The _Avatar_ sequel, presumably also directed by James Cameron

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42852

“I can tell you one thing about them,” Cameron laughs when Empire nonchalantly enquiries about storylines. “They’re gonna be bitchin’. You will shit yourself with your mouth wide open.”

cool guy

i wonder if the theaters owners know about this

ha ha

imagine saying this! you will shit yourself with your mouth wide open!

say what you will about the man, at least he knows his audience

There's gonna be three sequels for Avatar?! Seriously?

I mean, I liked it an all, but it didn't exactly scream "four-part movie series", did it?

Well, something has to support the Disney park in progress.

Cameron: You should make a Disney park based on "Avatar!"
Disney: What's "Avatar?"
Cameron: You know, the movie with the blue people?
Disney: "The Smurfs?"
Cameron: No, the other one. It made a billion dollars!
Disney: So did "Frozen." I think we'll make a "Frozen" park.
Cameron: Wait, wait! Does "Frozen" have ... a sequel?
Disney: Of course it does. We have at least one in the pipes, maybe two.
Cameron: Well, what f I told you "Avatar" had ... [looks at accountants and lawyers, who shake their heads cautiously) three sequels? [accountant slaps head]
Disney: Well, Jim, I would say that's starting to sound like some Disney numbers. Does it have a princess?
Cameron: It does!
Disney: We're in. Someone go tell Elsa the bad news that she's going to Epcot's Norway pavillion. Jim and I have to get to work spending some blue money.

Avatarier: More Avatarin'!

http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/27/avatar-2-first-look/

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/avatar.jpg?w=2700

Imagine they're all blue, or most of them are.

“We never had this youthful element before, and that brings a different kind of energy to the film,” he says. “They represent the future generation of Pandora and play a very significant role — not just in this movie but throughout all the movies.”

I'd like to think that picture was taken of focus group kids after they got their own "first look" and were all, eh.

They mostly come in blue. Mostly.

I hope those kids are strapped in for the kind of career momentum that Sam Worthington has enjoyed.

whats an avatar?

http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/27/avatar-2-second-look/

https://hips.hearstapps.com/cos.h-cdn.co/assets/16/32/1470929175-hook-teaser.jpg

"now you kids better not plug your tails into anything!"

Imagine they're all blue, or most of them are.

Except the whitest kid, what a weird coincidence

RUFIOOOOOOVATAR xxp

could swear I've seen that kid second-from-the-left in something before

if you're talking about the Hook photo, he was in Band of Brothers

http://www.collectorsproof.com/uploads/bfadb5a8c2bab1cf8a738a21030eb04431bbc98126ef0a8624adff09.jpeg

he also looks a little like Carbone from the prequel Li'l Goodfellas.

no I am talking about the Avatar cast photo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNfhOEYg80c

cicieraga is god

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-runtime-1235251391/

lol over 3hrs. Sure thing. Jim. I want to see a cut that is entirely people speaking underwater.

"Blrrb. Blurrble blurb blur."

"Blurbbb!!! Blurrr bla blurb brbbble!"

sounds great

damien chazelle's three-hour star-studded comedy about the transition from silent to sound is a "tentpole"! a little ominous

I've seen the Babylon trailer enough times over the past month that they sure are trying for that. Then again, it's about the same amount of times I saw a trailer for that smash hit Amsterdam.

took me a second to remember that Babylon was not the subtitle of the new Avatar.

Amsterdam: The Way of Babylon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MyW72ELq0

I feel in his heart of hearts Cameron would have preferred to just make an IMAX movie of people scuba diving, but he probably also thinks millions of people around the planet have been wondering what's up the magical world of Avatar and its colorful characters.

all I can think of are those sea monkeys that used to be advertised in the backs of comic books

"Blrrb. Blurrble blurb blur."

