Sci-Fi Avatar: The Way Of Water

[Kane52630]

Is this going to use 3D in a similar/better way than the first film? The only disadvantage this time is that people know that 3D didn’t become the future of cinema as it might have. I don’t know why other films since haven’t implemented it better as the depth 3D was already so good all the way back in 2009. I think people would have been happy paying higher prices for the best films if that tech had been implemented well elsewhere and continued to improve all these years.

They said they're improving the 3D on the next one, but they seem to be quiet on that front overall.

 

[Iceman]

They said they're improving the 3D on the next one, but they seem to be quiet on that front overall.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Drizzle]

Seeing 20 Minutes of Avatar 2 Moved Zoe Saldaña To Tears

 

[Boom]

Perfect post.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Can we all just agree to hold off the sark until AFTER we start getting posters and trailers, please? If there's one thing James Cameron has going for him is that he's a master of proving people wrong. Hell, he's made an entire career out of it! Allow me to reenact:

Studio exec: "Hey, aren't you that James Cameron fellow who did that crappy Piranha 2 movie?"
James Cameron: "They screwed me over on it, plus it wasn't really my movie or idea."
Exec: "*Sigh* FINE. What do ya got for us?"
Cameron: "I'm gonna make a sci-fi action thriller about an evil robotic assassin from the future who comes back in time to assassinate a woman who's unborn son would lead humanity to defeat the machine uprising it serves. And it'll star Arnold Schwarzenegger. "
Exec: "Oooh! That guy from Conan the Barbarian! That was a huge hit!"
Cameron: "As the titular evil robot."
Exec: "WHAT?! You fool, that'll never work!"
*One movie later*
Cameron: "It worked."
Exec: Alright, then. What's next?"
Cameron: "Well, now I'm gonna direct a sequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien", but it'll be more action-horror, with more than one alien and it'll turn Sigourney Weaver's character into an iconic bad-ass action hero by the end!"
Exec: "You fool, that has box office failure written all over it!"
*Another movie later*
Cameron: "The sphincter says what?"
Exec: "I stand corrected. What next?"

*Several similar back-and-forths later in 1997*

Exec: "Well, Jim, my boy, you've made us a ton of money this past 10 or so years. What exciting sci-fi or action concept do you have for us now?"
Cameron: "I have something, but it's not sci-fi or action."
Exec: "WHAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?"
Cameron: "Yep, it's a historical disaster-drama set aboard the Titanic centered on a fictional Romeo And Juliet-style romance. It'll be massively big-budgeted and star those two up-and-comers Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and I plan to have it win Best Picture at the Oscars and become the highest-grossing movie of all time!"
Exec: ".........ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND?!? NOBODY'S gonna wanna see this! It sounds like an actual disaster waiting to happen!"
*One movie later*
Exec: "Holy ****.....it worked. Your movie did everything it said it would, Jim. What do you plan on doing next?"
Cameron: "I'm gonna spend the next decade planning my dream project: a sci-fi epic set on an alien planet who's story will have a bit of an pro-enviromentalist message to it without coming off too cheesy (that's what Pocahontas got wrong) and will make breakthroughs in CGI and motion-capture technology as well as make 3D popular again! AND I plan on breaking my own box office record, inevitably lose it again a decade later, and then have my same movie REGAIN it thanks to an overseas re-release two years later. And by THAT point, I'll have been actively working on multiple sequels to it!"
Exec: *Raises a glass with a smile on his face* "Shine on, you crazy diamond."

 

[Marvolo]

After seeing yourself in a movie you've been waiting to be in for 20 years I'd be moved to tears too.

Now she will pass into the West and rest on silver shores for eternity.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I didn't love the first Avatar, but this is James Cameron we're talking about. There's no way I'd miss this.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I didn't love the first Avatar, but this is James Cameron we're talking about. There's no way I'd miss this.

Same, it’s going to be an event movie no matter what with Cameron involved, and the guy is responsible for a few of my favourite movies ever.

 

[Kane52630]

James Cameron plus the Disney marketing machine? They are for sure gonna make this an event on the scale of the Avengers movies.

 

[Kane52630]

Also I wouldn't be surprised if the first trailer comes out with Thor Love and Thunder.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Also I wouldn't be surprised if the first trailer comes out with Thor Love and Thunder.

I'd say Doctor Strange, really.

 

[Drizzle]

If I recall correctly, the first Avatar didn't have a trailer until August 2009, four months before it came out. I wouldn't be surprised if Cameron follows a similar pattern here with a late summer trailer.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Yeah it took forever to get a trailer.

 

[Kane52630]

They had Avatar day on August 21 where they screened 20 minutes of the movie in IMAX and the trailer was released with Inglourious Basterds.

I don't see any big movie like that this August, but since Fox is now with Disney, I assumed it's gonna be with Thor which comes out in July.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Man, I remember when the first Avatar teaser came out, people kept bashing it as Smurfs in Space and all that. Predicting it to bomb.

Then when the second trailer was released, word of mouth completely shifted to the positive.

 

[Doctor Jones]

As excited as I was for the movie at the time, I was concerned it would bomb after that teaser trailer. But then that second trailer hit.

 

[Gothamsknight]

When I left the theater after having seen the first film, I kinda had mixed feelings and was underwhelmed a bit. Revisiting it years later, I enjoyed it way more. It's still possibly on the lower end of my favorite Cameron films, but it's decent.

Am I the only one who ranks True Lies super high?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Avatar is probably Cameron's least good movie. But it's still solid. True Lies is awesome!

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Love True Lies! It's a classic.

 

[Drizzle]

For me it's:

1. Terminator 2
2. Aliens
3. The Terminator
4. Titanic
5. Avatar
6. The Abyss
7. True Lies

Pretty much all killer no filler with Cameron. The ones above I rate from near perfect to pretty good. I haven't seen Piranha II but I don't even think he wants to remind people he made that.

 

[Still Wynning]

Whether you’re a big fan or not, if there’s anything I’ve learned from looking at his filmography and their box office, it’s that betting against James Cameron is a fool’s errand.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Avatar is probably Cameron's least good movie. But it's still solid. True Lies is awesome!

Agreed! The guys a genius, honestly.

For me it's:

1. Terminator 2
2. Aliens
3. The Terminator
4. Titanic
5. Avatar
6. The Abyss
7. True Lies

Pretty much all killer no filler with Cameron. The ones above I rate from near perfect to pretty good. I haven't seen Piranha II but I don't even think he wants to remind people he made that.

For me it's

Terminator 2
Terminator
Aliens
True Lies
Titanic
The Abyss
Avatar

 

[Kane52630]

See for me I was already sold with Avatar because I saw the 20 minute preview in 3D. Still one of the best "oh s**t" moments watching something in a theater (and I saw Inglourious Basterds right after).

 

[Drizzle]

I feel bad for anyone who didn't experience Avatar in IMAX 3D. It was/is the best way to watch it.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

I feel bad for anyone who didn't experience Avatar in IMAX 3D. It was/is the best way to watch it.

I saw it in that, too. And I mean pure IMAX, not the AMC screens.