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3 Days Until Avatar Day and My Nipples Are Still Soft / Dustin Rowles

Trailers | August 18, 2009 | Comments (32)

Any of you good folks get your tickets for Avatar day yesterday? Probably not, huh? As you probably know, James Cameron is screening 16 minutes of Avatar in theaters, for free, on Friday, and yesterday, FOX was signing folks up for it over on their website. But of course, they weren’t prepared for the onslaught of people trying to get tickets, so the Avatar site crashed (only 17,000 of the 68,000 tix were given away before the crash). I spent nearly 2 hours trying to get in yesterday, only to finally give up, and then return to the site late last night to get my admittance (I live in Maine; I suspect the demand wasn’t that high, but elsewhere, I’m guessing tickets went much faster). The irony, of course, is that I could care less about either the trailer or, really, the full-length movie. The hype has already killed Avatar for me, and it’s going to take a tremendously good movie to overcome expectations. But, I figure: What else am I going to do while waiting for a screening of Basterds?

Anyway, Yahoo! has also debuted a teaser trailer, ahead of first full length trailer coming out later this week, I believe, which is in advance of the 16-minute screening. And it’s only August — Avatar doesn’t hit theaters until December, by which time we’ll probably have seen half the movie and decided against seeing it in protest to the wall-to-wall marketing hype.

Anyway, here’s the teaser trailer, which does absolutely nothing to whet my cinematic appetite. It’s kind of silly looking. But then again, I’m probably not the target audience. And besides: Avatar is going to have to be one hell of a goddamn superb movie after District 9, which is probably my favorite sci-fi movie of the decade (who else, while watching District 9, had this ringing through their mind: “Hey, Michael Bay. Transform this, bitch!”)

Here you go (cool animation!).

(H/T Cinematical)


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Comments

Hey...how bout that porn link that pops up right after thr trailer ends. Yay NSFW!....when I'm AT FUCKING WORK!!!

Posted by: PissBoy at August 18, 2009 10:28 AM

I feel like I should, but I cannot muster up any feelings towards this movie. I do hate it, and I am not excited to see it. Some how I see this being in the bin at Target for 5 dollars in two years.

Posted by: badalamenti at August 18, 2009 3:52 PM

who else, while watching District 9, had this ringing through their mind: “Hey, Michael Bay. Transform this, bitch!”

No one! No one even thought of pointing out District 9 to Bay. If that assplody titface or his baynis come anywhere near District 10 I'm holding you accountable, Rowles. Goss made the Murdertank mobilize, we can easily make another stop.

Posted by: admin at August 18, 2009 3:56 PM

who else, while watching District 9, had this ringing through their mind: “Hey, Michael Bay. Transform this, bitch!”

I did. I want someone to tie Baynis up a la Clockwork Orange and make him watch District 9 to show him how a good movie can be done.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 18, 2009 3:56 PM

...crap, did I just bring your wrath down on me too, admin?

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 18, 2009 3:58 PM

Don't worry, Mel. Admin will never make it over the border. Not after what he did in the 80's.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at August 18, 2009 4:04 PM

Does anyone know what the shit this is supposed to be about?

Posted by: Jay at August 18, 2009 4:09 PM

You're toast MelBivDevoe, never point out good things to bad directors. It just help to make the projects they ruin even ruiner. I don't know how you know about that Optimus, but I'm telling you, that Teddy Ruxpin had it coming.

Posted by: admin at August 18, 2009 4:16 PM

Whatever the movie really is, I mean.

Posted by: Jay at August 18, 2009 4:21 PM

(that was a joke, right?)

Posted by: Jay at August 18, 2009 4:25 PM

Blue cat people. That's all I know about this Avatar business. Frankly, if I really needed to see blue cat people again, I'd smoke some salvia and head to the kitten cages over at Pet Smart.

Posted by: jM at August 18, 2009 4:26 PM

“Hey, Michael Bay. Transform this, bitch!”

I even grabbed my crotch with flair to spare every time the thought occurred. The person next to me probably thought I had a fetish for adjusting my balls.

Posted by: Mick J at August 18, 2009 4:38 PM

I don't know what the hype is all about either, Jay. I for some reason thought it was the same as M. Night's Avatar movie. Shouldn't people have a problem with that? Two Avatar movies coming out at the same time?

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at August 18, 2009 5:07 PM

Well shit. Until you said that Optimus, I just assumed they were the same movie too. I wondered in the back of my mind why sometimes it said James Cameron, and sometimes M. Night, but I just assumed one was producing and one was directing or some such. Nothing I'd seen to this point made me care enough one way or the other to look up any details and thus find the error of my ways. I'm not sure if I'm the idiot, or if James Cameron and M. Night are the idiots. Probably all of the above.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at August 18, 2009 5:24 PM

Because I was also very confused, I had to go look it up.

From the IMDB page for The Last Airbender (M. Night movie):

The film was originally titled "Avatar: the Last Airbender", after the TV show it was based on. However, James Cameron and 20th Century Fox had already registered the film title "Avatar", so the word was dropped from the title to avoid confusion.

