Na'vi do not. The Na'vi are an alien race on Pandora. The Na'vi are huge fucking hypocrites.

>>15416
stale copypasta is stale

>>15418
NO U... Ever hear that one? haha

>>15416
Hah. I thought the part where he has to beat the shit out of his dragon was also pretty hypocritical.

>>15448
You mean when he raped it into submission?

>>15416 >>15448
Puppets cant be hypocrites! (or can they?)
REPOSTING: http://tersesystems.com/post/980008.jhtml

>>15556
Now, y'see, I don't believe in Eywa. Yes, there is a massive organic network that allows animals (or at least Na'vi) to interface with different organisms and even transfer entire consciousnesses, but I don't believe that there's some sort of sapient entity behind it all. At best, there's a collective pseudomind that exists as a result of so many connected organisms and behaves in a purely instinctual manner. That makes sense to me. Granted, that doesn't explain why the Na'vi are so similar to humans, but I've watched enough soft sci-fi to suspend my disbelief for the sake of the plot.

>>15559

I still support my point, that Na'vis could be descendants of the ancient race, that had given up technology, and choose "living close to nature".

Everyone knows that Pandora is Cybertron after Beast Machines.

>>15584 scanerhead.gif
DUUUUUUDE!

>>13137

Is this a HULK HOGAN??

It's finally done!

Take Me Away was sold at SUPER COMIC CITY 19 at Tokyo Big Sight on CD-ROM

Now it can be bought online via brank transfer, and e-payments and creditcard payments are coming soon.

FUCK YEAH AVATAR DOJINSHI

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/04/jon-landau/ Good to see that not all movie peole will stand for shit.

>>15840
Because everyone remembers how well Enter The Matrix went over. Everybody loved playing as the boring supporting characters just tiptoeing around the main story.

>>15787
Whelp. Artists finally got their proper excuse to ignore human anatomy, haven't they?

>>15848
I liked that game, Ghost was awnsome! Too bad my piratcopy was buged so never got to the end... Also Hacking was meta fun!

>>15787
Took me a moment to realise that was English, not Greek.

>>15924
Your pirated copy was bugged? My legit one was totally fucked up. I could never get past the airport as Ghost. It'd always freeze up just as I got to the end.

>>15931
Then you never found out he was Trinetys BROTHER!

Haha! Oh, wow...

  With Ironman 2 and now E3, I really want to see an "in world" RDA media event/press conference to show off the new stuff.
Also remmber this?

  >>16519
Sorry, that vid was shit.
Let me try again!

  >>16520
Aw, sounds so hope full...

Los Angeles - Did you ever think the highest-grossing film "Avatar" will be the subject of a pornographic movie? It now has. Hustler announced that they will be releasing a porno version of James Cameron's hit film this autumn.

Since its release in December 2009, “Avatar” generated $750 million in ticket sales in the United States, became a video game, Na’vi garment and skin were used as props during demonstrations across the globe and World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Rey Mysterio dressed up as a Na’vi during his Wrestlemania 26 match against CM Punk.

Well, now the highest-grossing motion picture will be the subject of a pornographic film. According to Worst Previews, Hustler announced on Friday that they have concluded principal photography for their upcoming porn parody of the film titled “This Ain't Avatar XXX 3D.”

Hustler has stated that they used the most sophisticated technology available to produce this film. The adult house company has also released its cover for the DVD/Blu-ray cover that will be released in September.

The Na'vi race used their hair to connect with nature, one must wonder how they will have sexual intercourse.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/293620

>>16689

Not happy to see this, but still have to wonder why it took so long.

>>16689
>This Ain't Avatar XXX 3D
>3D

Ahahaha. This I gotta see.

This better include "Second lips for playing musical instruments."

>>16689

Oh...

>>16006

Follow-up.

>>16006>>16711

This pictures are awesome.

  Oh god why...

  How did I miss this!

>>16942 Seen worse.
Also Avatar+3DS=?

"Avatar: Special Edition," which includes an additional eight minutes of unseen footage, will be released in U.S. theaters on Aug. 27, marking the big-screen return of the top moneymaker in Hollywood history.

