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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:25 (ten months ago) link
isn't that basically just the avatar ride in disney world?
― silverfish, Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
Pretty much! Which is awesome fwiw.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:12 (ten months ago) link
There is a very clear reason for that tbh
― serving bundt (sic), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:33 (ten months ago) link
It’s an open polemic, not The Mote In God’s Eye
― serving bundt (sic), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:34 (ten months ago) link
You can still make polemics interesting and not racist.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 June 2023 11:39 (ten months ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:30 (ten months ago) link
i thought the water/whale scenes in this were just brimming with wonder and beauty lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:36 (ten months ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:38 (ten months ago) link
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.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:17 (ten months ago) link
yeah are people watching this sober??
― k3vin k., Saturday, 17 June 2023 14:40 (ten months ago) link
I tried watching this sober today. Lasted about 20 minutes. Nope. Gotta be in the mood for endless CGI “wonder”.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 17 June 2023 17:52 (ten months ago) link
avatar ii is a non-racist movie imo
― flopson, Saturday, 17 June 2023 23:32 (ten months ago) link
watched it sober on a big screen and loved it
― flopson, Saturday, 17 June 2023 23:34 (ten months ago) link
big screen = imax 3d
Well-meaning but lazy cultural appropriation is still racist, just not Nazi racist.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 18 June 2023 11:30 (ten months ago) link
naw
― k3vin k., Sunday, 18 June 2023 14:19 (ten months ago) link
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.
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 18 June 2023 15:29 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:18 (ten months ago) link
in the same film
Avatar 5: Titanic 2
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:20 (ten months ago) link
Sigourney Weaver has been attached to play the sub via motion capture.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link