I've seen Avatar twice in the cinema when it came out last year, and I really loved it. However, I won't be going again, just to watch these nine minutes. the movie is already over three hours in its original format, these nine extra minutes won't add THAT much to the experience.

Also, I will avoid the first versions of the Avatar DVD and Blu-Ray Disk, as better, more complete versions will be released later on. As soon as a 'definitive' version, including 1080P, 3D, extension edition with all extras, bells and whistles will be released (I expect there to be a 5 BR disc version in 2012, just before the release of Avatar 2), I will buy that one. I'll first enjoy the normal view, and then, in 2-3 years when I replace my TV with a 3D version, I'll watch it again, in full 3D glory.

Cameron is a smart man. He gambled with his 3D movie, and won. Now he exploits his win as far as possible with multiple releases. I understand why, but customers will get statured with Avatar, if he's not careful.

I never actually went tos ee the movie in the first place, and still have not gotten around to watching it at all. The only thing I have to say is that if you watched it and also enjoyed it, than you should defiantely spend the money to do it. It is entertaining and everyone deserves a little entertainment :)

I'm sure this answer will be unpopular but here goes. I think if I had to watch a version of Avatar that is 9 minutes longer I'd gouge my eyes out. Yes, the visual effects are stunning but that's all the movie is. It's style over substance taken to the absurd. It's Fern Gully with blue people! And may I say Fern Gully actually has a better script. Avatar's script is ludicrous. WTF is unobtanium? We don't know the motivation of the generic bad guys. They don't develop what is possibly the most interesting aspect of the planet which is that it's a living being. Instead they decided to make a movie about the benign white man becoming a hero for savages. If I wanted to watch that s**t I'd watch Dances With Wolves. Oh and may I add that Avatar is quite possibly the most unoriginal and derivative work to come out of Hollywood in a long time. Yes, the visual effects are stunning and the technology is amazing but I'm ashamed of a world where people think a movie is the greatest thing just because it looks beautiful. Because in the end the movie is derivative, stupid, and mind bogglingly boring. Most overrated movie ever. I'm convinced James Cameron sold his soul to the devil and has severely pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

I think Mr. Cameron has milked this cow as much as possible ($2.7 billion, people!), and he should release those 9 minutes to a special feature in the DVD itself, and not ask for a full price 3D ticket (runs around $15 in California) for his movie again, it's not even been a year from when it first got released.

The movie is amazing, I agree, but it was so overwhelming, that I wouldn't see it again so soon, not even for those glorious 9 minutes, which I'm sure are amazing as well.

Sometimes you need to let time pass a bit after you see a movie, in order to see it again and to appreciate it again.

Loved those blue men !

It would be worth going to see Avatar again regardless, especially to see it in 3D again!

Movies I like I get the directors cuts when I can. Avatar has the same story line as “Dances with wolves.”

http://www.filmshaft.com/images/2010/07/avatar-special-edition-1-200x81.jpg

Avatar Special Edition ?

Absolutely!

Especially for anyone who hasn't even seen it yet.
You forgot the best part though, its goin to be back at IMAX as well :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1EHGqrabno

And I think this was brillian idea by camron to suck in the last of the hold outs.

Think its safe to say anything Avatar = $
Cameron hopes that Avatar was/is a movie that does well enough that it is able to become a franchise."

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DenOfGeek recently did a review of Avatar SE that was dovetailed on slashdot.

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/574243/avatar_special_edition_review.html

Highlights

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It's grand, expensive, and currently stands as the highest grossing film of all time. With Avatar, James Cameron proved himself to be the master magician, the David Copperfield of Hollywood, and his 3D fantasy epic is his multi-million dollar conjuring trick. And nine months on from its initial run at the box office, it's back, in a newly extended Special Edition.

Never a particularly concise film to begin with, this new edition of Avatar is nine minutes longer, and puts back a few scenes trimmed from its initial release.