Confusion avoidance FAIL.

Posted by: MM at August 18, 2009 6:02 PM

I've found that the length of time before it's release that a movie starts being heavily promoted and the amount of pre-release promotion it gets tends to have an inverse quality to the quality of the movie. Like when studios have a big fat stinking turd on their hands, they think that if they start telling us about it 6 months out, we'll be dumb enough to look out of sheer curiosity.

6 months out: Coming this Winter: Turd.

5 months out: Advance photos from large intestine where the turd is being made.

4 months out: Interviews on the making of turd, and how the creator feels about it ("a big gassy, most of the time")

3 months out: A "teaser trailer" is released, with more photos to accompany it ("An ass like no other, will give us… turd. This winter.")

2 months out: The first teaser trailer has been accompanied by two other "teaser" trailers, and an on set interview with the main star of the film; fiber ("It's a great feeling, you know? All the components coming together. It feels like we were meant for this.")

1 month out: Every available marketing space is plastered with pictures. There's an Activia and Taco Bell tie in promotion. There are currently three teaser and four full length trailers on the internet in addition to several hundred "behind the scenes" photos and 15 different interviews.

2 days beforehand: OMFGROLFOCOPTER TURD IS COMING THIS WEEKEND!!!!

Day of release: It's a turd. Is anyone surprised?

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at August 18, 2009 6:12 PM

G(aRn),

that turd methaphor (not misspelled, i have an impediment)should be on thursday's EE list or i will **RANT**.

it reminds me of shelly's song in 'cat orgy'.
(don't nobody act like you weren't humming it!)

Posted by: gp at August 18, 2009 6:31 PM

I know nothing about Avatar or The Last Airbender, but no one is commenting on the faux trailer Dustin posted? The one with the crayon drawings?

Wait, Jay thinks it's a joke, too. Okay, good.

Posted by: marya at August 18, 2009 6:36 PM

Two steps to creating a popular sci-fi movie for the decade:

1). Have an alien(s).

2). Have a very loud and unceasing bass sound.

Posted by: Kris at August 18, 2009 6:46 PM

They can't keep duping us like this. We'll rise up, like an army.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at August 18, 2009 7:34 PM

I think the crayon-Avatar movie looks pretty good, as far as Crayon movies go. Although I didn't see Michael Bay's Tranny Revenge 2, so I don't know how it stacks up against the rest of the coloring book movies.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at August 18, 2009 7:38 PM

I guess I'll go against the hipster grain (yes, I'm joking with the hipster tag) and say I'm interested in seeing this. Tbf, I only know it involves aliens, Sam Worthington and James Cameron wants it in IMAX 3-D. I've avoided trailers and avoided spoilers.

But before he became the biggest ego in the world, Cameron was a great science-fiction writer/director. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt since this kind of movie is right in his wheelhouse.

Posted by: Fredo at August 18, 2009 7:47 PM

I have the sneaking suspicion this is going to be another Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Posted by: Vermillion at August 18, 2009 8:48 PM

(who else, while watching District 9, had this ringing through their mind: “Hey, Michael Bay. Transform this, bitch!”)

Yes, but until now, I couldn't put this into such great words. Everyone I talked to loved it, from sci fi geeks, to old men, to crazy rednecks. Easily the best film of the year.

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I have the sneaking suspicion this is going to be another Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Ain't no film going to be another Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, that thing was Spider-Man 3 before even the original Spider-Man. The one chance for a video game movie that wasn't worse than death squandered, even Final Fantasy VIII wasn't that much of a disappointment.

Posted by: George at August 18, 2009 9:32 PM

Well, I actually kinda enjoyed TSW. I mean, it isn't like the games follow a set storyline. It was just a massive departure form the formula. It is acually a halfway decent sci-fi movie.

Still, sci-fi plot + expensive cutting edge movie technology + overhype (remember the "digital actress" nonsense?) = box office doom.

Posted by: Vermillion at August 18, 2009 10:49 PM

Is there more than one Cameron?

Posted by: jack at August 19, 2009 1:37 AM

So, wait. Let me get this straight. This is not a Thunder Cat Movie? Really? REALLY?!

Posted by: yocean at August 19, 2009 2:08 AM

Genny, that was brilliant. Turdtastic. And so very true.

Posted by: Lauren at August 19, 2009 2:44 AM

Any of you good folks get your tickets for Avatar day yesterday?

3 for the Lincoln Square 7 PM showing. This will be the girlfriend's first time to an IMAX theater too, if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at August 19, 2009 9:09 AM

is there some reason Avatar is spelled Avetar in the last image of this trailer?

Posted by: mike at August 19, 2009 9:53 AM

A.) To avoid lawsuits from Fox.

B.) To make James Cameron yell, "NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN!" and throw an Oscar out the window.

C.) To fulfill the Masonic conspiracy behind the film's origins.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at August 19, 2009 12:46 PM

test

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at August 20, 2009 1:50 PM