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New Extended Avatar Clip

No blue cartoons in this one, here we see Grace(Sigourney Weaver) and Parker(Giovanni Ribisi) fling exposition at each other and reveal why the Na'vi can speak English.


What is it with evil corporate types and putting mats in movies? Anyway, there you go. The Na'vi know English because the humans made them a school...and because James Cameron doesn't think his target audience can read subtitles.
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61 Comments

Very cool!
Angelo - 12/3/2009, 8:01 PM
This movie will not be the revolution it is touted to be but I'm sure it'll be a good popcorn flick.
Angelo - 12/3/2009, 8:02 PM
looking better.
weapon925 - 12/3/2009, 8:05 PM
I'm still not the least bit interested in this movie. I mean c'mon seriously, who doesn't already know exactly how this story goes? Marine comes to make aliens trust him, falls in love, sides with aliens, saves their world. THE END.
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 8:12 PM
This film looks like shit.
Ozymandias - 12/3/2009, 8:12 PM
Ah yes...Future Space Blue Alien Pocohantas movie
Legendary - 12/3/2009, 8:31 PM
Cameron swallows
Pietro Filipponi - 12/3/2009, 8:32 PM
There's really nothing original or compelling about this movie at all to me....
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 8:35 PM
THERE HASN'T BEEN AN ORIGINAL STORY IN A COUPLE THOUSAND YEARS! Do your research, none of the books, movies or plays you've seen in this lifetime are truly original. I absolutely love film, but even I know that! The only thing that matters anymore is character development, direction and the PACING of modern storytelling. In the case of sciencefiction it's about escapism and 'suspension of disbelief' which is usually from the other stuff. If you can sell that to an audience, you've got entertaining story at least. Come up with more unique reasons not to see this movie. I bet the only thing this movie will be remembered for is the special effects, but like most sci-fi, I'm still curious.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 8:45 PM
@Wesley: That may be true. . . but it doesn't change the fact that Cameron loves the c*ck. Ask Michael Bay.




@jman: ;)
Pietro Filipponi - 12/3/2009, 8:48 PM
Uhh... blue aliens piss me off? Damn overactive Smurfs with ADD, its in 3-D? Idk, maybe this story seems a little over done to me. And I'm only saying that I ain't interested, I'm not telling anyone not to go see it. It may be good, Idk, but its not appealing to me.
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 8:51 PM
Do you hate him as a writer or director?
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 8:52 PM
He's not bad, I'm just not interested in THIS film, simple as that. Oh, and I absolutely abhorred Titanic.
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 8:58 PM
Multipurposeponi: Cameron's almost strictly scifi (with the exception of Titanic) The only time Michael Bay even tried to be visually original was Transformers. He usually just does Humans shooting each other. Kurtzman and Orci screwed up the sequel. Saving Earth with magic dust, who let them keep that, even I was embarrassed
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:02 PM
The guys I work with refer to them as mutated Smurfs.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:04 PM
This clip is actually pretty interesting. I like that kind of rapid exposition. I feel like this could ell a decent story, whether or not cameron is revolutionizing cinema s yet to be seen, but this looks like it could be an interesting scifi movie.
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 9:05 PM
Terminator is one of the greatest movies ever made imo..T2 is also great but inferior. The Abyss is over rated but still pretty good...Aliens is class. So its safe to say I like him as a director, Im just not sure about Avatar..but Im still gonna go see it.

Wesley, man their are lots of completely original movies out there. Check out movies like Inland Empire, Southland Tales(its shit..but its original!) Antichrist(and pretty much anything else by lars Von Trier)..there are still writers and directors that are trying to come up with unique stories and tones for their movies. Granted with SCi Fi its a bit more difficult..but even something like Danny Boyle's Sunshine, while not being completely original in its story, still managed to have a different feel to a lot of Sci Fi movies.
RorMachine - 12/3/2009, 9:09 PM
In the case of a Director who 'writes' the screenplay (which is often a bad idea), Cameron probably should have come up with a better explanation for them speaking English, kept the movie dialogue in subtitles and just said that the Main Character could understand them in English when inside the Avatar or just do what Peter Jackson did with District Nine and gloss over the explanation entirely (THAT bothered me).
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:13 PM
wow... Ror, thank you for mentioning Sunshine. I love that movie. Here's a movie that i thought was somewhat original, the Nines, check that shit out.
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 9:14 PM
Oh, another Corporations: BAD! Mining: BAD! Military: BAD! American settlement of the west: BAD! Jesus, this thing is played out as hell. It’s a cliché.

