Avatar (Two-disc Original Theatrical

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Are you marveling how to buy the Avatar DVD and Blu-Ray that are coming out on April 22nd? Have you purchased your 3D television yet in anticipation? Don’t do it! At least not yet. What is Twentieth Century Fox freeing on April 22nd that has persons buzzing?

Twentieth Century Fox is going to release the 2D version of Avatar on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 22nd.

Furthermore, the DVD’s will not have any sort of “Director’s Cut”, “Comments”, or any other flashy extra content included. James Cameron and the studio want to deliver the movie in the most eminent quality possible, and that takes up a lot of disc space, so they don’t have any room left for extra content.

In November, however, they will be freeing the Avatar Box Set with multiple discs. This will undoubtedly earn Cameron and the Twentieth Century Fox a dollar or two for the duration of the holiday season later this year.

As for now, it’s just the 2D version that will be released, but persons are already in a crazy scramble to get their copies.

Pre-Order the Avatar DVD and BlueRay- One way you may buy the DVD is to pre-order it through Amazon. You may buy either the DVD, the Blu-Ray disc, or the combining of both the DVD and Blu-Ray. Right now they are taking pre-orders and will be delivered without delay after the release on April 22nd.

The “James Cameron Avatar Store” on Amazon- They aren’t stopping at just selling the DVD and Blu-Ray on Amazon, no.

Some of the Avatar “knick-knacks” that are available on the store….

Avatar video games (2D and 3D)
Posters
Apparel
Action Figures
Toys
Books

Move over George Lucas! It looks like there is a new challenger in town. Avatar has taken syndication to a level rivaling Star Wars. It will evidently take a few more years to genuinely compete with Star Wars, but they seem to be giving it their best try.

Discounts on Amazon- Amazon is supplying the DVD’s, Blu-Ray discs, and other stuff at a discount. Right now the DVD + Blu-Ray combo is going for 43% off of the introductory price, so it is unquestionably a good place to buy the movie.

So get ready for undoubtedly one of the greatest DVD releases in recent memory, if not all time. A good way to get a cheap price when buying the Avatar DVD or Blu-Ray is by visiting Amazon.

Avatar Two Disc Original Theatrical

A reluctant hero. An epic journey. A choice amidst the life he left behind and the unbelievable new world he’s learned to call home. Return to James Cameron’s Avatar— the biggest adventure of all time. Please note: This edition of the film is not in 3D.

Versions of Avatar on Blu-ray, DVD, and Video On Demand

Edition	Format	Release Date	Special Features
Avatar (Extended Collector’s Edition)	Three Blu-ray Discs	Nov. 16, 2010	Three versions of the movie including the antecedently unreleased extended cut, plus more than eight hours of bonus features including over 45 minutes of deleted scenes, interactional scene deconstruction, Pandorapedia, documentaries and featurettes, and BD-LIVE content (requires compatible player and Internet connection)
Avatar (Extended Collector’s Edition)	Three DVDs	Nov. 16, 2010	Three versions of the movie including the antecedently unreleased extended cut, plus more than three hours of bonus features including documentaries and over 45 minutes of deleted scenes
Avatar (Original Theatrical Edition)	Digital Purchase	Apr. 22, 2010	None
Avatar (Original Theatrical Edition)	Digital Rental	May 9, 2010	None
Avatar (Original Theatrical Edition)	Two-disc Blu-ray/ DVD combo	Apr. 22, 2010	None
Avatar (Original Theatrical Edition)	DVD	Apr. 22, 2010	None

Stills from Avatar (Click for larger image)

After 12 years of thinking with regards to it (and waiting for movie engineering to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all former sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable regarding greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na’vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he’s supposed to be gathering intel for the badass frequent (Stephen Lang) who’d like to lay waste to the planet and it is inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na’vi, peculiarly the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron’s perplexed motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na’vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D engineering to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron’s crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it’s the fact that Cameron seems torn amidst his two loves–awesome damaging gizmos and flower-power message mongering–that makes Avatar‘s pursuit of it is point in the long run uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron’s dialog proceeds to clunk badly. If you’re won over by the movie’s trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, utile archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be capable to overlook the not surprising central plot. (The overextended “take that, Michael Bay” final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn’t measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar often times hits a giddy delirium all it is own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. –Robert Horton

Most helpful customer reviews

3498 of 4102 people found the following review helpful.
AVOID THIS EDITION – 20-40 minutes of new missing storyline and no special features. SPECIAL EDITION COMMING SOON!
By M. Western
***THINGS YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY***

1. A special edition likely including 20-40 minutes of additional footage is already being leaked to media for release later THIS YEAR!
2. No special features. If you are a fan, of all the discs in your collection this is the one you really want the extra stuff. It really should be amazing!
3. No 3D presentation. New technology in TVs is out this year and should enhance the home 3D experience. I don’t usually care about 3D at home but things are changing. Be ready!
4. There is also news that the movie itself will be re-released shortly with the 20-40 minutes of additional content I mentioned above. Why buy the Blu if you can see it with additional content and in the best possible 3D at theaters— then buy the special edition just a few months later?

