TV's Frink said:
Whose Avatar thread is this again?
;-)
Funny, I was wondering that myself. :P
For the record, I'm still alive and working on the DVD release - in addition to getting bogged down with work, I ended up having TWO hard drives fail over the course of a single day, which had me lose a sh*t-ton of data (yeah, I was pleased as punch that day... -_- ). Fortunately, the Pandora DVD data was not affected (as it was on a HD that didn't fail), but I've been too busy trying to recover the failed HDs and transfer the data to new ones to work on finishing the DVD. Hopefully, now that most of my data has be recovered onto new HDs, I'll be able to get back around to finishing the DVD release.
In regards to the new footage and on doing a Pandora Special Edition release later on, I'll honestly have to see the footage myself before deciding on whether or not I'd want to add in into my fanedit (along with any deleted scenes, if there are any at all, that are released with the SE on DVD/Blu-ray later this year...).
However, these new scenes that were listed on IMDB do sound a bit promising to me (particularly the highlighted ones):
- When Jake goes on his first sortie in the Helicopter, theres a scene where the team observes a group of Sturmbeasts. Put back in in order to re-establish the Sturmbeast, as it was completely taken out before
- The group visits Graces old school for supplies. This was a great scene and should have never been taken out in the first place. It also showed another brand new animal, the Stingbat.
- Extended scene with Jake, Neytiri and the Fan Lizards. A very nice scene where the characters are having fun.
- When Jake, Tsu'tey and the other Na'vi travel through the mountains to get to the banshees, Neytiri does a flyover around them and shares a greeting with Jake. I really liked this extension.
- Sturmbeast hunt. A short, but very awesome action scene, it leads into Jakes voice over about him being a hunter now "death from above." Theres a great moment in this scene where Neytiri copies what Jake says.
- The Love scene. Jake and Neytiri attaching their queues. I actually think this is a good addition, because the scene is edited much better this time. You could tell before that footage was taken out.
- The Na'vi, including Tsu'tey, burn down the RDA bulldozers, equipment, and kill the soldiers and workers. We're shown the aftermath with charred bodies, etc. This is a pretty short scene, but its once that really should have been in the movie since day one as it provides a better rationale for Quaritch convincing Selfridge to attack the Hometree
- Finally, the death of Tsu'Tey. This was a GREAT scene. Great acting, and amazing CGI that perfectly capture the emotions.