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On August 21st your eyeballs will be violated! AVATAR footage screening across the country!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. My battery died right after I posted my thoughts on the AVATAR footage, so I didn't get to include this bit of news.
We're not the only lucky sumbitches to get to see footage. Cameron, Fox and Lightstorm are going to overtake as many IMAX screens as they can (both digital and film IMAXs) on August 21st (just 8 days off of Judgment day... yeah, I'm a dork) to show 15 minutes of the film... in 3D... for free.
Details are slim, but save the date. It's supposed to be all across the country. Now you know!
-Quint
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Is this gonna be a trailer?
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Huh. That's odd.
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Has Avatar been, you know, tested?
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DAMN YEAH!! BETTER THAN MY LAST GIRLFRIEND!!!
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but whenever that happens with a movie, it usaually ends up fucking me in the ass, perfectly stroking the cock until i climax while screaming how great the movie is. happened with me and batman begins. it fucked me right there in the theater seats.
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This movie has so much hype. It better some how live up to it.
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judging by what i'm seeing and hearing it's aliens meets t2 meets the abyss. cool by me but sure as fuck not the Second Coming.
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And all you pussies were going "WAAAHHH WAAAAHHH WHERES MA TRAILER CAMERON???? WAAAHHH"
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SCOOPED ON YOUR OWN PAGE BEFORE YOU. PWNED.
HTTP://MARKETSAW.BLOGSPOT.COM FOR PROOF: A PRESS RELEASE! -
Sure it's not the second co0ming of cinema, but are we to bitch of such a menagerie of Cameron? Jesus, after all we've been through this summer, I say just re-release those three movies on the big screen and THAT would be the second fucking coming. Fucking piss poor braindead colorless no originality garbage summer. Bring me some fucking Cameron NOW!!!!!!!!
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Jul 23, 2009 8:19:59 PM CDT
No point watching footage if you don't have to line up for hours
by choclatewoman
with fat fucking nerds surrounding you and trying to peek looks at my fantastic ass.
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that wouldve pissed off the haters
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I love Cameron's work, but good grief this film is too fucking overhyped - and not even by him, by you bunch of fucknuts. The whole 'fucking eyeballs' sheep mentality in relation to this film alone has me not wanting to bother with it, and I have to say, the more I hear about the film itself, the less it interests me. I have a funny feeling a lot of you are going to be very disappointed with it when it comes out. Fucked eyeballs, indeed.
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...was because people went into it hoping to see the biggest movie bomb of all time because there were tons of reports about Cameron going over budget, giving up his salary, throwing tantrums, all sorts of problems on the set, and how that would bomb bigger than WaterWorld. Then people came out saying it was actually good. Then more people saw it just to prove that those were said it was good were actually nuts, but then they liked it, too. And then it grew into a tidal wave that swept the world, and Cameron was awarded with Oscars as Hollywood's way of saying, "Sorry we doubted you, oh, wise one". Now it's like a sine wave of hype, then doubt that it won't live up to the hype, but mostly huge hype waves. The movie will be a success, but not as big as Titanic.
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Was that it brought in the "Twilight" crowd ten years before the real Twilight movie. Teenage girls, man, teenage girls. And Kate Winslet's boobs.
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I know it hurts for you fanboys to say it, but it was.
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There's an enormous difference between a good movie, and the highest grossing movie of all time. I admit it was a good movie, but sweeping the Oscars and grossing more money than any other film...it was a phenomenon resulting from the momentum of hype that built after the release, not before.
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then when it's released it will be like aN OCULAR TRANNY PUTTING YOUR EYES IN A GIMP SUIT.
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I sure as hell can't remember any. Then again, I think the Oscars are a 3 hour borefest.
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I'll weep if not. Weep and weep.
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Oh yes, they were.No more diddling around, approx. 25 minutes worth of good old, right in the eyes penetration! Popped my Cherry, right there in the 3rd row center in glorius 3-D!!!!
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1.) James Cameron2.) Sigourney Weaver3.) Zoe Saldana4.)Stephen LangAnd a taped message by Sam Worthington
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That we have seen more of IRON MAN 2 before seeing anything from AVATAR? No teaser trailer, no one sheet, nada. Until 8/21/2009. 4 months before the release of the movie.
I hope Cameron and the marketing team know what they're doing. Cause we're 5 months from release, and most of the country has no idea that Cameron is even coming out with a new movie. -
James Cameron? Didn't he do Aliens years ago? What's he doing now?
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...am I going to get lost in one hell of a good story and a new world...that is the question.
I venture to say The Matrix was the last powerhouse sci fi to come down the pike...with AVATAR and TRON coming out I am very excited. It seems like superheroes have dominated the landscape for a long time...and while I am cool with that, I need to mix it up a bit. -
as good as it gets, full monty, la confidential, good will hunting all lost to titanic. BOOGIE NIGHTS wasnt even nominated.
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....so they think they have a massive flop on their hands and want to see if they have any realistic chance of getting the $350M++ budget back.
Very surprised they are previewing this. Never been done before in this fashion. Everything shown & seen/known so far indicates this is NOT going to be a mainstream audience movie and global success it needs to be.