The film will only be screened in Digital 3D or IMAX 3D. Director and writer James Cameron, in a statement, said the expanded-edition revival of the film is a response to fan demand for another big-screen return to the jungle moon of Pandora.

“Audiences repeatedly told me they wanted more of Pandora and wished they could have stayed there longer," Cameron said in the released statement. "So we're making that possible. 'Avatar: Special Edition' will be exclusively in 3D and will have eight minutes of never before seen footage, including new creatures and action scenes. Whether you already love the movie, or you've never seen it, with this special edition, you'll be seeing it like never before.”

The film will be released on a different date in some other countries.

"Avatar," released by Twentieth Century Fox in December pulled in more than $2.7 billion in worldwide box office and stands as the bestselling Blu-ray disc of all time.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/07/avatar-special-edition-hits-theaters-on-aug-27-and-only-in-3d.html

>>17345
I still haven't seen it so I'm okay with this.

>>13137

Updated poster from OP.

I just talked to Sam Worthington about his plans to go to Comic-Con International for a new venture with Radical Studios -- check back next week for the details on that -- but I had to ask him about the August theatrical release of "Avatar: Special Edition," which adds eight minutes of footage to the highest-grossing film in Hollywood history.

Director James Cameron has alluded, in vague terms, to the nature of that bonus content. I was hoping Worthington might have some more insights...

"I don't know what the eight minutes are. Jim's got an extra eight hours of footage, so it could be anything, to be honest. I know there's a lot more of the hunting and of Jake becoming a Na'vi and the training program. And there's a lot more live-action stuff, the stuff that we shot that was set on Earth, so maybe it's parts that have to do with that.... There's some other Stephen Lang stuff."

Then, with a winking tone, he added: "Or it could be the incredible sex scene that everyone keeps talking about. It'll be a surprise for me as well, mate."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/07/avatar-sam-worthington-james-cameron.html

>>17433
>Then, with a winking tone
I MELT.

The second Avatar dojinshi, "Diamond Lily", will be for sale in Comiket in August

http://ameblo.jp/maria-sakurai

  New trailer with the new shit!
Hope IGN does a Rewhind theare on it.

>>17599

>>17599

HEY MAYBE IF I RELEASE THE MOVIE AGAIN WITH LIKE 20 MINUTES OF FOOTAGE WE CUT OUT, THE ACADEMY WILL GIVE ME AN OSCAR FOR IT THIS TIME AROUND


MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY ARGLGARBLJARBL

>>17599

I can't wait.

Many movies were re-relased to gain more money, like Star Wars or Mad Max, and no one is complaining about it.

Why so hateful, anti-fans?

>>17654

Not less than a year after their release though

This movie is more entertaining to watch if you look at it as an amateur stage play; massive emphasis on romance, drama, visuals, and music, with little effort to make an intelligent or cohesive plot.

...I had no idea Sigourney Weaver was in this movie.

>>17658

>Avatar
>amateur play

>>17699

>he thinks avatar is good

Avatar is an average movie with shiny visuals. It is NOT a bad film, but it's certainly not a GOOD one either.

>>17658
>>17711

I'd say that that's what lends it the box-office raping strength, though. It's not just average, it's simple. Incredibly simple. The story is linear, the bad guys are all bad, and the good guys are all good. The good guys win over the bad guys, and that's the story. Simple stories are the ones that can appeal and resonate with the largest audience. Nuance, ambiguity and depth appeals to only fraction of a society, and the different cultures around the world each have their own take on them. So, by keeping the story cliche and uncomplicated, he was able to bypass the cultural blocks and appeal straight to the little monkey brain we all share. So, he sacrificed depth for widespread appeal. And that's why he is now sleeping soundly on his giant bed made of money.

>>17722

You could also describe "Star Wars" in that way.

>>17723
Yeah. Pretty much all the major money-maker movies are major money-makers because they picked the simplified-and-accessible over nuanced-and-exclusive. Again, it doesn't make them bad movies, just simple ones.

