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Tathanen said:
Any word on whether the extra footage will be re-integrated into the film, LOTR style? Cause if it's just "deleted scenes" who giiiives a shit.
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The fact that he called it "usable footage" in my opinion implys full integration. Cameron knows his fans and based on his other Director's Cuts ( Aliens, Abyss) I think it'll be OK.
 
ryutaro's mama said:
The fact that he called it "usable footage" in my opinion implys full integration. Cameron knows his fans and based on his other Director's Cuts ( Aliens, Abyss) I think it'll be OK.
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Titanic didn't get a director's cut although it would have benefited from adding the deleted scenes. Many of these scenes expanded on other characters and gave more depth to the whole movie.
 
ymmv said:
Titanic didn't get a director's cut although it would have benefited from adding the deleted scenes. Many of these scenes expanded on other characters and gave more depth to the whole movie.
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Well, Titanic was already 200 minutes. Avatar is only 160 due to Imax I'm betting
 
Dead said:
Picture of Jake in his apartment on Earth:

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I was going to ask, how did they get his legs like that? Post production CG or something else?
 
Dead said:
Picture of Jake in his apartment on Earth:

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Also this...

There's a rumor going around that some of the humans in Avatar are CGI creations. Any truth to that?

''There are a number of shots of CGI humans,'' James Cameron says. ''The shots of [Stephen Lang] in an AMP suit, for instance — those are completely CG. But there's a threshold of proximity to the camera that we didn't feel comfortable going beyond. We didn't get too close.''
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WOW!
 
Zoe said:
At least he didn't have to shave :lol
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I like how if you walked into that set at any point in time, it would look like they were filming an usually low budget school play (with lots and lots of cameras). That thing is literally duck tape and plywood. :lol
 
'Avatar' eyes awards season gold at Golden Globes

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Hollywood's awards season cranks into overdrive on Sunday with science-fiction epic "Avatar" hoping to score vital pre-Oscars momentum with victory at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

James Cameron's 3-D spectacular has electrified the movie world since its release in mid-December, becoming the second highest-grossing movie of all time and earning more than 1.3 billion dollars in a matter of weeks.

The film -- about peace-loving blue aliens battling a greedy human corporation seeking to plunder their planet's resources -- is being talked about as a milestone in the history of cinema.

The 500 million dollar blockbuster is vying for four honors at this weekend's awards, which begin in Beverly Hills at 5.30 pm (0130 GMT).

As well as best picture, "Avatar" has nods for best director (Cameron), best original score and best original song.

However the film faces stiff competition from recession-era drama-comedy "Up In the Air", which has six nominations, as well as the gripping Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker", which has three nominations.

Nods for "Up In the Air" include best actor (George Clooney), best director (Jason Reitman) as well as nominations for Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.

In a quirk of fate, "The Hurt Locker's" director Kathryn Bigelow finds herself nominated for best director alongside ex-husband Cameron.

Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds") and Clint Eastwood ("Invictus") complete the field.

But while "Up In the Air" and "The Hurt Locker" remain critical darlings, awards season pundits say the 85 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) who pick the Golden Globes may lean towards "Avatar."

"Globes voters are foreign journalists who consider it their job to track the hot new thing," said Tom O'Neil, of the Los Angeles Times's theenvelope.com. "And there's nothing hotter right now than 'Avatar'."

O'Neil noted that while the Golden Globes traditionally preferred to honor arthouse movies "they do occasionally go for the blockbusters.

"Remember they picked 'Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King)' for best picture," he said.

However "Avatar" almost certainly needed to triumph this weekend if it was to emerge as an awards season favorite for the coveted best picture prize at the Oscars, which will be handed out in Hollywood this year on March 7.

"This is the award that 'Avatar' needs if it's going to become the official front-runner for the Oscars," O'Neil said. "If 'Avatar' gets crowned ahead of time then it could be Oscar-bound."
Sasha Stone, who runs the Los Angeles-based awards blog Awards Daily (www.awardsdaily.com) described this year's season as "one of the most open for years."

"'Avatar' can win. But there's a question mark right now as to which are the top three movies -- it seems to be between 'Avatar', 'Up In the Air' and 'The Hurt Locker'," Stone told AFP.

"Traditionally the Hollywood Foreign Press prefer intimate dramas to epic sci-fi films. But 'Avatar' is so emotionally affecting that they might go for it. Even so I think it's between 'Up In the Air' and 'The Hurt Locker.'"

In the acting stakes, Clooney will be up against Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart"), Colin Firth ("A Single Man"), Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"), and Tobey Maguire ("Brothers") for best drama actor.

The women's acting awards could unfold as a duel between Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep, who both have two nominations each.

Bullock is nominated as best actress in both drama and comedy categories for her respective roles in "The Blind Side" and "The Proposal," while Streep -- hoping to win her seventh Globe -- is a double nominee in the comedy category for her performances in "Julie & Julia" and "It's Complicated."

Unlike the Oscars, the Golden Globes splits its best picture prizes between genres, honoring best drama and best comedy/musical.

The Globes are often viewed as a key barometer of which films may go on to challenge for honors at the Oscars.

Although 67.4 percent of films which won best picture at the Academy Awards also won a Golden Globe, in recent years the awards have proved an unreliable guide for likely Oscar winners.