Cameron is a cinematic god but not sure 3D was needed and not sure he can deliver the dialogue either.
As a director he can make things work but really on paper this story sounds too dense & not sure audiences are ready for this anymore. ADD seems to be the new epic cinema...... -
There will be screenings NOT in 3-D, if that is what you'd rather see/not see!
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Jul 23, 2009 10:07:51 PM CDT
yes i'd see T2, Aliens, and the Abyss in the theater again
by mr. smith
i'd also see Total Recall, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Tron in the theater again. all good movies. usually only one or two movies a year really fall into the revisitation club for me.
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i mean, i was saving them for someone special, like kevin smiths next masterpiece
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here in Australia this August? No. :(
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to counter quint's:
from g4tv.com:
Stehpen Johnson: "First off: This is like no other movie you have ever seen. It's ambitious, and entirely original, full of digital effects, flawless executed, in an entirely imaginative world."
from total film:
"And about 15 minutes of Avatar footage proved that Jim Cameron's sci-fi epic is likely to be every bit as good as its hype. everyone.
Too real to be animation, never exactly docu-style, Cameron's film is unquestionably something entirely new." -
this wouldn't mean jack shit to me.
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Not fair. Not fucking fair at all. -
I think Cameron is taking a big risk by simply going off of his name recognition to promote the film. I think Average Joe Movie goer knows fuck all about Avatar.
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And you can tell. Think. Studios don't do this sort of thing unless they have a reason. Could it be there's a desperate need to drum up even RUDIMENTARY interest in a film that everyone outside the geek community (which, btw, represents only about $30m of box-office) doesn't give a flying fig about? Ask ANYONE who isn't a big-time internet user if they know what AVATAR is, and they'll likely say, if anything, "Oh, yeah, that movie with that kid who does karate." Never mind the problems with THAT statement (and AANG AIN'T WHITE) but the fact remains that this movie has not even registered as a blip on the radar of the consciousness (HAHAHA!) of the average viewer. Nobody cares. Nobody will care. It's a movie about a THUNDERCAT who helps a guy's puppet learn about the Colors of the Wind. Yeah, it -really- is.
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... is that the "photo-realistic" visuals and amazing "special effects" register as NOTHING to the average person. I really think that most people fail to comsider how truly dim the average American viewer is. And don't go saying "GLOBAL GROSSES ARE ALL THAT MATTER!" ... no, they're not. The US is -tremendously- important to a movie's success. And the conversation about AVATAR would likely go something like this with a member of the general public:"So, are you excited about that AVATAR movie?""Huh? I want my Whopper!""AVATAR - you know, that ambitious sci-fi mo-""That like those spaceship movies with the lasers blowin' up the world, or them robots?""Well, it's sci-f-""'Cuz I don' like kid movies, dipsh**. I don' like cartoons.""Well, this is a mix of CGI and li-""CGI? That the new free money program from Obama?""No, it's for computer-""So it's a video game?""Well, there's going to BE a game, but it's a movie.""Huh. Never heard of no movie called ATAVIST.""AVATAR.""I dunno that word. Isn't that like that funny dessert you get at that restaurant we go to, Mary-Sue?""Well, it's a movie about a man in a wheelchair who-""Oh, so it's funny?""No, it's ... not.""I liked that mall cop movie, and he had one of those standing wheel things.""It's set in the future.""Like that STAR movie?""Well, uh, no, not like that - it's an ecological fa-""So it's ... wait, I know that word. E-col-o-... this is one of them liberal movies?""It's about an alien who-""Like one of them aliens what pops out the chest and eats your food?""What? No, I don't know what you-""LOOK, man, I'm workin' on my truck! I gotta spit! I'm punching someone in the nuts in about five minutes for doin' my baby momma."ANNNNND SCENE!
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The studio saw the footage, crapped themselves when they realized their $350m investment netted them a bloodless "action" movie where it's a Thundercat running around like TINKERBELL'S ADVENTURES IN PIXIE HOLLOW and rushed to do IMAX screenings to try ANYTHING to generate even a modicum of interest. And so far? The reactions from geeks have been to cry tears of blood in their joy over the thing, but the reaction of everyone else is to simply shrug and say "What the hell is this ? And what the hell is TINTIN?"
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More power to studios who reboot and retool and reimagine. Why? Because I believe that the only just punishment for a public who woships PAUL BLART MALL COP is to give them progressively less and less material. Remake everything, remake the remakes, until there is only one movie the public gets to be allowed to see, and then simply set the theaters dark as even the aspiration for even the least engaging entertainments is lost to them, and they become content with sitting in the dark, hearing and seeing nothing, until their eyes and ears glaze over and they've got only a raw mouth to feed and hands to work and an endless scream of a mind that has long since descended into pure atrophy. That's where we're all headed as a culture, and people who worship at the altar of stupidity deserve nothing more than this metaphor for their existence.
