Three-Minute 'Avatar' Theatrical Trailer Released

W.O.W. That looks like a masterpiece. Pure and simple.

Now that’s what I am talking about .This is the trailer we have been waiting for great to see some Avatar Day footage mixed in too.This is a must watch in 3d it will not look animated or unreal in 3d I promise you that.Now it’s only up to the audiences to go and watch it and make it a big hit like Terminator 2.Remember Sherlock Holmes will not damage this movie because it’s gonna last at least 3d months in 3d theaters in Imax and it’s gonna be on a longer run than the other movies.So it will pick in it’s second and third week and make more money like his other movies did.I won’t go on the opening weekend and tell that if the movie open to 65 million that it is a flop it depend on the longer run.As far I am concerned Avatar won’t go easily out of theaters and people who don’t know anything about Avatar will a lot of time to come and watch it again and again.

It looks good if a bit more on the nose than I was expecting. I was hoping for a bit of grey area between the marines and the Avi.

I think it was smart to release footage so early because I was able to deal with the disappointment of it not being "revolutionary" and now I've moved on. I'm just pumped for a cool space epic.

@Satish Naidu: In my comment on the august 20th news item, I had tried to decipher the story. As it turns out, I was right. Mr. Cameron might have advanced technology at his disposal, but he sure as hell has a lame storyline department. After 10 years, we get this sci-fi humans are bad bullshit?
Oh come on. Where is the next great science fiction, that can truly dazzle our minds, and actually puts to good effect cinema. Avatar looks absolutely simplistic.

Sigh.

Far better than last trailer but still not 'revolutionary' in any sense of the word. We were promised the fx would be game changers and I just don't see that. The aliens are the weakest part; they look just as phony as you would've expected ten years ago. That being said, it still might be a good movie, just not some epic cinematic lifetime event that it's been hyped as. How Peter Jackson can say this will change fx as we know it when it's no better than LOTR or Kong, I don't know.

This movie will make it's mark .I think all these years we have been hearing about how good it is now it's good to finally see a epic trailer.Looks like James Cameron wants to back with a bang.

@justincase: @justincase: When they talk about the graphics being photorealistic and game-changing, they're talking about when you watch in 3D. You know, the format it was filmed in. It made a huge difference seeing it in 3D, and I went into the preview skeptical as hell after seeing the teaser. Whatever the 3D viewing process does to my brain, nothing I saw kept me from disconnecting and saying, "Hey, that's CG!" It was literally incredible.

I hate to say it, because it sounds like a cop-out, but a person really has no room to talk on the digital effects until they've seen it in 3D. The Fusion camera system was developed for this movie, so it's not like saying, "I know you thought Beowulf sucked, but you should see it in 3D, it's totally trippy."

Judging the CG from a Quicktime trailer is a little like watching No Country For Old Men on a busy train station TV and saying it was boring and slow. This is an instance where the only way to accurately judge something is to watch it the way it was meant to be seen. Sucks we can't watch 3D on our computers, but that might fit into the whole "game-changer/this will make people excited about going to the movie theater" idea behind this.

@justincase: Yeah it'll be on a lot of 2D screens too, but it's pretty crazy how many 3D screens are in America now (a huge chunk of them were installed because of all the game JC and Jon Landau have been talking for years) – almost 4,000, last I read. So the 3D experience will be a lot more available than any other movie.

JC has said in every in-depth interview that he stacked the Avatar chips in favor of interesting characters and a compelling story, rather than visuals, because he knew the 3D format failed once before from bad movies being made with only "3D" in mind. He designed it to be an enthralling movie to watch in 2D and 3D, with the 3D experience being a colossal bonus. So, I suppose the success of Avatar depends on the people's word-of-mouth a lot more than, say, a Spider-Man movie.

Obviously I want it to be a good movie, and I have a little faith in JC to boot, but watching that preview in 3D gave me an almost knowing confidence that the 3D experience is something that will compel people to keep dragging their skeptical friends to the theaters over and over again after it's out. Its impact on movie-going has a LOT of potential, and that alone is exciting enough sometimes.

I'm a tad bummed out. This should be okay, but it won't reinvent the wheel.

Looks cool! One quick question: How the hell does Michelle Rodriguez still get work let alone a Cameron movie? she is a horrific actress, single handedly almost ruined an entire season of Lost.

that was a good movie.

It seems that people have forgotten that sci-fi is not just about cool visuals amped with 3D. It is also about intelligent, revolutionary and ORIGINAL ideas. I, like many others, will surely watch this film and it will probably earn it's estimated millions but to call it a revolutionary, path breaking, sci-fi film is a great folly. This film would not be there if Ferngully and Dances with Wolves didn't exist. At best it looks like what video games adaptations should look like and don't.

Can someone explain to me why this move is coming off as novel to everyone?? Just wondering, it looks like a textbook story line.

the movie have 3D and biggest budget ever which makes the movie special and also gives a lot of hopes too