Man, James after all these years and all that hype THIS is what you're feeding us?

I'm going to throw a prediction out there like I did with GI Joe... It will make its budget back, but not much else and will in no way revolutionize film CGI or the way film is made. In fact I sense a turning of the page on the wholly digital film and over use of CGI a lot of new more relevant directors are already beginning to move back the other way. I think the rep of Lucas and now even Cameron if this thing doesn't go HUGE will knee cap the whole "why have actors when we can CGI a character" thing.

Yep, I’m making the same call I did on Joe: Given what I’ve seen so far I have no interest in seeing it. That could change, but I’m not going to plunk down my hard earned cash just to see a story I've seen a thousand times before just to see the cool CGI… No story no money, sorry. All visuals no story is half a movie, so I’ll save all my money thank you. If the reviews come back and enough people say that there is a new twist or a better perspective on the same old script; anything new beyond the visual, I’ll change my opinion and give it a chance. But as of right now given what I’ve seen so far… sorry James, I’m in no way convinced.

Now let calling me a prejudgemental hater BEGIN!!!
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


(The opinions expressed in the above post in no way reflect the opinion of management, it is a wholly editorial statement of personal feelings by an asshole with a weird name and a who we bet is quite funny looking. These statements are in no way intended to challenge or dismiss your own personal views about the awesomeness or lameassitude of the film "AVATAR". Go see it if you want, like it if you want. Carry on.)
NERO - 12/3/2009, 9:14 PM
If he had the English language thing in his mind all along, that's pretty lazy.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:16 PM
Oh yeah Spider, add that to the list..cool movie, and proof that Ryan Reynolds has some chops outside of smarmy dickhead comedies.
RorMachine - 12/3/2009, 9:18 PM
Lol, he really can act. And check the budget on that movie, inexpensive, and a great story... hmmm thats strange.
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 9:21 PM
To everyone writing: All I'm saying is pay attention who your blaming in movies (writer, director, screenwriter, actor, etc.) and what your blaming them for.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:21 PM
I maintain my view of the film:

Low expectations so far, hoping I'm wrong, going to see it in theaters to find out for sure.

The plot seems (seems, not is) very straightforward to me. Like aroyalspider said, this is what will happen in my mind:

Dude gets put into Avatar (if they don't explain how he's still in a wheelchair when they can transfer consciousnesses into other bodies, I'll be pissed), told to learn all about the aliens and find a way to let the humans mine the sh*t out of their land, change of heart as he falls in love with one of them, sides with aliens, gets a bunch of other human friends to join him, they fight the humans, somehow, miraculously, they win and the humans are defeated, and he becomes one of the tribe.

If that's not how the movie goes, I'll be (pleasantly) surprised.

Ror: Sunshine! That movie is the awesomeness. Man, Danny Boyle kicks ass.
InTylerWeTrust - 12/3/2009, 9:24 PM
Rorshach01: You could be right, but try this...would those movies have worked with a different writer, director or cast? Look what happened Xmen 3 when they changed directors: the idea was a good, dramatic series of ideas, but it got blown up into an overrated action movie by Brett Ratner. This is all assuming you liked the first two.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:26 PM
Being that i am Native American i am very pleased with this story. This is a story that is not contrived but literally gets all of its plot lines directly from history and imperialism . The story of the Rape of a loand and the Death of a people. It is wrong.... its just too bad there were no real "Great" white people who fought as hard for the Natives of America as i hope their equivalent will in this movie. I am excited to see this for all the socio-political reasons that i really adore comics for to begin with. Geronimo was a Bad-Ass i hope there is a character like him in this movie. And i personally love the blue skinned and tall alien race ... they are Gorgeous! and pretty damned sexy too ;)
shibazz - 12/3/2009, 9:28 PM
wesley from what I've read it wasn't Kurtzman and Orci who screwed up transformers two, they've said that most of their ideas were thrown out by bay and krugar, which is why they left the film and aren't doing a third.

