Avatar Preview Screening
by Jesse Koester on Aug.21, 2009, under Youtube or Vimeo
We got to see an advance screening of 15 minutes of Avatar in iMax 3D. This is the new film by James Cameron, best known for his work directing The Terminator, Terminator 2, The Abyss, Aliens, and Titanic. He’s been off the feature film radar for about a decade now, investing most of his time directing a pair of 3D documentaries (Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep) and producing a slew of films and TV shows.
Well, he’s back on the silver screen* with Avatar. Here’s the preview:
I think we all can agree: WHOOOO!!!!!!
* ‘Silver Screen’, in this case, referring to the silver matte necessary on the exhibition screen to prevent diffusion between the stereo polarized images and not referring to the silver sheen that was prescient in cinema’s infancy when black and white film development actually used a silver halide.