15 Minutes of Avatar to be shown FREE in Seclect Theatres
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Towards the end of today’s Avatar panel, director James Cameron announced plans to realese a special sneak preview of his 3D sci-fi opus in theatres for free for one day only. This marketing experiment is, Cameron hopes, a way of spreading good word of mouth for the film, set for a December realese.
What do you guys think? Is free the magic word?
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I personally can’t predict what is going to happen from this movie. The wildcard here, believe it or not, is The Last Airbender. There are so many people confused over which movie is which, and I honestly can’t blame them.
I honestly think that James Cameron’s Avatar is going to come out of this mess being benefited by it’s name, in addition to it’s normal success. So it will be hard to figure out what is coming from where.
As to whether or not the movie will benefit from a promotion like this? Depends on whether or not the movie is really good. Not just good, but REALLY good. There are a lot of people out there that won’t re-watch movies in theaters. So this movie is going to have to be good enough to have those people re-watch this movie AND tell their friends. There is a limited audience, and I’m not sure something like this can take advantage of that.
I haven’t read the full article, because you don’t link directly to the articles your referencing, and I don’t feel like searching for it. However, if this was done in a limited number of theaters (If every city only had 1-2 screens showing it, for instance), then I think it could definitely work. Guess we’ll see.
Oh and this! Who the fuck wants to watch 15 minutes of a movie. I seriously wish they’d just stop releasing these. I don’t want to watch 8 two minute clips of Public Enemies before it comes out.
I wish more movies had ad campaigns like Cloverfield or District 9.
I really, really doubt Avatar’s gonna lose a lot of money becuase people can’t tell wheter or not its a movie about the martial-arts cartoon from Nickelodian. I think as soon as they see the trailer filled with space marines and alien dinosaours, they’ll have a pretty good handle of what kind of movie it is.
I will agree that people are confused. I’ve already had to clarify both my roommates, and a hand-full of people at work, but I am assuming once the trailers for both start confusion will end. I hope. I honestly wish Cameron would just change the friggin’ title but… you know, he’s Cameron he’s not gonna do it.
You are assuming a lot of people are going to keep trailers in mind when they go see the movies. Example:
Kid sees Last Airbender trailer, “Ah! An Avatar movie! Awesome”. 3 months later at his local cinema, he sees Avatar on the list of movies, and convinces his parents to watch it. Maybe he never saw the Avatar trailer. Maybe it didn’t sink in that both movies had “Avatar”. Either way, they don’t let you sample movies at a theatre before you buy tickets. So it’s completely logical to think that someone would see Avatar and connect the wrong dots.
We are talking about a movie that is mostly dominated by children here, not a movie that is dominated by people that know the film world inside and out.
In any case, I never said that Avatar is going to lose money because people can’t tell the difference. I said that James Cameron’s Avatar is going to make extra money because people will be confused.
If this last Harry Potter movie had simply been called “The Half-Blood Prince”, and there was a movie that came out first called “Harry Potter”, do you think that the first movie would have benefited from the confusion over it’s name? I have no doubt, no matter how clearly the trailers conveyed the difference.
I’ve made a vow not to see it. This is the most anticipated movie for me in an exceptionally long time and I refuse to spoil myself with an over zealous ad campaign. I will watch a two minute trailer when that finally hits but other than that… nothing. I’ve seen some of the concept art, the cast list, and a short blurb about it… and that’s it. I’m done until December.
Honestly movies, that’s all people need, regardless of what they hound for- with maybe a few carefully picked still frames to put in magazines.
I really think seeing too much of the movie before hand is what helped contribute to the downfall of T4 and Watchmen for me. I’m not doing that again. Honestly my complete lack of interest in Star Trek probably helped me like it better than if I had scoured the nets seen as much pre-footage as I could, hunted down concept art, etc.
Usually, I agree. A person should only see enough of a movie to get them excited, then back off. Trailers oversaturate you with film footage so that you could literally see a good chunk of the movie before you step foot in a theater. This is especially bad with comedies, where the jokes are old before you see the movie.
However, in the case of Watchmen and T4, I disagree (On a personal level, mind you. For you, that’s entirely likely to be the reason you had the downfall). For me, I actually think I wouldn’t have been as disappointed with T4, had I known what to expect going into it. I was totally hyped about what it could have been, and ignored what it actually was. I was totally hyped about a John Connor of the future movie, and that’s totally not what I got. A little more research and over-saturation would have grounded my expectations a bit more, and I would have enjoyed it for what it was.
