Like every time Worthington had a shot at the superstardom we all know he deserves and were so sure he'd achieve, his pager started buzzing and he had to put the pen down before he could sign up to take on the James Bond reins or thrill us with the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jr. 'Sorry, guys, it's Jim. I gotta go.'
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
i'm pretty sure sam worthington just sits motionless staring at the wall at all times until he's required in front of the camera
then he kicks into high gear and stands motionless staring at the wall until the director says 'cut'
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
I enjoyed the arc of his character, from utterly charmless and charisma-free to ever-so-slightly less charmless and yet still a complete sucking void of charisma.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
How best to employ an actor who is almost literally an inert side of beef, oh yes motion capture that's how.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
that actually seems like where he should've put all his energy, a 360-degree sensurround spectacular that doesn't rely in the slightest upon a compelling narrative.
this is exactly how to enjoy the film btw, for some reason i didn't find it that hard to just write off the plot + script and dig the 'experience'. Surely anyone who has enjoyed, for example, any 19th century opera, can relate. The story is absurd but the music carries it.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
in avatar's case "music" = the whole sensory schmear
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
While watching it on the couch, I was comparing it in my head with Gravity, which (unlike Avatar) I did see in its optimal big screen presentation and which I've always assumed would lose a lot of its oomph when scaled down to living room dimensions. Except then there's the thing where much of the experience of Gravity from several years back is still irrevocably burned into my memory because it was a good movie which also happened to be good spectacle, whereas I'm struggling to remember much more than the broadest swaths of the cotton candy Avatar which apparently dissolved the instant it hit my tongue.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
The Disney ride really made me want to like this movie/universe, it's pretty much the best ride I've ever been on. But that movie doesn't hold up (enjoyed it as a really long tech demo at the time) and the fact that there are 4 upcoming movies makes me actively cringe. I should laugh but I actually feel preemptively bad for everyone involved in those movies. Somebody should have really told James Cameron that making 4 of these at once is probably a bad idea.
― silverfish, Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
avatar shows pretty clearly that cameron's 12 years (TWELVE YEARS ffs) away from directing features post-titanic did nothing to dull his ability to put together action sequences with a tremendous sense of space, but the script is... not good
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 9 March 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
It’s a movie that evaporates as soon as you’re done with it, but the one take-away I had was that Cameron still can do action sequences better than most anyone. Almost want to revisit to see how it stacks up against the weightless Marvel cartoon slugfests.
― circa1916, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
2028! There will be people who were conceived, born, raised, and able to cast their votes in a presidential election between Avatar 1 and Avatar 5. https://t.co/bcTgL0zc8R— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) July 23, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
a story in two parts pic.twitter.com/CEiNYJDiok— jamieloftus 🏂 (@jamieloftusHELP) July 23, 2020
― peace, man, Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
it would be a wild social experiment if you could somehow delete all the copies in existence to tell people this movie doesn’t actually exist and any impressions you have of it are owing to an elaborate marketing ploy. I guarantee you could sell it to 95% of the world https://t.co/FU8uSnsO5b— kilgore trout, tiny desk carpenter (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 13, 2020
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 December 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
To dream a dream.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 December 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
so do these sequels just come out on disney plus now or do they keep them until 2022? I've learned never to bet against the tandem of Jim Cameron/the stupidity of consumers but i gotta feel like there is NO WAY Avatar 2 through 6 are viable in a post-covid movie industry.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
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