Jake Sully, a paraplegic marine, is dispatched to join the outreach program, ostensibly to help them with their work, but with the secret agenda of getting an inside look at their camp so that the military attack can be more decisive. The film's ensemble cast, featuring Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang, further contributes to the film's overall brilliance. It’s pointless and, worse still, it is horrendously crowbarred-in immediately after the brutal climax between Jake, Neytiri and the Colonel. I’m guessing it will be just a few years before we see a major “human” digital character on screen that is virtually indistinguishable from the actual human actors around them. The remainder of extra material comes peppered throughout the 3 hour runtime: a line about the mag-lev effect that keeps the floating mountains, erm, afloat; a few seconds of ‘bonding’ between Jake and Neytiri (really, for all the furore surrounding this ‘sex scene’ there is absolutely nothing worth watching here); and an extra scene where the Na’vi are shown fighting back against the bulldozers, and effectively provoking the all-out attack at the end (understandable why this was cut, although it makes the story more logical, and less clichéd).

BD-Live:It should also be noted that there is an ever-increasing wealth of material to download using BD-Live, including Screen Tests and Na’vi language tutorials, but there’s nothing particularly worthy of your time.Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). In the months leading up to Avatar’s theatrical release, I remember seeing the Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller, The Surrogates, where Willis himself had been made to look more youthful (in his ‘surrogate’ body) through lavish CG use. La imagen se ve fabulosa y es una buena mejora desde el blu-ray convencional, ganando enteros en nitidez, brillo y saturación del color.

On the negative side, the cuts add little to the overall production, and fans will enjoy watching them once for curiosity value, but will probably stick with the original Theatrical Cut in the long run. This animated short about producer Jon Landau losing all the film prints for 'Avatar' before the premiere is insufferably stupid and awful. Counting the theatrical run, this would be my third time watching the movie, so I decided to jump whole-hog into the three-hour version.

By using the color buttons on the Blu-ray player remote, you may toggle between raw motion-capture footage of the actors on a soundstage, the rough real-time "template" for the CG effects, and the completed version with picture-in-picture references to the other stages. The obvious answer was the 3D side of things – audiences still did not know whether this was just another gimmick, a fad reminiscent to Jaws 3D in the eighties, or whether it would be around to stay. Sooner or later, I’m betting that some well-known current actor or actress will have their likeness and voice digitally transcribed so they can continue to star in films for decades looking virtually unchanged. This is the thing that people are forgetting: Once all theatres are equipped to present films like this, 3D will not be simply used for roller-coaster action, sci-fi and fantasy films. Its unparalleled CGI, compelling characters, and thought-provoking narrative make it a film that continues to stand the test of time.

This feature-length documentary provides an incredibly thorough look at the production of the film, from inspirations and aspirations, to creature and character designs, to visual effects and much, much more.

Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. We’re midway into the 22 nd Century and mankind has expanded to get a foothold of numerous other planets. The editors needed to learn how to cut together the actors' performances without shot compositions, which would be chosen later.

If you're won over by the movie's trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. The visual effects in this scene are almost up to the same standard as the original footage, but for some reason the CG mud splatters look really fake. Avatar originally ran at a length of 162 minutes, and this was the cut that was first released back in May 2010. The title listings are as follows: Sculpting Avatar, Creating the Banshee, Creating the Thanator, The AMP Suit, Flying Vehicles, Na’vi Costumes, Speaking Na’vi, Pandora Flora, Stunts, Performance Capture, The 3D Fusion Camera, The Simul-Cam, Editing Avatar, Scoring Avatar, Sound Design, and The Haka: The Spirit of New Zealand.But in reality, however, you can’t tell the difference between them – this looks just as good as the previous release, and is also top demo material.