Avatar teaser trailer: still some weak blancmange

[kali921]

Can someone tell me what this warning wank is about? Because I seem to have missed it, and I'm betting that there's some serious obnoxiousness being perpetuated by all sides involved.

Avatar live action teaser trailer:

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One minute and forty seconds of...not that impressive stuff:

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We get That Guy doing the ponderous voice over, a

Comments

[canadabear]

As cool as AiW looks, I'm just beyond sick of the Burton/Depp/Bonham Carter trifecta.

[kali921]

Ditto. I don't mind directors using one or two actors as their muse, a muse that the director honestly feels can deliver their vision with the most integrity (see Soderbergh and Clooney), but with Burton, it's getting stale.

[goneformofman]

I wish the Gundam was there forever, instead of just a month or two.

I also wish I could pilot it.

[kali921]

I love that they built it almost to scale. So. Freakin'. AWESOME.

[mercuryeric]

I need one of those in my yard. Fighting a lifesize animatronic Godzilla.

Yes.

-E

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Back Yard Edition!

[kali921]

SDF-1 vs. Jet Jaguar vs. Ultraman in your backyard: WHO WINS?!

[outlawpoet]

My international headquarters will be a full-size model of the SDF-1. When people ask if it's functional, I will smile and demurr, then go downstairs and whip the chained up scientists in the basement whose job it is to make it lift off someday.

[kali921]

I will smile and demurr, then go downstairs and whip the chained up scientists in the basement whose job it is to make it lift off someday.

If I were not already mercuryeric's Minion Prime, I would consider switching allegiances to be yours. However, if you can make me an attractive offer (dental, AD&D coverage, etc.), I might still consider...an alternate career path, let us say.

[outlawpoet]

Stick with him, most of my work is about doing the boring but necessary work so that people's ability to be silly is protected. I sometimes think that occasional moments of silliness are the real justification for everything else we do. Making a world where everybody is safe, supported, encouraged, and able to be silly in their own way is pretty much my entire philosophy. Everything else is arguing about implementation.

I hope to some day be successful enough that I can be deeply silly in my own way, but for the time being it's confined to what I can do in my spare moments.

If I ever make too much money, I'll probably start an organization called something like PIIDW: Pragmatic Infrastructure In Defense of Whimsy, to offer necessities and training in as cost-effective and widely available form as possible, in search of this goal.

[gillan]

I've been seeing the same warning arguments in some of the political/feminist blogs I read, but it blew by pretty quick.

[kali921]

Links?

[sdelmonte]

You are clearly not a member of the Church of Burton (or the Cult of Saint Johnny). Want some pamphlets? (I know that Burton is very much an acquired taste, but he's one that I am happy to have acquired.)

[kali921]

Eh. I used to love Burton, but his films have devolved more into "Depp, Bonham Carter, quirky costumes, let's make some bizarre scenery" retreads than anything I find completely immersive.

[outlawpoet]

The sameness of the makeup and presentation bugs me. It's turning into a uniform for them to put on, and that's never interesting.

[kali921]

Yes - but there's always been a definable Burton visual aesthetic. That can either work really well for a director or become exhaustingly repetitive.