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So any all y'all seen Avatar?

whisky said:
Also waiting for Disney plus.

Is it just the first film again but in water?
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SAUSAGEMAN said:
the thing that most people don't appreciate about this movie is that it was directed by the same guy that did Titanic
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there's a big boat that gets introduced about halfway through the movie and boy, guess what that boat spends the third act doing.

(sinking. the boat spends the third act sinking, and our blue and teal heroes are trapped in various bits of the boat and have to escape/save each other as the boat creaks and falls apart and flips over and water rushes everywhere.)
 
I've seen a copy of it.

Look forward to seeing it properly on Disney+; good thing about a pirated copy is you don't get overwhelmed by the FX and can judge it on the story first and foremost.

I can appreciate the wow factor of the FX thru the shitty quality. But the story is ... yeah, whatever.

The visual splendor of these films are the main driver of ticket sales, not the story. This time, it was WATER innovation that provided the wow factor. What's next - Na'vi in space? There's got to be something "never before seen" - an increasingly difficult prospect given the glut of CGI-scapes we've been exposed to over the past decade or two.

I could sense James Cameron crying in awe of himself behind the camera in the mid- third of the movie. Only I ... James CAMERON, am capable of such... such WONDER! OH-OHH! Look upon MY PANDORA, people of Earth. Do you see? Do you see a glimmer of my vision, humans? Marvel at the glory of this world that *I* have meticulously crafted in the forge of my genius! Me. Me ALONE! Ohhhh water. My God! Nay, My James Cameron! The ocean! WATER! Balance! Life! MAN! Do you see your filth, mankind? YOU DISGUST ME.
 
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It's fire next apparently.

1st one air, 2nd one water, 3rd one fire, 4th one probably set on earth.

It's elements, old school.
 
At the theater they have these showings that have all of these options. Does anyone recommend one over the other? I have only seen films in Standard and 3D, I don't know anything about these other options.

IMAX 3D
3D
3d RX
Screen X
and of course there is still the Standard version
 
whisky said:
Also waiting for Disney plus.

Is it just the first film again but in water?
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Sorry, I went off the deep end earlier and missed this.

Errrrr, basically yes. But minus the sappy love story that provided an additional hook in the first one.

SAUSAGEMAN said:
imax 3d is the way james intended
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James has some additional enhancements to fully capture his artistic vision:

- If you feel the need to urinate or defecate, James encourages you to do so while remaining seated in the theater. People make far too big a deal about going to the loo during a movie. Ultimately, pissing and shitting ourselves is entirely natural. By the time Avatar 4 rolls around, James will have converted every theater around the world into it's own sustainable ecosystem; defecating and peeing in the theater will not only be allowed - it will be encouraged (for fertilization purposes, obviously).​
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- Cancel all your streaming subscriptions. What do I watch when I'm home? The Avatar 2 experience was designed to be so transcendent that no additional media will be required again, save for repeat viewings of Avatar 2 (James calls these top ups) and of course, it's sequels. When not dwelling on the unparalleled experience of Avatar 2, James encourages you to get out and explore the world - no more sitting around on your arse. Except of course, when viewing Avatar.​
 
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everything beautiful is far away running GIF by The Orchard Films

Run Away Video Games GIF by Far Cry 6
 
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) - I liked all the stuff with the kid making friends with the whale the best, and when the whale fucking squishes evil people with its huge whale body. Whales are awesome. There's a lot of satisfying deaths for evil humans. It's really impressive how it's a totally CGI blue guy touching a totally CGI giant whale and it looks completely convincing. The movie looks so clear at all times; there's no hiding the CGI in darkened scenes. There's really no moments of visual shoddiness at all. You can believe you could swim in that water! I still don't exactly love the design of the Na'vi themselves (it's their eyes, maybe it's an autism thing) but they do certainly look like they're physically there doing blue people stuff. The least interesting of the children died so that wasn't exactly a surprise and Spider was a bit annoying. Zoe Saldana didn't really get much to do until she went all feral at the end. Really the story doesn't matter that much though as it's the earnestness of the characters and the (not exactly subtle) messages being conveyed which are important. I guess the evil whaler guy who lost a hand will come back in the next one with a harpoon hand or something.
 
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