Avatar (2009)

Genre:
Action | Sci-fi

Cast:
Sam Worthington
Zoe Saldana
Sigourney Weaver
Stephen Lang
Joel David Moore
Michelle Rodriguez

Director:
James Cameron

Avatar is a science fiction film written and directed by the top-caliber director, James Cameron (Aliens and Terminator). Avatar is a live action film with a new generation of special effects and revolutionary technology that made the film a cinematic masterpiece.

Summary:
Avatar is an epic adventure movie that will take us into a spectacular alien world beyond our imagination – that will surely take our breath away. “On the distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption, discovery and unexpected love -- as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.” -CinemaBlend

Set in the year 2154, a group of scientists and selected military personnel is on a mission to Pandora to find rare minerals, that is the key to solving Earth’s energy crisis.

To learn about Pandora’s biosphere and its inhabitants called Na’vi, scientists developed an Avatar Program. Avatars are genetically engineered hybrids of human DNA mixed with DNA of Na’vi that are operated via mental link of its avatar operator. Jake Sully, a paraplegic ex-Marine is recruited to be part of the mission and replaces his twin brother who was part of the program.

As Jake begins to appreciate the beauty and secrets of Pandora, he finds himself torn between the ruthless military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Na’vi - forcing him to choose sides and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.

"It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking." -Rottentomatoes


Movie Trivia:

• Avatar is one of the most expensive movies ever made (as of December 2009), with an estimated budget of US $280,000,000.
• It is also the first movie to reach more than US$ 2.5 billion mark worldwide, making it the highest grossing film in history.
• James Cameron was convinced that CGI effects had improved to make this film as what he had imagined when he saw Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Oleh: Rio Johan (Rijon)Sutradara: Samuel Bayer
Pemain: Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz

Tahun Rilis: 2010

Film ini merupakan remake dari film A Nightmare on Elm Street karya Wes Craven.

Saya sama sekali belum pernah nonton versi Wes Craven, belum juga sequel-sequel dan spin-off-nya jadi saya tidak akan membanding-bandingkan film ini dengan versi orisinilnya. Andai versi 2010 ini sama sekali tidak memuaskan bagi saya, bukan berarti versi orisinilnya sama buruknya dengan yang ini. Dan apabila kelak saya merasa puas ketika berkesempatan menonton versi orisinilnya, setidaknya saya akan merasa kecewa karena sudah menonton versi 2010-nya terlebih dahulu.

Belum pernah sama sekali menonton aksi Freddy Kruger di layar secara langsung, bukan berarti saya tidak punya info apapun tentang tokoh horror ini. Franchise ini berhasil mengumpulkan dolar yang lumayan menggiurkan pada masanya. Dan bukan hanya berhasil menginspirasi enam sequel, satu spin off (New Nightmare), serial televisi, dan satu film (apalah jenisnya) di mana Freddy Kruger ditandingkan dengan Jason Voorhees dari Friday the 13th. Film orisinilnya, yang pertama, dianugerahi label fresh di Rotten Tomatoes dengan skor 95% (ratting rata-rata 7,6/10), sementara di IMDB mendapat skor 7,4/10. Skor yang cukup tinggi untuk ukuan slasher.

Dan yang menarik dari versi 1984 sendiri tidak lain adalah pujian-pujian dari kritik. Para pakar meyakini tujuan dari film orisinilnya tersebut adalah pertanyaan seputar batasan antara mimpi dan kenyataan, yang digambarkan di sepanjang film melalui mimpi-mimpi para remaja dan dunia nyata mereka. Secara teknis, film ini pun dipuji untuk usahanya menembus batasan antara mimpi dan kenyataan, dan permainan atas persepsi penonton. Dari pujian-pujiannya saja, versi 1984 itu bisa dibilang menggiurkan (apalagi untuk ukuran slasher).

Sayangnya saya sama sekali tidak menemukan pujian-pujian tersebut di versi 2010 ini. Yang saya dapatkan hanya trik-trik basi, kuno, dan murahan yang sudah sering diumbar habis-habisan di dalam film horror/thriller/slasher/whatever-you-called. Sebut saja suara-suara “klang-kling” jari-jemari Freddy Krueger yang bunyinya, bukannya menimbulkan kesan horror, malah annoying. Bahkan Jackie Earle Haley membawakan ikon horror tersebut dengan sangat annoying. Terutama suara serak-serak dalamnya yang, you know, sama sekali tidak horror, malah annoying. Dan sudah tiga kali kata annoying saya sebut di paragraf ini.

