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ryutaro's mama said:
First off, it is never said that unobtainium is a magical cure all that will somehow save humanity. It is rather described as something that gets "20 million a kilo". That strikes me as greed and profit driven rather than the RDA being on Pandora for some "great humanitarian" effort. So if we assume it is purely profit driven, the humans (RDA) would continue to expand and drain the planet dry, since according to Selfridge, the shareholders just want to see results and profit--he doesn't make the "rules".

As far as the "peaceful negoiations" you speak of, WTF do you think they were doing on Pandora with the scientists? That was the attempt at diplomacy. And it went on long enough for them to build schools and teach generations the English of the "Sky People". When Jake arrives on Pandora, all peaceful options have been exhausted after many years. There will be no peaceful mining agreement. Not when undying greed is the motivator.

Cameron leaves for us what we have collectively left for ourselves due to years of misuse of our home world. The bed we made we have to sleep, or rather "No fate but what we make." WE MADE OUR FATE. Humanity as a collective, doesn't care (even now) how they get their 99 cent hamburgers or gasoline, but only that we get them when want them. I would imagine that in 150 years, no one on Earth would care how we got Unobtainium, only that we get it. Just because Jake "got it"(in regards to respecting the ecosystem on Pandora), most humans probably wouldn't and would have no desire to live on Pandora, by Pandora's rules.

Agreed.
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Agree agree agree. I love it when I find lengthy posts that I can agree with so much.
 
Fact: The movie is about 70% booked for a complete week in advance at all 4 major cinemas in the city of Vienna.
Mindblowing.
Also mindblowing: i was so tired when watching this that I'll have to rewatch to properly evaluate the movie. But I have good company because so many people I know plan on rewatching :lol
 
Combine said:
It's also easy to forget that the humans have been on the planet for a rather long time (20 years or so) and they probably interacted with each other even before using Avatars. Since the movie does little to talk about the past, it's easy for the viewer to forget this and just assume that humans are still relatively new on the planet, or that they haven't interacted with the Na'vi that much.
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They probably haven't had a continuous presence for that long. In the Cinefex article, they say that Grace's avatar was created 18 years ago. Subtract at least five years for growth/transit, (likely more considering they didn't develop as fast early on) and Grace has been on the planet for less than 13 years.
First contact had to be at least 23 years before the movie, though.
 
Great to hear that the sequels won't be one continuous story. Self-contained is exactly what I wanted and as it should be. One movie should not be dependent on another.
 
Anyone wanting to help a special person?

By special I mean retarded.

By person I mean me.

Seriously, you would be making my friend very happy. I forgot to mention he is in a wheelchair, so the movie is particularly exciting to him.

g35twinturbo said:
One of the best movies ever made :)

Especially without using any CG :)
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Well, technically there are at least two moments using CG.

:P
 
All of Cameron's sequels are self-contained, so that is not surprising at all. He does not believe in cliffhanger endings.

If the sequel does in fact take place on another moon, I can't imagine how Jake and Neytiri would get there. What, do they steal one of the human's ships or something? Plus, why would they take all the time to design every aspect of Pandora only to scrap it in the sequel?
 
New MAKING OF Featurette

Starts out like the first 'James Cameron's Vision' featurette, but there is quite a bit of stuff not yet glimpsed at. Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM&feature=player_embedded

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DLOVLj8xo

Watching part 2 now, going into sets and stuff, very cool.

PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX_yaDVLk8

PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-D66t2AjM

PART 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7D8mtVjaG8

This is awesome.
 
DarkMehm said:
Fox does issue the Puerto Rico figure separately, but I guess that is just to show how much a movie has done in that region.

I don't know for 100% if what I'm saying is true, but it's always the Puerto Rico figure missing in BOMs overseas totals. Obviously, BOM could be wrong with the Puerto Rico issue, but I trust them in this case.
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I know this is completely off topic, but it pisses the fuck out of me that PR is considered international. Such bullshit.
 
Scullibundo said:
New MAKING OF Featurette

Starts out like the first 'James Cameron's Vision' featurette, but there is quite a bit of stuff not yet glimpsed at. Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM&feature=player_embedded

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DLOVLj8xo

Watching part 2 now, going into sets and stuff, very cool.

PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX_yaDVLk8

PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-D66t2AjM

This is awesome.
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Hell yeah! Watching...
 
I have a feeling this is basically going to be the behind the scenes feature on the quickie DVD/Blu-Ray release. Good stuff, but way too brief.
 
