AVATAR is James Cameron epic return to the science fiction genre; it focuses on an epic conflict on Pandora, an inhabited Earth-sized moon of Polyphemus, one of three fictional gas giants. On Pandora, human colonists and the indigenous inhabitants of Pandora, the Na’vi, engage in a war over the planet’s resources. James Cameron promoted this film by saying it would change the way we see films, I can’t say it will change the way we see films on the scope he was thinking but I do see it revolutionize computer generated imagery in films forever. It has set a bench mark like no other film before.
Well I attended the sneak previews in 34th street Loews IMAX Theater for the 16 minutes of footage from Avatar, the highly anticipated new sci-fi epic from James Cameron. The IMAX 3-D presentation began with a filmed introduction by Cameron, thanking the everyone for joining him for Avatar Day. The first clip begins in the briefing room of the marines. The Drill Sergeant explains that hes in charge of making sure his soldiers don’t get killed in combat but he won’t be able to accomplish that task. The speech ends with Jake (Sam Worthington), our main character and Avatar “test pilot”, entering the room via a wheelchair who was paralyzed in combat apparently.