With Watchmen, I didn’t really have a problem with the movie, but I wasn’t blown away. So I don’t think the trailers would have changed that one way or another. Though, it probably could have used a little less hype.
I’m genuinely trying to wrap my head around your arugument Randy, but I can’t. I don’t think you need to “know the fim world inside and out” to have the mental capacity to cypher that Avatar the sci-fi 3D movie is the same as Avatar, the animated kung fu show. And if you walk into Avatar and feel bamboozled becuase its not about Aang fighting the Fire Nation…you’re a moron.
Again, if you showed them the two projects, I have no doubt that they could tell the difference. But if all you have to go on is the name on a marquee, and the memory that there is an Avatar: the Last Airbender movie coming out, then it would be totally easy for you to jump to conclusions and assume that “Avatar” is that movie.
What would there be to tell you differently? Should they go home and research the subject? Do you think that the typical theater worker is going to be like, “Wait just a moment, are you sure you want to see THIS Avatar, and not The Last Airbender?”
You and I know the difference, but I can guarantee you that the typical movie watcher, especially the younger ones, could easily get confused.
You keep bringing up the fact that one is a scifi 3d show, and one is an animated kung fu movie (Which isn’t actually the case, since the movie isn’t animated). However, I don’t know a single theater that allows people to see what is on the other side of the theater doors BEFORE they buy their tickets. In order to tell the difference, you will have had to remember both trailers as well as their names before you ever go watch the movie.
I don’t think most people know what Avatar Bender is. Prior to hearing about the movie I’d never heard it mentioned accept from this site.
Therefore, I don’t expect it to cause much confusion.
I never watched Avatar before a couple weeks ago. But Avatar is very popular with older kids. That’s probably why you had never heard of it. But it was to older kids as Sponge Bob was to younger kids. There are theme park rides, video games, etc. Make no mistake, it is a slightly annoyingly large franchise with a lot of fans. It just so happens that those fans aren’t generally the type of people you would have an in-depth conversation with. Which is another reason I think there will be a lot of confusion. The typical audience of the show isn’t the sort of people that will remember the differences between two movies with similar names. They possibly may never even see a trailer for Avatar. I know I haven’t saw one, and I’m interested in the movie.
I assume that one is going to be rated pg and the other will probly be an R, so that will be a pretty good give-away for alot of people about what movie they are going to see.
If that’s the case, then it would definitely kill almost all the confusion. However, I hadn’t personally seen any indications that it would be rated ‘R’. In fact, with all the hype about how much business the movie will do, I would be shocked if it’s rated ‘R’. But I haven’t been following any discussions on the rating of the movie, so I’ll take your word for it.
Though, I’m not sure that makes me happy. It looks like a movie that deserves to thrive. Most R rated films take a bit of a hit. Especially if you are already talking about a niche market like Sci-fi. Then again, some movies probably benefit from it. Like “The Hangover”
I don’t think Cameron’s film will be rated “R”. There’s so much preassure to do PG-13 these days. They’ll pretty much let you do anything but blood. And if cg removing some blood in a scene means an extra $25 million at the box office, then that’s some pretty expensive blood to justify to the studio.
It’s too bad, because it’s us the audience that loses out.
I bet Air Bender will be PG-13 too.
Do we lose out? I don’t remember anyone complaining that The Dark Knight was PG 13.
Personally, I never expected Avatar to be an R-rated film. I’m not exactly sure why. I don’t really care all that much what it ends up being rated as long as the movie is a good one.
I highly doubt that Airbender will be PG-13, but I guess the action could push it into that territory. I’m expecting it to be PG.
Yeah, I don’t know that I would enjoy DK more if we saw the joker covered in blood in the interogation scene. But to me DK is still an R rated at heart.
See if this makes sense: Dark Knight is an R edited down into a PG-13. Whereas Watchmen is a PG-13 edited into an R.
As for how any of this relates to Avatar. As I understand it (and please don’t correct me with any specifics. I really don’t want to be spoiled.) the film is similar to Aliens in that it’s about space marines fighting aliens. So in the veign of Aliens, I would expect blood and carnage.
Maybe this film is less of an actioneer? I don’t know. I do know that Cameron used to mean R; Terminators, and Aliens and True Lies and Piranha II’s. But we’ve gravated as a culture.