That's also why so many of the more intelligent films fail in the box office. Sure, they may be masterful pieces of work, but the audience for that is pretty small.

>>17723
Star Wars revolutionized film making technology and and technique.

Avatar combined Halo with Pocahontas and then spent the entire budget making it look nice.

>>17728

>Star Wars revolutionized film making technology and and technique.

Not at all, no. Star Wars revolutionised marketing and merchandising.

>>17726

>That's also why so many of the more intelligent films fail in the box office.

And this is why Academy Award for the best move had been awarded to (Butt)Hurt Locker.

Also: consider this:

>"Mad Max 2" [released in the United States as "The Road Warrior"] is a film of pure action, of kinetic energy organized around the barest possible bones of a plot. It has a vision of a violent future world, but it doesn't develop that vision with characters and dialogue. It would rather plunge headlong into one of the most relentlessly aggressive movies ever made. I walked out of "Mad Max 2" a little dizzy and with my ears still ringing from the roar of the sound track; I can't say I "enjoyed" the film, but I'll hardly forget it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19810101/REVIEWS/101010363/1023

>>17730

What has Ebert talking about Mad Max got to do with anything?

>>17731

TL;DR: action/adventure/scifi movies are not deep by definition, they always rely on F/X, fast action and simple plots.

>>17729
Senor, stop pretending to know about the industry. You're British, all you know how to do is complain about tea and the fall of your empire.

>>17732
>scifi isn't deep by definition
You should be shot for saying that.

>>17733

>Senor, stop pretending to know about the industry.

My Honours degree in Film says I do know about the industry.

Check-fucking-mate.

>>17733
>>17739

>>17734
>scifi movies are not deep by definition

And you should be bopped lightly on the forehead for your lack of reading comprehension. Not sci fi in general, the sci fi movies.

I wouldn't say "by definition", but Murphy's got a point. If you have a big budget, you need a simple story that reaches a wider audience or else you just won't be able to make back the cost. Because of the nature of most sci fi settings, big budgets are required for most sci fi movies. That scuppers most meaningful, thought-provoking sci fi in favor of BIG SPACE BATTLES PEW PEW KASHOOOOM.

>>17728
Uh, the point >>17723 was making is that in both Avatar and Star Wars the plot and characters were all very straight forward and simple, and that's why they made big bucks.

Filming technology and techniques didn't enter the conversation.

>>17732
This is truth.
Real Science Fiction was never meant to see television.

>>17752

Strangest thing I've ever witnessed. Scientologist supposedly makes faithful movie adaption yet its nothing like the book...odd

>>17599

>in select cinemas

FUCK!!

Goddamn it, Cameron, stop teasing me like this...

>>17728

>Star Wars revolutionized film making technology and and technique.

The impact of Avatar's tech in future movie making is still not clear, but I'm possitive it will leave a mark.

Also, he was talking about story, not tech.

>>17758
Yeah but with Star Wars, this was a deliberate thing. It's supposed to be a tribute to shitty sci-fi serials. Avatar was supposed to be this ball-bustingly awesome NEW thing.

Really though, Cameron hasn't made a good movie since T2, so who cares.

>>17742
Okay so Murphy hasn't seen Blade Runner, big deal.

>>17758
The Gaming indu. will use it atlest.
Hell, they already have, sort of!

>>17762

>Avatar was supposed to be this ball-bustingly awesome NEW thing.

Whoever, and when had said that? Just curious. And by "whoever" I mean James Cameron and his team.

>>17763

I had seen it, and this movie is an example, that you could marry deeper meaning with kick-ass F/X (animu fans could say the about GITS and "Akira").

But "Avatar" from the beginning was concepted as something from the same department as "Star Wars" or "Riders of the Lost Ark". Big, loud, action-adventure blockbuster.

And for your consideration:

>Blade Runner initially polarized critics: some were displeased with the pacing, while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. The film performed poorly in North American theaters. Despite the box office failure of the film, it has since become a cult classic, and is now widely regarded as one of the best movies ever made.

