James Cameron's: Avatar

[Lucas]

I did a forum, and advanced thread title search and didnt see a thread on this one. So if there is one, please pardon my horrid search-fu skeelz.

I finally went to see it, in 3d. To be honest, from all the hype I didnt want to get into this movie, I wanted to not like it because everyone loves it so much. But, IMO, Avatar deserves the hype, every bit of it. I had a great time with this movie, and plan to go see a non 3d version also, its just that fun. The 3 hours goes by so fast, it leaves you wishing it were a 5 hour movie. I like the aspect that this story is open for advancement. I would definately watch a sequal as long as it was a different story. Perhaps completely native, no humans.

[BoulderDawg]

I finally went last night. I also saw the 3D version. It's an okay novelty I guess but 2D would have been just as enjoyable.

The actual story itself is cut and dried. You know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. In fact it's pretty much geared towards the 12-14 year old crowd. I do wish they could have blurred the lines a little and made one of the Na'vi a villian.....however that might have confused the kids.

I did enjoy the message the movie delivered and actually compared it to Manifest Destiny conquests in the 17-18 hundreds. After seeing it I do understand why so many conservatives in this country are up in arms and saying that you hate America if you go to this movie. It hits real close to home to those people. One thing I did notice was that all the bad guys in this movie were all lilly white. There was not a black, brown, yellow face to be found anywhere. It kinda reminded me of a teabagger rally!

I did like Sigorney Weaver in this movie and though she had aged well. Finally I thought all of those Na'vi chicks were hot! They should introduce the Na'vi diet to American women!

[BoulderDawg]

One more thing....Notice how they set it up perfectly for the sequel.

[Lucas]

One more thing....Notice how they set it up perfectly for the sequel.

yep, this is where im hoping the more adult oriented story, with a navi villain, come into play. like i said, keep the humans out of the sequal, maybe all new characters all together.

lol there was this guy in the theater when i was watching it that yelled out 'nip' every time he saw a nipple LOL it was hillarious....at first.

[Jimbo]

I enjoyed Avatar immensely, but couldn't help comparing it in my mind to Dances With Wolves. Outsider becomes part of the tribe, and eventually becomes the standout of the tribe. In this case, instead of Native American tribes, they were blue giants, but the comparisons are no accident. I chose to see it in 2D, as I don't care for 3D.

Cameron (almost) always delivers in the quality department, esp. when it comes to big-time action. He doesn't come out with lots and lots of films like many directors do, but when he does, they're usually outstanding.

I also thought about Aliens, where the earthling/hero (Sigourney Weaver) donned a robotic outer shell to fight the alien; this time, it was the earthling/villain who donned the outer shell, fighting the good-guy extraterrestrials. I thought Weaver played her role very well in Avatar as well. Michelle Rodriquez seemed made to be in a James Cameron movie. But to be honest, I thought anybody could have played the main guy; he did a good job but his character was very generic.

As for all the bad guys being lilly-white, so are most of the main human characters. It is, after all, a James Cameron film. It seems a difficult thing for the majority of Hollywood directors to break convention. I would have thought that far into the 'future' that humanity would have been a little more integrated, but it's Hollywood, after all.

In spite of the film's predictability, IMO it also had some good messages, too.

[@PLUGO]

One more thing....Notice how they set it up perfectly for the sequel.

Here's what JC has to say about it:

“I’ve had a storyline in mind from the start — there are even scenes in Avatar that I kept in because they lead to the sequel. It just makes sense to think of it as a two or three film arc, in terms of the business plan. The CG plants and trees and creatures and the musculo-skeletal rigging of the main characters — that all takes an enormous amount of time to create. It’d be a waste not to use it again.”

Sam Worthington is already signed to play Jake Sully again and suggests "Jake should have abused his avatar and be fat and unfit and demand Neyteri to get him a beer."

Meanwhile producer Jon Landau has this to say about a sequel:

If the public likes Avatar, it’s a possibility. After all, here we are exploring the surface of the planet Pandora. The interior remains to be seen.

However there's still work on the other film JC was developing along side of AVATAR: Battle Angel

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[GeneChing]

Multiple Fox Films Getting Axed at Disney
8:22 AM PDT 4/24/2019 by Tatiana Siegel , Borys Kit


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Disney studio chief Alan Horn has jettisoned a number of Fox projects from his development and preproduction slate.

