James Cameron's 'Avatar' Trailer Online Now!
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UPDATE 3: The Apple links work now. Watch it in HD right over here.
UPDATE 2: Here's a link that works! It's the French trailer, but since there's only one line of dialogue in the whole thing, it'll do until Apple fixes their glitch.
UPDATE: 15 minutes in and it appears Apple is having issues with the trailer launch. Stay tuned ...
Come one, come all -- the long-awaited trailer for James Cameron's much buzzed-about Avatar has finally arrived online over at Apple. The debut trailer -- which is the first footage from the film to be shown to a mass audience outside a convention-like atmosphere -- is part of a larger marketing push for the film this week, which includes the release of several new photos (see gallery below) and a special presentation of an extended 16-minute trailer in 3D to be screened at IMAX theaters across the globe tomorrow.
In the meantime, though, prepare to feast your eyes on what some say is a film that could change the way we watch, well, film. The big-budgeted sci-fi flick follows a paraplegic war veteran (Sam Worthington) who is unwillingly sent to the distant planet of Pandora to help establish a human settlement. It's there that he'll find himself in the midst of a battle between humans and the planet's indigenous Na'vi race. Tack on marvelous, out-of-this-world special effects -- coupled with 3D like you've never seen it before -- and you get the most anticipated film of 2009 that no one seems to know anything about.
Enough babbling ... watch the trailer right over here and then let us know what you think. Does Avatar look like it can live up to the hype? The film drops in theaters on December 18.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
8-20-2009 @ 10:06AM
ipsographic said...
Hmm, none of the videos on Apple's site are working for me. Anybody able to get them working?
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8-20-2009 @ 10:13AM
Jason said...
Nope...I get a quicktime logo and a question mark.
9-01-2009 @ 11:09AM
Boat said...
Yeah, I'm getting the dreaded quicktime "?"
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8-20-2009 @ 10:13AM
Kurt Munro said...
Someone rip it HD and stick it on youtube. I'm not installing that Quicktime crap.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:15AM
Eric said...
Someone dropped the ball.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:18AM
techstar25 said...
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'm not falling for it again!
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8-20-2009 @ 10:16AM
Ryan Anderson said...
I guess Erik Davis just posted this without actually trying to watch the trailer. Unprofessional.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:18AM
David Fendley said...
It's not his fault they failed to launch the trailer properly. He obviously wanted to be timely with his article, and he did post new images.
8-20-2009 @ 10:20AM
Erik Davis said...
This is a trailer announcement post -- who said we weren't going to have another more opinionated post later on. But thanks for calling me unprofessional, appreciate it.
8-20-2009 @ 10:17AM
Trevor said...
It's not worth blaming Erik over, Ryan. Apple screwed up. It's unfortunate he didn't watch it but let's not get accusative.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:20AM
mcafee_matthew said...
Two screw ups with this movie already - this does not bode well
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8-20-2009 @ 10:20AM
Eric said...
http://specials.divertissements.fr.msn.com/cinema/avatar/default.aspx
this works!!!
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8-20-2009 @ 10:21AM
bluesilo said...
Working link to non-HD trailer for now. Its awesome.
http://specials.divertissements.fr.msn.com/cinema/avatar/default.aspx
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8-20-2009 @ 10:20AM
Arivind Abraham said...
None of the links work. You would have thought they would have prepared to have this work perfectly.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:29AM
Eric said...
Call me disappointed. I think it looks very cartoony. I know it's Cameron so it will be good. But still i was expecting something more.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:32AM
Rob said...
I just saw it.
nothing special or groundbreaking.
Looks like video game cut scenes.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:37AM
dafydd said...
Yep. Slightly better rendered CG than the Clone Wars, complete with blue Jar-Jars (except he was more photorealistic 10 years ago).
8-20-2009 @ 10:32AM
oBLIQUE said...
@Eric thanks for the link...
I also thought it looked a little cartoony, but Im pretty sure that's where the 3D part comes in to make it look more realistic. Though it did get me excited and I cant wait to see it non the less.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:33AM
Kurt Munro said...
The CGI is very obvious, especially with the blue people.
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8-20-2009 @ 10:52PM
Nubreeder said...
Yeah, I think it works best with the whole 3D IMAX experience. Don't get me wrong it looks freaking good, but I also thought of video game cut scenes ( Final Fantasy XIII comes to mind). Dammit can't wait till tomorrow to see it on the IMAX in my town.
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