AVATAR TRAILER, REVIEW By Tim Robey The Telegraph August 20, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/6062230/Avatar-trailer-r eview.html
³This is great!² is the sole line of dialogue in the newly-released teaser trailer for James Cameron¹s Avatar, demand for which must have slowed the entire internet down today. It arrives as a disabled Marine, played by Terminator: Salvation¹s Sam Worthington, travels to an alien planet (it¹s called Pandora) and gets telepathically ported into the body of a bright-blue humanoid of gangly, elfin appearance. How great is it, though? That¹s a hard question for any trailer to answer, this one especially. Cameron¹s movie is intended for 3D, on the biggest screens in the land. A few 2D clips on a laptop are never going to do it justice. There are very promising shots, like some spectacular-looking floating rocks in the sky; and less promising ones, like the close-ups on the aliens, which combine photo-realism with a cartoony cuteness. They¹ll take some getting used to. Even watching the trailer a second time, their moments of snarling aggression do seem more interesting. As yet, there¹s no sign of Sigourney Weaver, who Cameron fans will be hoping has a significant role. The action highlights -- jungle chases, longbow skirmishes and rides on what look like winged dinosaurs -- have a tribal, Apocalypto flavour. How all this translates to 3D is the crucial thing -- IMAX cinemas are showing a few sequences on August 21 in exclusive engagements. Brisk and a little perfunctory, the trailer itself is not a huge wow, but there¹s plenty in it to tantalise. Movie Trailer: http://bit.ly/zINAn Website: http://www.avatarmovie.com/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/officialavatar ------------ NHNE Wavemaker News List: Send Some Green Love To NHNE: http://www.nhne.org/DONATE/tabid/398/Default.aspx To subscribe, send a message to: nhnenews-subscr...@yahoogroups.com <mailto:nhnenews-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com> To unsubscribe, send a message to: nhnenews-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <mailto:nhnenews-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com> To review current posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/messages http://www.nhne.org/tabid/1044/Default.aspx NHNE's Mother Ship: http://www.nhne.org/ NHNE Pulse: http://nhne-pulse.org/ Sunfellow & NHNE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sunfellow Integral NHNE: http://integralnhne.ning.com/ Published by David Sunfellow NewHeavenNewEarth (NHNE) eMail: n...@nhne.org <mailto:nhne%40nhne.org> Phone: (928) 257-3200 Fax: (815) 642-0117 P.O. Box 2242 Sedona, AZ 86339
