Avatar Teaser Trailer

Just finished watching the newly released Avatar teaser trailer 3 times in a row, and I must admit that I am not entirely sure what to think.

The computer generated elements look absolutely beautiful, even in Quicktime. The colors looked amazingly vivid, so it seems that at the very least the movie will be very pretty on the big screen. In particular I found the flying beings that the Aliens were riding, and the lush vegetation to be absolutely striking.

But I found it very jarring as it switches between the computer generated elements and the live action. Cameron has said that the split will be about 60/40, however the trailer does not seem to represent that ratio. In this teaser, I think that it looked like the computer elements were tacked on – it did not seem like they were all of one world. This especially struck me in the scene where the aliens are awaking in some sort of laboratory (just past half way).

I hope that Cameron is able to pull this off, but as of now I’m not entirely sure if I’m going to be buy into the hype. I am interested in seeing a full length, conventional trailer that makes some more of the real plot points evident. Reading summaries of the plot online, it seems on the surface to be an archetypal story.