Shibazz while I get how your heritage makes you connect with those themes, I think personally they are cliche for most people. Still Cameron does good scifi so I'll see it.
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 9:29 PM
Another thing I would like to point out about this movie, in my opinion, the CGI looks horrible next to the live action, very realistic looking. Idk, it just doesn't seem to fit I guess.
aroyalspider - 12/3/2009, 9:37 PM
Well, Im sure if one or all of those elements were changed the movie would have turned out differently, but if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass a hoppin:) X3 was let down by its script first and foremost I thought. Ratner actually did ok with what he had to work with. There was hardly any character development, it was all just bland interaction and action..maybe that was down to him..I really don't know whow much input or stroke he had over the direction the story went..but since he's usually the go to guy for wham bang, proccessed movie Im thinking not much!
RorMachine - 12/3/2009, 9:37 PM
@ Multi and Ror: That Cameron guy he is a slick little devil, especially in that vid, thanks for the nod multi, Jimbo there reminds of a white Tyrone Bigams. I think it is true that Cameron has done some awesome work in Hollywood. Obviously. But you know what they say, Your only as good as your last film, or fight, or pitch, or to us guys, article we've written or review we have posted. I think Avatar will be a solid flick but what worries me about it is that so much attention has been spent on the special effects of this movie and not so much the story. We all know the turn out when that kinda situation is at hand. On the other side of the coin the spec effects are suppose to be revolutionary, no doubt folks this is the Wizard of Oz of our time, just replace color TV with 3D in your face action segments and then it should be painless to go see at the theater.
jman1977 - 12/3/2009, 9:39 PM
thwhtGuardin: I haven't heard anything like that until now (I just heard he was a prick on set), you could be right. Most of part 2 works for me, but the ending, like I said...MAGIC DUST?! I thought Kruger was brought in to bring some originality to the sequel.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:40 PM
nah, he brought the potty humor. I'll try and find the article I read it in, it was a few months back here on cbm...and I think the interview that it was based on was pulled from empire.
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 9:44 PM
Rorshach: I'm not talking about the story itself. The ideas were just fine, but the visual presentation...it feels like run of the mill action flick to me. How would those ideas been presented if Singer had stayed. How would Superman Returns have felt if they'd gone with someone other than Singer to Direct? The cast for that one is perfect but visually it seems...cynical.
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 9:46 PM
Well, I reckon Singer would have first thrown the script in the garbage to be honest. I think he would have kept the general plot points which were fine as you say, but would have completely revamped the dialog and added scenes, probably toned down the action for better or worse. The movie would have ran longer than 90 minutes too thats for sure. SR? Well, i actually liked it as it was! I know im in a minority but..there you are. I wanted more action of course and I wish Supes had an enemy he could belt around, but I think that would have all happened if Singer had of made a sequel, Im sure he just thought he was beginning a new franchise.
RorMachine - 12/3/2009, 9:55 PM
...i really don't get the hype. this movie looks shitty. just seems so uninteresting.
InFamouslyCool - 12/3/2009, 9:59 PM
Yeah Guardian I read the same thing..K and O wanted to tone down the dog humping/stoned mother/Devastator balls but Bay and that other tool that is going to be solo scripting the 3rd one wanted to keep adding to it. So expect even more retardation in the next one.
RorMachine - 12/3/2009, 10:02 PM
Yeah, how do you get away with a 90 minute movie when the last one was 2hours! Who's idea was it to explain Nightcrawler's sudden disappearance in a VIDEOGAME? I like videogames, but that move was bad!
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 10:03 PM
oh wes I found the article, it was a piece by ror actually, http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=10725
and it was slashfilm not empire.

I too liked Superman returns, I mean i have my complaints(like the fact that the movie glosses over why he left in the first place) but I enjoyed it on the whole. I felt like that if given the chance Singer would have created a much better sequel, the first one felt like exposistion to a greater story arch, which we will unfortunately never see.