While shoving Avatar back into the globe's multiplexes so soon after its initial showing could be viewed as cynical profiteering, James Cameron's florid fantasy is a film that relies so heavily on its visuals that the cinema is inarguably the only place to see it. Viewing it in 2D, on a television at home with a cat on your lap strips the movie of much of its glittering impact.

And so Pandora returns to the big screen in all its luminous glory. Essentially, a digital playground in which James Cameron plays around with the pet themes familiar from his earlier movies (space marines, heavy artillery, ecological warnings, destruction on a grand scale), the planet is home to the rangy, tree-dwelling Na'vi, whose verdant forest is under threat from a greedy corporation and its high tech army for hire.

In an effort to win the locals' ‘hearts and minds' (one of the film's many heavy-handed references to real-life conflicts), scientists have engineered avatars, creatures identical to the indiginous Na'vi, but that can be controlled remotely by humans lurking in special chambers.
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When the confrontation between human and Na'vi finally arrives, however, it's with a familiar Cameron crunch. His movies may have become soppier in recent years, but he's still an action director at heart, and the climactic battle, where the residents of Pandora swoop upon the armoured might of the humans' military machine, shows some of the verve we perhaps took for granted in Terminator 2 or Aliens.

This darker aspect of the film is helped considerably by Stephen Lang's performance as Colonel Quaritch. While forced to play a fairly stock military villain, he brings considerable heft and vigour to the role and gives every scene he's in a tingle of steely-eyed menace.

But these are all compliments that could be paid to the original cut of the film, which brings us to the central problem with Avatar: Special Edition - the additional footage is largely inconsequential.

The much discussed scene of alien copulation is mere seconds long, and is far less steamy than some were probably hoping. Elsewhere, there's an extra hunting scene, a brief sequence that shows an early retaliation from the Na'vi, prompting Colonel Quaritch's tree-wrecking expedition. Perhaps the most notable new moment occurs close to the end in a mercy killing that adds more melodrama where the end credits should be.

As opposed to, say, the extended cuts of Aliens, Terminator 2 or The Abyss, the new scenes add little of particular note to everything we've already seen. There's nothing here of the magnitude of The Abyss' excised tidal wave, or even the trimmed sentry gun scene of Aliens.

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I'm going to check it out first chance I get. :)
Some also might want to take note the “Avatar” special-edition Blu-ray Disc release is anticipated in November, but this is no mere ploy to hype that. Studio execs figure the theatrical reemergence will add at least tens of millions of dollars to the picture’s record domestic and international cumes.

Talk about milking every last cent. I’m sure it will make a lot more, a lot of people loved that movie and will pay to see more of it in the theater. All those who missed it in 3D, here’s your chance!!

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Personally I think fans really enjoyed Avatar and thought it should of been longer, but then I think they are more interested in learning more about Pandora the world then the story.

Yes, it is worth. It is very fantastic.

I saw the movie and even though it was in 3D I fell asleep, therefore, I would not recommend seeing it and wasting your money. I am sure it will come out on video or you could probably dowload it on the internet.

I think it is worth paying to see the Avatar Special Edition. The director adds another 9 minutes important clip to the movie and it will make the audience to go to the theater to see the addition. James Cameron is so smart and so he can plan to do something like it.

What is in this 9 minutes?

Cameron recently talked MTV through those unseen extra scenes. Here's what he said:

The Death of Tsu'tey: "There's a pretty powerful emotional scene at the end which is Tsu'tey's death... which happens off-camera in the original release. .. It's such an amazing accomplishment on effects supervisor Timothy Webber's part because the emotionality in the CG is really quite stunning."

Hunting the Sturmbeest: "The Sturmbeest is an animal that basically will be new to audiences because all of the Sturmbeest stuff got cut out. .. All that stuff's now been reinstated so there's gonna be a lot of Sturmbeest in your diet."

Na'vi Uprising: "We've got a scene where the Na'vi attack the bulldozers after the scene where they've mowed down the willow glade. .. It's kind of an action scene plus the aftermath with the human troopers finding the bodies of their friends. It's sort of like the stepping stone of the escalation to war."