James Cameron's AVATAR 2 - now playing in cinema theaters

[Dr Yail Bloor]

My friend saw the footage this weekend, he said it looks incredible.

[Necrometer]

Nice!

Looks like the site is intermittently busted now, for what it's worth. I registered like 5 email addresses before that happened, though

LOL

Due to the overwhelming response for tickets to the Avatar event on 8/21, our servers have crashed. We will update you as soon as possible!

[Dr Yail Bloor]

Nice!

Looks like the site is intermittently busted now, for what it's worth. I registered like 5 email addresses before that happened, though

Its not even being shown anywhere near me..

[Necrometer]

trailer, w00t


also, I helped!

"Avatar" site crashes as fans seek tickets
Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:08am EDT

By Gregg Kilday and Alex Ben Block

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The official "Avatar" Web site crashed for several hours on Monday as moviegoers rushed to secure free seats to see the 16 minutes of 3D preview footage that will be shown at 104 Imax theaters around the country on Friday evening.

Ticket ordering was scheduled to begin online at noon PDT, but at about 11:55 a.m., the site started experiencing difficulties. About 17,000 of the 68,000 available tickets were distributed before the heavy traffic forced the site down for several hours.

"Due to the overwhelming response for tickets to the 'Avatar' event on 8/21, our servers have crashed. We will update you as soon as possible," ticket seekers were advised by "Avatar's" Twitter site.

By late afternoon, avatarmovie.com was again up and running, taking five orders every second. Locations in New York and Los Angeles sold out almost immediately.

Given that "Avatar," James Cameron's first narrative feature since 1997's "Titanic," promises a display of cutting-edge technology, the site snafu was something of an embarrassment.

At the same time, it had to be good news for 20th Century Fox, which is facing the challenge of creating awareness for a movie that isn't based on a pre-existing brand, book or film. The sci-fi adventure -- with a budget the studio has put at $237 million -- opens in the U.S. on December 18 and worldwide that same week.

Fox and Cameron have been slowly unveiling footage from the film. first at the CineExpo convention in Amsterdam in June and then at last month's Comic-Con. But Friday will be the first chance for many moviegoers to see for themselves scenes in which Australian actor Sam Worthington, playing a paralyzed Marine who travels to the planet of Pandora, finds new life as an avatar -- a blue-skinned, 10-foot tall, half-human, half-alien hybrid.

"I think to say that there is already a lot of interest in the movie is a pretty good understatement. Obviously, it blew out all the servers," said Greg Foster, Imax's chairman and president of filmed entertainment. "It's a pretty big statement about the curiosity and interest in the whole thing."

The participating Imax theaters, in between regularly scheduled screenings of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," will offer two screenings Friday of the "Avatar" footage, which will include a 30-second introduction by Cameron in which he sets up the clips. Foster said there are no plans to offer more screenings.

curiosity...

[hard paranormal dong]

that trailer is mindblowing! im fucking SOLD!

[Honky Kong 64]

Fuck you guys.

[Foot Foot]

[Jack Mort]

Fuck you, Necrometer.

[Necrometer]

I thought I was the only one in here anymore, I didn't mean to hurt you guys

Real trailer will be revealed Thursday at Apple site - I don't think I even have the quicktime plugin installed, ha!

[Honky Kong 64]

I thought I was the only one in here anymore, I didn't mean to hurt you guys

It's cool I forwarded to about 90 people

[milkmandan]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avata ... large.html

THERE IT IS FOLKS

[Foot Foot]

that looks fucking gay.

[Honky Kong 64]

cool cartoon

[milkmandan]

CG anime cool

[MANTIS]

that looks fucking gay.

[milkmandan]

[doubleblumpkin]

that looks fucking gay.

[ungodlywarlock]

Looks like it'll have some pretty cool creatures in it, so I'm sold.

[Necrometer]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/

Wow, that's a whole lotta dreads! The faces look fucking sweet, the neotribalism, not so much. If they manage to avoid any small robots/creatures making cutesy humanoid babynoises I'll probably survive.

I REALLY don't think people are going to line up in droves to see this, at least not in the USA. The mechs/space-marines are straight out of Aliens, and those helicopter planes are just stupid. I think a lot of people will think neither the human shit NOR the megasmurf shit is cool.

that looks fucking gay, but I'll still watch it on some drugs

[MANTIS]

Yeah, I'll watch it, but Cameron's "groundbreaking" effects just got showed up by a movie with one sixth of the budget.

I'm betting this won't touch District 9 for quality.

[Necrometer]

I'm betting this won't touch District 9 for quality.

Oh get out of here, they had to animate one bug-like thing and here we have a weeping humanoid that's actually compelling. It's obviously topped D9 based on that one shot.

[MANTIS]

I'm betting this won't touch District 9 for quality.

Oh get out of here, they had to animate one bug-like thing and here we have a weeping humanoid that's actually compelling. It's obviously topped D9 based on that one shot.

Give me a break. That shit looks ridiculous and cartoony. I totally bought the existence of the Prawns and sympathized with them. This looks retarded.

I'd put money down that it isn't as entertaining on the whole as D9

[Necrometer]

Don't change the subject - I think Avatar represents a greater technological achievement. I'm not arguing that this has any bearing on the artistic merits of the resulting movie. It's easier to buy the prawns because they're just bugs with human eyes. These faces are a serious step up.

[Honky Kong 64]

Is Avatar a 3D movie?

[MANTIS]

Maybe. I remain unimpressed. And in my OP, I was referring not only to the effects but overall quality. This movie just doesn't look that great, effects or no.