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    10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar

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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    02:42 PM

    In reply to 10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar
    why does Neytiri sound like Natasha from Bullwinkle?

    Well, I guess if you're going to have an alien species that somehow speaks the same language that you do, the easy way to explain that astronomical wtf coincidence is to give them an accent.
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    Image of ILikeToLevelUp ILikeToLevelUp
    05:26 PM

    @Smeagol92055: It the Project Valkyrie effect.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    01:03 PM

    In reply to 10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar
    Scream Zoe Saldana... SCREAM!!
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    08:26 AM

    In reply to 10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar
    Yay! Everyone around the world loves Hulu.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    08:55 AM

    @Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: @Menouthis: added the youtube.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    09:30 AM

    @Meredith Woerner: Thanks Meredith. :)
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    07:46 AM

    In reply to 10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar
    Now they can make the Dragonrider series.
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    Image of W10002 W10002
    07:44 AM

    In reply to 10 Minutes Of New Footage Compares Actor To Avatar
    You know, with tons of people ripping on this film based solely on the trailer, I don't think they realize how much effort was really put into the film. It's kinda sad really. I think there's too much over saturation of films that heavily relies on CGI that most people think it's really easy to put together and tend to forget how difficult it can actually be. This clip is a good reminder that making movies is not as easy as it seems.

    Now we just have to see if all that effort pays off with a good movie.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    07:48 AM

    @W10002: it is really difficult to get this kind of quality...this is a pretty good over view of the process...
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    08:55 AM

    @W10002: I think a lot of criticism was on the plot, not the technology.
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    Image of W10002 W10002
    09:47 AM

    @Pessimippopotamus: I think a little bit of both. I remember when the first trailer came out, people bashed out the CGI seemed pedestrian, or how it wasn't revolutionary or up to their standards. But then again, Cameron did hype the movie to be the end all of CGI movies.
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    Image of Shokract Shokract
    11:51 AM

    @W10002: I'm not agreeing or disagreeing w/ what you're saying, I'm just taking your point one step further.

    When talking about "how much goes into item-X" it is an odd thing to talk about b/c the amount of work hardly ever reflects the acceptance. There are tons of movies where the budget was crap, which lead to ingenuity where as a movie that has a monster budget is not guaranteed a monster win. Apply that mentality to something like art and we find that a person can know how to do something (think Ansel Adams and his b&w landscapes) exactly the same as the artist (in this case, use proper chemicals to develop the film properly) but that doesn't necessarily make that person AN artist. It is more than just technological/financial-awe, it is the actual spirit of it all.
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    Image of Golf_Nut Golf_Nut
    11/25/09

    In reply to 13 Video Featurettes Lay Out The Characters And Designs Of Avatar
    Interesting Adobe Air "Avatar" app has been released:
    [news.cnet.com]
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    Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Golf_Nut was starred Golf_Nut was unstarred
    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/25/09

    @Golf_Nut: Trailer with built in buffering!
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    Image of Golf_Nut Golf_Nut
    11/25/09

    @Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh, I thought that was part of Cameron's 3d effects! :P
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/25/09

    In reply to 13 Video Featurettes Lay Out The Characters And Designs Of Avatar
    so what i was going for here was an approachable, feline femininity that every individual so inclined would want to engage in acts of a physical congress with.

    so you were going for cat people sex?

    yes.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/25/09

    @tetracycloide: ... and I like tails.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    Calling them "blue cat people" is like calling humans "light brown ape men". Humans won't be ready for contact with real extraterrestrials until they drop the anthropocentric attitude.
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    Image of Shadowdagger Shadowdagger
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    I knew it. I just knew it, lol.
    Now they're gonna make the Na'vis sing just like in the musicals or Disney movies.
    Now we just need a an dramatic opening, with a rising red sun and some african guy singing in the background:

    Naaaaants ingonyamaaaa bagithi Baba!
    Sithi uhm ingonyama!

    Naaaaaants ingonyamaaa baaaaagiiithi baba!
    Sithi uhhmm ingonyama!
    Ingonyama!

    Siyo Nqoba!
    Ingonyamaaa!
    Ingonyama nengw' enamabalaaaa!
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    crashedpc - unrein promoted this comment Shadowdagger was starred Shadowdagger was unstarred
    Image of 0kami 0kami
    10/08/09

    @Shadowdagger: THANO YOU SO MUCH. I have always wanted to know how to sing this song correctly.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    Only 3 1/2 weeks to finish the Aliens score? Oh well, just recycle the Wrath of Khan riff for the umpteenth time and throw in some watered-down Goldsmith cues from the first film.
     Reply
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    You say Fern Gully I say meow mix.
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    Image of Atomictao Atomictao
    10/08/09

    @Meredith Woerner: It won't be Ferngully without Robin Williams rapping, at least.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/08/09

    @Meredith Woerner: You realize that this post is gonna get me thrown out of the next movie I see with an Avatar trailer.

    Because I'm not going to be able to resist singing this.
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    Image of Demosthenes7898 Demosthenes7898
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    I love to singa. About the moona, and the juna, and the springa!
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    Image of robertmonsters robertmonsters
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    'Ferngunny'

    I'm going to keep saying it until I trick people into thinking it's funny. This may take a while.
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    Image of SnehalMarten SnehalMarten
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    Why didn't James Cameron just go the full Lucas and have Ewoks in the film?
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    Image of Bhockzer Bhockzer
    10/08/09

    @SnehalMarten: You never go full Lucas.
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    AngryEddy promoted this comment Bhockzer was starred Bhockzer was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/08/09

    @Bhockzer: +1
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    Image of wentzjw wentzjw
    10/08/09

    In reply to Avatar's Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You
    It's good to see the native Na'vi have great dental care.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    10/08/09

    @wentzjw: I've never really known my cat to get bad teeth.

    I'm pretty sure that's mostly a human societal condition.
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    10/08/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: Work with animals for a while. See plenty of older animals with their teeth falling out. I've seen lots of older cats missing most of their teeth due to--you guessed it, bad oral hygeine!
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    Image of wentzjw wentzjw
    10/25/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: your cat's teeth are pearly white? Interesting! #avatar
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