Steven Spielberg & Other Filmmakers React To Avatar

Now that James Cameron’s epic ‘Avatar’ is out in the open for everyone to see, other directors are talking about the technology used and their reaction the film overall. One of them is Steven Spielberg.

Nikki Finke quotes Spielberg saying this after catching a screening:

The last time I came out of a movie feeling that way it was the first time I saw Star Wars.

A succinct and concise way to praise the film and coming from one of the greatest directors of all time, it means something.

Read what the director of Zombieland, Donnie Darko, Moon, Shaun of the Dead, Michael Moore and others have to say about the film after the jump!

Courtesy of Slashfilm, here are the reactions:

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer: “Went to a special screening of Avatar last night where James Cameron did a Q&A after the film. I can’t tell you how much I loved the movie, or how clearly Cameron cemented himself as the world’s greatest living filmmaker. This is an incredible movie. I recommend seeing it in IMAX. So next level. So awesome. Avatar is a game changer. James Cameron wins.”

Back to the Future, Indiana Jones and Bourne series Producer Frank Marshall: “Wow!!! AVATAR is audacious and awe inspiring. It’s truly extraordinary and I would really need a blog to talk about it…”

Donnie Darko/The Box director Richard Kelly: “AVATAR was amazing. Lived up to all the hype – now must see in IMAX…”

Danny DeVito: “AVATAR!!!! And the oscar goes to The King Of The World Bitches!!!”

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright: “Avatar. One word review. Pretty-fucking-stunning.”

Screenwriter John August simply called the film a “Master class”, earlier tweeting “Holy Jeebus Avatar” and later clarifying “I use Holy Jeebus in the very-much-to-the-good sense. One doesn’t cite a Jeebus in vain.”

Moon director Duncan Jones: “:| I that’s my concerned face. That’s how I feel after seeing Avatar. It’s not in my top three Jim Cameron films. Am I alone here?” … “at what point in the film did you have any doubt what was going to happen next? Or were you ever surprised how it happened?” … “and did you ever wonder to yourself why they didn’t just bombard shit from orbit?” … “Would have appreciated the barest bit of explanation for the floating mountain islands in Avatar… Pumice stone full of helium? Something!”

Michael Moore: “Go see Avatar – a brilliant movie 4 our times. Don’t worry if theater doesn’t have 3D – the 2D is awesome & it’s all about the story anyway!”

Mike Dougherty (Trick r Treat director, X2, Superman Returns writer) offers a really unique review after seeing it twice: “Avatar is even more fun if you pretend it’s Alien 5 and Ripley lived and became Dr. Augustine and somewhere on that planet is an egg…”