There used to be a clear between fantasy movies like Star Wars and Supermans and then there were the action films like Rambo and Death Face McKillyerass. The Spiders-mans and Star Wars and Transformables and Smurf would be PG and the Terminators and Die Hards; movies about guns and soldiers would be R. Everything in our culture has now drifted towards this PG-13 center.
We want Transformers with a stipper waving her ass in the air, but no actual sex. We want people getting shot in the face with exploding ammo, but no blood. We want to hear the word “fuck” once and only ONCE per movie!
It’s an interesting statement about what a perverse, bizarrely repressed, and paradoxical culture we are.
in the UK the dark knight was rated a 12, I never understood how it got awaywithit when the original 2batman movies are both 15’s, and hell even Daredevil was a15, TDK went much further than those two in my oppinion.
What about the movie posters that are outside of the theatere, Randy? When they see an AVATAR poster with all sorts of CG sci-fi images; even if thats the only piece of information they have to go on, wouldn’t that be enough for the kids to say “oh, that’s weird; this has the same name of that awesome show I watch on TV but this clearly isnt the same thing”
I never pay attention to 90% of the posters I see, honestly. Same for most people that walk into a theater. You will see the occasional people stop and look, but most just walk on in.
With that said, the Avatar posters are going to have to show a lot more than the teaser images show, in order to throw up that red-flag. But again, I really think you are giving kids too much credit. Maybe your theaters just have awesome poster placement, but at my theaters, a large majority of the posters are outside, and almost nobody stops to look at them on the way in. The only posters on the inside are for upcoming movies.
So to wrap this up; I think kids are clever enough to be able to decipher that Avatar the science fiction movie is different than Avatar the cartoon and upcoming movie; you think they are not.
And PW made a good point about the long gap in time between the two movies
Yep, big long gap. And guess which one is coming out first? Avatar. The one that I’m certain kids will get confused over. So that doesn’t disprove anything I said. And as I said, it has absolutely nothing to do with telling the difference between two movies. It has everything to do with telling the difference between two titles.
Avatar (the cartoon) is also pretty popular among animators that are me.
This semi-arguement/discussion you guys are having is kind of amusing, but I think two things make it pretty much moot:
December 18, 2009 – James Cameron’s Avatar
July 2, 2010 – The Last Airbender
If both movies were in the theaters at the same time, I could see some people getting a bit confused. However, Avatar will be out of theaters long before The Last Airbender hits screens. Also, dropping the word “Avatar” from the cartoon adaptation will help as well.
I think that makes it worse, actually. The trailer for The Last Airbender is out. The trailer for Avatar isn’t, as far as I’ve seen. Kids KNOW there is an Avatar movie coming out. So when an Avatar movie comes out in December, that’s going to add to the confusion. If it was the other way around, and The Last Airbender came out first, then the argument would be moot. The confusion would be minimal. But that’s not the case. Also, if they were in theaters a the same time, I actually think it would be less confusing. If you saw both Avatar and The Last Airbender on the board, it’d be easy to figure out which one you want to see. But if you’ve only seen the trailer for the Last Airbender, and the first thing you see is Avatar? You’re going to mis-connect the dots.
And I also don’t believe dropping the name “Avatar” helped at all. It helped James Cameron’s Avatar, for sure. But did nothing for the confusion problem. Kids are still going to know the property as Avatar.
what’s really gonna hurt Airbender is when kids show up thinking it’s the sequel to Avatar. They’re gonna be like “where’s all my favorite characters from the first one?”
Pandemonium!
Since it’s not called Avatar, I don’t even think that’s a good joke ;P
… isn’t your whole point that they’re going to be confused regardless of their titles?
It was definitely a good joke.
On a completely unrelated side note, I want to see a movie with the title of “Pandemonium!”….yes, the exclamation point needs to be part of the title, kind of like “Top Secret!”.
Actually, the only people that might get confused are parents who have heard of the cartoon’s name and not much else. If you know anything about the cartoon at all, James Cameron’s movie won’t look like it at all, and I’m sure there will be a ton of TV commercials come November and December. I think that most kids are smart enough that they won’t get confused.
Yes! Thank you!