Yang benar saja, apakah sutradara film ini mengira hal-hal murahan tersebut bisa menutupi pace yang buruk dan plot yang dangkal di film ini? No way! Perhatikan deretan produser film ini, oh, ada nama Michael Bay, sutradara yang sudah sangat terkenal dengan karya-karya CGI (tapi dengan skenario tipis dan cenderung dangkal). Tidak heran kalau ada bau-bau Michael Bay di film ini.

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

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IN A BETTER WORLD (2010) — What makes the friendship between Christian and Elias so special is how deeply and honestly Susanne Bier displays the emotional side of both children. Only by peering the eyes of the two actors, I can feel the all emotional reasons why they become such small terrorists. PHARAOH (1966) — Faraon is an evocative anatopism, also an astonishing colossal. A truly rare gem of its kind. Not only works as a visual declaration, Kawalerowicz also made it so carefully, so mesmerizing, yet so challenging. SPIRITED AWAY (2001) — “What's in a name?” asked Shakespeare. “A name is an identity,” said this movie. MISS JULIE (1951) - Miss Julie is a very challenging study, whether psychological or situational. In a simple but smart way, Miss Julie presents the phases of a political game of love and seduction. MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (1969) - Éric Rohmer not only talk about choices and risks of choices, there is also a glimpse the importance of choices and the pain of choices. My Night at Maud's, for me, is the most amazing movie about refracting those two opposing aspects of life. TEN (2002) — The use of "dashboard camera" method by Abbas Kiarostami is successfully providing such microscopic spectacle about the characters, not only on outside but also capable of making this movie as a unique character and gender study. THE PARTY AND THE GUESTS / A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND THE GUESTS (1966) — The allegory is not only the great thing about this Czechoslovak New Wave Cinema movie, but also its weirdness, its unnatural behavior, its peculiar plot, but the most of it is about how the movie smartly move without caution. ELEPHANT (2003) — Elephant is a piece of work that should be commended for its bravery. Such compliments are mainly intended to for Gus Van Sant's guts on using such non-linear and unusual narrative spectacle. Also packed with such unnatural risky styles which was really cost lot of guts. PORN THEATER (2002) — Porn Theater refers to a piece of life that rarely touched. Also refers to an aspect of sexuality that are still denied. Like it or not, this part will always be present and always will always be part of modern society. SWIMMING ALONE (2003) — Tho this movie is so simple, so small, it provides such suffocating experience and amazing observation. And the best thing about this on is how its lyrical scene that perfectly blends with its melancholy tone. Watching this movie is more like listening to how a person could swimming alone, rather than why he/she is swimming alone.

PHARAOH (1966) — Faraon is an evocative anatopism, also an astonishing colossal. A truly rare gem of its kind. Not only works as a visual declaration, Kawalerowicz also made it so carefully, so mesmerizing, yet so challenging.

Minggu, 27 Maret 2011

時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo

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Oleh: Rio Johan (Rijon)

Sutradara: Mamoru Hosoda

Tahun Rilis: 2006
Judul Internasional: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Film ini dibuat berdasarkan novel Toki o Kakeru Shōjo karya Yusataka Tsutsui.

Film ini bukan benar-benar adaptasi dari novel keluaran tahun 1967 yang sudah pernah diadaptasidua kali itu (empat kalau adaptasi televisi dihitung juga). Mungkin The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ini bisa dibilang sequel dari novel itu. Apalagi tokoh utama novel tahun 1967 itu muncul di film ini sebagai tante dari si protagonis.

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Моя любовь, Moya lyubov

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Oleh: Rio Johan (Rijon)Sutradara: Aleksandr Petrov

Tahun Rilis: 2006
Judul Internasional: My Love

Film ini diangkat dari novel A Love Story karya Ivan Shmelyov.

Melalui My Love, animasi teranyar Aleksandr Petrov sampai detik ini, Aleksandr Petrov mencoba menyuguhkan sebuah opera percinta-cintaan. Animasi yang diangkat dari novel klasik Rusia ini juga bisa dipandang sebagai sebuah coming-of-age seputar petualangan seorang bocah mencari cinta sejatinya.

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Старик и море, Starik i more

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Oleh: Rio Johan (Rijon)Sutradara: Aleksandr Petrov

Tahun Rilis: 1999
Judul Internasional: The Old Man and the Sea

Film ini diangkat dari novel The Old Man and the Sea karya Ernest Hemingway

Santiago itu nelayan tua miskin yang merasa sudah mulai pudar kepiawaiannya sebagai nelayan. Tidak seperti waktu muda dulu ketika ia tahan banting panco non-stop dari Minggu pagi ke Senin pagi. Dasar Santiago walau tua tetap saja tidak berkurang kebanggan dirinya. Walau sudah berhari-hari miskin ikan, Santiago saja tetap melaut.

