Avatar

An army of human invaders in avatar form is up against 10-foot-tall residents of a bizarre faraway planet in director James Cameron’s Avatar. The immersive, photorealistic 3-D and CGI innovations in this new sci-fi movie have been hyped as Hollywood’s most colossal quantum leap since…wel l , Hollywood’s last most colossal quantum leap. Sigourney Weaver, one of the stars, has called Avatar “a serious film about serious issues—but it’s in 3-D,” which means Cameron had to resist shots of cool stuff coming straight at the audience, right? Well, not exactly. The director likes being behind the lens for 3-D work and personally shot a sequence in which a stuntman fired a machine gun right at the camera. “I knew where to stand safely, but I have to admit there’s a bit of a twitch in the camera move,” says Cameron. “I wanted to put the audience right there.” Download NOW