Having grossed $504.8 million domestically and another $1.1 billion in foreign sales, most of you Maniacs have seen James Cameron's Avatar a good two or three times. And yet Yahoo Movies have now produced a 22-minute featurette on Pandora that most of you have not seen. Check it out below. The sci-fi epic stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald. Director James Cameron helmed from a story he wrote.
Plot Concept: The story centers on Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he's still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person's consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora's indigenous humanoids, the Na'vi. This human-Na'vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na'vi but possesses the individual human's thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an "avatar."
In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na'vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence – in mining the ore. A beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, albeit reluctantly, because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na'vi's unspoiled world.
As Jake's relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na'vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.
Avatar has a worldwide gross of $1.637 billion. It will likely become overpass Titanic's $1.8 billion by the end of January, making it the highest-ranking worldwide grossing film of all-time.
Check out the 22-min featurette on Pandora below.
Ha that was funny at the end. See Cameron has a sense of humor though it would've been funny if he had gone all Christian Bale on his ass
After wathcing this I feel like going back to see AVATAR again. It's just awesome and you have to marvel at everything that it took to make this film and at Cameron for putting the time in, whether you liked it or not.
Heh...reminded me of things about it I didn't like...lol. It just seems that for every awesome technological inovation, there was some hokey script element or plot hole...I had forgotten the stuff they were mining was called "unobtainium"...sorry, can't help but roll my eyes at the clumsy attempt at forshadowing there.
Wiseguy, check out this video (not Avatar related)...the bit about music making things look epic is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U_0LuT6fvU
Clumsy attempt at foreshadowing? I think they called in unobtainium was because it was so hard to get. I think Cameron is actually being kinda realistic. In this day and age if a new mineral was discovered we would definately give some hokey name, probably after the dude who discovers it like Ben53 or something. Every script is going to have holes in it and it is in fashion to be the guy who walks out of the blockbuster hating on it because it failed your high standards or you are waaay to smart for it, but I went to be entertained and even with jumped up expectations I was... very. James Cameron for Spidey.
Well, that's fine, but I stand by what I said. I even liked the movie, but being honest with myself (something I'm not sure your average mania person understands) the movie really isn't the great glorious thing that the superfans make it out to be. It was only good, IMO. And please, STOP with the "hating on" phrase...it pisses me off every time I hear it. Just because somebody might have a different opinion than you, or GOD FORBID pick movies apart a bit more and really look at everything (not just 3D or awesome special effects), people want to accuse them of being hateful snobs. It's not cool, man.
Unobtanium may seem funny but I believe I read that this is an inside scientific joke referring to something this amazing. And the fact that this mineral was the end all be all for earth's energy needs the name is apt and makes sense. Of course most of us aren't scientists so these subtle or not so subtle jokes go over most people heads
madmanic, these people that think they're too smart are just the opposite IMO, most also claim D-9 is a masterpiece and better. But movies are mostly about escapism and when you can combine escapism and address social, moral and political issues at the same time then you can be called a masterpiece. And what film has sparked the most debate about such things? AVATAR baby, AVATAR without a question. So since these haters are calling AVATAR fans avatards I'm going to call them plain and simple retards cause they can't grasp it
That's cool, Wiseguy...just seems like there would be something not so obvious they could have named it. I don't know, isn't there any cool myths about something unobtainable with a cool protagonist they could have named the mineral after?
And nowhere did I say I was too smart for the movie...I'm must a movie critic at heart. I can't NOT pick movies apart. That's another rude generalization about "haters" IMO...soooooooo...am I being accused of thinking I'm too smart for a movie simply because I think about it more than the average movie goer? Hmmmmm.
And Wiseguy, you're right that Avatar has caused lot of debate, but it seems like the only debate I've seen on here has been between people who LOVE the movie and people who HATE the movie...I'm not sure I've seen any debate about the actual issues the movie was trying to address...lol.
Unobtanium is actually a real term in the scientific community. It's defined as an extremely rare, nearly impossible to find, material that could be used to fit a specific need that can't be met by normal material.
Similiar to Dilithium on Star Trek.
I guess some people might have been happier if Cameron created a new fake material name as opposed to Unobtanium, but considering the importance of the material, it probably isn't a far stretch that that name might actually be used in the future to define such a material if it were to be discovered.
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Wish I had the editing software needed to do things like this...This video pretty much sums up my feelings on the movie. It's funny viewing for everybody though. If you don't find it funny, then quit taking the movies you enjoy so seriously!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVNau8tIZJ0