Again, you are assuming that people are going to be comparing two things that they can’t see when they are in line at a movie theater. We’ve yet to see a single trailer for the movie, and you suddenly think that the non-target audience is going to be saturated with advertisements for this movie prior to it coming out? So much so that when they are in line at the theater and they see “Avatar” is playing, they will remember some random sci-fi movie they POSSIBLY saw a preview for instead of the TV show they loved and watched for three years? I don’t buy it. At all.
These are 12 year olds, we are talking about. Unless James Cameron is making Cartoon Network and Nick a major part of his marketing push, I’d question whether or not most of these kids will even know about Avatar prior to it coming out.
Ultimately, this will be a debate that can almost certainly go unproven. But I have no doubt in my mind that there will be many people that will end up seeing the wrong movie. And apparently someone in Hollywood thinks the same thing, otherwise they wouldn’t have renamed The Last Airbender. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s enough.
Randy, you’re scenario is even more outlandish than what you think mine is! WHY would someone go see a movie without even the FAINTEST idea of what looks like/is about? What kid ISNT’T going to know about the latest sci-fi blockbuster? Do you realize how HEAVILY they’re going to market Avatar from October to December? Why do you assume 12-year-olds don’t know anything? Kids are the MOST open to film marketing and commericals! It’s the GROWN-UPS that likely won’t know what the hell they’re going see!
You’re acting like most people go to the box office before deciding what to watch. If there’s any confusion, it will happen on the internet or in the newspaper when they are looking up showtimes.
And yes, I am assuming that there will be a fairly heavy ad campaign for this. Most blockbuster movies get a fairly robust ad campaign, especially during the holidays. Most movies coming out in December get advertised in many different places, and get a ton of ads on TV during several different timeslots. If you watch TV at all, especially during sweeps time in November, I’m sure you will be exposed to several Avatar ads.
I guess I just think 12 year olds are smarter and are exposed to more things than you seem to think they are.
I totally agree PW. Kids, young boys most of all, will memorize every line of a trailer for a movie they want to see.
Whoa! I looks like we have some simultaneous posting going on here!
And plus everyone’s gonna want to see Avatar a hundred times because it’s based on a cartoon we all love. That trailer I was great!
@TNN: I didn’t say they wouldn’t have an idea of what it looks like. I said that they would assume that Avatar is Avatar. They know exactly what “it” look like, if “it” = the movie they want to see. It just so happens that they would be thinking of the wrong movie. There would be no time to compare and contrast once you’re at the theater.
@PW: There are actually a ton of people that go to the theater without knowing what they want to watch. My wife complains about it every day after work, and has for the past 6 years. It happens, believe it.
But let’s assume you are correct, and everyone in the world decides what movie they are going to watch before they get there. Unless the newspapers in your part of the world are better than the newspapers in my area of the world, they still only list the title. And yeah, a lot of kids are going to run off to do some research on Avatar, and find out that it’s not what they think it is. But that’s like how everyone said that all the bad reviews would hurt Transformers 2. And yet it’s on the cusp of 400 million. A majority of people don’t do their research.
As far as a large marketing campaign? I didn’t say there wasn’t going to be one. I said that it would not be pushed in the area that these kids are going to see it. Hell, I don’t see most marketing campaigns these days. This is an era of skipping commercials. But I’m specifically talking about kids that are glued to the cartoon channels. They will not see Avatar marketed on those channels. And kids DO watch a lot of cartoon channels. Sometimes exclusively. I see it all the time from my 6 nephews and nieces.
The fact of the matter is, most movies get marketed in some way prior to 5 months before release. Avatar is not doing that. They are likely aiming for the all out blitz before it comes out. That’s great. Fantastic. But you miss a lot of people when you do it.
Fact is, (And I do mean FACT) marketing campaigns spend millions of dollars to hit their audience. And they still miss a lot of people. I’ve never seen a hyped video game launch (Xbox 360, Halo, Call of Duty, Playstation 3, etc) where there aren’t fanboys screaming about how they have yet to see a single commercial for their precious new game/system. Meanwhile, others will tell them that they are crazy, because the ads are all over the place. And these are people that are LOOKING for ads. The typical person is not going to pay attention to some of these ads.
The point I’m trying to make is simple. Some people will be confused, and will go into Avatar expecting a different movie. It will happen. I have no doubt of that. And if you think it won’t, you don’t know how people work. I’m not saying millions of kids will do it. I’m not saying it will significantly increase the business of Avatar. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m saying it will happen. Probably not to a measurable amount, but it will happen. Why is that such an outlandish claim? They are two movies with very similar names. There is nothing revolutionary about the idea of confused movie goers.
