Since I know you guys have barely heard anything about this project, here’s a new featurette for James Cameron’s Avatar. A couple thoughts: first, as much as I want to see it, I can’t stop thinking about this comment about it from the other week:
“Good news, we can fly you to an alien planet and graft your DNA with that of an alien, follow that up with a mind-meld thingy, thereby allowing you to infiltrate their species and take them out.”
“And what about my paralysis? How’s that coming?”
“We’re not miracle workers, dude.”
Kind of a big ol’ turd in the Avatar punch bowl when you think about it. Also, who decided it was a good idea to put Michelle Rodriguez in this? She’s impossible to take seriously. She’s like a female Billy Zane. Except hardcore and Latin (a chill just ran down my spine from imagining a hardcore, Latin Billy Zane). And lastly, I don’t think I ever noticed this before, but the material the humans are supposed to be mining is called “unobtainium.” Seriously. It’s said to be found only on Pandora and in Diora Baird’s panties.
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UPDATE: Trailer now working and in HD
James Cameron’s Avatar doesn’t open until December 18th, but already it seems to have divided people dorks on the internet into pro and anti camps. I think the CG looks sorta cheesedick (see above) and I hate 3D, but effects are secondary anyway, and the film earned my cautious optimism based on Cameron’s track record alone.
This new trailer is pretty long and looks good overall. It inspires hope that Sam Worthington is finally in something that doesn’t suck as bad as Terminator Salvation, though it also reminds me that Michelle Rodriguez is in this — she’s so hardcore and Latina, you putos better recognize! Come to think of it, it seems kind of weird that Sam Worthington’s playing basically the same spy-who-abandons-his-infiltration-mission character in this as in Terminator Salvation. I’m thinking he can resolve this conflict with a simple heart transplant. Because the heart is literally all that matters, you guys.
Michelle Rodriguez recently did an interview about her role in Avatar, and damn, bro, she keeps it so real! I think it’s because she’s so spicy and Latin. [Emphasis added for hardcoreness]:
[On being in such a hotly anticipated film] You know what? I’d serve James Cameron coffee every day for four years and I would consider that college [Editor's Note to actors: That's not how it works.]. I don’t give a rat’s ass how people receive whatever we did. I am just incredibly honored to have been seen by him… To call me up and say, “Hey, I want you to be a part of this,” no matter what anybody says, because everybody was talking so much schmack about me, and it’s so hard to get a job when all these people are talking sh-t about you in the press, just because you’re growing up. You know, I used to poop in my pants too, and I learned how to use the bathroom eventually. People were so hard on me, so it’s really important for me to have individuals that get it, that know, that can see in my eyes or see me on screen and know what I’m capable of and not be scared to hire me because of some commercial hoopla that people are saying. That was very important.
Q: Have you seen the footage and how does it look?
Michelle Rodriguez: …with this technology that he’s got, you just go there and you see what you’re interacting with right there because it’s a mixture of live 3D footage, the props on the set, and the virtual world that he spent God knows how long creating. It’s f*cking amazing. It’s hardcore. I can’t even imagine anything bigger. [moviesonline.ca via Filmonic]
Later at lunch, Rodriguez was asked whether she was enjoying her lunch. “Yo, this Cobb salad is legit,” she said. “The bacon bits are totally hardcore. After all the people talking crap about me, I never thought someone would combine cheese and lettuce and hard-boiled eggs like this. It’s like, you don’t even know me, yo.”