I have to echo the comments of a previous reviewer. The studios are becoming so brazen. They released this edition and tried to explain the poor accoutrements by saying “they wanted to save all the space on the disc for the best possible presentation”. Are you kidding me? Bust out the extra discs already! Offering this bare bones BR right before re-releasing the movie with additional footage was also a classless act that spits in consumer’s faces. Just rent the movie or see the enhanced version in theaters. It will tide you over until the Special Edition comes out.

Lastly, there are plenty of people adding comments that you shouldn’t wait for 3D because the home experience with 3D is lack luster or most people don’t have the new 3D TVs. That’s partly true, however…
IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT 3D! The lack of additional storyline, missing special features and blatent disregard for consumers (in an economic downturn) are what make this a bad deal. There is new home theater technology out this year that should enhance the home 3D experience. Your home theater will catch up. People who are excited about this movie should be standing together against a poor release offering, especially when there are terrific alternatives to hold us over.

Wait a few months and get a much superior release for similar money.

1111 of 1333 people found the following review helpful.
BE CAREFUL!!!!!
By Copella2010
As it turns out, Fox has craftily decided to milk “Avatar” for every possibly penny, since the debut DVD/blu-ray will be a bare-bones release — and it will be one of the first major films to appear in home video without any of the regular special features, such as theatrical trailers, deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes footage.

If you want all the extra features, you’ll have to wait until November, when you can buy a second “Avatar” DVD, currently titled the “Ultimate Edition,” which will include all of the fancy stuff. And then, if you have really deep pockets, you can come back to the video store next year and buy a third, 3-D, version of the DVD.

So in a nut shell… This Blu-ray/DVD release JUST has the movie on it! NOTHING ELSE. NO EXTRAS, NO TRAILERS, NO SPECIAL FEATURES.

55 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding movie!
By Michele Lyons
I find it amazing that so many of the people who reviewed this disc whined about it having no “extras”. I buy a disc because I want to watch the movie and enjoy it, over and over. I have no interest whatsoever in all the extras, deleted scenes, commentaries, interviews, bells, whistles, fireworks, violins, etc. that clutter up most movie discs today. That is all nothing but an excuse that the studios can use to double the price of the disc and they do nothing to enhance the enjoyment of the film. This disc was fine for the purpose of anyone who wants to enjoy the film. What is even better is that even though it reads as “widescreen” it was put out in an aspect ratio that makes it fill virtually the entire screen of your tv set. I throughly detest the “widescreen” format that leaves you watching a movie that fills the center third of your screen, with huge black blocks at top and bottom. What, exactly, is the point of buying giant big screen tv’s when movie discs leave one third of your screen blank at the top and another third blank at the bottom, leaving you to watch a movie squeezed into the middle of your screen? I was not able to see Avatar in the theaters, so I wanted to see it at home. And when I did I was enchanted. The fantasy world of Pandora is utterly breath-taking, with colors so vivid you wonder if you ever saw real color before this. Cameron has done it again; someday the film world will stop doubting him. Bigger, better, more amazing, more entertaining, he does it all. Film reviewers keep grouching that his characters are steriotypes, his dialogue clunky—-but I think I am sensing sour grapes here. I think all the critics wish that they could have made a movie that was not only marvelous, but made so much money it is unbelieveable. As for steriotypes? Did you ever wonder why something is a steriotype? Mostly because it is a character that speaks deeply to people, and is very, very popular. The story of Avatar is that of a weary hero, very much abused and alone, finding himself willing to risk everything, even his chance at a new life, for a girl, a people and a world he has come to love. The hero that stands against great odds, to defend what is right, is an eternal figure. He has existed in every time, land and race since humanity began to dream. Humanity needs such heros, real or fictional. We all wish we could be such heros. The filming of Avatar is ground breaking, the story ideas interesting, the visual effect gorgeous. You fly with dragons, run through giant forests, fight enemies, find love, taste disaster and triumph. The basic story is simple—but all the very best stories are. Especially the ones that last. As I think this one will. So get this disc, enjoy the movie, the adventure and the beauty. It is a fantastic “feel good” film. And there’s not a damned thing wrong with that as far I can see.