[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;16848081]For some reason I always thought they were mechanical in some way...[/QUOTE]
They were designed by Giger, and most, if not all of his designs are a mix of machine and creature
Okay I can see how it goes sort of,
intro of movie : guys gets paralyzed somehow
He hears some treatment on some alien planet can make him walk again, they say the alien bodies are cultivated,
guy gets treatment, finds out aliens are harvested for treatment, runs away to join aliens in war against evil humans, some sentimental stuff, humans leave, the end.
That's what I get from the teaser
first thing i said when i say the trailer was "yay furries"
[QUOTE=postal;16848104]They were designed by Giger, and most, if not all of his designs are a mix of machine and creature[/QUOTE]
Indeed. Strange concept really.
Egads, this movie is gonna be fuckin insane.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;16848181]Egads, this movie is gonna be fuckin insane.[/QUOTE]
For the people of the Internet, it's going to be a war between Furries and Anti-Furries.
To everyone more sane, it's going to be what James Cameron hoped it would be.
Really everyone, the only people that would realize just how furry this movie was would be Internet Goers or people relatively versed in knowing what a Furry is, which, believe it or not, makes up a rather small percentage of the population.
Just watched the trailer.
I might have actually jizzed my pants. It's amazing, the CGI, the story, it all just looks amazing.
[QUOTE=postal;16847930]The prawns are the first alien design to wow you? Have you never seen "Aliens" before?
[img]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7310/queenalienpressstill01gm6.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Forgot about the Xenomorphs. Yeah, those wowed me too (and freaked me out as a kid). However, even the Xenomorphs and District 9 aliens have that problem of having a roughly humanoid form.
I want to see some movie in which the aliens are really weird (like they have three legs (two at the front, one at the back) or something). I'm fed up of two legs, two arms, two eyes, a relatively Earth-animal looking nose and mouth, etc, etc. I mean I'm sure any successful animal would probably develop such senses, but why must movies set it out in such a human manner?
[QUOTE=sltungle;16848287]Forgot about the Xenomorphs. Yeah, those wowed me too (and freaked me out as a kid). However, even the Xenomorphs and District 9 aliens have that problem of having a roughly humanoid form.
I want to see some movie in which the aliens are really weird (like they have three legs (two at the front, one at the back) or something). I'm fed up of two legs, two arms, two eyes, a relatively Earth-animal looking nose and mouth, etc, etc. I mean I'm sure any successful animal would probably develop such senses, but why must movies set it out in such a human manner?[/QUOTE]
That's because things develop toward bipedal physiologies. Actually I'm probably just being fucking stupid here.
[QUOTE=sltungle;16848287]Forgot about the Xenomorphs. Yeah, those wowed me too (and freaked me out as a kid). However, even the Xenomorphs and District 9 aliens have that problem of having a roughly humanoid form.
I want to see some movie in which the aliens are really weird (like they have three legs (two at the front, one at the back) or something). I'm fed up of two legs, two arms, two eyes, a relatively Earth-animal looking nose and mouth, etc, etc. I mean I'm sure any successful animal would probably develop such senses, but why must movies set it out in such a human manner?[/QUOTE]
All the movies I've seen that did that sucked ass, mainly because I couldn't relate at all to the dirty Xeno's.
I saw the trailer this morning, it was awesome
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[QUOTE=ray243;16847381]Crappy framerates in the trailer.
[editline]10:45AM[/editline]
They reminds me of this:
[img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/6/6a/Acklay2.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Yay, Star Wars!
[QUOTE=sltungle;16848287]Forgot about the Xenomorphs. Yeah, those wowed me too (and freaked me out as a kid). However, even the Xenomorphs and District 9 aliens have that problem of having a roughly humanoid form.
I want to see some movie in which the aliens are really weird (like they have three legs (two at the front, one at the back) or something). I'm fed up of two legs, two arms, two eyes, a relatively Earth-animal looking nose and mouth, etc, etc. I mean I'm sure any successful animal would probably develop such senses, but why must movies set it out in such a human manner?[/QUOTE]
They're bipedal because they inherit some of the genes of whatever they are birthed from. In most cases this is humans.
[QUOTE=Telepethi;16847654]
Is it just me or does this look a hell of a lot like the Furry vs. AntiFurry forum wars that go on?
Especially the bit with the mechs. The alien race looks like some kind of furry, and god knows AntiFurs just love to use Warhammer 40k mechs in their Antifur campaigns.[/QUOTE]
Now that you say that... something makes me want to see this movie.
But now I realize that the good-guy is an elf, and therefore the elves will win. So fuck it.
[QUOTE=Dclone2;16846561]Couldn't the core of the planet be like, so magnetized that it keeps certain pieces of land floating above it? (If they were heavier on the bottom it could work, technically.) The magnetic field would probably so crazy that no-one would be able use any kind of metal object in the area though.[/QUOTE]
If they were huge chunks of magnetised rock they'd eventually (as in very quickly) roll over and have their opposite pole attracted to the ground and would probably come down with a significant amount of force at that.
