sorry, keep until "202X" was what i was going for; I saw the reschedule announcement. I just don't buy it.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
I rewatched Avatar last night and it is both totally captivating and such egregious horseshit
― DJP, Monday, 14 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
^^ i've already said my piece all over this thread but this. it's also still the most effective example of theatrical 3D to date
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
It still cracks me up that the primary theme of the movie is "got a problem? CONNECT IT TO YOUR SPACE DICK"
― DJP, Monday, 14 December 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Hahahahaha
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
I'm still expecting him (or someone) to just pull the plug on the whole misbegotten adventure and simply chop up these sequels into a Disney+ series.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
still never seen this and i feel good about it
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 December 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
it was fun, dammit!!!
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 December 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
you get to see Sam Worthington's entire career arc in one film
My favorite part of watching this with our 9 year-old a few months ago (hey, quarantine means we have to dig deep to entertain him and it kept popping up on Disney+), was him going "unobtainium, dad, that's dumb".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 December 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Worthington was good in his Terminator, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
No he wasn’t
― DJP, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
nobody was good in that terminator
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
DJP you actually put it best years ago
ftr this movie was a diseased dick
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Friday, January 22, 2010 2:12 PM bookmarkflaglink
My lack of depth perception cancelled out the only reason I've ever heard to watch this.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
hardtofindium
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
I don't remember that Terminator movie being particularly good or memorable, but I don't recall it being bad because of him.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
it was shit because of McG.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
It’s 2021 and ‘Avatar’ Is About to Overtake ‘Avengers: Endgame’ as Highest-Grossing Movie of All Time https://t.co/HbjUKpdvkt pic.twitter.com/SsYaZZQK4i— Variety_Film (@Variety_Film) March 12, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
not enough versions
Breaking AVATAR 2 news: NATO chief John Fithian in press session with #CinemaCon media just said that James Cameron's sequel "will have more versions" than any movie in history: IMAX, 3D, PLF, high-res, high frames-per-second rate, variable sound systems, in 160 languages, etc.— Barry Hertz (@HertzBarry) April 26, 2022
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
lol the earliest "avatar 2" thread is older than many ilxors
― mark s, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link
“Avatar 2 (Version)”
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 10:22 (two years ago) link
I wanna see the 160 language version
― circa1916, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
Dogme 95 version
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IpgFIz9ng
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
More NATO aggression
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
"will have more versions than any movie in history" is a selling point on par with "from the producers of"
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
Avatar 31 will star Freddie Prinze, VI
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
Dogme 95 lol
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
Never in the history of art!
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
Lol, Neanderthal.
did roger dean ever get paid for any of this?
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/znJTFDTemj3st5vMC9KxnB-1024-80.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
ans = no: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/james-cameron-vanquishes-artist-in-avatar-copyright-lawsuit-111514
this shd be the next ALAB podcast
― mark s, Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link
These sequels will never come out, won’t they?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link
They've just announced the release date of the first (December 16th), which is why anyone's talking about them - and the trailer will be in cinemas with the Doctor Strange movie next week
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
maybe they can combine it with the movie Anvil and make it Anviltar
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
james cameron give the (trans) people what they want... a battle angel sequel
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
I would watch the heck out of Anviltar tbh
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 April 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
And I’ll probably watch these sequels, actually
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 April 2022 11:23 (two years ago) link
So you're the guy
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 April 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
it took me what, 13 years to see this? idk why except that ppl were like “it’s an incredible spectacle with pretty much nothing beneath it” and i was like “i don’t need another cameron film like that”
but at this point i’m pretty down with a movie that suggests we need to connect to the lifeforce that binds us to the earth and to each other to destroy all colonists
gimme avatar 2
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 July 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
I love avatar unabashedly
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 8 July 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
me too. some folks I know IRL (who think Wes Anderson is the GOAT and sneered at this film) did a lot of mental gymnastics to hold this film to different standards than other action movie spectacles.
(the discourse was much better ITT). also lol at jjjusten takedown of Shakey and Dan rejoinder upthread.
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 July 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
I refuse to believe any of you are excited about this. I mean, I believe it, but at the same time, I refuse. Love me some Cameron, hate that he's wasted his time with these Smurfs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 July 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
I'm excited for the new one too but I can look at enormous CGI trees and characters jumping on floating rocks all day. I understand 200% why people would get nothing out of this franchise
― Vinnie, Saturday, 9 July 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
I enjoyed the first one fine at the time but have barely thought about it since and can’t imagine spending an entire career on this thinly imagined nonsense.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 9 July 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
the coded racial stuff felt v icky & outdated to me in 2009, its hard for me to imagine it playing any better in 2022
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Saturday, 9 July 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
My wife hadn’t seen Avatar and we started watching it together recently. After an hour she didn’t understand why she was watching a boring film that looks like a video game without the fun of being able to play it and decided to stop watching – and I totally got her point.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 9 July 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
xpI mean it’s not particularly sophisticated in its deployment, but ‘industrialized colonists v. naturist natives’ is kind of an archetype and I’m not sure what coded racial stuff is in there that’s particularly icky? Seemed intentionally broad. Unless you’re referring to something specific that I’m forgetting.I liked Avatar. I mean a lot’s been written about how it made a bazillion dollars yet made absolutely minimal cultural impact considering. It did evaporate off of me almost immediately. But, y’know, had fun seeing it in IMAX, good spectacle, action set pieces were solid.I’m actually kinda stoked for Part 2. I’m a sucker for underwater shit.
― circa1916, Sunday, 10 July 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
I rode the 3D Avatar ride at Disney World in February and it was awesome. It made me want to see another Avatar movie. (Because it would be a lot cheaper than going to Disney World again.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 July 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link