Unless you were living under a rock last week, you would have seen quite a few colorful discussions going down in response to the worldwide premiere of the Avatar trailer and Fox's special IMAX event, "Avatar Day." With anticipation reaching its breaking point, and after such a long wait for official footage, the online fandom community dissected what they saw frame by frame while firmly planting opinionated flags into whichever ground they stood upon. Some fans absolutely loved it. And others not so much. There can be no doubt that the trailer sparked debate across the web.
And the film's stars saw as much.
While filming his next film, Clash of the Titans, Sam Worthington had a chance to discuss the event with journalists this week in which he noted the the numerous debates that followed the premiere. ComingSoon's Edward Douglas reports that Worthington pays close attention to the feedback as well as the decision to premiere the trailer a day before the IMAX footage.
"It's gotta hell of a lotta hype," he admitted to us. "I read all what was said yesterday about the trailer. I can see their point, but as I said, it's not meant to be built for an Apple Mac, it's built for IMAX, it's built for 3D, that's what he's designed it for. He's designed it to bring people back to the cinema. It's interesting that he's released that trailer and the next day, he shows it on IMAX. It's one extreme to the other. We get the criticism and then we get the rave reviews of what it really looks like in its own formula. That's obviously going to get people to think and go, 'Damn right! I'm going to go and see this at the cinema.' Jim has always said to me that he wants to bring people back to the movies, and he's a smart enough man for that to be tactical."
He also admits his love for working with James Cameron and opens up about the reaction to Terminator Salvation. Check it out here.
Sound off below, Maniacs.
Nahh no fail, just a stumble or a stutter...was the best terminator since T2 :) Sure i know that isnt saying much but it was still decent and watchable..unlike GIJOE. I wish Cameron would come back to Terminator and give us all what we really want! Another super sweet badass terminator! Which we havent had since T2 :)
Let's be completely honest here Terminator should have ended at 2. It was nicely wrapped up for your mind to play out the possibilities and once Cameron leaves it can only go down.
AVATAR is what we need right now. Worthington summed it well by saying the film is meant to be seen on the big screen, especially in 3D and especially on I-Max if you want to appreciate the visuals but the story itself will transcend any format, believe that
From the AP and FBI blotter
police depts. every where will be on the look out for DAA (driving after Avatar) drivers beginning Dec 18. You must wait at least 30minutes after witnessing AVATAR before getting behind the wheel to allow your mind to adjust to this reality. So travel by cab is recommended or have a designated driver who'll see a something else and will be allowed to drive afterwards
I'll be posting updates of this as time progresses and police depts adjust their policy for the benefit of all
maybe they should have waited a few more years before releasing avatar since there are only around 160 I max theaters in the U.S
What's funny is that he pointed out just one minor thing in Terminator that was wrong...the Giant Robot yeah but soooooooo many other things that was wrong with it. I'm happy to see the actor looking back at that movie and thinking WTF.
I have to agree with hanso, darknight. It failed on a huge level. Overseas is the only thing that saved it and now that they realize what shit it is those numbers will be smaller next time too.
It's unfortunate filmmakers can't manage expectations, everything would be a hit. If you watched GI Joe and were expecting something dark and gritty then you're way off your mark. I thought it looked like ass in the previews, refused to pay to see it and then I won two tickets on a radio phone in. I sat there with my bag of popcorn and loved every cheesy minute of that movie :)
The same with Terminator. Everyone loved T2 (cause it rocked). So then the franchise gets passed down from the great jim cameron to some guy who directed charlie's angels and doesn't even like to use his real name (is he a rapper?). So it wasn't as cool as T2, the story was kinda blargh, but from what I was expecting from that guy it turned out pretty good.
As for Avatar I knew nothing about it until the released the footage last week. Looks cool. Is it only in IMAX or does it get a conventional release too so that we can all see it? I'm not into driving three hours to the closest IMAX.
I know this is becoming an old argument but jerichoraine, it wasn't that hard to meet expectations. If any of you can't see all the problems with the story with its obvious plot holes then hey, more power to you. Enjoy the DVD when it comes out. i could care less that Cameron wasn't doing it just give me a guy that could tell a good story.
I know some people on this site have a hard time understanding what a plot hole is. We went back on and forth on this with District 9. Dictionary terms says a plot hole is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
Now if we want to establish that Salvation was a stupid fucking movie that made no sense as the logic then yeah that movie rocked but as Sam Worthington noticed after the fact. There is a lot of WTF in that movie.
I think thats going to be the new term for us on this site. The WTF moments...lol. I've seen that a lot since that article.
ok look. It's a Time travel story, it has multiple outcomes.
reality 1: Skynet is created by humans and then whipes out all humanity.
reality 2: Skynet is created then humans surrender and are enslaved.
reality 3: Skynet is created the trys to destroy humans but a group of resistance develops and skynet has to resort to the implausible. send a robot back to kill the resistance leader. (Salvation tells the part where the resistance is being developed and the leader arises)
reality 4: Nicholas cage is really superman, he pushes the earth out of orbit, it spirals into the sun and earth is destroyed. Superman rescues Lios Lane and they find an earthlike planet in another galaxy far far away. There they give rise to a new powerful race of human krypton hybrids called the Numenor. They found a towering city of white and eventually build robot servants called cylons that try to kill off all their creators. The last king of the Numenor, Captain James Tiberius Kirk, arrives to stop the cylons aboard his starship entreprise. Kirk uses trickery and guile to become the new Chancellor and disbands the noble jedi knights. Chancellor Kirk set his own forces The StormTroopers to capture 3 renegade jedi knights named D'Artagnan, Porthos and Aniken Skywalker who are commited to save the true heir to the throne Indiana Jones from the vile clutches of the deadites. A wandering hero named Ash aids the jedi knights but saddly Aniken falls to the Darkseid and travels back in time to kill Superman. He marries Lois Lane and they have twins, a boy and a girl, they are named Zan and Jayna and they are called the Wonder Twins!
My point is it's all fiction and they can say or do whatever they want. Hollywood usually Frakks it up and just makes a sequal to a remake of a plagiarized idea anyway. So they were almost original this time.
McFail has been fail since Charlie's Angels man, I would put him and UB as people who should not Direct any longer for sure.
Long Live Avatar Baby !!
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Even Sam Worthington is ashamed he didn't tell McG about the crazyness going on in Terminator Salvation. McG you fail!