Nov 13 2009I Think This Is a Newish 'Avatar' Trailer

Hm yeah, a few new shots here and there and it's edited a bit differently near the end.

..and they speak perfect English without a trace of indigenous accent! Amazing!!

Looks like Dances With Wolves meets Halo.

Yeah the more I see of this the less I want to see it.

@2....actually you are WRONG. Cameron worked with a language professor for a long time to come up with a language that the Na'vi speak. Its in English because Jake is in his avatar...hence he can understand their language. To the humans the na'vi speak in their own dialect. You will see this in the movie. Dont be so quick to judge...your remind me of Christians.

@ 4 oh snap!

DAMN son. #4 just took #2 to school!

Hey, everybody, see if you can tell who is the true fanboy here. Come on, guess!

@7....No fanboy here...just mearly speaking facts....

"Cameron's aliens naturally have their own alien language. Cameron worked with Paul Froemer head of the linguistics department at USC who he was lucky enough to encounter a year earlier. Cameron's goal was to beat Klingon with a more detailed and well thought out language. The Navi language started by riffing off things in the treatment, but from there, it went to constructing sentences and a sound system that was pronounceable by the actors but sounded exotic and not specific to human languages. It was accomplished by mixing fragments of Polynesian and some African languages."

The full article can be found here: http://www.zimbio.com/James+Cameron/articles/gqJArkJuswU/Avatar+Alien+Language+Tech+Innovations+VIDEO

Go back to school with 2.....

Who fucking cares?

I do but I could careless if you do.....just mearly putting douche bags (probably yourself) in their place when they speak like they know what they are talking about but really have no idea. Peace :)

merely

"Sam Worthington's wheelchairing and blue cat people with glowing freckles"

LOL

you summed it up nicely.

i was looking forward to james camerons next film, but this looks terrible. it looks like something disney would make, with blue CGI creatures and all that crap. it looks utterly rubbish.

It's basically Pocahontos with Smurfs, right? Right? Oh yeah, and in 3D. But still native chick, soldier from civilised nation. He sides with her, fighting happens . . . Pocahontos with blue people, ie Smurfs.

James Cameron, fool me once, shame on you fool me twice - you can't fool me again!!!

You guys know you will be in line to see it when it comes out...date hate :)

People that are quick to drop hastily thrown together criticisms and insults are usually the ones that have the least to bring to the table. Hence the need for them to focus attention on the real or percieved faults of others and their work.

That aside, I think you would be hard pressed to not feel like this movie deserves a chance, Lord knows they put enough work into it. Sure, the plot might appear to be a tad on the familiar side, but lets be fair, there is only so many archetypes we can work with. Besides, just because its a story we might have heard before, doesn't mean its not good and it certainly doesn't mean it's not going to have a uniqueness that is all its own.

Oh yeah, I'll go see it, some of the effects look awesome. If it's crap, meh. If you want I could give you a comment that isn't "hastily thrown together", full of esoteric language examining how the film seems to be built on aspects of revisionist post-colonial theory, that ultimately seek to codify, absolve and justify the centrality of the white male through his adherence to a so-called “universal morality” I’m sure plenty of us could. But all that means is the film is Pocahontas with Smurfs. Even if it really is the film that revolutionises the industry and changes our lives forever . . . it will still be Pocahontas with Smurfs.

This movie looks embarrassing, but I'm considering a 200 mile drive to the better IMAX to check it out. Maybe I'll preview it at the discount theater, then decide if it's worth the bother.
Generally Cameron won't make an absolute stinkbomb. Should be better than Fantastic Four.

@ 17 - 8-P

1 min 40 sec: Whooooo!

Those flying machines look like "Terminator" flying Hunter Killers with a few Huey parts stuck on.
Flying Hunter Killers were also used by the landing team in "Aliens", and in "Titanic", Jack used one to rescue Rose from Godzilla.

I guess they're "Cameron" Hunter Killers. He'll probably use them to take over the world.

simply put, people like #13 have not imagination. thats why all they have are criticisms whenever anything creative arises.

@ 4 Stfu 2 has a good point if a human can't understand an alien language than how can a human mind controlling an avatar understand the alien language .
goddammit you guys are way to freaking rtarded .Gosh!!!

yes I am fat and sleep in my moms basement strolling for pron .

@ 22 Yeah, plus you can't spell porn, which is sad and must make trawling for it hard.

Look, I think the film looks crazy and silly, but also stands a chance of being decent - after all I like Smurfs and I like Pocahontas. But attacking it on the grounds the whole thing isn't in a made up language is just stupid and pointless. I gaurantee if the whole thing was Passion Of The Christ style subtitled, you'd be way more pissed off at how pointless that is. It's a sci-fi film, not a bloody documentary!

Also, @4 is probably still right.

Sooooo is this the 'Last Airbender' movie or another, similarly named film?

yes,i like this.I'm looking forward to

I have seen this trailer about five times now, and I'm still firmly planted on the fence. The special effects look good, and will definitely pop on the IMAX screen, especially in 3D. With that said, it looks a bit too much like a video game for me to care about what is happening to the characters. Too early to tell if the film itself is going to suffer from that. First impressions leave me picturing a mix of Aliens, Halo, and Ferngully.

James Cameron is a director who can do pretty much anything he wants at this point. This includes the opportunity (and budget) to fully realize his visions. I have read and seen in interviews that James Cameron was never completely happy with his previous pictures, as there are always things that he would have changed or done better. If directors see CGI as a way to correct these "mistakes", they will be short changing the sort of creativity that made their previous films so fun. In Aliens, it's true that I can see the rear projection screens behind the actors and sometimes the aliens are clearly people in suits, but there is a physical object on screen that my eyes connect with. It's why zombies kinda scare us, even though the zombie actor's biting a woman's shoulder that probably made from a prosthetic chicken breast and corn syrup. It's what the image suggests. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. CGI is trying to level the playing field, but it's just not there yet, and where Avatar could have been a film that I connected with, the special effects leave me cold. Eh, maybe I'm just too old.

#4, you learn language, there are hundred of languages if not more counting different dialects. It's not a thing stuck in our gens.

I guess they will tell us that when they to the mind transfer they stick in somehow the navi linguistics?

Maybe they teach wheelchair marine boy the navi language on the flight to the planet?

Dances with wolves meets video game CGI

somewhat reminds me of Alien 4, they can clone Ripley but that does not clone your parasites just the body from which the cell comes from.

James, you are awesome.

Im just glad the Colonial marines are back :D now with power suits HAHAHA now lets see some Xenomorph carnage PAYBACK for SGT.Capone XD.

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that movie was the single greatest movie have ever seen in my life, i am addicted to everything avatar like its crack cocaine, heroine, and meth all roleed into one. i can not get enough of avatar, and to all the people who did not like that movie, explain why in a world wide standing, it is the best selling movie ever.

that movie was the single greatest movie have ever seen in my life, i am addicted to everything avatar like its crack cocaine, heroine, and meth all roleed into one. i can not get enough of avatar, and to all the people who did not like that movie, explain why in a world wide standing, it is the best selling movie ever.