Obviously, Ubisoft hopes to attain the same success with Avatar as EA did with the Harry Potter games, which have become a staple for the games giant. If that's going to happen, we have one suggestion: don't give James Cameron any monologues.
Ubisoft sees Avatar as 'world-changing,' compares to Harry Potter
by David Hinkle 
on Aug 3rd 2009 3:30PM
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Obviously, Ubisoft hopes to attain the same success with Avatar as EA did with the Harry Potter games, which have become a staple for the games giant. If that's going to happen, we have one suggestion: don't give James Cameron any monologues.
Reader Comments (75)
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:54PM gshauger said
This is easily one of the dumbest things ever posted. Avatar will easily make hundreds of millions.
Laughing at the guys in this thread who aren't looking forward to this anymore.
Comparing Avatar to Harry Potter is comical. There was nothing "world-changing" about the movies or the books. Pretty lame books if you ask me.
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Laughing at the guys in this thread who aren't looking forward to this anymore.
Comparing Avatar to Harry Potter is comical. There was nothing "world-changing" about the movies or the books. Pretty lame books if you ask me.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:03PM MystileArmor said
Only if they're ass up, face in the pillow.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:03PM MystileArmor said
Even though it looks funny out of context, lets fuck this and let me try it again.
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Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:16PM (Unverified) said
"...lets fuck this..ass up, face in the pillow."
you knew this would happen
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you knew this would happen
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:34PM MystileArmor said
Yeah it crossed my mind for a bit, too lazy to mix it up though.
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Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:58PM ArchiGamer said
[I can't help to say this for the funnies]
Are you trying to seduce me, M. Mystile?
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Are you trying to seduce me, M. Mystile?
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:31PM MystileArmor said
If with "seduce" you mean "fuck like mad bunny" and with "me" you mean "Megan Fox", then.. yes.
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Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:06PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said
meh. I'll believe it when I see it. Until you show me something to get excited about I'm going to remain skeptical.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:09PM Vcize said
Too bad I already know exactly what happens in the movie down to the finest detail thanks to Cameron's E3 speech.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:10PM Hyams said
Does anyone else find it weird that the only thing we've been shown of this film has been via videogame screenshots? There are no images for the actual movie yet.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:13PM Funkmaster General said
That's because Cameron has gone to great lengths to create a movie that is unfit for human consumption.
Hell, your eyes will probably burst when they DO release a picture.
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Hell, your eyes will probably burst when they DO release a picture.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:25PM DonsSword said
Yeah, I agree, "world changing" = epic fail
And you can't "make" the next Harry Potter--things like HP just evolve of their own accord, and can't be forced.
And you can't "make" the next Harry Potter--things like HP just evolve of their own accord, and can't be forced.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:40PM YeshuabenYosef said
Five bucks says this is another lame movie game.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 4:48PM MrCassian said
It'll be as "world-changing" as the film Igor, and the game based on it. God, both this movie and the game will suck. I hope they're happy for taking the brand name of a much more successful franchise.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:53PM (Unverified) said
Try again, Cameron wrote the script for this back in the mid 90's before Airbender was drempt of.
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Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 5:08PM Alex R said
I wish it wasn't called Avatar, though. That word conjures up bad memories of people enlarging their e-penises pointlessly. What's the point in an ACHIEVEMENT if you don't have to achieve anything?
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:37PM techpops said
I find the lack of faith in Camerons work disturbing. This is the guy that gave us the Terminator. A movie so awesome that it even made Arnie look good. Give the guy some massive slack for that.
As for 3D being overdone, complete nonsense. I suppose colour is overdone too? Yeah, let's get back to black and white, colour adds way less than the third dimension, pointless really.
I know little about Avatar and care not, its going to be SCI-FI, and there is so little of that around, it has to be worth a punt when it comes out.
World changing? Who gives a monkeys left nut, unless you're profiting from the film yourself. On a scale of only worth pirating to camping out at your nearest 3D enabled cinema, there has to be enjoyment of it in there somewhere.
This comment is now too long. Cameron would be proud of me.
As for 3D being overdone, complete nonsense. I suppose colour is overdone too? Yeah, let's get back to black and white, colour adds way less than the third dimension, pointless really.
I know little about Avatar and care not, its going to be SCI-FI, and there is so little of that around, it has to be worth a punt when it comes out.
World changing? Who gives a monkeys left nut, unless you're profiting from the film yourself. On a scale of only worth pirating to camping out at your nearest 3D enabled cinema, there has to be enjoyment of it in there somewhere.
This comment is now too long. Cameron would be proud of me.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:38PM (Unverified) said
I'm trying to remember when and how exactly did Harry Potter changed the world.
Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:53PM RobT said
when that be speckled little sorcerer and his ginger friend cast a spell on my heart.... i walked into the theater of the first movie having only 3 weeks to live and walked out 2 years younger, buff as a juice monkey, and instead of a atrophied penis, i had a 3 foot cock
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Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 6:59PM (Unverified) said
@Ashitaka What I'm trying to say is that "change the world" is a bit of an overstatement. Sure it has sold like crazy, and it has lots of fans but the world is still the same. Now if everyone who read the book or saw the movie experienced the extreme changes @RobT did, then it did change the world.
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Posted: Aug 3rd 2009 9:11PM (Unverified) said
This is kinda odd to me I serously just had a dream last night about going to see harry potter the new one(witch I have already watched)an thare was a tralior for avatar it said put on your glasses 4 the time of ur life so every one put them on an I an every on else got sucked into it it was amazing but after that tralior was over my ears poped every was yelling yessss,wohhho crazy shit(I think it's odd that there compareing it to harry potter an I was going to see harry potter an saw the tralior
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 5:34AM Teabag said
Making the first HP game was "an incredible entertainment phenomenon." ? Sure didn't feel like it.
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:07AM BanditKing said
Im going to laugh when this flops and the game sucks, just like every other movie game. Also compairing this out of nowhere movie to Harry Potter is a big mistake, see Avatar has no ground work prior to the movie, Potter had it's fanbase from the books and built on that much like Lord of the Rings. I just some poor parents don't take their kids to see this movie only to have the kids find out that this movie has no Airbenders in it. :P
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 7:01PM (Unverified) said
The hype train has turned me off to the whole thing. I don't care if Cameron did Aliens or The Abyss. I feel like the big sell has been on how realistic this film will be but, so what? There should be less CGI, not more.
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