Avatar's first appearance

Over a year ago I remember spending a while trying to track down some info on Avatar... Back then it was all so hush hush that I couldn't even find an image!

Today however, I went to a preview screening of Avatar, James Cameron's first movie since Titanic.

It was at Readings, Wellington's only theatre which has a 3D screen (if you didn't know the movie is in 3D) and all we had to do to get in was queue for about an hour :) The queueing was made harder by the total nerds (in my book worse than geeks!) who were in the queue behind Nick and I, talking total crap. Thankfully I was able to pass some of the time playing my latest addiction on Nick's iphone; Flight Control!!

So back to Avatar - the preview was about 15 mins of 3D awesomeness, and I even spotted a friend of mine who was an extra in it - quite funny cause he's very tall and slim and not really what you'd expect a Marine to look like, did a good job though, nice one Ed! *thumbs up*

I also learned that James Cameron seems to refer to himself as "Jim"... FYI

After seeing the teaser trailer (which went online this morning) it was a great relief to see some decent content. The trailer is good at introducing a bit of the environment of the movie, but the preview really did give a good look at not only the visual awesomeness of Avatar but also a bit of an introduction to the main characters. VERY impressed :)

It was great to see it with Nick as he could show me which bits he'd worked on (as well as which bits he was still working on!) and after watching it I quickly took Nick back to work so he could finish making it :P

Roll on 18th of December!