Rags-to-riches drama "Slumdog Millionaire" is the only film in the past five years to have followed up a best picture statuette at the Golden Globes with victory at the Oscars.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100115/ennew_afp/entertainmentusfilmglobes_20100115172311

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I watched the last hour of Julia and Julia last week and Meryl Streep was pretty amazing, even though the movie was terrible. I haven't seen the Blind Side, but I can't imagine Sandra Bullock's Texan soccer mom being any better.
 
Bullock will win, if only because Streep is doomed by having been nominated twice in the same category (splits her votes).

Traditionally the Hollywood Foreign Press prefer intimate dramas to epic sci-fi films. But 'Avatar' is so emotionally affecting that they might go for it.

Really? C'mon. I don't think anyone is going to give an award to the film because of how emotionally affecting it is. Except maybe those psychopaths that want to kill themselves because they will be reborn on Pandora in a fursuit.
 
ToxicAdam said:
I watched the last hour of Julia and Julia last week and Meryl Streep was pretty amazing, even though the movie was terrible. I haven't seen the Blind Side, but I can't imagine Sandra Bullock's Texan soccer mom being any better.
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Yeah, the movie was just okay overall (it really was two stories welded together when they both would have been stronger on their own), but Streep's performance was just a ridiculously spot-on incarnation of Julia. And the movie got me laid, so I can't hate on it too much.

Avatar cleared $450m yesterday, one day behind TDK's record. By Monday it will likely be past $500m, easily setting that speed record though. (Of course, only two movies have even gotten that far.)
 
GhaleonEB said:
Yeah, the movie was just okay overall (it really was two stories welded together when they both would have been stronger on their own), but Streep's performance was just a ridiculously spot-on incarnation of Julia. And the movie got me laid, so I can't hate on it too much.

Avatar cleared $450m yesterday, one day behind TDK's record. By Monday it will likely be past $500m, easily setting that speed record though. (Of course, only two movies have even gotten that far.)
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Bu-bu-bu-but not if you adjust for inflation!

/sarcasm
 
Count Dookkake said:
Oh, and remember when teh morans said that women wouldn't see this movie?

:lol
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I was at lunch with three guys the other day, 2 having not seen it yet, and one of the guys said he heard it was a chick flick. My boyfriend agreed with him -_-
 
Zoe said:
I was at lunch with three guys the other day, 2 having not seen it yet, and one of the guys said he heard it was a chick flick. My boyfriend agreed with him -_-
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And to be fair, that's how Cameron has described it: he set out to make an action movie, and made a chick flick. (Which is what happened last time around, too.)
 
Somnia said:
Now regarding the "my Jake" she clearly says "my Jake" at the end. However the first time she says it is right after they mate and she is trying to wake him up. First time I noticed that :D so she starts saying it right after they become mated for life.
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Time to bring up the my/ma Jake argument again.

I saw Avatar for the second time and read the subtitles this time ( All movies are subtitled here in Finland ) and it says "Ma Jake" every time it is used. :D I counted tree. And the subtitles are based on transcripts from the studio.
 
west said:
Time to bring up the my/ma Jake argument again.

I saw Avatar for the second time and read the subtitles this time ( All movies are subtitled here in Finland ) and it says "Ma Jake" every time it is used. :D I counted tree. And the subtitles are based on transcripts from the studio.
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Here in Sweden I think they said "Ma'Jake", but I'm not completely sure about this one. Anyway it's no big difference.
 
west said:
Time to bring up the my/ma Jake argument again.

I saw Avatar for the second time and read the subtitles this time ( All movies are subtitled here in Finland ) and it says "Ma Jake" every time it is used. :D I counted tree. And the subtitles are based on transcripts from the studio.
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I mean, why the hell she would say 'My Jake' anyways? It's Ma'Jake guys. CASE CLOSED!
 
neoism said:
FUCK YESSS!!!!! A 3 hours and 30 mintue cut will be soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome! Cameron am god!
Just kidding, be this is my favorite movie sense The Matrix!!!!!
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I think you mean 3h and 20m cut.
 
So, my wife let me know Cameron was on Oprah (I knew he was on, but not when). He just wrapped up. Good interview.

And at the end, Oprah turns to the audience and says (paraphrased): "Everyone, go see Avatar."

Another $70m weekend confirmed.
ymmv said:
Stan Winston's studio created these prosthetics.
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Stan Winston Studio. :p
 
Hell yeah, just came back from seeing it for the 4th time. The theatre was packed, i'd say 95% was full, there were just some empty chairs in the front rows and at the sides. But anyway, this shit Simply. Does. Not. Happen. here in Portugal. A packed theatre on the 5th weekend. Unbelievable. I also love it how the movie can silence the audience every time. :D

One thing I noticed this time is that... it's a bit hard to have a sense of scale of the Pandoran fauna, and the moment it hits you hard is when Jake's Toruk grabs the first chopper in the final battle and throws it at the mountain. Only then the audience truly _sees_ how large they are and I heard quite a few people going woah (or their portuguese woah-analogue of choice).
 
w00t!
Is there gonna be anything left over for the DVD's special features? :P
 
Jtwo said:
w00t!
Is there gonna be anything left over for the DVD's special features? :P
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About BTS material who knows. :P It'd be pretty cool if they include one of those "maximum view mode" things, and you can watch the movie with the performance capture in a window on the corner of the screen.
 
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