James Cameron's New Movie is Freaking People the F Out

We wrote about Cameron's crazy 3D technology a while back. The first 24 minutes of the film, Avatar, is beginning to screen, and is apparently living up to the hizzy-ype.

Coming Soon has an insider report from a source who hasn't been hugely impressed by the first wave of the new 3D style films but was gobsmacked by this - "These creatures seem so real, that within minutes you forget you’re watching an enormous and very blue CGI character. Even the eyes are totally convincing. The characters have real personalities and a soul...How the hell is it possible that I never once felt like I’ve been watching a movie where almost everything comes out of a computer"

A source for MarketSaw says "Little fireflies and birds fly through the shots without being there. You just take them as the world, like a dove in Central Park. It's not placed there, it lives there and just happens to be in the shot... There’s a shot of leaves somewhere which is so photorealistic you don’t want to think it’s CGI. You believe this world from the get-go. It’s there, you don’t need to believe it because you will experience it". That site also has some images from the after party you can glimpse below.

UCSNord said on Twitter - "Stunning, literally jawdropping. Amazing visuals unlike any before seen, with incredible detail. CGI was photorealistic, characters look really real. Believe the hype, this movie will be massive."

You can read a description of the footage (?) over at Coming Soon, but I doubt it does it justice.