Yes Yes I know it took me like forever but I finally saw James Cameron's Avatar on Saturday. My full review will be posted soon..but here's a taste of what you can expect--Visually it was indeed stunning, but it went on way too long and I had issues with the plot...
Cameron says that he doesn't want to call the "Avatar" sequel "Avatar 2" and offers up the following:
"Maybe we'll call it "Na'vi".
He wants to explore the spiritual aspects of the Na'vi more in the sequel after having to cut back on it somewhat in the first film. He plans on directing the sequel...
"Despite her character's fate in the first film, Sigourney Weaver told French television that she's already talked with Cameron about returning for an "Avatar" sequel
The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier, broke major protocol when he sent out an e-mail to Oscar voters recently urging them to vote 'Locker' first and Avatar last on their ballots, has been denied attendance to tonight's ceremony...
Cameron on the mini-scandal--"I really couldn't care less about that," Cameron told Access Hollywood at the 47th annual Publicists Awards (They get awards too??!!) on Friday about Chartier's e-mails, "It doesn't reflect at all on [director] Kathryn [Bigelow]’s integrity or [screenwriter] Mark Boal's integrity because their producer made a dumb mistake.”
Meatime The LA Times reports that last Wednesday Locker producers were served court papers and are being sued by Sgt Jeffrey Sarver who claims that characters in the movie are not fictional, but based on him and his three-man team of bomb squad technicians.
Sarver alleges that virtually all of the situations portrayed in the film were occurrences involving him that were observed and documented by Boal, who followed Saver around for 30 days back in 2004 in order to write a Playboy article-- then used that article as the basis for the film's screenplay.
Boal says that the charges are baseless. "I think Sarver is a brave soldier and a good guy," he said. "Like a lot of soldiers, he identifies with the film, but the character I wrote is fictional. The film is a work of fiction inspired by many people's stories. I talked to easily over 100 soldiers during my research."
Sarver is seeking compensation for using his life story and the term "The Hurt Locker," which he says he coined.
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