Okay, here’s the deal. You’re thinking about seeing Avatar tonight, yes, or this weekend? You know it features blue people. And that it’s set on a different planet. But you’re still a little confused – and not entirely sure if your girlfriend is going to dig it. (Check out our spoiler-free morning-after Avatar review)
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There’s already been a whole lot of talk out there about Avatar – about the quality of the writing, the imagination of the special effects, and the brilliance of a motion capture process that made the Na’vi just about the most believable fictional beings in the history of movies. (Read our morning-after review, and the transcript …
Even if you don’t love every James Cameron film, even if you’re suffering from Titanic – or hell, Avatar – fatigue, you’ve got to give him this: The man’s got energy to spare.
Only hours after flying from London to New York City this past Monday, the director was on the Today show, explaining the oh-so-foreign concept of …
A few weeks ago I was sent an advance copy of Rebecca Winters Keegan’s The Futurist, which is an authorized bio of James Cameron. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Obviously I like his stuff, and he’s technically amazing. But I’m not exactly a Cameron fanatic. I’m an Alien guy, not an Aliens guy.
So I kicked it around my office for three …
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What follows is a minimally edited cut-and-paste of an e-mail exchange between the Techland staffers the morning after we saw Avatar.
Lev Grossman: Here’s my master theory about Avatar. Which I said last night. This is Cameron remaking Aliens from the aliens’ point of view. He …
The first press screenings of Avatar were held late Thursday night, so naturally the reviews are flooding online today. We’re dying to hear what TIME’s film critic, Richard Corliss, thought of the whole thing – his review will be posted here in a day or two – and we’re going to be publishing a lengthier roundtable discussion …
Moral of the story kids: Keep your griping far from the ears of James Cameron.
Sitting down to talk with Joel Moore, a.k.a. Norm Spellman in James Cameron’s Avatar, I must admit: I was skeptical about the whole green screen thing. I mean, how hard can it be to act in an artificial environment, where almost everything has been dreamt …
I’ve heard from my non-movie-obsessed colleagues that they believe Avatar fatigue is about to set in – the moment when sci-fi fanboys will get sick of hearing about this new James Cameron movie.
But I don’t really see that happening, at least not when the marketing teams are coming up with special features this …
Remember when you first saw Star Wars, and started learning the rules of the Force for the very first time? Or how about Blade Runner or Minority Report, when you first peeked over the shoulders of Rick Deckard and John Anderton, looking out at their futuristic cityscapes?
Over the last six months, as I’ve talked Avatar with a good …
Techland broke the news earlier today of an elaborate interactive trailer being released in support of the “Avatar” PR campaign – an interface built on Adobe AIR software that allows users to toggle between the film’s trailer, extended featurettes, “Avatar” media and related discussions on various social networks. But this …
Banshee. Just add the term to your lexicon now – because after seeing the groundbreaking “interactive trailer” for “Avatar,” I’m more convinced than ever that these flying predators will go down as one of the more ferocious and memorable creatures in sci-fi history.
At noon (eastern) today, Twentieth Century Fox will …
So I just came back from a theater in midtown Manhattan where they screened about 25 minutes of footage from James Cameron’s much-gestated Avatar. And wow. There’s seriously a lot to think about there.
Quick premise recap. Paralyzed ex-marine’s consciousness is projected into 10-foot-tall blue alien humanoid body on …
