James Cameron Defends ‘Avatar Day’

Just in case you missed it, this past August 21st was ‘Avatar Day’

Don’t worry if this is the first you’ve heard of it, I missed it too.

Anyway, over a 100,000 people didn’t miss it.

In a nutshell, ‘Avatar Day’ was the day where director James Cameron showed off 15 minutes from his upcoming movie Avatar.

To say the response to those 15 minutes was mixed would be something of an understatement, immediately after watching the preview, keyboard warriors took to the forums, and the most vocal of them dumped buckets of blue shit over what they’d seen. Of course there were positive opinions out there but for the most part, they got drowned out by the dissenters.

Recently Total Film caught up with James Cameron to ask him if he thought ‘Avatar Day’ was a success…

“Avatar Day, to me, was so necessary, [Fox] were going to release a teaser trailer anyway. They had to because that’s the normal course of things. And I was most concerned about seeing the material in a short form, especially on a small screen. I thought the shock of the new… You know, inherently blue faces just don’t look real, so it’s very easy to dismiss it, regardless of how well accomplished it is. So that’s why I wanted to do Avatar Day, and have a more immersive first look at the movie.”

What about the negative feedback?

“Most of the comments were, ‘Jury’s still out, because we don’t know the story yet’. I thought that was tremendously telling, because it really shows that no matter how dazzling the visuals are, or promise to be, people still want to know what it’s about,”

I think what James is trying to say, “SCEW YOU NON-BELIEVERS!”