The box office dominance of Avatar
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Yeah but that's not a thing that is coming. Other than the canceled HFR Fox hasn't advertised anything technologically impressive about these movies.
haha I was kind of speaking in jest. However I don't doubt that Cameron is trying to make it work.. so who knows.
There are patents for it... I've seen it on a TV screen...
I always found this movie to be overrated. The effects were tremendous--it was one of the few movies I ever saw in 3D. But the movie itself? I never had a desire to revisit it. I saw it once and that was that. I didn't really like the story, and as for the sequels, I haven't even decided if I care enough to see them. They certainly aren't worth a 10 year wait.
Hopefully Cameron won't botch it like he did the last Terminator.
Hopefully Cameron won't botch it like he did the last Terminator.
Are people really looking forward to: "Pocahontas In SPACE (Part 2)"?
I’m not. The 3D was impressive, the most successful use of it, I feel, but it’s not a world I care about. I might see it, but I actually care about seeing Bill and Ted 3 waaaaaay more than Avatar 2, 3, 4....
The only movies I've bothered to see in 3D in recent years are Ant-Man and the Wasp (and only on my second viewing), Wonder Woman, and, before that, Prometheus and the first Hobbit flick. Despite the changing sizes being core to Ant-Man's plot, I didn't find its 3D all that exciting, partly because its action is so quick and zippy, and while Gal Gadot and WW's painting sequence certainly looked amazing in big-screen 3D, I won't be seeing WW84 in 3D, if at all. I didn't even bother to go see T2 in 3D, and that's both my favorite movie and a conversion I was eagerly anticipating for some time.
In order for 3D to really add to the experience, I think it has to be key to the story and baked into the movie's direction (i.e., not merely a conversion option for a director primarily focused on the regular 2D release). Avatar and Prometheus are perfect examples, because they're about exploration. As Roger Ebert used to say, all movies are 3D, because our brains will them to be so. When I watch the final scenes of Casablanca or Raiders of the Lost Ark, I don't stop to wish I could see the actors' noses protruding toward the camera.
Ergo, I think the 3D of Avatar 2, while not as novel as that of the original, will still be a major factor, because it'll have been the first movie in a long time, maybe since Gravity, where the third dimension will be seen as crucial to the experience.
In order for 3D to really add to the experience, I think it has to be key to the story and baked into the movie's direction (i.e., not merely a conversion option for a director primarily focused on the regular 2D release). Avatar and Prometheus are perfect examples, because they're about exploration. As Roger Ebert used to say, all movies are 3D, because our brains will them to be so. When I watch the final scenes of Casablanca or Raiders of the Lost Ark, I don't stop to wish I could see the actors' noses protruding toward the camera.
Ergo, I think the 3D of Avatar 2, while not as novel as that of the original, will still be a major factor, because it'll have been the first movie in a long time, maybe since Gravity, where the third dimension will be seen as crucial to the experience.
^ Very true, though post conversion has come a very long way from the post-Avatar botched jobs of Clash of the Titans and Alice in Wonderland. So much so that I suspect directorial intent for 3D as the default version is more important than whether the image is native 3D or converted - and, of course, there's so much animation in Avatar that even much of the original movie wasn't "shot" in 3D, in the sense that it wasn't "shot" at all.
Yes. Very much. More than to any other announced movie in the upcoming years.
STAR WARS isn't Lord of the Rings in space... you're confusing it with Babylon 5.
James Cameron thinks it's a Avatar 2 will beat Avegners: Endgame at the box office. I'm not so confident though, unless he comes up with a really cool gimmick like the 3D from the first one, I just don't see it having anywhere near the draw that Endgame did.
I think Cameron should abandon all this crap and make the Aquaman sequel.
Beats me. I thought it was garbage then and time hasn't changed my opinion.