Scullibundo said:
New MAKING OF Featurette

Starts out like the first 'James Cameron's Vision' featurette, but there is quite a bit of stuff not yet glimpsed at. Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM&feature=player_embedded

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DLOVLj8xo

Watching part 2 now, going into sets and stuff, very cool.

PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX_yaDVLk8

PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-D66t2AjM

This is awesome.
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thanks for this.
 
Wow, didn't think he actually filmed that.

In Pt. 2 at the 2:22 mark you see them filming what I'm guessing is the original fight scene between Tsu'Tey & Jake
 
GhaleonEB said:
I have a feeling this is basically going to be the behind the scenes feature on the quickie DVD/Blu-Ray release. Good stuff, but way too brief.
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Yeah, that's what I thought. Then they'll add the Exclusive channel's specials etc.
 
Scullibundo said:
Awesome, in part 4 you see them shooting the Hell's Gate Na'vi/Avatar breach.
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Just watched all four. That was great, thanks.

The fourth video seems to stop abruptly like the ones before it. Is there supposed to be more that's not on YouTube yet?
 
hirokazu said:
Just watched all four. That was great, thanks.

The fourth video seems to stop abruptly like the ones before it. Is there supposed to be more that's not on YouTube yet?
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That's what I was thinking, I checked their recent uploads again and there is no other part available. Who knows.
 
Scullibundo said:
Great to hear that the sequels won't be one continuous story. Self-contained is exactly what I wanted and as it should be. One movie should not be dependent on another.
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Indeed. And we can be spared the cliffhanger garbage of Matrix Reloaded, Pirates 2, hell, pretty much any blockbuster franchise post-LOTR when the trilogy became the "it" thing to do.
 
Solo said:
Indeed. And we can be spared the cliffhanger garbage of Matrix Reloaded, Pirates 2, hell, pretty much any blockbuster franchise post-LOTR when the trilogy became the "it" thing to do.
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Yep, exactly what I was afraid of when they mentioned they plotted out two sequels at the same time.

Anyway Solo, watch the new making of featurette.
 
That simul-cam is BAD ASS. To be able to shoot a bunch of actors running around an empty room and yet get to see their rendered Avatars running around in Pandora in 3D is insanity.
 
Scullibundo said:
New MAKING OF Featurette

Starts out like the first 'James Cameron's Vision' featurette, but there is quite a bit of stuff not yet glimpsed at. Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM&feature=player_embedded

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DLOVLj8xo

Watching part 2 now, going into sets and stuff, very cool.

PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX_yaDVLk8

PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-D66t2AjM

PART 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7D8mtVjaG8

This is awesome.
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Awesome!
 
Watching that featurette makes my head hurt thinking of all the organizing that went into the whole production... I mean it's a big movie, so that in itself requires a lot of work and dedication to all the various production areas, but with all these new technologies that haven't really been tested before...

Cameron must have worked 24/7 for some time...
 
Scullibundo said:
New MAKING OF Featurette

Starts out like the first 'James Cameron's Vision' featurette, but there is quite a bit of stuff not yet glimpsed at. Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM&feature=player_embedded

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DLOVLj8xo

Watching part 2 now, going into sets and stuff, very cool.

PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX_yaDVLk8

PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-D66t2AjM

PART 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7D8mtVjaG8

This is awesome.
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Awesome

I love how during Motion Capture they are carrying actual prop replicas of their weapons in the movie, like Wes Studi's Bow, and not just generic sticks or whatever

Edit: BTW, there will be a new Cameron interview in this weeks EW

2eme90l.jpg
 
Dead said:
Awesome

I love how during Motion Capture they are carrying actual prop replicas of their weapons in the movie, like Wes Studi's Bow, and not just generic sticks or whatever

Edit: BTW, there will be a new Cameron interview in this weeks EW

http://i49.tinypic.com/2eme90l.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=EW Cover Article Preview]Sam Worthington is already signed to play Jake Sully again, and he e-mailed EW some plot suggestions for the sequel: “Jake should have abused his avatar and be fat ad unfit and demand Neyteri to get him a beer.”[/QUOTE]
:lol
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BTW, according to Amazon and Blu-Ray.com, seems the European Blu-ray of Avatar has been pushed back from April 21st to June 1st

Most likely the US Blu-ray won't be out until June as well I would assume.
 