"Blurbbb!!! Blurrr bla blurb brbbble!"

omg someone call burt stanton, mystery finally solved

grimreaponium

“We’re in a different world now than we were when I wrote this stuff, even,” Cameron continues. “It’s the one-two punch—the pandemic and streaming. Or, conversely, maybe we’ll remind people what going to the theatre is all about. This film definitely does that. The question is: How many people give a shit now?”

The final runtime of James Cameron's 'Avatar: The Way of Water' is 3 hours and 12 minutes, three minutes shorter than 'Titanic.' pic.twitter.com/gLKPPHpSyA

— The Film Stage 📽 (@TheFilmStage) November 21, 2022

Well I’ve chipped in to the Let Cameron Be Cameron fund — $100 for four IMAX seats on the opening Friday night.

And $100 for the motorman's friend you'll need.

Especially with the $20 beer I'll probably buy.

Not that I always get my movie opinions from Uproxx, but I want to believe.

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER: Yeah never bet against James Cameron. Trying to spare hyperbole, but I’ve never seen anything like this from a technical, visual standpoint. It’s overwhelming. Maybe too overwhelming. Sometimes I’d miss plot points because I’m staring at a Pandora fish

— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) December 6, 2022

it’s gonna be dope

Wider range of reactions here, some complaints about thin story and characters (duh) but basically everyone's like, Yah, this is cool.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/avatar-2-first-reactions-james-cameron-masterpiece-1235451389/

These post screening "first reactions" dumps are always the same. "Cameron's best movie yet!" Like, no one thought it wouldn't look cool, no one thought Cameron was going to shit out some totally inept effort. Looking cool and being well-made are the minimal Cameron standards. Lately (which is to say, his last 30 years/three films), good acting and story and writing ... not so much. And those are the things that will keep me away, not the run-time.

can't even be spared of your opinion of this movie you haven't seen and won't see

Gonna stick with the knockoff mockbuster:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LkXg1YnbuU4/maxresdefault.jpg

Looks dope!

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The first avatar definitely one of those movies that looked ridiculous in the trailer and then wound up being genuinely good and even likable in its sincere willingness to appear silly and have the audience identify wholly with a newly created alien species and against the human villains. I agree with some of the consensus that the first film maybe didn’t have some sort of massive pop culture impact but that may also be due to the overwhelming ubiquity of the Disney machine taking up a lot of the air in the room w marvel and Star Wars. At the same time it really was a singularly massive success and that success is probably even more impressive considering its lack of ties to any pre-existing material.

I'm excited as hell for the new one but let's not pretend that the first one was not a James Cameron movie with a major studio marketing budget, not exactly the Little Indie Movie That Could

no one's pretending that ffs

it is a labor of love with a major studio marketing budget, the domain of spielberg and cameron pretty much exclusively these days

I saw the trailer for this in the cinema and I absolutely cannot wait not to see this. The purples and teals are like a Thomas Kincade painting, kitsch beyond kitsch, the beings are fully CGI as far as I can tell, with all the problematic mouth movements that implies.. I mean I guess if your favourite part of Marvel movies are the entirely CGI scenes of large groups of magical beings swirling around each other then this is for you

justice for roger dean, i will not rest

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

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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

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.

isn't that basically just the avatar ride in disney world?

Pretty much! Which is awesome fwiw.

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.

There is a very clear reason for that tbh

It’s an open polemic, not The Mote In God’s Eye

You can still make polemics interesting and not racist.

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.

i thought the water/whale scenes in this were just brimming with wonder and beauty lol

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

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, June 11, 2023 11:44 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is urgent and key for these films.

yeah are people watching this sober??

I tried watching this sober today. Lasted about 20 minutes. Nope. Gotta be in the mood for endless CGI “wonder”.

avatar ii is a non-racist movie imo

watched it sober on a big screen and loved it

big screen = imax 3d

Well-meaning but lazy cultural appropriation is still racist, just not Nazi racist.

naw

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.

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.

in the same film

Avatar 5: Titanic 2

Sigourney Weaver has been attached to play the sub via motion capture.