_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

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.

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

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.

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

a story in two parts pic.twitter.com/CEiNYJDiok

— jamieloftus 🏂 (@jamieloftusHELP) July 23, 2020

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

To dream a dream.

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.

sorry, keep until "202X" was what i was going for; I saw the reschedule announcement. I just don't buy it.

I rewatched Avatar last night and it is both totally captivating and such egregious horseshit

^^ 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

It still cracks me up that the primary theme of the movie is "got a problem? CONNECT IT TO YOUR SPACE DICK"

Hahahahaha

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.

still never seen this and i feel good about it

it was fun, dammit!!!

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".

Worthington was good in his Terminator, iirc.

No he wasn’t

nobody was good in that terminator

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.

hardtofindium

I don't remember that Terminator movie being particularly good or memorable, but I don't recall it being bad because of him.

it was shit because of McG.

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

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

lol the earliest "avatar 2" thread is older than many ilxors

“Avatar 2 (Version)”

I wanna see the 160 language version

Dogme 95 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IpgFIz9ng

More NATO aggression

"will have more versions than any movie in history" is a selling point on par with "from the producers of"

Avatar 31 will star Freddie Prinze, VI

Dogme 95 lol

Never in the history of art!

Lol, Neanderthal.

did roger dean ever get paid for any of this?

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/znJTFDTemj3st5vMC9KxnB-1024-80.jpg

ans = no: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/james-cameron-vanquishes-artist-in-avatar-copyright-lawsuit-111514

this shd be the next ALAB podcast

These sequels will never come out, won’t they?

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

maybe they can combine it with the movie Anvil and make it Anviltar

james cameron give the (trans) people what they want... a battle angel sequel

I would watch the heck out of Anviltar tbh

And I’ll probably watch these sequels, actually

So you're the guy

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

I love avatar unabashedly