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[–] 59 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

It made $2 billion but I don't know anyone that saw it. Or if they did, they didn't talk about it.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I saw it. I enjoyed it a lot. Pandora's seas look even more stunning than the forest did in the first movie. Loved meeting the Omatikaya clan and Jake's new family (Spider and Kiri too, of course). Also, Quaritch being reborn as a Na'vi made him a much scarier and more interesting antagonist than he was. Can't wait to see what Cameron has in store for us in the sequels.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    I saw it, it was shit, specially because I remember the first. The plot of the 2 is horrible, even comparing with first that was generic.

    The story moves around the fact that humans want to get rid of blue ppl from a place to explore mineral resources, the leadr of the blues go away, instead of massacre the blue ppl they go for the leader in another place (???)

    And half of the movie is just kids doing shit to help the plot show the water, this movie was a long and slow torture.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Holy shit do these movies need to edited down. Watched the latest one a few weeks ago and man was it 90 minutes of plot stretched into a 3 hour film. Felt like I was just watching James Cameron fellate himself on screen. Oh yeah Jimmy, such a beautiful and imaginative world. Shame it's wasted on the blandest characters and most simplistic themes imaginable.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I watched it in 3D on mushrooms. It was one hell of an experience that way, but my god it felt like it lasted 10 hours

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    Pros: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie with modern fx.

    Cons: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie, with ancient overdone tropes, including the racist ones.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We're literally in decade four of people underestimating James Cameron

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Gotta love the realistic space ships.

    Literally melted in my seat when I saw the radiators. FUCKING incredible

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I'm assuming the sequel is also forgettable considering that I've barely heard a thing about the plot.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I forgot/possibly never knew Avatar 2 had come out

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Made three out of the top four grossing movies of all time.

    I don't really like any of them, but you can't argue with the results. The man knows how to put bums on cinema seats.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My wife and I started watching the second avatar and we turned it off about 90 minutes in, just couldn't be bothered to care or watch it any more. And we never finished it. What a piece of crap

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't know a single person who's ever seen it

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't know how it made so much money. I guess people are seeing it and not talking about it?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    This is precisely it. Avatar had originally the exact same problem that the Way of the Water has now. They're tech demos. Interesting, pretty, they move people to see what's what on the theater. But, offer close to nothing emotionally or culturally resonant. It's like a generic roller-coaster, you show up, enjoy the ride, then go get some fries having nothing deeper to say about the experience because the experience doesn't offer anything deep. It doesn't mean the movies are bad or that they weren't enjoyable, that's why they made so much money. But there's no conversation to have around them except to remark on how much they cost to make, or how did the CGI looked like or whether other studios will use the tech invented for this movie on other movies. Plot, characters and symbolism are shallow pools. Specially to an audience that is sick and tired of mega blockbuster sequels.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    I mean it's more Fern Gully than pure Pocahontas.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Also: deep sea explorer done right and not implode himself by sparing expense.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So it may have taken 13 years to come back with a sequel that no one asked for and no one expected. But at least he gave us something. Unlike a certain South African director that shall remain nameless...3 years my ass...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wasn't it blue Dances With Wolves?

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It was such a bad movie too. Dude was really just like "let's remake the first movie, but wetter"

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There are quite a few more sequels in planning

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    it's up to five films total, now. the remaining three with tentative release dates stretching from 2025 to 2031. cameron has a plan for a further two more but disney hasn't committed past the fifth one---yet

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He can't keep getting away with it!

    I feel like there was a good movie in Avatar 2 but a lot of the scenes looked like they didn't render them fully. The FPS changes felt random. If they'd done ALL action in 48 and ALL dialogue in 24 it wouldn't have been as bad.

    The scenes of the kids rescuing the parents were so gorgeous. Stunning. But compare that to the scene of the boat jumping and crashing? Insane how shitty it looked.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    13 years!!?? Fuuuuck.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    His name is James, James Cameron. The bravest pioneer.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Um... I wasn't aware that it was humanly possible to have a 12 pack. I didn't know that humans even have that many muscles on the front of their abdomen.

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