Who knows maybe in 20 years singer will do a comic detailing where he would have liked to have gone like donner did.
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 10:03 PM
But if Singer honored Christopher Reeve so much, why wouldn't he have pushed for a tone more like those films? Yeah, there's only so much you can do in a case like that, but I just remember the classic films had an optimism to them that wasn't in Returns. (Glossing over Superman's absence wasn't a great move on Singers part)
Wesley Colvin - 12/3/2009, 10:12 PM
Looks weak .
wussupman - 12/3/2009, 10:27 PM
As usual, most the CBM members wouldn't know a good film if it smacked them in the face.

I mean, Ozymandias has a photo of that disgrace of the character and is calling THIS movie shit...well you are all going to eat your words. Believe me. Yeah, James Cameron CAME UP WITH TERMINATOR AND THIS, and created an original sequel to ALIEN...when has Zack Snyder done ANYTHING ORIGNAL?

This is James [frick]ing Cameron were talking about. Finally, we get a movie that is not based on a comic, a book, a show, or an old movie. It is not a sequel, a reboot, or a requel...and you guys want to attack it? I shouldn't be surprised, it was you fake "fans" that attacked Alan Moore. You all must hate artists huh? Just can't wait to bend over for hacks like Michael Bay and Zack Snyder who couldn't direct a scene of dialogue if a gun was pointed at them.

Some of you are comparing it to GI JOE! HAHAHA WOW...Tasteless morons. You're all going to eat your [frick]ing words.
Quagmire14 - 12/4/2009, 2:50 AM
I just watched a bunch of the trailers for this
movie on TV tonight! I've seen better animation
from some video games! The CGI looks clunky and
derivative! And I really hate stupid cheapo 3D!
3D is distracting to me and takes me out of the
story! It's only a parlor trick for little kids
which this movie seems to be made for although
the adult themes makes me think its not!

Cameron used to make good innovative stories
along with his awesome special effects! But now
he seems to have thrown out the story and words and
just makes big badly written spectacles that seem
extremely cheesy in retrospect!

Ever since he did that awfully
written and acted harlequin romance novel
spectacle movie called TITANIC he has seemed to
have gone on a downhill slide from good well-
written exciting movie-making to badly-written
overblown boom-boom movies!

I still can't believe Titanic is the greatest
selling movie of all times!

Avatar doesn't seem very ground-breaking to me!
I think they totally ripped off that other dopey
movie that's eerily similar! I'm not spending all
the money that it takes to go to a movie now just
to see this derivative clunky rip-off! Cameron
should be ashamed of himself! I'll wait for DVD
rental! And I'm a sci-fi nut!
DDD - 12/4/2009, 4:27 AM
i can see these two will be great characters. especially Giovanni Ribisi
grif - 12/4/2009, 4:30 AM




Heh heh heh!!

Remember AVATAR is not a MOVIE its a UNIVERSE!!!

; D
LEEE777 - 12/4/2009, 5:17 AM
AVATAR is gonna blow the movie world away!!!

Got my ticket! ; D
LEEE777 - 12/4/2009, 5:53 AM
Well, it's definitely gonna blow something
Pietro Filipponi - 12/4/2009, 6:16 AM
MULTI @ : D
LEEE777 - 12/4/2009, 6:44 AM
Every single one of you dissing this movie will go see it.
No doubt.
scambune - 12/4/2009, 7:25 AM
Wasn't there an article that blasted people for bashing movies before they saw it. And I believe an @$$ load of you agreed with that point of view.
weapon925 - 12/4/2009, 7:45 AM
Yeah, that article was blasting the type of people that say "This movie WILL be shit"...not people that think "This LOOKS shit"...Thats just having an opinion after all. Im still gonna go see it and decide for myself, I just think after the hype generated by Cameron that the actual footage and story is very disappointing. The film may be good, but industry changing? Never saw anything like this before? Best movies in the universe?..I doubt it
RorMachine - 12/4/2009, 7:52 AM
Quagmire I lol'ed at your comments.

SixSixteen - 12/4/2009, 9:26 AM
Me too, that tool only pops up to bitch and moan..but he always gives me a chuckle.

