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On 7/28/2025 at 10:29 AM, mdmost said:

Saw this trailer before the Fantastic Four. Cameron is going to raise the game again.

 

Always does.

And people will trash it on plot or whatever...who gives a fuck.

Give me the best visuals you can, along with the best action set pieces you can find in any movie, and I'm in.

Avatar movies are a spectacle...and event.  I'll be there opening night.

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5 hours ago, Drew said:

Always does.

And people will trash it on plot or whatever...who gives a fuck.

Give me the best visuals you can, along with the best action set pieces you can find in any movie, and I'm in.

Avatar movies are a spectacle...and event.  I'll be there opening night.

Yep. Me and Avatar movies is just 

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On 7/28/2025 at 8:29 AM, mdmost said:

Cameron is going to raise the game again.

dances with wolves in a volcano now.  yawn.

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jk. I love this shit.
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The photorealism they can achieve in something 100% digitally-rendered still impresses me. 

See this in IMAX if you have a chance. I enjoyed Way of Water on first viewing at Alamo, but seeing it at Bullock was on another level. That’s where I’ll be for this one, for sure.

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11 hours ago, LonghornSean said:

The photorealism they can achieve in something 100% digitally-rendered still impresses me. 

See this in IMAX if you have a chance. I enjoyed Way of Water on first viewing at Alamo, but seeing it at Bullock was on another level. That’s where I’ll be for this one, for sure.

IMAX is always the way if you have access to it. Dune 2 was incredible in IMAX as well.

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I don't care what anyone says these are visual spectacles that have to be seen in 3D and preferably IMAX.

Fuck the story. The Acting(which isn't bad) or anything else...the man can throw up a visual masterpiece

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Interesting this hasn't had a comment since September...

Caught it just now at the Bullock IMAX--it's LONG.  Amazing spectacle and no one does 3D like Cameron.  

It's worth the price of the admission in this venue but I'm not sure it's spectacular enough otherwise to warrant theatrical.  I prefer the first two; better, more digestible screenplays.  

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I liked it. There’s some really good stuff in this, but it’s at least 30 minutes too long and after a while the battles on flying banshees and jetski dolphins against the boats and helicopters is fatiguing to watch.

The stuff with Varang (the fire and ash Navi) was excellent. As were the sequences at the human/military city and escape. But after that, the rest kind of lulled in comparison and was a ton of stuff very similar to sequences from 1 and 2.

The visuals are still mind blowing and incredibly impressive.

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Watched it in IMAX 3D. Had to go back for the last hour and a half today because my eye has a cut on it and I could take about two hours exposed to light before it was too much. There are some scenes that were a bit long and the movie could’ve been a bit shorter, but those are trivial complaints. Watching it in that format is just incredible. If my eye wasn’t so irritated right now I’d go and watch it again this week. I love all the attention to detail put into the movie and Inam glad James Cameron has spent the time on the Avatar films that he has. When you care that much about a project and put in the work he and his team have you get beautiful work like this.

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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

The movies are more like amusement park rides than movies to me. 

To me that's part of the allure. If they wanted to make an interactive Avatar World for people to explore I'd do that all day long. Movies like this help to bring out the inner child. I believe that's a really good thing for all of us.

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8 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

To me that's part of the allure. If they wanted to make an interactive Avatar World for people to explore I'd do that all day long. Movies like this help to bring out the inner child. I believe that's a really good thing for all of us.

Ummmmm

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8 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

To me that's part of the allure. If they wanted to make an interactive Avatar World for people to explore I'd do that all day long. Movies like this help to bring out the inner child. I believe that's a really good thing for all of us.

 

12 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Ummmmm

As Greenspoint alludes, you pretty much describe what I was referring to. The amusement park ride comparison recognizes the enjoyability of the experience. As such, the ride does what you say it will.

The notes above (by others) about the movie being too long may be an indicator of what I mean. A well-wrought story never feels long. Some will reflexively say that all movies don't have to be Shakespeare. I find Shakespeare mostly impenetrable to read or watch. However, as I understand, his plays appealed to all levels of intellect and social strata in his day. They're all great stories, many of them borrowed from other sources.

The Dark Knight is otherworldly and brilliant in every aspect of filmmaking. Michael Mann's Thief is one of the tightest movies I've ever seen. Bridesmaids is similarly brilliant to me. They have well told, interesting stories with some depth. The quality I'm describing can be found in the full range of move genres. It's not about intellectualism. (I don't mean to lecture @GreenspointTexas, I'm speaking generally just to make my own position clear.)

Avatar has simplistic plots of good versus evil, ugliness versus beauty, and man conquering nature. You can do a lot with those conflicts. Avatar does not. The story provides the thinnest of threads to tie together a bloated movie that is way too much in love with itself. When something meant to be thrilling seems to drag, it's a sure sign that the filmmakers see their work as so wonderful that not a thing should be removed.

I'm concerned that the studios only generate extravaganzas where only the most accomplished of directors have freedom to breath in life. Director Nolan does so. His movies are good on the surface and invite you to think if you're inclined to. That's a perfect balance. Most other big directors are hacks with technical prowess and largely empty souls. No world view.

A last observation about the sadness of studios dropping quality, riskier, cheaper movies from their slate can be seen in the Academy Awards the last few years. Most nominees are small movies not seen by many people. Some are very good. Last year's slate was pretty awful. I didn't finish The Brutalist or the Emma Stone nekked fest because I didn't care about anything or anyone in them. The movie that won was watchable. It would be nice to see a real Hollywood movie with sweep, solid story, great acting; something memorable. 

To create anything artistically great, the artist must take risks. Risks payoff or fail with more magnitude than staying safe which risks being boring. The studio executives are risk averse, so they churn out the same movies over and over with only minor twists. The worst thing would be if they're creating an audience that remains satisfied with that.

I write long because this interests me so much. Film is one of my fields. 

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