Tanya's Blog

I don't know very much about how cameras work, but I would have to say that even to me the difference between this short film and ones shot with regular cameras is clear. The DSLR camera shoot beautiful images and really catches the reflections on surfaces, like when the man is in the helicopter and you can see the entire city just in his sunglasses. Which, btw , why is he wearing sunglasses at night? Anyway, yes this camera is amazing, and it's super cool that this one little film kicked off such a giant trend in movie making. The film' storyline it's self is great too, when you can ACTUALLY see the sweat dripping down his forehead, my mind= blown. Writing this now, after it had been like weeks since I'd first seen this clip and after seeing Avatar 9don't even get me started on that movie...) it still amazes me. The beauty and thought that went into each and every image in the film is just.. I mean there are no filler shots, not a single moment when the cinema...

James Cameron- who previously brought us wonderful, cinematic eye-gasms, such as Titanic, and the first two Terminator movies, has a new film , Avatar. Admittedly, when I first heard about Avatar, I believed it was Avatar: The Last Air-Bender, and when it turned out to be something else completely, I was a tad bit disappointed. But, none-the-less, I paid $8 to see it, in regular format. Having to actually pay attention to the plot and dialogue... nearly killed me, and I left the theater after only 20 minutes into the film, and went to see Princess and The Frog instead. Then, being the masochist I was clearly striving to be here, I saw the film again, but in Imax 3D, which turned out to make all the difference. The action and characters were so real, that after leaving the theater, I found myself checking the sky for Toruk. While the plot structure held no promise, and the dialogue was that of any brain-melting blockbuster, the visual effects were certainly something to be seen. Watchi...