James Cameron's Avatar in 3D

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Wonderfull. Just wonderfull. This could finally be the movie that brings out the kid in me. The kid that could watch smth with his jaw hanging open in amazement. Tomorrow can't come soon enough.

Color me unimpressed, the CGI looks too cartoony. The Golum in LOTR looked more life like 5 years ago.

The problem isnt in the CG. Its the colorful design that makes it seem unreal. What you know can't be real seems unreal. If there ever was a planet like pandora it would probably look just like that in real life. Lighting is just perfect and all..

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Color me unimpressed, the CGI looks too cartoony. The Golum in LOTR looked more life like 5 years ago.

It does look like the kind of CGI you'd see in Wall-E... or Crysis which looks real from a distance, but too smooth/too colourful/too perfect/too uncanny/too many left-out details our brain nitpicks subconsciously up close.

That being said I do think people are setting their expectations too high if they expect an entire film to be photorealistic. I think they did an EXCELLENT job.

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It does look like the kind of CGI you'd see in Wall-E... or Crysis which looks real from a distance, but too smooth/too colourful/too perfect/too uncanny/too many left-out details our brain nitpicks subconsciously up close.

That being said I do think people are setting their expectations too high if they expect an entire film to be photorealistic. I think they did an EXCELLENT job.

Blame James Cameron for the unrealistic expectations that people have. He said it would be mind blowing, the CGI will be photo realistic,...blah blah.

I just expected it to be, well, less cartoony.

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I guess it depends on the person, I think it's brilliant and looks pretty darn real.

Was this the trailer shown at ComicCon?

Comicon had smth along the lines of 20 or so minutes of footage, so no, not really. Maybe this was shown as well, though I doubt.

What will be screened tomorrow will probably be the same Comicon material.

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The trailer I thought looked really good. It's obvious that he overstated the 'Audiences won't be able to tell the difference between CGI and Live Action' because I can plainly see when something is not real. But having said that this may be the closest to real life CGI I've witnessed. I'm looking forward to this film.

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The trailer I thought looked really good. It's obvious that he overstated the 'Audiences won't be able to tell the difference between CGI and Live Action' because I can plainly see when something is not real. But having said that this may be the closest to real life CGI I've witnessed. I'm looking forward to this film.

Well, I couldn't tell a difference between the first scene in which the Na'vi was shown waking up, but in all the subsequent scenes it was fairly obvious (but still very well done!).

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