My final comment about that subject before I give up talking to a wall. If it’s as you guys say, and nobody will get confused (Except possibly parents), and people all research movies to a level similar to how much we research them. If all that is true, and there is no way someone could be so “stupid” as to get two movies confused, and buy a ticket to the wrong movie. Then why is it that Nickelodeon would not decide to keep the title, “Avatar: The Last Airbender”? It’s a brand name. It’s a household name for kids. It’s money in the bank. Why would they give that up?
@Rusty: I have no doubt that The Last Airbender (And Avatar) is going to do a lot of business. This was in no way a discussion of how well each movie is going to do.
re: I have no doubt that The Last Airbender (And Avatar) is going to do a lot of business. This was in no way a discussion of how well each movie is going to do.
yeah but my comment was a joke. people are gonna see avatar because it’s based on a cartoon…
we need to find some kids. They’ll be able to settle this!
Yes! Absoloutely! Come Fall I will glady interview some the kids my mom works with!
If you guys seriously don’t know any kids, then I’m already more confident in my argument. I know a lot of kids, and I know how they work. There is nothing to be settled.
Maybe it’s just the area of the country I live in, but the fact is, people don’t know a lot about the movies they go to see around here. It was not uncommon to hear people refer to Flash of Genius as “That windshield wiper movie” around here. When Bride Wars and the other wedding movie (Rachel Getting Married, perhaps) were both out, people would have no clue which one they were wanting to see.
As far as kids movies? Do you think it’s an accident that cartoon movies sometimes have imitators? There are a lot of kids that can tell the difference between Antz and A Bug’s Life. But there are a lot that can’t.
Has anybody ever read House of Leaves? Becuase thats what Randy’s comments are starting to remind me of
I was 8 when Antz and A Bugs Life came out, I could tell the difference (I knew that Antz was the one I really enjoyed and A Bugs Life was just Ok) I remember looking forward to both movies.
Just out of curriousity, how many people were reffering to Flash of Genius at all?
I work at a video store and whilst some people are confused by the similar movies, most people (especially the kids) know what they want to see.
@Jack: I hope to God you can tell the difference after you watch the movie. I was talking about confusing the consumer with similar movies prior to them seeing it.
@TNN: I’ve already said what I thought this conversation reminded me of. Talking to a wall. No matter how many counter-arguments you make, the wall just stares back at you.
@ but the fact is, people don’t know a lot about the movies they go to see around here.
I believe you, there was a study done about this recently.
But it seems like you’re trying to tell us that, simultaneously, kids don’t care which movie they go see, and also they are specifically setting out to see Air Bender not Avatar and are going to be disappointed. It can’t really be both things.
Also, if this argument about whether or not two movies are going to be confused for one another gets to 100 comments, then I say we all disband and join other websites.
Randy, I keep staring back at you becuause I’m trying to find out just at what point to stopped making anything even resembling sense.
@TNN’: “at what point to stopped making anything even resembling sense.”
Do what? You type something like that sentence, and I’m the one not making sense?
Maybe I need to start typing in Yoda-speak in order to get through.
@Rusty:
I was just saying that they would be aware an Avatar movie is coming out, and then think that is what they are seeing. When I was a kid, I was often taken to the theater with my parents. They would pick a movie, and if I didn’t want to watch that one, I could pick a different one instead. From what I’ve seen that happens a lot at the theaters around here. And when the kids are desperately scanning for an alternative to whatever lame movie their parents are watching, Avatar would likely jump off the page as an option that they are “aware of”. I didn’t even necessarily mean to say they would be disappointed by the movie, but disappointed by the fact that it’s not what they thought it was. I’m sure they would love the movie itself.
Anyway, I’m going to leave the rest of the trek to 100 comments up to you guys. I never make any progress in these debates, so I’m going to give up. Maybe I should join Scott, Ben, and Wayne in hibernation.
Speaking of hibernation, is there any word on when we might see Scoot, Ben, and Wayne around these parts again?
Yes Randy, please; take a good, long nap. As for the rest of the team; Scott’s having computer trouble, Ben’s just getting some life affairs in order and Wayne I imagine busy raising his child
Glad you have tabs on them. I’m well aware of a majority of the situations. Just saying it’s not a bad idea to join them.
