lol Aliens is practically the hambone '80s Battle of Algiers.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
"Let's see how we whiteys can survive as the native population takes revenge on us."
I checked out on Marvel shit many years ago so if this is a welcome corrective measure, I’ll take it. I grew up in the age of Fern Gully and Free Willy and I guess I don’t see it as revolutionary.
― circa1916, Friday, 23 December 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
This was a lot of fun.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
To be fair, the aliens in the Alien franchise are also colonizers.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 December 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Also fwiw, I commute a lot for work and listen to some movie podcasts and Cameron and Avatar are very much Cool and In. If I’m bucking, I’m bucking that thing. I think he’s got 3 great movies. First Terminator fucking rules and is his best imo.
― circa1916, Friday, 23 December 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
tie between that one and Aliens.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
I was being a bit flip but I do enjoy the dialogue in everything Cameron did pre-Titanic. I wasn’t changing that assessment, just expressing self-doubt and I know he was the writer and not director but when are we going to get a Strange Days critical reassessment
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
by the time I watched Aliens the entire Space Marines trope had been kind of driven into the ground so it wasn’t as compelling to me as Alien, which is just top tier
― mh, Friday, 23 December 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
Aliens kills, but Ridley wins that one by a mile. Some of the best art direction in the history of film.
― circa1916, Friday, 23 December 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
it was kind of fun in avatar 2 to see those aliens-esque space marines as the villains
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 23 December 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
I mean, they’re not the heroes in Aliens, either. They’re hubris getting clobbered.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 24 December 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
i played Hudson in a Shakespearean adaptation of Aliens this past year and basically my entire motivation was "be the loudest talking, dickwaving bullshitter on the planet, then whine like a baby at the first sign of trouble"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 December 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
true, but fun to think of the movie as aliens from the point of view of the aliens haha
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Saturday, 24 December 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
my favorite part of this movie was the general getting overruled by the angriest marine, and then she just walks away and out of the movie about 2 hours before it finally ended
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link
she's just like 'eh, they'll fix it in post, it doesn't matter, bye'
really? that was only my second favorite part of the movie
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
it was a tough choice! lol
i love this article and the rumor it's based on:
https://www.cbr.com/james-cameron-avatar-3-cut-nine-hours-vfx/
The rumor comes courtesy of industry insider Jeff Sneider, who discussed the third Avatar installment's progress during an episode of the Hot Mic podcast. "Someone reached out [to me] and said Cameron handed in a cut of Avatar 3 last week," he said. "The cut was, no joke, 9 hours long. And apparently, he's insisting on doing the [visual effects] for this cut, so that all 9 hours get fully VFX'd, then he'll cut it down. Rather than figuring out what he wants and having them just do the VFX for that. That's what I heard."
and now that's what i heard, too!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
Nine hours?!?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
And you'll love every minute of it or else
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
so that all 9 hours get fully VFX'd
That can't possibly be true.
― jmm, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
i feel like a good rumor should push the envelope of plausibility juuuust a little bit
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Or maybe that is what Cameron wants, I dunno
― jmm, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Relax guys he'll break it into two 4 1/2 hour installments, it's a win-win.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
lol if that’s even a tiny bit true it’s another tick mark in the “dude doesn’t know how to make an animated film” column
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
It's going to be a Zaireeka-esque experiment where you enter the film midway through at a random point, and there's one boombox with the score, one with the dialogue, and someone in the front row is responsible for hitting play on both
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Cameron rumors: https://www.thesuburban.com/arts_and_entertainment/entertainment/james-cameron-confirms-urban-myth-about-unique-aliens-pitch/article_c9796270-bc89-5447-a1a5-1938acef7767.html
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
To be fair, I'd probably watch a Cameron version of DAU.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 December 2022 07:39 (one year ago) link
you have to respect cameron's hustle - feels like he basically convinced the studios to front him three hundred million dollars for his own personal submarine hobby by saying look, it's a big upfront investment but you're gonna get at least 3 billion dollar blockbusters out of this one investment. and feels like he may be... right? i mean it's obvious we're not gonna get dune: avatar or avatar: into thin air, as much as that'd be cool. it's gonna be water from here on out because james cameron loves submersing.
― 龜, Friday, 30 December 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
Guessing he’s had some crazy waterproof pressurized casket made so he can be dropped into the deepest part of the ocean.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 30 December 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
Cameron at the crib
https://media.tenor.com/jSXJXHzJe64AAAAC/simpsons-troy.gif
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 December 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
It’s interesting to contrast where this movie sits in worldwide movie revenue for 2022 vs US movie revenue for 2022.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 30 December 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
Avatar 2 is up to about $2 billion in revenue
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-box-office-2b-globally-1235306500/
james cameron has directed 3 of the 6 films to pass the $2B marker
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
And he's only made one of the top 10 most expensive. It's crazy to me that Titanic is now tied for 47th-most-expensive movie ever, and even the first Avatar is 25th.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
Is that adjusted for inflation?
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
inflation of the boat
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Crazy how many of the top spots on the most expensive movies of all time list are taken up by those ugly ass Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.
― omar little, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
Which is of course why one should never cite box office as a sign of much more than exceptional marketing success.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
once hollywood decided (correctly? who is to say) that dumping insane amounts of money into a movie as an input gets you insane amounts at the box office they locked into a blockbuster death spiral
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
Good point, no. If you do, Titanic is number 2 and Avatar number 6.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
does the title Titanic refer to the boat or the amount of money spent making the movie hard to say
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
it refers to how good the movie is. the quality of the film is titanic
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 January 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
This thing is on HBO (excuse me, Max) starting Wednesday. Gonna install the Max app on my phone and check it out.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 5 June 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
I like the theory that most of the movie's tickets were sold to ghosts.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
Er what?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 01:18 (one year ago) link
Just the idea that this is the biggest movie of all time, right? But for whatever reason I'm not sure I personally know a single person who has seen it. None of my friends, no children of friends, not my kids, none of their friends, not a soul. It's kinda weird. So must be mostly ghosts.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
yes, non-americans are ghosts
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
I don't know anyone who voted for Joe Biden but my assumption is that everyone who did is Na'vi
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
Nice try, Na'vi can't vote. Fake Blues!
No shade, everyone should enjoy Avatar 2. I was only relating my surprise, since I wanted to know what my friends or their kids thought of it, but none of them saw it, not even the ones I thought would want to see it. Which I thought was weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
amazed Our Lady Peace hasn't done an Avatar collabo
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link