Kevin's Watch

After seeing Avatar (finally) this weekend, I am more convinced than ever that the technology exists to create the Chronicles on film.

Seeing Jake Sully get covered by those floating jellyfish things reminded me of the Celebration of Spring and just how beautiful it could be... before the attack.

The Hometree - Soaring Woodhelven, Revelwood can look just as majestic and realistic.

The motion capture in this movie is amazing - think of seeing Cavewights or Ur-Viles instead of Navi. And seeing the 10-12 foot tall Navi walking and interacting seamlessly with the humansized characters makes me think the Giants can be realistically done as well.

We have the technology - we can build the movie(s)... we just need a director with the passion that Cameron put into Avatar. And we need a studio willing to fund a big enough budget

Well... I can dream

I'll dream with you.

I'll dream, too, Akasri. Avatar lights the way for a truly spectacular Covenant movie.

Starts dreaming...

I can dream also, but I know that critics will just say that TC rips off LOTR and Avatar.

Akasri wrote:After seeing Avatar (finally) this weekend, I am more convinced than ever that the technology exists to create the Chronicles on film.

Signs that you've been spending too much time on Kevin's Watch - this statement confuses you until you realize that the poster means the James Cameron movie and not meeting a fellow Kevin's Watch member.

Cagliostro wrote:

Akasri wrote:After seeing Avatar (finally) this weekend, I am more convinced than ever that the technology exists to create the Chronicles on film.

Signs that you've been spending too much time on Kevin's Watch - this statement confuses you until you realize that the poster means the James Cameron movie and not meeting a fellow Kevin's Watch member.

LOL, oops... guess I should have been more specific

I agree. When I saw the dandelion-jellyfish things, the first thing I thought of was the Celebration of Spring. It's such a beautiful, heartwarming moment in the story, and the travesty committed reverberate through both the reader and the rest of the story.

Imagine being able to see them arcing, at a distance, out 'towards' the 'closer' Covenant, and then again 'away' towards the other edge of the screen.

And the giants in 3d! Oh!

Unfortunately, to dream is the only thing we can do for now.

Maybe Hallmark Productions could do Lord Foul's Bane. They did such a great job with A Wizard of Earthsea. SRD should call Ursula LeGuin. She had nice things to say about it...

Of course, they'd have to cast Vern Troyer as Foamfollower, Orlando Jones as Mhoram, and that guy from Twilight as Covenant.

i havent seen Avatar but i hear good things. the problem i see is modern day audiences aren't looking for a movie with too much storyline. they want action and special effects. covenant wont work on film because people will see to much dreadful thinking required. but, as we all know, the movies, if done right, would blow LotR out of the water and the special effects would surpass everything audiences have seen thus far. This is if the gave it a f***ing chance. damn it, im angry

sammadhi wrote:i havent seen Avatar but i hear good things. the problem i see is modern day audiences aren't looking for a movie with too much storyline. they want action and special effects. covenant wont work on film because people will see to much dreadful thinking required. but, as we all know, the movies, if done right, would blow LotR out of the water and the special effects would surpass everything audiences have seen thus far. This is if the gave it a f***ing chance. damn it, im angry

I agree. If its done right, it could be awesome, but many things would require intense use of CGI and that usually degenerates into nothing more than a special effects/action fest. I'd be a little more impressed to see New Zealand's WETA team work on the special effects.
I liked Avatar at first, but it left a bad taste in my mouth for some reason.
Then I saw District 9 and it became abundantly clear which movie was better.
Both films had similar themes and made the same points. They'd make a great double feature.
But the way Avatar did it was too cliche and ultimately insulted my intelligence. This was especially evident after viewing District 9.