Quagmire, the fact that you think Avatar is original shows what you know. So its not based on any book or comic..its still following a tired and formulaic plot.
RorMachine - 12/4/2009, 9:46 AM
Quagmire14, it's been pointed out that it actually bears a strong resemblance to a previous scifi book...just like the terminator bore an extreme resemblance to a couple of episodes of the outer limits so much so that Cameron had to add the guy's name to the credits to get the movie released. I suspect we'll see something similar with avatar. I'm going to se it because it looks like a movie I'd enjoy, but it contains many recycled scifi motifs so I have no illusions about its originality.
thwhtGuardian - 12/4/2009, 11:10 AM
Quagmire14- Believe me, i've heard that argument more times than i should've. It's the same thing as saying "he's broken records before so let's all suck his dick and think that all the man touches is gold". If that's not a sheep argument, i have no idea what is. I personally "enjoyed" Abyss, Aliens, T2 and True Lies(only because of Tom Arnold). None of those BLEW MY MIND actually, they were mearly enjoyable films. The rest is shit to me. Cameron is nowhere near godhood no matter how many sheep whent to see Dicaprio go down with the ship. And no matter how many sheep went to spend their money on TDK, I still enjoyed Ironman WAY WAAAAYYY more. Box office profits mean nothing to me. Cameron came back of retirement to bring an innovative way of filming to incorporate CGI, period. It still doesn't make Avatar any better. The plot is still bland and unoriginal and the effects are still average. The movie has NOTHING that holds interest to me in the slightest. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean that Avatar will be utter shit. It could be just as enjoyable as any other 5$ bin movie at Wal-Mart. I'm just saying it's been overhyped up my ass so much that it's leaving a bad taste in my mouth and i wouldn't spend 30$ on an Imax ticket to see the film no matter how revolutionnary the filming process for it was. NOW, if he had come out of retirement with his revolutionnary way of filming and had done the next SPIDER-MAN film, THEN i'd be psyched like a pre-pubescent teenaged Twilight girl!!! But such is not the case unfortunitely. So i will DEFINITELY NOT be paying to see this.

Oh and lay off the offensive cause every single time we do appreciate someone or something which happens way more often btw, you're never around to talk about it but the moment we hate something for what it is, all of a sudden you pop up with your hate of haters as if we were insulting your mother.
Shaman - 12/4/2009, 11:25 AM
Hmm..

I dunno what it is' but this movie just doesnt appeal to me :-S.
If the critics an peeps i know all rave about it i'll go see.

Would this get all the coverage if it was just "Avatar" rather than "James Camerons AVATAR"?.
Elle1980 - 12/4/2009, 6:31 PM
What saddens me is to know that Cameron has his head so full of hot air that I think he really believes this will beat every single box office record and will split cinematic history in two, well unless he manages to make 3D without glasses of any kind I seriously doubt it. I hope it tanks so bad, that he will have to cancel Battle Angel Alita. That comic is perfection and deserves to not be reimagined or reinvented (even though the creator kind of already did LOL).

And Quagmire if you remember correctly I don't like Zack Snyder and I am a Moore fan. Avatar is just an overhyped movie and deep down even the raging defenders know it.
NoobMike - 12/4/2009, 10:59 PM
Avatar is going to be one of the greatest movies of the year and maybe the decade. Everything about it looks good. JAMES CAMERON IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheEverydayGeek - 12/6/2009, 12:37 PM
Noob- I'd love to see a great live action Alita film but i sure as hell don't want it "re-imagined" and raped by the 3D treatment. If Cameron can come down from his pedestal (hopefully he'll fall flat on his ass with Avatar) THEN he's okay in my book to make the adaptation. Let's just hope Avatar tanks, and tanks HARD!!! The guy needs a reality check!

Elle1980- I'm sure it wouldn't!
Shaman - 12/7/2009, 7:34 AM
YES,YES...THE SAME CRITICS...LIKE TITANIC.
THE BOX OFFICE # 1 IN THE WORLD.
OSCURO - 12/9/2009, 1:23 PM
# 2 THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.
OSCURO - 12/9/2009, 1:24 PM

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