Avatar Star Sam Worthington Beams In His Regards
We've been handed down a mandate to share every crumb we stumble upon in regards to a certain upcoming CGI feature about a race of blue people who live in an enchanted forest filled with giant inhabitable flora and predatory feline creatures, and who share only one female among them.
No -- not The Smurfs Movie, silly! Avatar!
We've liveblogged Tom Rothman and James Cameron's opening panel remarks, and provided an in-depth analysis of the 25 minutes of footage previewed at Comic-Con -- but Avatar superfans still can't seem to get enough! (Do they have a name yet? How about "Avatards?")
Fair enough. We here at Movieline aim to please. So why don't you now enjoy this beamed-in greeting from star Sam Worthington, who couldn't make it to the Avatar panel due to his previous commitments to looking very dirty in front a catering truck somewhere. He called Pandora a "mystical and amazing planet like you've never seen," and that the film "is a really amazing movie," adding, "Now if you'll excuse me, I got a Kraken to kill."
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The hilarious (unless you're him) irony of James Cameron is that he brings a level of visual believability to period and fantasy universes that none of his contemporaries can touch... until his characters open their mouths. Whereupon his tin ear to the nuances of natural speech and obliviousness to how people interrelate return us thuddingly back to the movie lot just as gracelessly as any bad monster suit or cheesy CGI.
Come to think of it, even his technical virtuosity is only good for a handful of years. Anyone seen "Titanic" lately? It looks like a Playstation 2 game.
People are still buying PS2s, you know. I think mostly poor people, but people nonetheless.
Avatards? God knows I've been called much worse in my life. I say greenlight it dudes!