New Avatar featurette shows us the war machines

by Liam on November 20, 2009 · View Comments

Avatar movie stills By this time next month there is a good chance you will have seen James Cameron’s Avatar. You may have even seen it twice. In which case you will have seen every single scene, however until then you may want to avoid featurettes like this. While they are extremely cool and make you want to see the movie immediately, they do reveal a little bit too much.

This one focuses on the weapons, robots, hardware and aircraft the humans use in the film. We also see James Cameron and producer Jon Landau talking about the science and logistics behind it all, for instance, the reason the aircraft land and take-off vertically is due to the lack of actual landing strips on Pandora. It’s good to see some common sense in a big effects-orientated movie.

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  • OK ok. It DOES look cool, but it's still really hard for me to care that much about a cartoon army fighting another cartoon army. I just can't wrap my suspension of disbelief around it. See also Droids v Gungans...
  • Pyrenata
    I have a problem with mech suits in general... the question is... why? It must require a lot of power, specialized computer sensitivity (to be so well articulated) and it's bipedal: an unreliable (balance wise) orientation if it must constantly shift weight in the way humans do. Hell, a crapload of our brain capacity is used just to maintain and regulate this function because it involves such complex calculations. for all the better ideas out there, I just don't see mech suits mattering in any military-logistic sense.
  • Metal Blue
    Sure, when it comes to balance, some hard drive space is used, but how easy would it be for a few tanks to roll through dense forests, going up against very agile, very cunning, very tall creatures? The bipedal walker has plenty of maneuverability compared to a tracked tank, and is very important when the enemy is so spread out you can't easily just blow them to bits with artillery
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