Seeing that featurette, I can finally understand why it took them two years to get the development process and tech down. I'd assumed it had more to do with the performance capture, but that's practically a footnote next to the virtual and hybrid cameras. Damn.

I imagine the virtual camera is really helpful not just for the director, but also the actors, making the capture volume much less abstract.
 
Sharp said:
Avatar's having a pretty leggy run in Japan, though--people weren't predicting 90m after its relatively weak opening. I'd say it has a decent shot at 100m+, though given how terrible the Japanese film market has gotten over the past decade (especially for Hollywood movies) and how ridiculous Titanic was there I don't see it coming anywhere close to the all-time record or anything.
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I agree. It's doing quite well, but Japan's share of Avatar's worldwide gross is actually quite low, when Japan usually is the #2 or #3 country. I see Japan eventually getting up there, though.

I booked my fifth and probably final theater viewing for this Saturday night, and the theater was already 50% pre-booked for the 8PM show. That's also when I plan on picking up the programs for GAFers who asked for it.
 
cvxfreak said:
I agree. It's doing quite well, but Japan's share of Avatar's worldwide gross is actually quite low, when Japan usually is the #2 or #3 country. I see Japan eventually getting up there, though.
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Every year Japan becomes an increasingly poor market for Hollywood films (except for Pixar, but technically it's not Hollywood anyway) and the exchange rate fluctuates a ton, which significantly affects dollar comparisons between movies released in different years. Even then, Japan is still generally one of the top few contributors to international grosses, but the combination of the emergence of markets like China and Russia (both of which have a huge upside, particularly the former), the weakened dollar, Avatar's simply being a monster in virtually every country, competition from Japan's own film industry (which is a much, much bigger factor than it is in most other countries), and the Japanese market's overall contraction, it's not clear how long it will remain that way. That said, I think studios receive a higher percentage of the gross from Japanese cinemas than those in many other countries (particularly China, where IIRC governmental restrictions allow them to take only something like a 15% cut?), so it will continue to play an important part in studios' bottom lines for a long time to come.
 
Metroid Killer said:
Watching that featurette makes my head hurt thinking of all the organizing that went into the whole production... I mean it's a big movie, so that in itself requires a lot of work and dedication to all the various production areas, but with all these new technologies that haven't really been tested before...

Cameron must have worked 24/7 for some time...
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Cameron was actually absent for months at a time during the development of the shooting pipeline. Rob Legato doesn't get nearly enough credit.
 
Marketsaw has a scoop on the Blu-ray

EXCLUSIVE: What To Expect From AVATAR's Blu-ray

Jim here. I just got a rather cool inside update from the very same source who gave me the video clip of AVATAR's footage from Comic Con 2009. Time to mull over some rumors and clarifications direct from one of my top, top sources!

- AVATAR 2 will definitely be helmed by James Cameron and no one else, contrary to rumors saying otherwise. The story arcs that are being developed for potential sequels are EPIC. More info coming soon!

- What's on AVATAR's Blu-ray disc? It will obviously be SPECTACULAR! The best of its kind with in depth features, extended and deleted scenes - the movie will be much longer because of it. We know he left a lot of scenes off the theatrical cut to make length commitments. Further, most of these additional scenes will be in the first half of the movie, for example future Earth. Finally it will also clear up a few plot holes like how Tsu'tey got his headset towards the end of the movie, etc.
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http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/exclusive-what-to-expect-from-avatars.html

wait and see if it turns out true I suppose
 
DarkMehm said:
$4,743,762 Wednesday

Domestic: $445,768,203 31.4%
+ Foreign: $974,182,673 68.6%

= Worldwide: $1,419,950,876
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Looks like they updated for two days of international earnings at the same time:

Code: 
                  Domestic         International        Total
11-Jan	Monday	 5,111,193 	 21,121,031 	26,232,224
12-Jan	Tuesday	 5,066,734 	                  5,066,734
13-Jan	Wednesday	 4,743,762 	 42,214,009 	46,957,771
No overseas update yesterday. At any rate, that adds up to over $78m WW on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Avatar will be at nearly $1.45b WW before the weekend even freaking starts. It's already over $300m ahead of the previous #2 movie. :lol

ryutaro's mama said:
SW is a few days away from crumbling.
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Yeah, it goes down on Friday.
 
Solo said:
That simul-cam is BAD ASS. To be able to shoot a bunch of actors running around an empty room and yet get to see their rendered Avatars running around in Pandora in 3D is insanity.
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It's like a video game, literally.
 
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