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That this year's Visual Effects Oscar was going to Avatar was a done deal from the moment Jake Sully floated out into 3-D zero gravity. But what had gadget-minded geeks excited was the Samson-versus-Goliath sight of James Cameron's big-budget behemoth and J.J. Abrams' similarly mega-monied Star Trek competing for the statuette against District 9, the comparatively pocket-change production that sweetly beat Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen to a nomination. This, it was shouted, would soon put complicated special effects spectacles into the hands of the people! And now that time might already be here -- at least if the hype surrounding Project London is to be believed. But how does the teaser for this no-budget, crowd-sourced alien-invasion epic stack up, not just as a preview but as the first shot in a revolutionary war to topple that most sacred of Hollywood tentpoles? »
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