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James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep: Voyages to the Strange World of the Deep Ocean

July 14th, 2010 | Author: metalukelukess

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A small mistake – Stephen A. Haines – Ottawa, Ontario Canada
This production’s title is a bit misleading. It turns out that the “Aliens” are invaders in the Deep, not denizens “of” it. The “aliens” are the descendants of African primates, and we see their actions, their wishes and their responses to what they find at the depths. Although the film does give us glimpses of the sea bottom, the mysterious “black smokers” and the inhabitants associated with them, most of the footage is of the researchers, the support team and, of course, “Jim” Cameron. While scientists and their work need more recognition, the many shots of them peering through portholes, communicating on almost indecipherable squawk boxes and squirming about in confined diving vehicles doesn’t give us much of “the Deep”.

After some initial preparation activities, including stripping the side from one of the ships, the probes are launched. Two hours descent is compressed into twenty seconds, but the sea floor, over 800 metres down is reached. There’s a great deal of interprobe conversation and both internal and outside shots of the vehicles. Cameron’s budget extended to five probes altogether, giving him every possibility for film-making. Wisely, he chose both international and interdiscipline characters, with a mix of Russian, US, geophysicists and astrobiologists. The film buff will recognise none but Cameron, but it’s hoped the research community will pick out familiar names. Personal accounts abound, but one has to wonder at somebody blocking a viewport with a baby’s photograph.

As a producer, Cameron has a sense of lighting and filming scenes, and some of these are little short of stunning. Sea life at depth is sparse, but “something nobody’s ever seen” is likely to appear. One, a form of jellyfish, brings the predictable gasps of awe, and with good reason. It’s indeed a bizarre creature with possibly a lengthy history. The scarcity of life suddenly turns abundant as the divers approach a “black smoker”. Cameron’s lighting talents come to the fore as one vehicle lights the chimney from behind while another films the discharge in glorious close-up. It may be “Hollywood lighting”, but the resulting image seems worth it.

Through it all, one has to wonder if the researchers entertained thoughts of how it was that James Cameron had one robot and four manned dive vessels when their chance at but one means scheduling and a queue. Preparation and its problems are not minor aspects of deep ocean research, but how much of it’s necessary for a commercial film? More to the point, although the scientists struggled to impart that the sea is 70% of the Earth’s living space, the science behind Cameron’s effort remains subdued. It’s true that studying how to do tasks at the bottom of the sea will aid in exploring other planets in the search for ET life. But there is much to be learned about life itself at depth – a topic remains little explored.

Finally, the question remains whether an IMAX film truly can be brought to the home screen. Only those who have seen this in both formats can judge. If you want to see a realm new to surface eyes, this film may be an interesting starting point. Don’t stop here. If this film doesn’t prompt you to go on to find a real film on the ecosystem of three-quarters of the world, it has failed in its task. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep: Voyages to the Strange World of the Deep Ocean: : The search for life in space begins on the ocean floor…

Far beneath the ocean’s surface, beyond the reach of the sun, an astonishing community of animals lives in a world of searing heat, intense pressure, and absolute darkness. In Aliens of the Deep, Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron and a crew of scientists embark on an extraordinary mission to document this extreme environment. What they learn about the deep sea may one day help scientists search for life on other worlds.

Aliens of the Deep takes readers miles below the sea to volcanic hot springs — hydrothermal vents — where superheated water flows from Earth’s crust into the cold, deep ocean. These vents are surprising oases of life, home to blind crabs, seething hordes of shrimp, reefs of mussels and clams, and swarms of microbes that have found a way to adapt in one ~of the most unlikely places on the planet. Unknown until 1977 and still largely, unexplored, hydrothermal vent fields support no life-giving photosynthesis. Yet many scientists believe that at sites like these, life on Earth may have begun.

Spectacular high-resolution photography brings this breathtaking world into focus: jellyfish that appear to glow from within, hideous-looking anglerfish, and the stunning architecture of the calcite towers of a site dubbed “Lost City.”