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Sabtu, 26 Maret 2011

원더풀 데이즈, Wondeopul Deijeu

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Oleh: Rio Johan (Rijon)Sutradara: Kim Moon-saeng & Park Sun-min

Tahun Rilis: 2003
Judul Internasional: Wonderful Days / Sky Blue

Giliran Korea Selatan unjuk gigi di bidang feature animasi. Ini jelas bukan animasi pertama dari Korea Selatan. Masih ada Heungbu and Nolbu (1969) sebuah clay animation (stop-mation dari boneka tanah liat) bikinan Gang Tae-ung. Tapi Wonderful Days lah feature film animasi modern Korea Selatan yang pertama kali saya tonton. Dan sepertinya Korea Selatan masih belum benar-benar berani unjuk gigi melalui film ini.

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Jumat, 25 Maret 2011

秒速5センチメートル: アチェインオブショートストリーズアバウトゼアディスタンス, Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru: a chein obu shōto sutorīzu abauto zea disutansu

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Oleh: Rio Johan (Rijon)Sutradara: Makoto Shinkai

Tahun Rilis: 2007
Judul Internasional: 5 Centimeters Per Second / Centimeters Per Second: a chain of short stories about their distance

5 Centimeters Per Second, atau 5 sentimeter per detik, adalah ukuran kecepatan kelopak bunga sakura jatuh ke tanah. Secara analitik, kecepatan merupakan hasil bagi antara jarak dengan waktu. Dengan kata lain jarak dan waktu merupakan variabel yang paling menentukan angka 5 sentimeter per detik, kecepatan jatuhnya kelopak sakura ke tanah. Jarak dan waktu merupakan komponen penting dalam animasi yang dibagi menjadi tiga babak ini.

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The biggest opportunity for OLED displays and organic photovoltaics is when these devices can be flexible, allowing them to be more robust, versatile and made in large areas compared to conventional displays and photovoltaics. However, many of the materials used in OLED displays and organic photovoltaics are sensitive to the environment, limiting their lifetime. These materials can be protected using substrates and barriers such as glass and metal, but this results in a rigid device and does not satisfy the applications demanding flexible devices. Plastic substrates and transparent flexible encapsulation barriers can be used, but these offer little protection to oxygen and water, resulting in the devices rapidly degrading.

 

In order to achieve device lifetimes of tens of thousands of hours, water vapor transmission rates (WVTR) must be 10-6 g/m2/day, and oxygen transmission rates (OTR) must be < 10-3 cm3/m2/day. For Organic Photovoltaics, the required WVTR is not as stringent as OLEDs require but is still very high at a level of 10-5 g/m2/day. These transmission rates are several orders of magnitude smaller than what is possible using any plastic substrate, and they can also be several orders of magnitude smaller than what can be measured using common equipment (MOCON) designed for this purpose (Table 1). For these (and other) reasons, there has been intense interest in developing transparent barrier materials with much lower permeabilities.

 

 

This concise and unique report from IDTechEx gives an in-depth review to the needs, emerging solutions and players. It addresses specific topics such as:

• Companies which are active in the development of high barrier films and their achievements on the field to date.
• Surface smoothness and defects (such as cracks and pinholes) and the effect that these characteristics would have on the barrier behavior of the materials studied.
• Traditional methods of measurement of permeability are reaching the end of their abilities. The MOCON WVTR measurement device, which has been an industry standard, cannot give adequate measurements at the low levels of permeability required for Organic Photovoltaics and OLEDs. Other methods of measurement and equipment developed are being discussed.
• Forecasts for OLEDs and OPV, in order to understand the influence that the development of flexible barriers would have at the mass deployment and adoption of these technologies.

 

