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Back in the early 1990s, James Cameron could do anything he wanted. He still can, technically. But back then he was desperate to make an adaptation of Spider-Man and to get to work on a space epic called Avatar that would be done completely using sweet new computer technology. One of those films didn’t happen. The other has taken almost two decades to get rolling.

So course, Cameron is celebrating by taking fans who are already foaming at the mouth and kicking them in the teeth in photograph form by releasing only tiny, blurry, grainy, terrible images of his upcoming film. And those are just the ones of him standing by cameras and such.

Another such photo has hit the internet after being somehow lifted from the very pages of Empire Magazine and recreated using bits and bytes. Where did we get SUCH TECHNOLOGY? An image that was on paper is now on the internet. That’s far more impressive than the actual image:

According to /film, the picture is of a monitor view where Cameron is placing in real-time, scratch CGI in order to get a strong idea of what the finished product will look like. That’s right, he’s making CGI that won’t even be in the film. What a lush. Throwing massive piles of cash just to make CGI renderings for his own benefit, stuff that audiences will never get to see. Geez. How absolutely decadent.

Wait…a ton of other directors do that. Guess your film isn’t so “revolutionary” now is it, Mr. Cameron?

Just kidding. Of course it’ll be a serious spectacle, but we’ll have to continue to wait while not even getting teased. These images are the visual equivalent of if you girlfriend promised to give you blue balls. She’s not even going to get you close enough to give them to you – she’s just going to talk about how awesome it’s going to be when she does later and you get sore.

So it’s time to play The Guessing Game!

Today’s question: What is that odd thing taking up the entire left side of the image?

• A) Some sort of awesome future-vehicle that has the power to do things unimagined. Like shift into parallel universes, move at speeds beyond hyper-light, or make an electronic copy of an image from a piece of paper.
• B) The delivery truck that drops off James Cameron’s paychecks.
• C) A piece of equipment that is majorly ruining the shot.
• D) All of the above

Choose….wisely.

What do you think? Did you really choose D? Can’t make up your mind?