06.24.09 THE MOST IMPORTANT MOVIE OF ALL TIME
Jim Cameron screened 24 minutes of footage from Avatar at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam last night, moistening fanboy panties the world over. THR reports the budget at $300 million, which would make it the most expensive film ever. Though earlier this year, Time Magazine reported the budget as “in excess of $300 million” only to later recant and say they meant “in excess of $200 million.” Hard to say whether THR was basing their numbers on the incorrect Time report or whether they have figures of their own. Anyway, /Film collected some reactions to the footage reported anonymously to other websites (yes, we went there. welcome to the internet). Set phasers to “breathless”:
“The Insider” files his (1,000+ word) report on ComingSoon: “3-D until now has been used as a gimmick. I’m still feeling the after effects of this jaw-dropping experience… These creatures seem so real, that within minutes you forget you’re watching an enormous and very blue CGI character. Even the eyes are totally convincing. The characters have real personalities and a soul.”
“Anonymous” over on IESB: “If it’s anything like the scenes I saw, it’s going to be one of the best movies of the decade.”
GJKooijman on Twitter: “is mindblown” “Avatar will change movie industry forever.” … “It’s nothing you can imagine, it’s real. Cameron made a new planet and took a cam there.” … “THIS WILL CHANGE MOVIES FOREVER. Trust me, it will.”
UCSNord: “Cameron told audience each frame of finished film takes 30-50 hrs to render, then double that up for 3D.” [Hmm... Let's say the film is 100 minutes long (and it's longer than that) - that's 6,000 seconds. Multiplied by 24 frames per second, that's 144,000 frames. Times 100 hours per frame, that's 14.4 million hours of rendering. That means the film should be ready to go in almost 1,644 years. I wonder if it will still be considered science fiction then.]
So there you have it, Avatar makes the big bang look like a hobo orgasm. Then again, maybe it’s best not to trust the opinion of someone who can write 1000+ words about 24 minutes of footage or random people on Twitter. Ugh, all this math hurts my prostate.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT MOVIE OF ALL TIME
300million dollar budget?
Whose got two Terminators and wasted enough money to balance the United States budget.
This guy.
Is this movie about the Birdman Koko B. Ware? Because that’s the only avatar I care about.
Rendering probably done by more than one worker at a time, and concurrently, not consecutively.
I suspect it would take about three hours to render a Uwe Boll film into a nice candle, or perhaps some turpentine.
I wouldn’t get too worked up. This was in Amsterdam. I thought My Bloody Valentine was kind of cool too when I was stoned.
Michael Bay would do something like this if he could just get MS Paint to make his explosions look “just right”.
Michael Bay was in town to promote TransGenders 2 and had this to say about the clip, “*Inhale*… *Inhale*…*Explosion noise*…*Cough*”
I wish they’d pan out so you could see more of that giant alien with the raised eyebrow….he looks like he’s about to take a cam there.
The High Times say: Yeah man. Its just that the global economical structure on the planet right now is just not vibing with the individual consumer input. Wait…what was the question? Are you gonna pass that back or not man?
This was only the second time the crowd cheered and screamed “Let’s go get the whores!” after the screening. The first, of course, was when the surviving members of NO MA’AM infiltrated Sex and the City.
Patrick Swayze hopes this movie lives up to all the hype and can indeed cure cancer.
JHC: I teared up a bit the other night while watching Roadhouse. Mainly because the belt around my neck was too tight, but also because of Swayze…he just wanted a peaceful little slice of heaven in that town.
Swayze did get a little slce of heaven in Roadhouse. I seem to remember him breaking himself off a piece of Kelly Lynch pü$$ÿ.
Don’t you?
Dr. Kelly Lynch, no less. But yet he turned away the goon’s girlfriend during her naked dance. He’ll never make it in the nightclub scene with that kind of attitude.
I beg to differ. The most important movie ever is Back to School.
Sorry to get here late, Went to the midnight transformers
*Spoiler* Ebert was RIGHT! If you swing a collander it makes the exact same sound as a jet flying…. *Spoiler Over*
Those fanboy panties are so wet it’d make you believe the entire Justice Team are ghosts.
Dalton had standards man, standards with his women, with his coffee, with his hair coif. Standards.
I was going to rip on Cameron on his habit of using too much money and the fact that he’s tying his movie with a fucking video game. But I do miss that sense of urgency in this films. The world gets saved like 4-5 times every summer (Fuck you, Michael Bay/Roland Emmerich), and the last time I cared about it was fucking T2.
That reminds me, remember not to buy Aeon till Cameron releases the Ultimate Collector’s Director’s Cut Remastered Edition.
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