Avatar 2 (now in 3D)
Jarod | December 31, 2009Yeah well, no spoilers from me either. Just wanted to say: Go watch it. Yeah the bad guy is a tad bit overdone and the story feels kind of familiar and predictable, this one won’t win Best Director (well okay, Titanic won everything there was and I still don’t see the hell why, so who knows what they gonna do). The “graphics” blow you away. The mocap/facial animation work is incredible, and Static’s perfectly right about the emotional resonance, as he called it. The 3D was nice, took me a couple minutes to get used to. Saw a bit of blur when there was stuff “close” to the camera, but maybe that’s because I’m so terribly shortsighted, *shrug*. Unless you’re only into lo-fi indy flicks, check it out.
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Ok I can’t help but ask. If all human technology failed close to that holy glowy tree place, how come the avatar connection still worked?
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Whatever frequencies the tree Jams are not used by the connection, which is nothing if not convenient. Then again the connection could have been designed to bypass that particular problem since they were aware of it.
What i don’t get is how the avatars can talk back to the pods. Not necessarily a plot hole, just curious.
Yeah I also always wondered how Cylons can download across star systems (okay wrong show!), maybe it’s all server-client based, with the pods pinging the avatars constantly, acting as the master system.
Right now listen to ourselves, we’ve finally slipped away into nerd-space for good. Reminds me of watching the new Star Trek movie, wondering what had happened to Robert April.
You say that like its a bad thing
Without those who dare to dream, and strive to achieve, there would be no invention and all the things you take for granted would not exist.