Aug 27 2009 Avatar v. Delgo: "Exhibit A: These Glowing Thingamabobs Look Like These Other Ones"
Whoever it is we've entrusted with making Delgos is pissed! While the rest of us briefly chuckled at the comparisons between Avatar and Delgo being made last week, Fathom studios is taking the issue way too seriously. The Delgo-making studio has issued a press release hinting that they may try to take legal action:
The much anticipated Avatar trailer was released online last week and viewer traffic overwhelmed Apple.com's trailer site. Almost immediately, reactions were posted on the internet with comments like "Avatar = Delgo," "Avatar is Basically Delgo II," [Hey, that was me! But I was kidding, guys.] and "The 7 Eeriest Parallels Between Avatar and Delgo."Fathom Studios, the Atlanta-based production company behind Delgo, was bombarded with emails as soon as the Avatar trailer went live. A spokesperson for the studio said, "From what we have seen, we are amazed by the visual similarities between the two films and we are reviewing what legal options may be available to us."
I really hope they end up taking this to court. I would kill be on the jury deciding if weird-nosed humanoids riding dragons and floaty, glowy, seed thingies are too similar to other weird-nosed humanoids riding dragons and other floaty, glowy, seed thingies. Though I have a feeling it's more likely going to come down to proving that James Cameron was somehow aware of Delgo when absolutely no one else was/is.
(via Movieline)
Aug 21 2009 'Avatar' is Basically 'Delgo 2'
Someone who did a good job noticing things has put together some side-by-side screenshots comparing the new Avatar trailer to the 2008 animated adventure Delgo, and the visual similarities are pretty astounding. Does this mean Delgo is the revolutionary game changer?
(via PopCandy)
Oct 29 2008 'Delgo' Trailer Finds New Level of CGI Creepiness
When computer-animated characters border on reality but don't quite reach it, a point is reached called the "uncanny valley", making the slightly-off characters "fucking creepy." Delgo, the Romeo & Juliet romance meets the stilted comedy and battles of The Phantom Menace animated movie, never comes anywhere near reaching that, but it does necessitate the creation of a new term of CGI discomfort. What should we call the intersection point of animated simian, fairy, and V's lizard-aliens? Besides horrible to look at.
Here's the trailer for Delgo, which vocally reunites the Freddie Prinze Jr./Jennifer Love Hewitt romance of I Know What You Did Last Summer (you wanted that, right?):
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