Yesterday afternoon, I brought you a preview of James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. Some of you were interested in the game while others weren't so sure. We have the latest trailer for Avatar and I think this will help people figure out if they really want to get Avatar when it's released on December 1.
So let's hear it. Now that you've heard how the game plays and what Avatar looks like in action, do you still interested in it? Or do you think it looks too generic and are afraid of the movie to videogame tie-n games?
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The blue dudes look SO out of place that it completely distracts me from anything else on the screen. Who Framed Roger Rabbit's toons along side humans looked more natural than the CG in this movie.
I am not excited for the movie or the game. The political message in Avatar, which is one I support, is so ham-handed and blatant. The two sides might as well be wearing signs saying "WE ARE OPPRESSIVE MILITARY TYPES WHO SYMBOLIZE THE WEST AND IN PARTICULAR, AMERICA!" while the other side wears a sign "WE ARE PEACEFUL, TECHNOLOGICALLY BACKWARDS FOLK IN ONE WITH NATURE WHO REPRESENT EVERY OPPRESSED INDIGENOUS POPULATION ON EARTH!"
While I am the first to mourn the destruction of the Native Americans by European expansion, I can't get behind a film which basically tries to bludgeon you to death with its message.
Not only that, the "native people" are completely sterilised, cliched, stereotypes of "wise native warrior in one with pure nature", with no faults or evils. Not only that, notice how they basically made them as humans with blue skin, so that people would sympathize with them, and so they could have a vaguely hot alien chick to drawn in sympathy? What if the peaceful natives didn't look like nice, blue humans with tails, but instead looked like giant spiders with a hundred mouths and fifty bug eyes and 12 legs!?
The problem with Avatar is this:
1) It's a giant ham of a movie. It's about as subtle as a brick wielded by a retarded chimpanzee.
2) All the good guys are nothing more than stereotypical, hyper unrealistic computer generated images who are designed to look human enough to pull at our heartstrings. I mean come on - why did they need to do that? If they are the good guys, the film should have made them look ugly, to further drive home a message that just because people look scary doesn't mean they are bad. But no - we get nice generic looking human-esque aliens, which can look hot so as to play on the male libido.
I'll probably rent this game, as I quite enjoy most of Ubisoft Montreal's efforts, and I will most definitely be playing as the humans. I will gain great pleasure in destroying the "noble savage" cliche that never actually existed in reality.
I still don't see what the big deal is about the game or movie.
What if the peaceful natives didn't look like nice, blue humans with tails, but instead looked like giant spiders with a hundred mouths and fifty bug eyes and 12 legs!? No lies or Internet sarcasm, I would pay to see that shit at midnight.
My problem with the movie is that while James Cameron has been waiting 15 years to make this film it seems like he just took the stories of Romeo and Juliet and Call me Joe and slammed them together. The trailer for the movie looks so weak and yet it's been in his mind for 15 years.
@Korolev
You suddenly made me want to watch District 9 again. I doubt that Avatar will be anywhere near as good as that.
I say that cause it's pretty much the same concept, except the prawn aren't your typical "good-guys" and yet the film does a fantastic job of twisting so that you empathise with creatures you hated before. By comparison it makes the blue creatures in Avatar quite a cop-out by making them :3 from the get-go.
The movie trailer made me think of Pocahontas meets the 22nd century. This game trailer made me think of Lost Planet 2 on a PS2. Everything had a very static look, the plant life, the water, take this, then watch some stuff for Lost Planet 2, it looks great, or even better play the demo. Lush, jungle environments, this looks retarded in comparison.
I dunno. I thought it looked pretty decent. That being said, they're going to have to show me something more exciting before I care about the movie.
Korolev, what theater did you see Avatar in?
The first part makes me want to ask if the blue guys have cloaking capabilities and if the military type folks have a vehicle called a "chopper".
If so, all I want is one saying "Get to the chopper!" and I'm sold.
When that Navi slashed at the human with his cleaver, no blood was shown, will there be no blood in the game at all? There wasn't a satisfying light effect either.
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The blue dudes look SO out of place that it completely distracts me from anything else on the screen. Who Framed Roger Rabbit's toons along side humans looked more natural than the CG in this movie.
While I am the first to mourn the destruction of the Native Americans by European expansion, I can't get behind a film which basically tries to bludgeon you to death with its message.
Not only that, the "native people" are completely sterilised, cliched, stereotypes of "wise native warrior in one with pure nature", with no faults or evils. Not only that, notice how they basically made them as humans with blue skin, so that people would sympathize with them, and so they could have a vaguely hot alien chick to drawn in sympathy? What if the peaceful natives didn't look like nice, blue humans with tails, but instead looked like giant spiders with a hundred mouths and fifty bug eyes and 12 legs!?
The problem with Avatar is this:
1) It's a giant ham of a movie. It's about as subtle as a brick wielded by a retarded chimpanzee.
2) All the good guys are nothing more than stereotypical, hyper unrealistic computer generated images who are designed to look human enough to pull at our heartstrings. I mean come on - why did they need to do that? If they are the good guys, the film should have made them look ugly, to further drive home a message that just because people look scary doesn't mean they are bad. But no - we get nice generic looking human-esque aliens, which can look hot so as to play on the male libido.
I still don't see what the big deal is about the game or movie.
What if the peaceful natives didn't look like nice, blue humans with tails, but instead looked like giant spiders with a hundred mouths and fifty bug eyes and 12 legs!?
No lies or Internet sarcasm, I would pay to see that shit at midnight.
That said it looks like a okay game, but just that. Okay. And since apparently the same effort went into it as did the film... eh, I'm not sure.
My problem with the movie is that while James Cameron has been waiting 15 years to make this film it seems like he just took the stories of Romeo and Juliet and Call me Joe and slammed them together. The trailer for the movie looks so weak and yet it's been in his mind for 15 years.
You suddenly made me want to watch District 9 again. I doubt that Avatar will be anywhere near as good as that.
I say that cause it's pretty much the same concept, except the prawn aren't your typical "good-guys" and yet the film does a fantastic job of twisting so that you empathise with creatures you hated before. By comparison it makes the blue creatures in Avatar quite a cop-out by making them :3 from the get-go.
This?
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This, this right here?
Yes, he robbed everyone of quality time that could've been spent somewhere else.
@HOLY TACO
You forgot to mention the screen tearing...
Korolev, what theater did you see Avatar in?
I smell a turd of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the game magnitude.
Which brings to mind...when has Ubisoft EVER delivered a good movie game?
wipe.
flush.
If so, all I want is one saying "Get to the chopper!" and I'm sold.
yea this game looks meh. I think the only kind of interesting part is the 3d aspect and I won't be able to take advantage of that.
...and same goes for the movie although I guess I could at least see that in 3d.
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