Floating "islands" - check.
Mechs - check.
Naked blue people - check.
Dragons eating hovercraft - check.
This movie looks fucking awesome!
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16848204]For the people of the Internet, it's going to be a war between Furries and Anti-Furries.
To everyone more sane, it's going to be what James Cameron hoped it would be.
Really everyone, the only people that would realize just how furry this movie was would be Internet Goers or people relatively versed in knowing what a Furry is, which, believe it or not, makes up a rather small percentage of the population.[/QUOTE]
It's not just that, it's the principal of it all. A guy gets 280 million dollars to make an epic sci-fi movie, and what does he do?
Blue elves. WITH TAILS.
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[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16848333]All the movies I've seen that did that sucked ass, mainly because I couldn't relate at all to the dirty Xeno's.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but you can still be creative about it. You only need a few certain traits to make things human enough to empathize with.
Being a fucking blue furry from the planet zed isn't one of those necessary traits.
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[QUOTE=Xystus234;16848413]Now that you say that... something makes me want to see this movie.
But now I realize that the good-guy is an elf, and therefore the elves will win. So fuck it.[/QUOTE]
Don't give up hope, maybe all the elves will die and they'll try to make it all sad. Or maybe they'll be quarantined. Or maybe a giant meteor will fall from the sky and turn them into less pussy creatures.
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[QUOTE=cephalopoid;16850371]Floating "islands" - check.
Mechs - check.
Naked blue people - check.
Dragons eating hovercraft - check.
This movie looks fucking awesome![/QUOTE]
Since when are naked blue people and dragons part of a good scifi?
this movie looks stupid as fuck
I want to see the titties of the blue chick.
[QUOTE=McSanchez;16850618]I want to see the titties of the blue chick.[/QUOTE]
Pftman dat chest be as flat as old man harrison's heartbeat
I saw the 15 minute preview and all I gotta say is....... blue alien nipplez
[QUOTE=Revan564;16850686]I saw the 15 minute preview and all I gotta say is....... blue alien nipplez[/QUOTE]
I have to see this movie now. Fuck. >:(
Cameron better have made this the most moving piece of cinematic brilliance of all time or I'm gonna be [I]pissed.[/I]
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[img]http://www.denofgeek.com/siteimage/scale/800/600/85123.png[/img]
Oh God it's like Elrond with downs syndrome.
[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;16850383]It's not just that, it's the principal of it all. A guy gets 280 million dollars to make an epic sci-fi movie, and what does he do?
Blue elves. WITH TAILS.
[editline]05:45AM[/editline]
Yeah, but you can still be creative about it. You only need a few certain traits to make things human enough to empathize with.
Being a fucking blue furry from the planet zed isn't one of those necessary traits.
[editline]05:47AM[/editline]
Don't give up hope, maybe all the elves will die and they'll try to make it all sad. Or maybe they'll be quarantined. Or maybe a giant meteor will fall from the sky and turn them into less pussy creatures.
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Since when are naked blue people and dragons part of a good scifi?[/QUOTE]
Who said this was SciFi? It seems a mix of sci/fi fantasy to me . . . Also, I was using "dragons" as a name for that "winged alien creature that bite the guy in half."
Whatever it was, it was fucking cool. Now, why you gotta hate? Hmmm? Isn't the world full of enough hate? Or do you just want to go around hating everything because its cool to hate and besides? That's what Osama Bin Laden does, and you wanna be like Bin Laden, sitting around, wondering what you can hate next.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16848333]All the movies I've seen that did that sucked ass, mainly because I couldn't relate at all to the dirty Xeno's.[/QUOTE]
That's not because of the way they looked, that's because in those films they don't give the alien characters much personality. From what I'm hearing about District 9 everyone is going on about how they were really able to emphasise with the alien characters even though they look nothing like us. I mean, especially with faces like that, and the face is the thing that most humans look at and gauge feelings from.
Having seen the trailer, I can finally say that this looks like it's going to be fucking awesome.
I think it looks like another stupid kids movie, wasting 300 million on it? Also I see no difference between the female aliens and the male aliens.
So much CGI. It's like the new Star Wars movies all over again. This may or may not end well.
Looks like Avatar Day was a failure from Fox marketing since almost all the theaters showing the 15 minutes were not even half full.
At the Imax I went to see it, there were like 45-50 people.
That bugged me a lot.
If Fox doesn't wake up, this movie can and will fail at the box office, which is very sad because [b]it is truly amazing in 3D and the teaser trailer doesn't do it justice not even a single bit.[/b]
It's annoying how all "good" aliens have to look like humans.
Even though I loved what I saw from IMAX I can't let this go away:
[url]http://img.denihilation.com/delgovatar.html[/url]
Since the treatment was done 12 years ago, I wonder if the guys that made Delgo stole some ideas from it...
Guys, looks like the media is really interested in this movie: [url]http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-avatar-trailer.html[/url]
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