Comments on: Time Takes A Look Inside James Cameron’s Avatar

By: Shut-Up Ed

Shut-Up Ed — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:39:05 +0000

Haha yeah right. He and George Lucas both.

By: Primal

Primal — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:17:31 +0000

Well there is only so much James Cameron can do as the director. I think a bigger question is will Weta Digital/Stan Winston Studio and all the other SE houses involved be able to raise the bar in CGI in films?

In order for Cameron to save us and for this movie to be great it can’t be all about the special effects. But I’m sure Cameron already knows this.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:51:34 +0000

Thanks for the post Sean but I’m in the latter camp. For the big ones I want to know as close to nothing as I possibly can. My juvenille avoidance for spoilers is the most fanboy thing about me.

By: rus in chicago

rus in chicago — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:50:17 +0000

These guys are way to optimistic that theater owners ( which have very small profit windows) are going to buy/lease even more digital equipment after shelling out for new digital projectors. Digital conversion has not moved as fast as Hollywood would have liked and now they are talking about an expensive shutter device that needs to be placed in front of the projectors?! These guys can talk big because they get whatever they want.

By: Wintle

Wintle — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:40:27 +0000

Thanks for the link, but even more importantly, thanks for reminding me of Cameron’s involvement with Battle Angel Alita. How awesome would that have been?

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:37:07 +0000

Just read the article and it would be great if these guys aren’t blowing smoke:

“Someday people will buy their own glasses, which they’ll take to the movies–like people have their own tennis rackets” -Jeffrey Katzenberg

That’s a beautiful vision of the future (for a cinephile/videophile like me) but this is doubtful seeing how many people still watch bootlegs on an SD television. I’ve been following Avatar since after Cameron decided to postpone Battle Angel (one of the best manga series the world has known). It’s hard not to believe in Cameron.

Wintle, I highly suggest:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983864.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1

Cameron gets very technical on shooting stereovision in this e-mail interview.

By: Neil M

Neil M — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:18:30 +0000

I don’t know, it sounds pretty awesome to me. I’m really pumped to see how effective the 3-D aspect of this is going to be. Hopefully it will be the first movie that actually benefits from it in any significant way.

By: 1138

1138 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:11:56 +0000

I must admit being a Camaron fan since his first movie “The Terminator”. He’s a visionary, a master of cinema and even though I enjoyed the titanic but found repeat viewings to be sappy, and while the first 3/4’s of the “Abyss” was great film making at it’s finest (Hated the last 1/4 and thought the ending insipid), Cameron still instills a sense of “what the hell does he have up his sleeve”?

I know nothing of Avatar other than the title and even though intrigued was not totally obsessed with the idea of seeing it. But with these new images being released my appetite is definitely leaning toward wanting to see more!

By: Shut-Up Ed

Shut-Up Ed — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:10:05 +0000

Isn’t anyone else getting tired of the endless stream of, “human greed (and inherently evil corporations) will inevitably (and gleefully) one day destroy the Earth” movies?

::sigh::