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Jul 23, 2009 11:52:55 PM CDT
I confess to seeing TITANIC in theatre 7 times...
by badwaldo s revenge
Yeah, I was a young male at 19. Dumb geek, but teen girls and young women wasted half a year weeping for frozen-to-death Leonard and holding crying sessions listening to Titanic soundtrack (I shit you not). Took a date to TITANIC once (it was February 1998 and she had never seen the movie before becuz she was a college busybody) and she loved it. Then we never saw each other again for a few years. Tied the record with SPIRITED AWAY.
The only excuse I have is that I WAS a James Cameron fan before he became Orson Welles-lite egotist and further cemented his reputation as an out of touch asshole after he proclaimed that movie theaters should charge more for megabudget movies (like Japan charges, what, $20 a pop to see a movie) in a 2001-era Premiere magazine (RIP Priemiere).
I'll withhold my judgment until I walked in to see AVATAR in glorious 3-D. In the meantime, I will strive to strenuously avoid movie trailer, tv spots, and even spoiler magazine articles so my eyes will be gladly subject to fucking like a hot young adult female Mormon virgin eagle leg-spread with hymen intact. Then my faith in moviegoing might be restored after the dumb and disappointing summer season. -
If I hear or see one more thread about how fucking mich this movie is gonna skull fuck me, I'm gonna skip it on principle. I have really loved some of Cameron's films, but by no means does that make him perfect. Calm the fuck down on how much you've jerked off to minutes of footage and wait until the finished product.
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in front of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS?
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"General public":
No one knew what the fuck STAR WARS was before it came out either. It's called "word of mouth", and if this shit is incredible, and gets incredible reviews, it will be a hit. -
Tell that to SERENITY.
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Sadly, true enough. But for every SERENITY there's a MATRIX.
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Plus, you still got to enjoy SERENITY even if most dumbfucks have never heard of it, right? So even if AVATAR tanks thanks to poor marketing, we will still have the film to enjoy, assuming it is a solid flick.
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--Thinks this movie is overhyped? NO ONE outside this site and a few others even knows his exist, and those who do confuse it with the last airbender!
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So U.S only?
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It's time for Freedom-Kofi to return and sort this mess out FAST! Eyeballs are being raped as we speak. And I have a feeling that this is just the tip of Cameron's dick...
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woo hoo!
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....the 8.21.09 footage, that is. All this hype takes me back 10 years ago with episode 1....I hope im wrong but considering the last thing cam directed was an episode of Dark Angel my hopes aren't too high for this. im more excited on seeing what the twist in Orphan is.
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general public are conformists and they always want to be part of the new cool thing in pop culture. once they see the geeks camping outside the theaters, and the lines forming for 2 blocks, and the strong opening weekend gross(never doubt geeks power), they too will go check the movie out.
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i would own as a movie. his others i would catch on tv b ut would never actually spend money on. aliens while good effects has the platoon grunt factor, nauseatingly annoying shitbags who i pray get fisted by some alien mouth dildos who blow thier acid spunk inside. abyss dont give a fuck about underwater shit. T2 is pussy whipped robodaddy. True Lies while good action has too much family shit and is just too pedestrian settings.
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It's like a fucking therapy session for victims of abuse. Relax guys, it's a James Camerson sci-fi action spectacular, you are not going to find it boring or annoying... jees!
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Wow dude, why are you here if you don't enjoy Aliens?
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Its not a debatable point. Its Newtonian fact. Cameron's technical masterpiece with a sub-genre plot ripped from purplish-prose bodice-rippers is "great" to menstruating women and no others. Men defending Titanic should be checking their own nipples for lactation.
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look at the rendering... awesome ! http://tinyurl.com/llj83t
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"abyss dont give a fuck about underwater shit. T2 is pussy whipped robodaddy. True Lies while good action has too much family shit and is just too pedestrian settings."What the fuck do you like? They are all incredible films. The Abyss might be Cameron's best movie. Well...other than Aliens, of course.
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Sounded remarkably... average, from Quint's earlier report.
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Speed Racer 2.
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I am sitting here contemplating driving two hours to my local IMAX. I do live closer to one, but its one of those fucking museum Imax's that only show crap like Fly Me To The Moon and Safari Adventure.
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... only works when two people are able to communicate with eachother. That time has ended. Now, the communication goes like this: "Hey, uh, what did you ... uh ... do, uh, yesterday?" "I dunno." "Didn't you see some movie?" "Wait, I'm trying to think. Maybe."
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That's precisely how this is going to go down. It won't make as much money as TRANSFORMERS 2, you're right. Hell, going by the plot and the blue pixie Thundercat visuals, I'd be surprised if it made as much as TRANSPORTER 2.
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What a terrible idea.
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I don't think this will be "free"
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Jul 24, 2009 9:11:58 AM CDT
AVATAR may fuck your eyeballs, but TRON LEGACY will marry them!
by mrmysteryguest
And provide for your every need!
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http://tinyurl.com/mx4bq6
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...but August 21? Nationwide?Free?Not without a ticket to something...
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and i really don't give a shit about Avatar. Better yet I will be in Japan then.
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This dude is on some serious shit. Avatar will get some SERIOUS competition. Kosinski has a designer background like Cameron and his instinct have been refined to sharpened skill. TRON LEGACY will be no joke. Mark my words...
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so that avatar fucking them will last longer.
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