{"id":34940,"date":"2009-10-29T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=121216"},"modified":"2009-10-29T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:20:30","slug":"new-%e2%80%9cavatar%e2%80%9d-trailer-continues-to-not-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34940","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cAvatar\u201d trailer continues to not impress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src='http:\/\/widgets.vodpod.com\/w\/video_embed\/Groupvideo.3773359' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' AllowScriptAccess='always' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' wmode='transparent' flashvars='vid=16357477&#038;repeat=1&#038;siteHostUrl=http%3A\/\/movies.yahoo.com' width='640' height='360' \/><br \/>\nI had high hopes for Avatar. I&#8217;ve seen James Cameron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/06\/01\/live-ubisoft-e3-2009-press-conference\/\">talking about it<\/a> twice, and interviewed one of the motion capture artists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/06\/23\/interview-reuben-langdon-motion-capture-artist-for-avatar\/\">Reuben Langdon<\/a>. But what I&#8217;m seeing in this trailer is a jumble of cliches and unconvincing, at least on the small screen, CG effects. Why they picked electric blue cat-people instead of some truly alien species is a mystery to me; with a less humanoid critter, suspension of disbelief is much easier. But our brains are tuned to detect the problems with these almost-human special effects, and the whole thing is going to look fake as a result.<\/p>\n<p>And really now. &#8220;You&#8217;re not in Kansas&#8221;? <em>Really?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2009\/10\/29\/new-avatar-traile\/\">EW<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8D5K4J6Hq__7pHkTrGGYjfte_Zw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8D5K4J6Hq__7pHkTrGGYjfte_Zw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8D5K4J6Hq__7pHkTrGGYjfte_Zw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/8D5K4J6Hq__7pHkTrGGYjfte_Zw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=TGWeGKPun_0:l9maoxyjTLs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=TGWeGKPun_0:l9maoxyjTLs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=TGWeGKPun_0:l9maoxyjTLs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=TGWeGKPun_0:l9maoxyjTLs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=TGWeGKPun_0:l9maoxyjTLs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had high hopes for Avatar. I&#8217;ve seen James Cameron talking about it twice, and interviewed one of the motion capture artists, Reuben Langdon. But what I&#8217;m seeing in this trailer is a jumble of cliches and unconvincing, at least on the small screen, CG effects. Why they picked electric blue cat-people instead of some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}