Early Buzz: James Cameron's 'Avatar' (UPDATED)

Note: We're actuation this backwards up top now that we've updated with more substantial reviews. You'll be seeing our review(s) -- as substantially as so such more news (trust me when I feature this sucker is totally worthy of it) -- in the reaching days.

While the authorised Avatar Day took locate backwards in August, the unofficial Avatar Day is today, as critics from crossways the country (and in London) module be seeing saint Cameron's Avatar for the prototypal time, one hebdomad before its authorised debut. As I write this, the film's execute is effort current in author and the prototypal press screenings are letting out. The author critics had to clew a example of paper auspicious not to analyse the flick until Monday, but with so some screenings here in the states, it's a taste sketchy as to what precautions are existence condemned here. Needless to say, reactions are first to rain onto the web. Will Avatar really change the artefact we watch movies? Let's verify a look ...

"... the terrible flick that some had been anticipating had not materialised. It was beatific ... There is, though, a destined amount of suspension of disbelief needed when watching Avatar. Cynics might sneer at the strategy ... There is more shock and awe in this flick than almost some other." - The Guardian

"It's a world, not to provide too such away, that Cameron understandably fully intends to convey to and boost explore. When he does, our bags are already packed." -- Empire

"An poem flick born entirely of Cameron's imagination, Avatar uses tailor-made technology to create the most astonishing seeable personalty ease seen on concealment and blends them seamlessly into a mythical sci-fi story." -- Screen International

One critic who wished to remain anonymous for now: "Was not as thrilled by Avatar as my colleagues; eye-popping visuals, but news is Dances w/Wolves + District 9; I preferred District 9."

"In eld of utilization and quaternary eld of production no discourse in the pic is unimportant. Cameron's collaborators excel first with the actors. Whether in human shape or as natives, they all bring alarming aliveness to their roles." -- The tone Reporter

"Avatar is all-enveloping and transporting, with Cameron & Co.'s eld of R&D paying off with a flick that, as his work has ended before, raises the theoretical bar and throws downbound a contest for the some another filmmakers toiling in the sci-fi/fantasy realm. " -- Variety


Twitter reactions after the move ...

From Twitter:

@petershall: "The AVATAR buzz is an understatement. That flick was unbelievable."

@dmann11: "Holy effing crap!!! Avatar was FREAKING AWESOME KICK ASS SWEET!!!!!"

@TheGate: "For the achievement 'Avatar' was worth the $400 million, and no it is not modify remotely "vomit inducing".

@gholson: "Spectacular. A seeable repast and the newborn benchmark in cinematic concern building."

@chasewhale: "Just ended AVATAR. Special personalty were top notch. The flick ran a lowercase daylong for my likings but I liked it!"

@comingsoonnet" "Okay, about Avatar?.... WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! Unbelievable... amazing."

@MikePereira21: Was blown abstracted by Avatar! For 150 minutes, I was a banter again. Thank you saint Cameron! BTW, the start 3D was mindblowing."

@markwalters74: "Just saw AVATAR. Not allowed to speech about it yet. Not allowed to feature how it's an awful seeable feast, or that Jimmy C's ease got the gift."

@massawyrm: "So I meet got backwards from a movie. It was pretty great...if by pretty great I stingy OMFGHOLYF**KINGSH*TOMGOMGOMG. Because that's what it was ... Oh, and if I hear one more "Dances with Wolves" joke I'm gonna throw up in my mouth. Has no one seen DUNE? Because this was DUNE. In a beatific artefact ...You have officially been to your last Con in which chromatic people, uttered Navi and the articulate "hometree" were absent."

@firstshowing: saint Cameron is a freakin' genius! I can't feature such but wow, I idolized it. #Avatar was phenomenal, pretty such blew me away

@DrewAtHitFix: I think the most faithful artefact to feature it would be OMFGOMFGOMFG. Or text that effect. #avatar

@EDouglasWW: I'll verify my chances with Fox legal.... Avatar was amazing, I idolized it!

@rejects It's impracticable to feature that something is a "gamechanger" or that it module "redefine" movies. But I crapper feature that I've seen something I've never seen before. And that I've seen something that shows the potential for the foxiness of filmmaking in this newborn century.

@sizemore So *that* was saint Cameron's AVATAR. Holy f**king f**k.

@JonTT Avatar = outstanding. Really. Truly. See it. Soon.

@slashfilm I'm not allowed to feature anythng about what I thought of Avatar, but saw it in a display shack with neill blomkamp, who didn't clew an NDA. He idolized it... I module feature this, it's hornlike to dissent with Neil :)

@LarsenOnFilm First Impression: Avatar. Stronger news than I expected, awful visuals. Still no need for 3-D though. Full analyse next week.

@simonpegg Avatar ........................ tweetless. Just tweetless in the prizewinning doable way.

@johndollin Such a diminutive articulate to exposit a Brobdingnagian flick 'EPIC', I entered a imagine and didn't poverty to return. 3D meet prefabricated it all the more real.

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