Here Comes Tech-Heavy “Avatar” (and the Inevitable Smurf Spoof)
by Kara Swisher
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 10:00 PM PT
Hollywood director James Cameron is well known for his heavy use of special effects and techtastic techniques in his movies, which include “Titanic,” “Aliens” and the first–and best–two “Terminator” blockbusters.
In a few weeks, Cameron is hoping to hit geek gold again with a 3-D sci-fi juggernaut called “Avatar.”
Set to come out in mid-December, it is full of all kinds of fancy and innovative CGI animation.
And the use of blue-colored avatars–essentially digitally animated likenesses of the real-life actors–is a big plot point in the movie, which is about a soldier caught in a war between a greedy mining company and a heroic indigenous tribe on a planet called Pandora.
Here’s one of the trailers for “Avatar”:
And, of course, here is a video of a hysterical recent spoof of the movie done by “South Park”–with a little “Dances With Wolves” tossed in, because it is the same exact plot–called “Dances With Smurfs”:
