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― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 15:00 (ten months ago) link
As someone who did see it in 3D on an IMAX screen — and largely enjoyed it — I can't fathom watching it in 2D on TV, much less on a smaller screen. It would be like watching a YouTube of a rollercoaster ride.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 15:16 (ten months ago) link
Does watching it on an IMAX screen also offer a better script and actual characterization?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:06 (ten months ago) link
Only in the future four+ hour extended version.
I do appreciate that James Cameron spent years and years making movies on the water, in the water, under the water, diving, floating, sinking, researching and developing state of the art FX, until he was finally able to create computer rendered water so realistic it is indistinguishable from the real thing ... and then populated the movie with 10-foot tall blue people.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:22 (ten months ago) link
No but neither do rollercoaster rides.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:36 (ten months ago) link
There is a whole subset of youtube videos dedicated to roller coasters, they're kind of fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSVOWv3Pp8
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:39 (ten months ago) link
lol I enjoyed this movie, esp the water/whale stuff (I was also v v st0ned), but I also enjoy watching YouTube videos of theme park rides so I guess it tracks.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:44 (ten months ago) link
Is the new one available on Max the newest one?
― calstars, Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:48 (ten months ago) link
endless exposition worldbuilding is just absolute gibberish to me, a grumpy elderly woman who enjoys Movies and Cinema that YOU sir James Cameron USED TO MAKE ugh idk why it irritates me so much but omg i could not have hated it more
shit absolutely fucks once they stop talking and start swimming and fighting, you'd love the final action scene
(saw it in liemax 3D and liked it enough I went again in local 3D, had not seen the first one until the reissue in November or whenever)
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:39 (ten months ago) link
final action scene
which goes for about an hour forty if you want to skip ahead
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:40 (ten months ago) link
you have mistaken me for someone else if you think i’m going to at some point “continue watching” and/or “finish the movie” or even “skip to the good parts” https://media.tenor.com/images/3832e18bd9b1b83a21d03a80ca20b4e6/tenor.gif
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:46 (ten months ago) link
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― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:58 (ten months ago) link
Lol at "liemax". We also only have one authentic IMAX here locally and I made sure to see it there and not the pathetic fake IMAXes
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:00 (ten months ago) link
For future installments, Cameron will build a series of 100 GIMAX theaters — 32 stories tall, a city block wide — equipped with fully mobile seats that will rise, fall, and swoop through the air. It will raise the cost of the next film to $12 billion, everyone will make fun of him, and then he will gross $25 billion.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:25 (ten months ago) link
isn't that basically just the avatar ride in disney world?
― silverfish, Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
Pretty much! Which is awesome fwiw.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
For all its prettiness, a sad lack of imagination on display in this. The new Na'avi are just wet Maori stereotypes, and having them all talking English just lays bare how they're completely mundanely human in emotions and thought. The animals are all familiar aquatic animals with bits from other familiar species bolted on. They don't come up with anything really alien at all.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:12 (ten months ago) link
There is a very clear reason for that tbh
― serving bundt (sic), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:33 (ten months ago) link
It’s an open polemic, not The Mote In God’s Eye
― serving bundt (sic), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:34 (ten months ago) link
You can still make polemics interesting and not racist.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 June 2023 11:39 (ten months ago) link
I watched this but shouldn’t have because I hated the first one. I hated this more - intensely, loudly witless and boring, and unforgivably devoid of imagination.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:30 (ten months ago) link
i thought the water/whale scenes in this were just brimming with wonder and beauty lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:36 (ten months ago) link
prob my favorite “second act where all the narrative momentum disappears for whatever reason, usually bc of the temporary evasion of the bad guy” in a james cameron film
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:38 (ten months ago) link
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, June 11, 2023 11:44 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is urgent and key for these films.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:17 (ten months ago) link
yeah are people watching this sober??
― k3vin k., Saturday, 17 June 2023 14:40 (ten months ago) link
I tried watching this sober today. Lasted about 20 minutes. Nope. Gotta be in the mood for endless CGI “wonder”.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 17 June 2023 17:52 (ten months ago) link
avatar ii is a non-racist movie imo
― flopson, Saturday, 17 June 2023 23:32 (ten months ago) link
watched it sober on a big screen and loved it
― flopson, Saturday, 17 June 2023 23:34 (ten months ago) link
big screen = imax 3d
Well-meaning but lazy cultural appropriation is still racist, just not Nazi racist.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 18 June 2023 11:30 (ten months ago) link
naw
― k3vin k., Sunday, 18 June 2023 14:19 (ten months ago) link
James’ sentence is true, and I’m not equipped to judge how the scales tip between lazy and well-meaning in this instance — but Cameron’s clearly foregrounding the references, and cast Cliff Curtis as the head wet guy.
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 18 June 2023 15:29 (ten months ago) link
Cameron is totally going to follow up "Avatar 5" with "Titanic 2," about the search for the sub in search of "Titanic." He's got the CG water FX down, the next few years will be spent working on the script.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:18 (ten months ago) link
in the same film
Avatar 5: Titanic 2
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:20 (ten months ago) link
Sigourney Weaver has been attached to play the sub via motion capture.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link