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Table of Contents

1.	SCOPE
2.	INTRODUCTION TO ENCAPSULATION
3.	SURFACE SMOOTHNESS - DEFECTS
3.1.	Important considerations of surface smoothness
3.2.	Micro Defects
3.2.2.	Pinholes
3.2.3.	Smoothness / Cracks-Scratches
3.2.4.	Nanodefects
4.	COMPANIES
4.1.	Vitex
4.2.	GE
4.3.	3M
4.4.	CPI
4.5.	Fraunhofer -POLO Alliance
4.6.	Alcan Packaging
4.7.	Others
4.8.	Best performing barriers developed to date
5.	BARRIER MEASUREMENTS
5.1.	The Calcium test
5.2.	MOCON
5.3.	Illinois Instruments
5.4.	Fluorescent Tracers
5.5.	Black Spot Analysis
5.6.	Tritium Test
5.7.	CEA
5.8.	3M
5.9.	IMRE
5.10.	Mass Spectrocopy - gas permeation (WVTR & OTR potential applications)
5.11.	Standardization efforts
6.	FORECASTS FOR BARRIER FILMS FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS 2009-2019
6.1.	The potential significance of organic and printed inorganic electronics
6.2.	Forecasts for flexible electronics 2009-2019
6.3.	Barrier films market size
7.	CONCLUSIONS
8.	REFERENCES
	APPENDIX 1: ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION
	APPENDIX 2: GLOSSARY
	APPENDIX 3: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS
	TABLES
2.1.	Water vapor and oxygen transmission rates of various materials.
2.2.	Requirements of barrier materials
3.1.	Oxygen transmission rates of polypropylene with various coatings.4, 7
4.1.	Overview of promising high barrier technologies
5.1.	Lower detection limits of several barrier performance measurement techniques
5.2.	Metrics and standards for organic solar cell components42
6.1.	Leading market drivers 2019
6.2.	Market value (US$ billion) of flexible/conformal electronics 2009-2029
6.3.	Total market value of flexible vs. rigid electronics 2009-2029
6.4.	Barrier Layer Market Forecasts 2009-2019
	FIGURES
1.1.	Examples of flexible OLED displays by SONY and AddVision
1.2.	Flexible OLED fabricated using IMRE's high barrier substrate and encapsulation technique44
1.3.	Flexible Solar Cell developed by Fraunhofer IPMS
2.1.	Schematic diagrams for encapsulated structures a) conventional b) laminated c) deposited in situ4
2.2.	Scanning electron micrograph image of a barrier film cross section6
3.1.	Visual defects of a selection of materials with barrier films highlighted through calcium corrosion test. Optical microscope magnification 10x.44
3.2.	SEM pictures of the Atmospheric Plasma Glow Discharge deposited silica-like films on polymer substrates. Left: Film with embedded dust particles . Right: uniform film27
3.3.	OTR as a function of defect density, the correlation between defect density and the oxygen transmission rate
3.4.	SEM image of a pinhole defect formed from a dust particle32
3.5.	Scanning electron microscope image of ITO coated on parylene/polymer film34
3.6.	The measurement of OLED's lifetime of SiON/PC/ITO and SiON/parylene/PC/parylene/ITO substrate34
4.1.	Examples of polymer multi-layer (PML) surface planarization a) OLED cathode separator structure b) high aspect ratio test structure.3, 8
4.2.	Vitex multilayer deposition process8.
4.3.	SEM cross section of Vitex Barix material with four dyads.
4.4.	Optical transmission of Vitex Barix coating8.
4.5.	Edge seal barrier formation by deposition through shadow masks10.
4.6.	Three dimensional barrier structure. Polymer is shown in red, and oxide (barrier) shown in blue10.
4.7.	Schematic of flexible OLED with hybrid encapsulation31
4.8.	Schematic of cross section of graded barrier coating and complete barrier film structure1.
4.9.	DuPont Displays technology pipeline
4.10.	Scanning electron micrograph of a thin hybrid polymer coating on SiOx deposited on a flexible PET film 46
4.11.	OTR values achieved with different POLO multilayers46
4.12.	ALCAN Packaging flexible barrier based on PET and SiOx47
4.13.	Specifications on WVTR for different applications, as seen by Vitex Systems36
4.14.	3M specifications on WVTR and OTR for high barrier applications with stringent requirements 14
5.1.	2.25 mm2 area of a 50 nm layer of Ca deposited onto barrier coated PET viewed through the substrate. i. Image after 1632 h of exposure to atmosphere; ii. Image analysis whereby the grey scale of Ca degradation is processed to yield a two-color image with
5.2.	A simple set-up for measuring optical transmission of calcium test cells48
5.3.	MOCON's Aquatran™ Model 138
5.4.	MOCON's Aquatran™ schematic38
5.5.	MOCON's OX-TRAN® Model 2/1039
5.6.	Silica induced black spots, letters A & B mark black spots with a centralized black dot (silica particle)32
5.7.	Black spot formation and growth mechanisms 32
5.8.	General Atomics HTO WVTR testing apparatus40
6.1.	Market value (US$ billion) of flexible/conformal electronics 2009-2019
6.2.	Total market value of flexible vs. rigid electronics 2009-2019
6.3.	Barrier Layer Market Forecasts 2009-2019
6.4.	Size of opportunity
7.1.	The iRex iLiad and the Amazon Kindle rigid e-book readers
7.2.	PVI's flexible electrophoretic display and color electrophoretic display by SAMSUNG LCD, demonstrated at SID 2008