After scrapping Fox 2000, Alan Horn is culling projects that were in development before the $71.3 billion deal closed: "They are looking at everything."
Call it spring cleaning, Burbank-style.

Since Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox assets closed March 20, film studio chief Alan Horn has jettisoned a number of Fox projects from his development and preproduction slate, including the $170 million tentpole Mouse Guard, the Tom Hanks starrer News of the World (to Universal) and an adaptation of Angie Thomas' best-seller On the Come Up (to Paramount).

Also poised for curbside pickup, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, is Ted Melfi's mental-hospital-set dramedy Fruit Loops, which has Woody Harrelson starring. (The project is still officially in the Disney fold, but likely will be put into turnaround.)

Three of the four films came from Elizabeth Gabler's now-shuttered Fox 2000 division (Mouse Guard being the exception). Insiders say Disney is simply culling the enormous influx of projects. Mouse Guard, which was poised for a May start date, was said to be too expensive for a nonfranchise film.

As for why On the Come Up didn’t make the cut, a source says Thomas’ last project, The Hate U Give, lost $30 million to $40 million despite a modest $23 million budget and a marketing spend believed to be about $30 million.

Meanwhile, a number of movies greenlit in late December and early January by Fox film president Emma Watts, who made the transition to Disney, are moving forward. Those include the Matthew Vaughn-directed Kingsman prequel The Great Game, the low-budget witchcraft pic Fear Street and Steven Spielberg's West Side Story.

Likely shooting in the fall is Free Guy — a Shawn Levy-Ryan Reynolds collaboration — and Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile. One Fox film that won't be questioned is Avatar 2, which finished shooting last Thursday.

But even some of those green lights are being met with scrutiny. One source says Horn is questioning the apparent plan to have young characters smoking onscreen in West Side Story. "With Fox, we can make movies that right now I say no to. ... We always have to think about the smoking policy. The audience for a Disney movie may not know what they are going to see, but they know what they aren't going to see," the exec said in a recent interview with THR. "There are certain things we just can't include because we'll get letters."

Despite Mouse Guard now being shopped to other studios, Watts' group is not being asked to make lower-priced movies, says a source. Rather, she is being tasked with making larger all-audience PG-13 and R-rated films. Look for the domestic terrorism thriller The Ballad of Richard Jewell — about the security guard at the center of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing — to be among the first Fox green lights, possibly with Clint Eastwood directing.

"We are now just only beginning to see how all this consolidation will change how movies get greenlit and made," says a producer involved with a Fox-developed movie. "They are looking at everything."

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[GeneChing]

I still say Endgame cheated with the re-release. Avatar was a one-off at the time, not the culmination of 17+ films.

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It might have taken a while, but it finally happened: Avengers: Endgame has overtaken James Cameron's Avatar in a long, grueling box office battle.

The massively popular superhero movie passed another impressive milestone, having finally surpassed Avatar's box office totals, but only those from the movie's original theatrical run. Much of the earnings that comprise Avatar's impressive totals were actually derived from its theater re-release (much like Avengers: Endgame is getting), so unfortunately this isn't the big hurrah we've all been waiting for, but it's close.



It's going to be interesting to see if Avengers: Endgame's return to theaters with additional content will bring it even further over the line with all the new moviegoers piling in to see the movie for the first (or thirteenth) time.

The new version of the movie will include a few deleted scenes at its conclusion, a tribute to the legendary Stan Lee, and a post-credits scene that you'll definitely want to stay afterward to see.

You can look forward to seeing Avengers: Endgame with expanded content as early as this weekend (June 28), so the totals will start rolling in after that. If it continues to perform as well as it did when it opened with an estimated $350 million in ticket sales, then there's a very high probability that we'll see the numbers skyrocket even higher over Avatar's performance.

If you're looking to make it a Marvel week and weekend, Captain Marvel is now out to purchase and stream, and Spider-Man: Far From Home is about to debut in theaters on July 2. Your favorite Marvel heroes are far from being retired from the movies, so you can still head out and support your favorites (most of them, anyway) for the time being.

If you want Avatar's record to be beaten, it'll be up to you to show up and show out, because Endgame is definitely worthy of going down in history, right?