The Real Avatar Trailer (Seriously)
Looks neat. Really. I’m just not blown away. Honestly, I’m not trying to be a huge bitch here, but it’s not more astounding to me than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was when I first saw that trailer (although even I can admit the movie was godawful). I mean, I know CG is capable of rendering this stuff if you put enough time and money and skill in there, so it’s cool, but it’s not exactly a surprise. Still, it looks cool. I’m not trying to knock it. I’m just not willing to admit it’s the next chapter of cinema or anything.
Actually, there is one real problem I see, and that’s the Na’vi aliens, who look… like they’re from Re:boot or something other CG cartoon from the ’90s. They look preposterously CG and goofy to me. Am I alone in this? (Via FilmDrunk)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.