Am I the only one that theoryes that the reason why the na'vi has a word for demon is do to the Yautja.
I think it makes sense...
They are fairly horrifying and powerfull hunters.
Why else would a nature worship based culture have something heaven-hell related!
Or its just a misstransalson on our part...
Thoughts?
Also In b4 NEEEEEEERD!!!!

>17780
While the idea is cool, it doesn't pass Occam's Razor. I mean, most cultures have a concept of "bad supernatural being" regardless of their connection to nature and ideas about the afterlife.

>>17819
But were do the concept originaly come from?!

Hey, I found DS's game manual online if you want to read.
http://www.vcgamesonline.com/gamebooklets/008888165439.pdf

I have gotten my hands on a knockoff avatar toy.
Now I just need to find the camra and I can show you guys!

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5572842/Avatar_-_The_Complete_OST
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5562194/James_Horner_-_Avatar_Complete_Score_5CD_Soundtrack_320kbps

http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/exclusive-james-cameron-interview-talks.html
Also still no camra...

>>18388
> Cameron confirms he is producing Guillermo del Toro's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. The movie will be shot in native 3D using next generation FUSION 3D cameras from Pace

FUCK YEAH. I know a lot of people are not too keen on 3D, but damn, just imagine the fucked up non-euclidean architecture of the Elder Things city thanks to 3D visual trickery.

>>18400
Aw yeah time to get your GIBBER on!

  New Trailer for the with all the new stuff!

Break our shit will yah!

People saying that this is ripping off the buffalo hunt in 3 2 1RIDER KICK!

>>18492

I read "never before seen footage" as "that alien sex scene we glossed-over in the initial release."

I saw the stupid movie once, and that's all my money they're getting.

>>18578
Well maybe if it wasn't ripping off the buffalo hunt there wouldn't be a problem.

>>18579
Your not missing anything.
Also thanks mod!

http://thedailynewsonline.com/entertainment/article_5ae4396e-ae66-11df-ba8e-001cc4c002e0.html

>Avatar: Special Edition,” which includes 9 minutes of new footage, opens in 3-D theaters worldwide Friday.

>“I’m trying to use the technology to keep people interested and enthused about the ‘Avatar’ universe, because it’s going to be a long time before we get another ‘Avatar’ movie done,” the filmmaker said in a recent interview.

Hrmmmm

>9 minutes

Not worth the 3D ticket price. He's gonna have to do more than touching up the same thing over and over again.

>>18797

Cameron probably has about 90 minutes of unused footage in a warehouse somewhere, and every 6 months he'll rerlease Avatar with 8-10 minutes of "extra special bonus scenes" until Avatar 2 comes out.

>>18800


Either his audience or the company will burn out on his film if he pulls that crap

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/avatar-dvd-and-blu-ray-to-include-an-even-longer-cut-of-the-film
In b4 bitching about this.

HAHA, Hindsight!

>>18906

That's hilarious. Gotta Love Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. :)

>>18906
Which UJ book was this?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/08/box-office-last-exorcism-in-dead-heat-avatar-re-release-fizzles.html

I mean was that really a big surprise? I mean they already have three releases planned so..yea

>>18988

Considering they only added 9 minutes, $8.3 million is a very respectable return.

>>18997

eh about 10 grand per theater by my figures so not bad but probably not what they were expecting considering the runaway successes they experienced on the first bit. People that were really into the Avatar saw it for the nine minutes and everyone else..will wait for the Blue Ray.

I missed out on the "3D" last time...so yeah, I'll see it.
Also vile preordering Last stand of the Wreckers I saw that they had the "guide book" cheap, so guess what!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36728981/James-Cameron-s-Avatar-My-Novelization-So-Far
Its like an offical fanfic!

Cameron vs. Canton:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/mark-canton-bites-back-at-jim-cameron-for-harpooning-piranha-3d/

>>19148

Wow, James doesn't spend much time in Hollywood else he'd know they whore stuff out till it dies.

Guides here now.
Also Deja vy!
http://www.monkeydepot.com/Monkey_Depot_Soldier_Story_US_Navy_SEAL_SS_041_p/ss0043.htm

>>18856

That's what I'm saving my money for.

>>18906

DELICIOUS