GeekGasm: A Look at the Latest Avatar Trailer in IMAX 3D! A Difference Than Any 3D Predecessor
I’ll admit it. I was not particularly excited about seeing Avatar. I even got to see an advance look at multiple scenes at ComicCon with James Cameron (and 8000 of our closest friends) but I simply wasn’t all that blown away. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to see it, I just wasn’t all that geeked about it…until now.
I went to see A Christmas Carol last weekend in IMAX 3-D and got to see the 3-D Avatar trailer on a real IMAX screen. Wow. The 2-D trailers now playing in theaters, online and on TV simply do not do it justice. Not even the extended clips Cameron showed in 3-D at ComicCon were able to capture the full effect because of the limited size of the screens. In IMAX it is a truly immersive experience. If there ever was a movie that was meant to be seen on IMAX, this is it. If you live anywhere near an IMAX showing of this movie, you owe it to yourself to see it there before it moves to the smaller screen. If you don’t have an IMAX showing in your town, two words: road trip.
As for the story itself, I can’t help you with that. It looks like a fairly pedestrian retelling of the evil advanced civilization trampling on the rights of the primitive indigenous people during a conquest. Allegories and analogies abound, from the treatment of the native peoples of the Americas and Australia to the exploitation of the Middle East for oil. The little bit that I’ve seen seems pretty heavy-handed in its handling of the subject matter, so my expectations are fairly low regarding its content.
I won’t be making a road trip for the content, however. It will be for the simple equation of IMAX + 3-D + CGI + James Cameron = sensory overload.
