Here ya go, kids: It's a new trailer for James Cameron's Avatar, which some people are calling "the movie that could change film-making for ever. It has the power to alter your mind. Watching it will be like dreaming with your eyes open" but others consider "laughably bad." Make up your own mind (or, as much as you can make it up based on a two minute promo in 2D). Full-screen version here.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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Succeed or fail, you have to give it to Cameron -- he has balls. Not even Lucas has the balls to make a Jar Jar Binks stand alone.
TOTAL RIP-OFF OF THE SMURFS!1!
Flying Islands of Dr. Moreau ?
Can I say this about this? "Cameron cast the Australian actor [sam worthington] after searching the world for promising young actors, preferring relative unknowns to keep the budget down."
The budget? $237 MILLION. What, like $2 mil more would have been noticeable?
Can I say something too? This Worthington guy, I have had about enough of him. This month's Esquire has an interview with him, comes across as a tightly puckered asshole.
I once hired a man named Sam Worthington to paint my car.
It was not worth two million dollars.
Final Fantastic!
Also: It's reassuring (?) to know that even in a future of unbounded technological advance our young men will still be getting those absurd tribal tattoos on their biceps.
And evidently we haven't cured paralysis yet either.
Can someone explain to me the predilection Sci-Fi people have to anthropomorphic manimals in extremely revealing clothing? It borders on creepy, quite frankly.
This particular fetish is called "Yiffy". And BTW it is a very big thing in gay culture also. Google it at your own risk.
"The exact time the term "yiffing" was coined is disputed. The most popular etymology stems from the 1980s, citing that "yiff" was the sound foxes make while mating (there are many other disputed origins for the term, as well). Within the fandom today, the term can be used to describe either real sexual activity or cybersex; unless stated otherwise, uses within this article refer to the cybersex elements. "Mating" is sometimes used as well, in addition to all common real-life sexual euphemisms. "
Explain it? well...
The More You Know.
I just Googled it and ended up seeing a Dolphin with Double D's. I think I need a bath.
Real sexual activity? Like... bestiality? or dressing up as animals? I both want, and do not want, to know more.
Where does Horny Manatee fit in with all this?
If you're a Yiffer, and you sodomize people with household cleaning products, are you a Swiffer?
My fursona is Stubby, the horny penguin with a penchant for scantily-clad versions of the Philly Fanatic.
a.k.a. primitivism
This is claymation or what?
Halo IV: World of Borecraft
I'm not a big sci fi fan and certainly not impressed by movies based on special effects. Therefore, I gotta say, they have a ways to go in making cgi human like forms move in a convincingly human like way. They still lack the visual weight that allows you to suspend disbelief and actually see them as a part of the scene.
So, you are saying that you have a hard time being convinced that make believe creatures are, in fact, not make believe? Sounds like you are just sane.
Darn it, yeah! I thought we'd be so much further than Roger Rabbit by now. Sigh...
Whoa, what the fuck just happened. Someone screwed up and put night elves in my mechwarrior trailer? And by the way, Avatar, not a single airbender in the bunch. Fail.
Dune meets Minority Report with Narnia mixed in.
I reduce it to: Dances With Wolves, spiced with the Marines from Aliens set in a Roger Dean painting.
But I'm stoked.
Look back 18 years to the second Terminator movie: when the T-1000 walks out of the flaming wreckage of the truck it's been driving. Today that looks pretty naff, but 18 years ago, it kinda blew people's minds.
Somebody has to do it first. From there it will only get better and more common place...
And a little of the 80's Flash Gordon.
But the future lady alien giant electric-blue cat-thing still has tits, right? Thas all I need to know.
Needs more Art Deco.