Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Here's the HD pic of that concept art pic.twitter.com/0UBcTL1Nne

— jaden (@JADENMOVIES) December 14, 2021

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So this film tells the tale of a overworked Na'avi family going to a Disney resort and getting into all sorts of wacky adventures?

Fat Bib Fortuna said:

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Visually stunning, revolutionary use of technology, have never seen it all the way through since I saw it in the theater.

Should have had the movie end with the destruction of the native's big tree structure as a cautionary tale of man's insatiable quest for power and belief that we own everything.

I'm sure it will do fine in the box office, but if you ask 100 people to name a single character from Avatar, I would suspect fewer than 3 could do so.

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I think the main guy was named Avatar.

Great interview.

The official #Avatar2 synopsis reads:

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, AVATAR 2 begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them... pic.twitter.com/eCt9bsWk2q

— Cinema Reviewed (@ReviewedCinema) January 7, 2022

Bunkhouse96 said:

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Fat Bib Fortuna said:

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Visually stunning, revolutionary use of technology, have never seen it all the way through since I saw it in the theater.

Should have had the movie end with the destruction of the native's big tree structure as a cautionary tale of man's insatiable quest for power and belief that we own everything.

I'm sure it will do fine in the box office, but if you ask 100 people to name a single character from Avatar, I would suspect fewer than 3 could do so.

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I think the main guy was named Avatar.

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No problem, I can name most of the important ones:

- Jake
- Jake's sidekick
- Blue Gamora
- Ripley
- Scarface ArmyGuy
- Letty
- new Carter Burke

Avatar 2 and Maverick are coming out as a double feature on July 1, 2036.

Finding it difficult to get excited about this.

YouBet said:

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Finding it difficult to get excited about this.

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People said the same about Titanic and Avatar.

I'll be seeing it opening weekend.

On a related note, I think I've mentioned the Blockbuster podcast on here before, which was the story of George Lucas making Star Wars.

I recently listened to Season 2, which is the story of James Cameron, up until he made Titanic.

Really well done, with fantastic voice acting and a cool original score. Really recommend it for fans of James Cameron or just Hollywood in general.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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YouBet said:

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Finding it difficult to get excited about this.

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People said the same about Titanic and Avatar.

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I still say the same thing about Titanic.

Introducing AVATAR: Reckoning. Here's a first look at our new MMO mobile shooter from developer Archosaur Games, published by @LevelInfinite. Releasing in 2022! pic.twitter.com/mYNVkRgvHx

— Avatar (@officialavatar) January 13, 2022

Word.

Look, I'm not an avatar fan so I realize this sounds like I'm bashing it, but the story was pretty unoriginal, a remake of Ferngully or the Ewoks or a zillion other natives fight back against the bad corporation/army guys. Sam Worthington is not exactly a household name that everyone's clamoring for 10 years later, and the sequel has been delayed 67 times and now we're told it's going to have a bunch of kids in it, which most of the time means the movie's going to suck for an adult audience.

The visuals of Avatar were stunning beyond compare and worthy of going to see it on the biggest, coolest screen possible, but the thing has gone kinda stale since then. I know you're a die-hard for it, and I'm sure it will make a lot of $$ at the theater, but it wasn't like everyone was lining up in 2010 to see Avatar because the story was so great. Now that this sort of technology is available to everyone (thanks to Cameron's innovation), does the actual story of the movie have the legs to carry it?

That complaint is as original as the movie was.

Also let's not pretend Star Wars wasn't equally derivative of many things that came before.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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That complaint is as original as the movie was.

Also let's not pretend Star Wars wasn't equally derivative of many things that came before.

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I'm not saying it's not, I just am trying to explain why people aren't all jazzed up about Avatar 2

Not yet.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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That complaint is as original as the movie was.

Also let's not pretend Star Wars wasn't equally derivative of many things that came before.

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While the derivative thing is true, my take on Avatar after leaving the theater was, in comparing it against SW, was that in SW I always felt pulled in to the story, and actually a part of it, whereas with Avatar, I felt more like an observer. There was absolutely no emotional connection, nothing to connect to. It was a cliched story of bad guy mankind trying to obtain something for evil capitalist reasons and fighting against noble blue critter warriors. Some may find appeal in that, but to me it was just more of the same politically motivated hogwash that Cameron first displayed in Titanic.

I will say that, as with all of Cameron's movies, the visuals and design was fantastic, but lots of movies have that. The Avatar ride at Walt Disney World was far better an experience than the actual movie.

Funny, that's how I felt after TROS.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Word.

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Avatar didn't make a lot of money because it was a great movie. People went for the visual experience, which I admit was great, but I have had absolutely no interest in ever seeing it again.

It was nominated for Best Picture. Just like all movies that are mainly about visuals.

Lots of terrible movies are nominated for best picture. The fish sex movie even won a couple years ago.

And lots of terrible movies have amazing visuals and lose millions.

I absolutely loved Avatar. I saw it three or four times in the theater. It was incredible. I didn't have the same problem with the story that others had, but I definitely wasn't going to see it multiple times because of the story. It was because of the visuals. I think that's the last movie I saw where I was blown away by the special effects (other than theme park rides).

Seeing it on TV, though, and it's nothing special. The visuals definitely don't hold up when you remove the 3D. For the sequel, I'll probably wait until I know more about the technology. I do trust Cameron, though, that he is going to do something revolutionary with it. The Avatar ride at Disney was pretty incredible.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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It was nominated for Best Picture. Just like all movies that are mainly about visuals.

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Just like Black Panther!

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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It was nominated for Best Picture. Just like all movies that are mainly about visuals.

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Okay, just fess up: you're Sam Worthington, aren't you?

AustinAg2K said:

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I absolutely loved Avatar. I saw it three or four times in the theater. It was incredible. I didn't have the same problem with the story that others had, but I definitely wasn't going to see it multiple times because of the story. It was because of the visuals. I think that's the last movie I saw where I was blown away by the special effects (other than theme park rides).

Seeing it on TV, though, and it's nothing special. The visuals definitely don't hold up when you remove the 3D. For the sequel, I'll probably wait until I know more about the technology. I do trust Cameron, though, that he is going to do something revolutionary with it. The Avatar ride at Disney was pretty incredible.

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I never saw it in the theater so I definitely don't get the hype. I can see how 3D would've looked good for a lot of the scenes, but I'm not a huge 3D fan.

GiveEmHellBill said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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It was nominated for Best Picture. Just like all movies that are mainly about visuals.

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Okay, just fess up: you're Sam Worthington, aren't you?

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Because this is funny I set about to find some other Worthington movie BES praised, and hold it up as further evidence.

Unfortunately I came up empty on Terminator Salvation, and he called Clash of the Titans forgettable, so I think he's in the clear.

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3089678/replies/55859960

List of Worthington movies in case anyone wants to keep at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Worthington

That is impressive research, not gonna lie.

Terminator Salvation feels like it was a Texags Entertainment Board group project.

helloimustbegoing said:

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Terminator Salvation feels like it was a Texags Entertainment Board group project.

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Top 10 trailer of all time tho

They just updated the release dates again.