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Hmm, that was a painfully cliched scene, not to mention the cgi is even worse on that monster thing. I actually don't want to watch it now that I've seen that!
LIES! Ok in all seriousness whats not to like? It was intense enough watching it on Youtube, imagine what it'll be like in Imax 3D. I like how the action was displayed so smoothly instead of this shaky cam crap which has plagued almost every action movie since the Bourne Identity.
I'll preface this by saying I haven't seen the movie or much more than the two videos you posted here. To be honest though, that second video highlights some little things that really bother me with the look of the movie.

The first is the movement of those humanoid dudes and now the giant creature in that video. When they move it just seems unnatural. It's hard to put your finger on, but that giant creature for example just seems to defy the laws of physics with how quickly it moves. The thing feels like it has no weight to it; something that big shouldn't be jumping around and accelerating that fast. Now you can try to excuse it by saying things like it's an alien planet and the creature is obviously not something you'd find on Earth, but the problem is that when you take the movement of something that far outside the experience of the audience it just looks wrong, and even if you can't say why, a lot of people will notice.

My other problem is the little interactions with the environment. When the humanoid guy runs, there are plants brushing aside and swaying as he runs through them, but it doesn't look right either. Either it's bad collision detection or it's simply that they tried to hand animate it and they couldn't do it right.

Now does this ruin the experience? Not totally. The 3D still looks great, and that's certainly the best CGI water effects I've ever seen even if it's not perfect, but I can't watch something like this that's supposed to be a lush near photo-realistic world and not notice the subtle things that take me out of the visuals. A lot of it you may never notice because it goes to fast or the focus isn't on it, but that scene really bothered me because I did pick up on the little things almost because the rest is so good.

I still want to see the final film eventually, but I'm not getting my hopes up for something earth shattering, even technologically, though I'm sure the new filming techniques will gain acceptance in the industry.