Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted

graviplana was one of several people to submit that Avatar, James Cameron's 3D Sci-Fi epic has released a trailer to whet your appetite. There's a lot of very cool visual elements in there but no indication of any actual story. Here's hoping there is one.

Re:Whet

[nacturation]

And to use a whetstone, it's good practice to wet it first.

Re: Whet

[Black Parrot]

The correct word is "whet."

Maybe it's a deliberately bad trailer, designed to dampen people's appetites.

Re:Direct download links

[Anonymous Coward]

You're talking like that's a bad thing..?

Wow...

[Tibor the Hun]

Holy smokes, does that look stupid.

I couldn't even bother to finish a 2 minute trailer. Can someone from Hollywood send me 30 million bucks, and I'll mail them my bowel movements for the next year?

Oh sure

[Al Al Cool J]

Trying to ride on the coat-tails of Felicia Day's hit indie geeky music video (Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar, which shot to the top of iTunes/Amazon/YouTube on Monday. How very sad.

Re:The Last Airbender

[denzacar]

They are all actually dead the whole time, being killed by the plants that live in the forest around the village.

Oh... and the "mentor-character" is actually the main bad-guy, who is stumped by closed doors and is allergic to water.

Seek professional help.

[denzacar]

I couldn't even bother to finish a 2 minute trailer.

I do believe that there is a treatment for that. [wikipedia.org]

Re:Story?

[Capt James McCarthy]

Here's the thing I hate about sci-fi plots. Humans have the ability to fly half way across the galaxy, can engineer biological hybrids, can link those hybrids to a humans mind, but the simple act of reconnecting a spinal cord back together in order to cure paralysis is still beyond their reach?

I guess Health Care Reform didn't work in this sci-fi.

Re:Only a little

[shadowrat]

(so bloody obvious he's one of the dead...)

Thanks a lot! Now you've gone and ruined the film for me!

Re:Whet

[Minwee]

Adding to that, the summary contains 45 words and three sentences, contains one typo and one misspelling. Surely the submission approval process is not so strained that three sentences is too much to proof read?

Comma splice.

Spelling.

I'd use the red pen of doom on this but that would anger the gods of markup. You'll just have to figure out where you went wrong on your own.

Re:Only a little

[Anonymous Coward]

You insensitive clod! I haven't seen the 6th Sense yet!

hard to watch

[jensen404]

There was a lot of very inconsistent frame doubling.
One part went like this:   (starting at 0:25)
single frame:   I
doubled frame:  -

I-IIII-III-III-I-I-II-I-I-I-I-II I-I---I--I--I--I---I--I-I-I-I-I-II-I-I-I-I-II-I-I-I

This scene cross fades with a scene that doubles every 9th or 10th frame.