The _Avatar_ sequel, presumably also directed by James Cameron

Or maybe that is what Cameron wants, I dunno

Relax guys he'll break it into two 4 1/2 hour installments, it's a win-win.

lol if that’s even a tiny bit true it’s another tick mark in the “dude doesn’t know how to make an animated film” column

It's going to be a Zaireeka-esque experiment where you enter the film midway through at a random point, and there's one boombox with the score, one with the dialogue, and someone in the front row is responsible for hitting play on both

Speaking of Cameron rumors: https://www.thesuburban.com/arts_and_entertainment/entertainment/james-cameron-confirms-urban-myth-about-unique-aliens-pitch/article_c9796270-bc89-5447-a1a5-1938acef7767.html

To be fair, I'd probably watch a Cameron version of DAU.

you have to respect cameron's hustle - feels like he basically convinced the studios to front him three hundred million dollars for his own personal submarine hobby by saying look, it's a big upfront investment but you're gonna get at least 3 billion dollar blockbusters out of this one investment. and feels like he may be... right? i mean it's obvious we're not gonna get dune: avatar or avatar: into thin air, as much as that'd be cool. it's gonna be water from here on out because james cameron loves submersing.

Guessing he’s had some crazy waterproof pressurized casket made so he can be dropped into the deepest part of the ocean.

Cameron at the crib

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It’s interesting to contrast where this movie sits in worldwide movie revenue for 2022 vs US movie revenue for 2022.

Avatar 2 is up to about $2 billion in revenue

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-box-office-2b-globally-1235306500/

james cameron has directed 3 of the 6 films to pass the $2B marker

And he's only made one of the top 10 most expensive. It's crazy to me that Titanic is now tied for 47th-most-expensive movie ever, and even the first Avatar is 25th.

Is that adjusted for inflation?

inflation of the boat

Crazy how many of the top spots on the most expensive movies of all time list are taken up by those ugly ass Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

Which is of course why one should never cite box office as a sign of much more than exceptional marketing success.

once hollywood decided (correctly? who is to say) that dumping insane amounts of money into a movie as an input gets you insane amounts at the box office they locked into a blockbuster death spiral

Is that adjusted for inflation?

Good point, no. If you do, Titanic is number 2 and Avatar number 6.

does the title Titanic refer to the boat or the amount of money spent making the movie hard to say

it refers to how good the movie is. the quality of the film is titanic

This thing is on HBO (excuse me, Max) starting Wednesday. Gonna install the Max app on my phone and check it out.

I like the theory that most of the movie's tickets were sold to ghosts.

Er what?

Just the idea that this is the biggest movie of all time, right? But for whatever reason I'm not sure I personally know a single person who has seen it. None of my friends, no children of friends, not my kids, none of their friends, not a soul. It's kinda weird. So must be mostly ghosts.

yes, non-americans are ghosts

I don't know anyone who voted for Joe Biden but my assumption is that everyone who did is Na'vi

Nice try, Na'vi can't vote. Fake Blues!

No shade, everyone should enjoy Avatar 2. I was only relating my surprise, since I wanted to know what my friends or their kids thought of it, but none of them saw it, not even the ones I thought would want to see it. Which I thought was weird.

amazed Our Lady Peace hasn't done an Avatar collabo

i made it through 30 minutes of this before i bailed

cannot imagine sitting through 3+ hours of that

parts of it looked great on the big screen, i can vouch for that, but i can barely remember anything about the plot, and most of what i do remember was really annoying.

i made it through 30 minutes of this before i bailed

cannot imagine sitting through 3+ hours of that

I lasted about 15 before I was actually angry with myself for having even tried.

veg you missed Brendan Cowell getting his arm sliced off by an alium whale and sproing-spiralling off of a boat snapped in half by a giant cable while his arm wheeeee-spiralled in a different direction

as good as that sounds, i still wouldn’t sit through it for that

i felt like i was watching the 29th bratz doll vhs or some other knockoff toy series like this 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

plus they all look like deer

That a film more than 3 hours long just inelegantly and unclearly infodumps for its first 20 minutes is hard to forgive.

I'll never watch this on purpose, but I'm sure I'll eventually see the entire thing, bit by bit, spread across dozens of walks by bright TV displays in big box stores. Who needs movie theaters when I have Costco visits?

it seems kind of pointless to see this movie on anything other than IMAX 3D? (I haven't seen this movie)

you all are wrong this movie ruled

Otm

otm = out of your mind

<3

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.

Does watching it on an IMAX screen also offer a better script and actual characterization?

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.

Does watching it on an IMAX screen also offer a better script and actual characterization?

No but neither do rollercoaster rides.

There is a whole subset of youtube videos dedicated to roller coasters, they're kind of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSVOWv3Pp8

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.

Is the new one available on Max the newest one?

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)

final action scene

which goes for about an hour forty if you want to skip ahead

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”

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