Avatar - A new Era of Cinema begins
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I sometimes wondered if Cameron would surpass his success with his other big films like The Abyss and Titanic...
Avatar, for me at least, ranks right up there with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. In LOTR I've always immersed in the world of Middle Earth, but Avatar takes it to the next level on Pandora.
Cheers.
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Just got back from the IMAX theater to see Avatar. I found the world visually stunning, and the thought put into all of the life forms and how they interacted was impressive. I could go on and on about the computing power, imagination and skill it took to put this world together - you just need to see it to believe it.
As far as the story goes, it was "Last of the Mohicans" meets environmentalism, and didn't seem all that original. I liked the new Star Trek movie better as far as the story goes. I guess for me, the big thing was that the aliens weren't "alien" enough - I "saw" (re: the film's use of that word) them immediately and I think that took some of the interest away from the film for me. Maybe that's a sacrifice that needed to be made in order for the audience to relate, but is sure made what was going to happen in the film pretty obvious. That could partly because I'm a big science fiction fan, and I like my aliens to be alien, not like Star Trek DS9 where an "alien" was just someone with different makeup on their nose and maybe a couple of neck ridges; in this case it was a bigger blue body. I also found that the name that the antagonists used for the resource they were after was quite interesting, I forget where I heard it before - somewhere in an old SciFi book.
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unobtainium
Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'
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I finally got to see it in 3d IMAX
Visually stunning
Plot.... not so much
Seem's that folks are taking it a bit to seriously
Follow the link to read "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible"
http://avatar-forums.com/showthread.php?t=43
(via Boing Boing)
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Enjoyed Avatar - better then expected
You guys got me going: Thank you!
Special effects are stunning.. easily could have lingered longer in some landscapes
Looking for a great plot with depth... a classic like Tarkovsy's Stalker is rewarding. Anyone seen it?
Daniel
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For thos ewho would like to watch Stalker in 10 minute bites
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wow, people being depressed after watching the movie. well, then Cameron must have done something right to get such extreme responses.
@MuseumMaker: your link to that forum is hillarious! and if you look at a statement like this:
@unknownuser said:
First time I too woke up and got that strange depressed feeling. That forced me to go to the cinema the next day. Again I got that feeling, even got it after the 3rd time. Now i think I'm an addict
it becomes obvious, that Cameron is a genius. he actually created a legal drug, that can be satisfied for the prize of only one cinema ticket!
I have to admit though, that I have seen it three times already myself... once on IMAX 3D, once on normal cinema 3D and once on a crappy old 2D cinema screen with bad sound. and I have to say, I enjoyed every single time. actually, I've already booked tickets for the next time in Londond's IMAX theatre (booked it more than a moth in advance in order to get the best seats...).
but never fear! I am not addicted (at least not to Avatar in particular. I've seen each Lord of the Rings film between 4 and 5 times in the cinema too).but I promise you: once technology advances far enough, that we can render such worlds in real-time and can actually enter computer games via haptic suits and 3D glasses, then I will most definitely become addicted to it. I am already looking forward to having a blue tail
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I'd be happy enough with unbiased rendering @ 30 frames per second.
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@solo said:
unobtainium
Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'
I knew it! I'm a big Ringworld fan, so I definitely came across that term at some point. OT: I tried modeling the Ring. Not possible on this desktop!
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'Unobtainium' was also the very material they use to make the drilling-machine in 'The Core' [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7ljBKqJdw ] - as it must withstand temperatures and pressures beyond imagining...
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Add me to the fan list of 'Ringworld' too Jeff.
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Hehe....reading Ringworld's Children at the moment as a matter of fact.
I read RW back in the 70's and was awe-stricken as a young teen. As a matter of fact, it was probably Niven's works that pushed me to physics and engineering. Niven has an uncanny ability to visualize worlds that are at least somewhat plausible with the given technology.
Speaking of Avatar and Niven. I saw it in an IMAX-3D in Raleigh, NC over the new year weekend and was stunned at the beauty like everyone else.
BUT, it made me think of a Niven book as I was watching it, and that was The Integral Trees. If you love Niven's imagination, you will love the book. Like Avatar, Niven's early books before teaming with Pournelle were never overly ambitious with story telling as he leaned more for how fantastic tech and environments effected people or aliens. The comparison of Integral Trees. . .with the 9 foot 'humans', the insanely large "floating" trees, all in zero g (somewhat like the floating mountains) made me wish SO much Cameron had chosen Niven's book for his project instead.
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Dear All,
I became hooked on science fiction as a teenager, little realising that one day I would end up working on space instrumentation. Notwithstanding the 'off-world laws of physics', I thoroughly enjoyed Avatar and would happily go see it again. Ring World would indeed make a great film, as would some of the works of Peter Hamilton, a British science fiction writer of the first water (http://www.peterfhamilton.co.uk/).
Regards,
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Just finished re-reading "The Ringworld Throne" the other day, I'm starting to collect all the old Sci-Fi books I read as a kid - from Niven to Asimov. I'll have to look for "Integral Trees".
But, back to Avatar, I just saw this on FailBlog and thought it was funny:
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Stereoscopic stuff (aka "3D") has also been big in the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It seems the PlayStation 3 will have some stereoscopic games in the future, and that stereoscopic Blu-ray movies are coming, too.
So... who's getting a Sony "3D" TV this summer with accompanying glasses?
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Sony had Fromfonts show off their 3d TV at the AIA show a few months ago. They used it on Google Earth. It was cool to see Google Earth in 3d on a big TV. I don't think I'll be spending money on it anytime soon though.
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Ummmmpf.....One of the directors in our firm saw the movie with his daughter and just asked me if we can do stereoscopic views of architectural projects for presentations. The idea is actually quite thrilling
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@kwistenbiebel said:
Ummmmpf.....One of the directors in our firm saw the movie with his daughter and just asked me if we can do stereoscopic views of architectural projects for presentations. The idea is actually quite thrilling
Could we do that with some Sketchup plugin?.....You could get a plugin that exports 2 images of the camera that would be offset as a person's eyes would, but as for color changes and mixing the images together, I doubt it would be possible.
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You can do it with Vue, there is a tutorial on how it's done at Geekatplay, it renders with two cameras.
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