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
i made it through 30 minutes of this before i bailed cannot imagine sitting through 3+ hours of that
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
parts of it looked great on the big screen, i can vouch for that, but i can barely remember anything about the plot, and most of what i do remember was really annoying.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 11 June 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
i made it through 30 minutes of this before i bailed
cannot imagine sitting through 3+ hours of that
I lasted about 15 before I was actually angry with myself for having even tried.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 11 June 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
veg you missed Brendan Cowell getting his arm sliced off by an alium whale and sproing-spiralling off of a boat snapped in half by a giant cable while his arm wheeeee-spiralled in a different direction
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 11 June 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link
as good as that sounds, i still wouldn’t sit through it for that i felt like i was watching the 29th bratz doll vhs or some other knockoff toy series like this endless exposition worldbuilding is just absolute gibberish to me, a grumpy elderly woman who enjoys Movies and Cinema that YOU sir James Cameron USED TO MAKE ugh idk why it irritates me so much but omg i could not have hated it moreplus they all look like deer
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 04:16 (one year ago) link
That a film more than 3 hours long just inelegantly and unclearly infodumps for its first 20 minutes is hard to forgive.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 11 June 2023 07:15 (one year ago) link
I'll never watch this on purpose, but I'm sure I'll eventually see the entire thing, bit by bit, spread across dozens of walks by bright TV displays in big box stores. Who needs movie theaters when I have Costco visits?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
it seems kind of pointless to see this movie on anything other than IMAX 3D? (I haven't seen this movie)
― silverfish, Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
you all are wrong this movie ruled
― k3vin k., Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
Otm
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
otm = out of your mind
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
<3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
As someone who did see it in 3D on an IMAX screen — and largely enjoyed it — I can't fathom watching it in 2D on TV, much less on a smaller screen. It would be like watching a YouTube of a rollercoaster ride.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
Does watching it on an IMAX screen also offer a better script and actual characterization?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
Only in the future four+ hour extended version.
I do appreciate that James Cameron spent years and years making movies on the water, in the water, under the water, diving, floating, sinking, researching and developing state of the art FX, until he was finally able to create computer rendered water so realistic it is indistinguishable from the real thing ... and then populated the movie with 10-foot tall blue people.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
No but neither do rollercoaster rides.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 11 June 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link