Yes, we like to take potshots at James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Why? Do people with two functioning eyes and a brain looking at this poster even need to ask?
Seriously. It’s just an incredibly easy target and the easy-lay nerds of the web still seem to be all over it no matter how silly it looks (again, kinda like Homer insisting the pig is “still good” in “The Simpsons” movie; a bit desperate it seems because of their vested interest in the project… being nerds and all).
Anywhoo, this French poster… man (via /Film), just really advances the whole, “Ferngully” “Clone Wars” “Thundercats” jokes that Hitler aptly made.
You could blame it on the French, but that’s just an out.
Also, we honestly thought this was old information (and it very well might be) as our friend Alex Litel has been trying to get us to blog about it for some time, but composer James Horner confirmed that the film will be 3 hours long.
OK, it’s budget is $310 million (thought the Times did say that could reach $500 million which many think is overblown) and the movie is three hours long and Fox or Cameron expect to make their money back or even break even?
Jesus, furry winged monkeys with wooden dialogue for three hours? Best of luck there. But maybe that Leona Lewis song in the closing credits will be the ultimate payoff? 
“Avatar” hits theaters December 18th and will probably play well into 2012 in hopes of making some coin back.
Seriously. That looks like a DVD cover for an Asylum film.
Maybe it's good?
Maybe "Nine" is good?
Obviously they think that the experience of watching "Avatar" will be so incredible that people will just go bizerk…
We´ll have to wait and see.
I´m hoping this will bomb too, but i´m sure i´ll check it out in imax.
I'm not hoping it'll bomb. Don't get it twisted. I don't hope any movie bombs. That would be ridiculous (unless it was like a pro child porn movie or Nambla movie or something).
It's just very, very easy to poke fun at.
The "Simpsons" pig analogy is perfect hahaha.
But if this turned out to be a surprisingly great movie (which is possible), would this blog stay the course and keep hating on it, or would you turn the Titanic around and reverse your stance?
Of course, we always do. I thought Star Trek would be shit too. We put it on our least anticipated films of the year. And it turned out to be great entertainment and we said so.
I also use that analogy ALLLL the time, but i can't help it because it really, really reminds me of when i was a kid and this other kid at school would always drop his gum out of his mouth when we were playing (usually in the dirt) and we'd go, "ewwww," but he'd INSIST it was still ok, brush off the mud/dirt/twigs and pop it back in his mouth.
He would ALWAYS do this. It cracks me up remembering it. I'm also convinced he grew up to be a nerd.
Or maybe neither is good, and both Marshall and Cameron would be better off combining their films.
Also, doesn't a 3D film that long, like, cause eye problems or something?
I wouldn't mind if Avatar bombed. That way, maybe studios would stop throwing tons of money ($310 mil??!?!?) at cheese like this again! I mean for that money, you could make, I don't know, 3-5 much better action/sci-fi/adventure movies with younger more talented writer-directors not named James Cameron.
Of course we hope it'll bomb. That means we can make fun of it more.
Seriously speaking, I personally always hope for good movies, but more often than not, you get burned when you give a major filmmaker carte blanche. I honestly have no idea if this will be a good movie or not, and I'm not ready to declare bomb, since my ability to judge cgi-fests from trailers has been solely lacking in recent years.
I also feel that there really only ten to fifteen Cameron apologists out there on the net who blindly think Avatar will be huge and they aren't worth addressing/mocking. But they sure are loud.
Is it just me, or is the animal's roar at the VERY end of the clip sound EXACTLY like the T-Rex from the J-Park movies?