"AVATAR" By James Cameron!

**Videoskooter** · August 23rd, 2009, 12:23 AM

The new Sci-Fi movie by James "Titanic" Cameron is on his way to the big screens and is already getting great reviews by critics who have seen it!

Starring Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXXOLZ8tRUw

**JussiK** · August 24th, 2009, 06:58 AM

There was a 10 min 3D sneak preview last weekend. Contrary to the you'll-be-blown-away hype, the CGE characters looked fake, as if there has been no progress in the technique. Well, looks like there hasn't been any. Still, the 3D works.

**Videoskooter** · August 24th, 2009, 04:33 PM

The hype, the hype! That's the reason why I posted it. Not because I like it because I'm pretty sure, I will NOT like it. Like you say the animations look fake and I just hate it when real actors get involved with cartoons. That really doesn't work for me.

It was very OK in Disney movies but let's save it for kiddie pics like Scooby-Doo.

Maybe it's because I never ever play videogames and maybe the current generations are more familiar with it but I don't get it. In the trailer here, I see a very promising beginning until that blue loony tune comes in...then for me the fun is over! I know Chewbacca is an actor wearing a monkey suit but at least he's real and not a computer generated faker.

On a second note "Ronin", "Mesrine": real car crashes, real stunts, awesome! Ever seen "XXX-State of the union"? I threw that in the bin after 30 minutes. Ridiculously unbelievebababable!

**JussiK** · August 24th, 2009, 11:56 PM

Originally Written by Videoskooter

"Ronin", "Mesrine": real car crashes, real stunts, awesome! Ever seen "XXX-State of the union"? I threw that in the bin after 30 minutes. Ridiculously unbelievebababable!

Real stunts! I just watched Enzo G Castellari's Il Cittadino si Ribella/Street Law, a polizzioteschi milestone I had somehow missed earlier. This, like Napoli Spara! etc, has car chases filmed without permission in the streets of a city - in this case Genova -, with horrified people seen running for their lives amid madly speeding Fiats! The crew actually just arrived to the scene, started the engines and filmed the stunt drivers in action. They sure don't make them like that anymore.