James Cameron's Avatar in 3D

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There sure is a lot of hype. The more hype there is the more Comic Book Guys there are coming out of the woodwork. "I have no time to converse with you, I must be first to register my disgust on the internet regarding the new McBane film."

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Saw the trailer for the first time in the cinema today. It looks epic. Storyline appears to be fairly bog-standard but the action looks intense.

The only thing I want to nitpick on is the excessive jumping off cliffs and landing on flying mounts. It seems very impractical, and also would diminish the population rather quickly considering all factors at play. But I'm still hyped, I want to see this movie.

:/

It saves time on the beasts having to land and take-off.

Anyone with half a brain would realise that.

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I think this will. I may be wrong but this may be the one movie you've just gotta see. 2012, even it's great, won't be.

2012 will do really well in rentals, a home surround system with the destruction will be amazing :D

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Rappy I love the blood splatter sig.

I miss the hawt girl though whoever she was.

And yes, that has absolutely nothing to do with Avatar or the discussion at hand.

haha my sig got taken down due to hosting causing malware issues :| but thanks haha

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So far this movie has cost $500 million Dollars to make. I'm not too sure it can make all that money back and also having watched the trailers, i just don't see 500 million dollars worth of production.

Cameron's Titanic cost $250 million dollars and made 1.8 billion so i i guess we'll have to wait and see.

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So far this movie has cost $500 million Dollars to make.

Those numbers are from a article doing some pretty wild guessing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business...;pagewanted=all

First of all the reported production cost is $230 million. Then the article just speculates that marketing plus money Cameron has put in could make it cost $500 million. Not based on any real facts, the article author just popped a number out of thin air.

That said, I do believe the movie will be very expensive in the end.

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Just got done watching last week's south park and it draws an interesting parallel between this and Dances With Wolves. How many times has a story line like this been done?

I read in some interview that he already said the theme has been done before and that he has been inspired by some other movies. In the end it doesn't really matter if the movie is good.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomple...imcrackery.html

GB: There?s also maybe some heritage linking it to ?Dances With Wolves,? considering your story here of a battered military man who finds something pure in an endangered tribal culture.

JC: Yes, exactly, it is very much like that. You see the same theme in ?At Play in the Fields of the Lord? and also ?The Emerald Forest,? which maybe thematically isn?t that connected but it did have that clash of civilizations or of cultures. That was another reference point for me. There was some beautiful stuff in that film. I just gathered all this stuff in and then you look at it through the lens of science fiction and it comes out looking very different but is still recognizable in a universal story way. It?s almost comfortable for the audience ? ?I know what kind of tale this is.? They?re not just sitting there scratching their heads, they?re enjoying it and being taken along. And we still have turns and surprises in it, too, things you don?t see coming. But the idea that you feel like you are in a classic story, a story that could have been shaped by Rudyard Kipling or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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I read in some interview that he already said the theme has been done before and that he has been inspired by some other movies. In the end it doesn't really matter if the movie is good.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomple...imcrackery.html

Maybe to some, but if you know the story from the get go, for me it takes a way a lot of the film. You aren't surprised when he goes over and likes the other side better, so instead all you have to marvel at is the movie's effects which should always take a backseat to the story.

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Innovation is fairly low in Hollywood overall, similar to the gaming market. Even if there are many original movies every year, a big bulk are rehashes of whats done before or even followups and remakes. But true enough, a fresh story does increase the wow factor of an already good movie.

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