I do know kids. Maybe the ones I know are just smarter than the average ones or something.
Anyway, SaberJ, it looks like we are actually on a similar page here, even if our previous posts don’t really seem like it. Of course there is always a few people who will get confused about things, even if there isn’t something with the direct potential to cause it like we have here. I just think that the amount will be small enough to be pretty much negligible in the big picture, so it doesn’t really matter that much.
From what you said above, it sounds like you have a similar feeling.
Regardless, I’m ready to drop the topic as well. I’d rather discuss something like the new Tron footage, how awesome Robert Downey Jr is during CC panels, or something else of the sort.
Am I the only who didn’t really care about Tron footage. All of a sudden this is like *the movie* to talk about. Whatever.
I liked the Tron footage, I thought it was pretty rad, but for me Comic Con was all about Kick-Ass, Lost, Iron Man 2 Where the Wild Things Are and the fact that Jeff Smith is writing new Bone.
Bone! Holy shit. Someone talked about a comic book during the convention?!
haha, to be honest I don’t even know if it was actually a comic con announcement. I just heard about while the Con was going on. Still, NEW BONE!
My favorite things from CC that I have seen online is the description of the Iron Man 2 footage and the clips of the Sherlock Holmes panel that I saw. The Tron footage was cool, but I believe that it is only supposed to be test footage. It looks cool and all, but I’m more interested in what direction they are trying to take the story in. I still think it’s rather bizarre that Tron is getting a sequel years down the road.
Randy, you reminded when looking at this thread of a story I like to tell.
Picture it: Yonkers NY, 1991. Myself a plucky little 8 year old who liked stories about animals, particularly dogs/wolves, my sweet 5 year old baby sister who just did what we told her to do, and my confident 11 year old sister who was harboring a crush on a fresh faced post Dead Poets Society/pre- Reality Bites Ethan Hawke, and my father, who wasn’t more creative with what to with three girls are at Movieland Theaters on Central Ave.
We want to see “that new wolf movie” that we can’t remember the name of. (White Fang- the one with Ethan Hawke)
My father asks the woman at the counter if there’s a wolf movie playing because my father at the time was only aware of movies where wars are being fought or Bruce WIllis is blowing some shit up.
The ticket girl in her infinite wisdom sells my father an adult ticket and three child tickets for Dances With Wolves.
DANCES WITH FRIGGIN’ WOLVES!
WHO TELLS A MAN WITH THREE YOUNG CHILDREN THE MOVIE THEY WANT TO SEE IS DANCES WITH WOLVES????
That is why when I was 8 I almost plucked my eyes out for sitting through what amounts to the most boring movie. EVER.
This is a lesson people. Why won’t someone think of the children?
it’s funny. I saw Dances With Wolves at about that same age and loved it.
Now Dead Poets Society, that’s a piece of shit.
Really? But were you expecting a fun Disney wolf movie a la Iron Will? Were you?
You know what’s sad I STILL have never seen White Fang!
Even to this day I find Dances With Wolves to be one big boring epic that took all of the interesting bits out of the book and replaced it with scenery porn.
I can’t hate on Dead Poet’s Society man. Robert Sean Leonard is really cool in that movie (and in Swing Kids he teams up with Christian Bale too!) and I have a soft spot for teacher movies and I’ll own up to it: I cry at the end when they all stand on their deaths and cry “Oh Captain! My Captain!” Just like I cry at the song in Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
And just like how I watched a clip from the funeral scene in My Girl earlier today I started bawling my eyes out. “He needs his glasses! Where’s his glasses? He can’t see without his glasses!” And Dan Ackroyd tries to tell her that he’s gone and she runs away in anger… Oh God I’m crying now…
I’m such a sap…
I cry during My Girl aswell, but not My Girl 2, that was a really unwanted sequel.
I hope that Cameron’s film is awesome, for his sake. He’s a good director…but the “hype” for this film is causing people who were originally big fans to be ticked off because they are getting… a pathetic teaser trailer…a still here…free movie clip there….
Sure the CGI still that I saw of Worthington’s character was pretty amazing and looked real, but people are getting board. People are starting to gripe about the fact that Cameron uses “blue” in his film alot! Really, we’re complaining about colors now?
The full trailer is supposed to be out sometime this week, so we’ll see what the buzz is after that happens.