Aliens of the Deep asks: If life can survive in this extreme environment on Earth, can the conditions to sustain life exist elsewhere in the universe? Veteran ocean explorer and writer Dr. Joseph MacInnis follows Cameron and his crew as they overcome technical and physical challenges to make a giant-screen film that provides an unprecedented view of this savage and surreal world. – read more.

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James Cameron’s AVATAR: Das Spiel

May 24th, 2010 | Author: metalukelukess

James Cameron’s AVATAR: Das Spiel Besser als der Ruf! – Patrick Vaughn –
Ich finde das Spiel hat eine zu sehr große Bürde – das Spiel zum Film zu sein, die Erwartungen sind dadurch sehr hoch.

Gut das Spiel ist kein Titel für Awards aber ein solider Shooter (als RDA) und Action Adeventure (als Na’vi).

Die Welt ist faszienierend schön gestaltet, allein der Wechsel von Tag auf Nacht ist prächtig gelungen und das Gameplay ist auch “gut” und intuitiv.

Toll ist, das man sich nach etwa einer Stunde SPielzeit für eine Seite (RAD oder Na’vi) entscheiden muss – ich empfehle unbedingt die Na’vi Kampagne zu wählen – allein der Ritt auf einem Thanator und die Flugszenen auf einem Ikran/Banschee sind toll!

Das einzige Manko des Spiels ist, dass es an sich eine Ansammlung von Mini-Missionen ist, die sich immer wieder von Ablauf her wiederholen.
Dafür sind aber ab und an mal einige wirklich super gelunge Missionen dabei.
Einfach grotten schlecht – Björn Karakus – nrw
Ich hatte mir vorher den Trailer zum Spiel per PS3 heruntergeladen und war von diesem begeistert. Als ich mir dann das Spiel gekauft habe und die ersten Minuten gespielt hatte, war ich dermassen enttÃuscht, dass ich nicht mehr weiter spielen wollte. Spiel wird verkauft.
UBI Soft: James Cameron’s Avatar: Das Spiel ist das offizielle Computerspiel zu James Camerons mit Hochspannung erwartetem Film ‘Avatar’. Das Computerspiel entführt Dich tief ins Innere Pandoras, eines fremden Planeten, so fremd, wie ihn sich noch kein Mensch je zuvor zu erträumen gewagt hat. Dort begegnest Du den Na’vi, der einheimischen Bevölkerung Pandoras, und vielen anderen Lebensformen, die die Welt der Computerspiele noch nie gesehen hat. Als es zum Krieg zwischen der RDA, einem raumfahrenden Firmenkonsortium auf der Suche nach kostbaren Rohstoffen, und den Na’vi kommt, werden die Spieler Teil des Kampfes um das Herz des Planeten und das Schicksal einer ganzen Zivilisation. …
James Cameron’s AVATAR: Das Spiel

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Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora (James Cameron’s Avatar)

May 15th, 2010 | Author: metalukelukess

If the movie wasn’t enough you’ll love this book – Dee – USA
The art is beautiful. The premise for the book is clever. And if the movie left you hungry for more information on Pandora then this is your book.
Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora (James Cameron’s Avatar): :

A field guide to Pandora—the mesmerizing world of James Cameron’s Avatar.

Four years in the making—and 15 years since its conception—Avatar is a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivering a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

In Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora we are introduced to Pandora—a pristine and beautiful moon in a distant solar system—its exotic ecosystems, and the indigenous race called the Na’vi. By piecing together photographs, scientific field notes, and research data, citizens on Earth have collected the information in this field guide as a way to highlight the lessons Pandora can teach the people of Earth, who have struggled to survive as their planet’s critical resources are depleted.

Though Pandora has proven to be an exceedingly profitable source of natural resources, the environment—from its gravity-defying floating mountains to the small but venomous hellfire wasps and the gigantic carnivorous thanator—poses continual dangers to RDA. Catalogued with unparalleled precision and access, this field guide provides highly detailed descriptions of the unique creatures and plants found on Pandora, the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, as well as RDA technology and weapons.

Eager to save the Earth, the activists have culled this information in hopes to expose the corporate greed and disregard for the native inhabitants and their environment that governs RDA’s presence on the foreign moon.

This is the evidence in their case to save Pandora—and themselves.

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