Release Date: December 18, 2009 (conventional 3D
theaters and IMAX 3D)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: James Cameron
Screenwriter: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana,
Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni
Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter
Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang,
Matt Gerald
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense battle sequences
and warfare, sensuality, language and some
smoking)
Official Website: Avatarmovie.com
"Avatar," a live action film with a new
generation of special effects, takes us to a
spectacular world beyond imagination, where a
reluctant hero embarks on a journey of
redemption and discovery as he leads an epic
battle to save a civilization. James Cameron,
the Oscar-winning director of "Titanic," first
conceived the film years ago, when the means to
realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after
four years of actual production work, "Avatar"
delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience
of a new kind, where the revolutionary
technology invented to make the film disappears
into the emotion of the characters and the sweep
of the story.
The story's hero is 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.
EN
5 Second Review: I saw the special 15-minute preview screening of "Avatar" in
August and when compared to the theatrical trailer in 2D, there’s no
doubt it’s best experienced in 3-D. The story’s a bit of a hook-in
as well - pretty economical in typical James Cameron style, who did
"The Abyss" and "Titanic" with much the same simplicity yet
effectiveness. - Peter Veugelaers
Avatar
Here it comes in all its glory and it is being released with a great preorder
price of 15.99 on DVD and 19.99 for the Blue Ray. The only problem is these
editions do not have any special features. We will be buying one though so we
can watch over and over again, but will also be buying the ultimate edition when
it comes out in November. Real fans will want both.
Description: After 12 years
of thinking about it (and waiting
for movie technology to catch up
with his visions), James Cameron
followed up his unsinkable
Titanic with Avatar, a
sci-fi epic meant to trump all
previous sci-fi epics. Set in the
future on a distant planet,
Avatar spins a simple little
parable about greedy colonizers
(that would be mankind) messing up
the lush tribal world of Pandora. A
paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam
Worthington) acts through a
9-foot-tall avatar that allows him
to roam the planet and pass as one
of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned,
large-eyed native people who would
very much like to live their
peaceful lives without the
interference of the visitors.
Although he's supposed to be
gathering intel for the badass
general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to
lay waste to the planet and its
inhabitants, Jake naturally begins
to take a liking to the Na'vi,
especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë
Saldana, whose entire performance,
recorded by Cameron's complicated
motion-capture system, exists as a
digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie
uses state-of-the-art 3D technology
to plunge the viewer deep into
Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary
ecosystems and high-tech machinery
Release Date: December 18, 2009 (conventional 3D
theaters and IMAX 3D)
EN
5 Second Review: I saw the special 15-minute preview screening of "Avatar" in
August and when compared to the theatrical trailer in 2D, there’s no
doubt it’s best experienced in 3-D. The story’s a bit of a hook-in
as well - pretty economical in typical James Cameron style, who did
"The Abyss" and "Titanic" with much the same simplicity yet
effectiveness. - Peter Veugelaers