Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 4:24 pm
One of the biggest box office smash that has faded into mere obscurity. Nothing I know of real people indicates it has real staying power.
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Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 6:08 pm
I mean nobody I know admits to voting for Trump, either
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:07 pm
I sort of want to watch Avatar again right now just out of sheer contrarianism. I might actually do it, too.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:24 pm
Wasn’t Obamacare introduced in Congress in 2009 too? Coincidence? I think not.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:32 pm
American audiences were mostly into the film as a type of fad, but Chinese audiences is where one saw cosplay and real investment in the world and characters. It's currently #15 in China's list of highest grossing films of all-time, but it's also the oldest film among the Top 50. If The Fate of the Furious can earn $400m in China in 2017, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Avatar sequel earn $600-700m from China alone in 2020.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:18 pm
Cameron spills the beans on the sequels.
A tidbit:
A tidbit:
I don't have a sufficient memetic device or image to express myself.Blue Man wrote:It's long been confirmed that Stephen Lang's Colonel Quartich would return (despite taking a pair of four-foot arrows in the chest), but talking to Empire in our September issue, Cameron reveals that Quaritch won't be relegated to a supporting role or appear solely in flashbacks. Rather, he will continue to menace Jake, Neytiri and the other Na'vi throughout all five movies as the saga's main antagonist.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:19 pm
Don't worry. No one will remember he died in the first when the next gets released in 3019.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:26 pm
My decision to skip the first one continues to hold up
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:54 pm
you're lucky (and I love your avatar)starmanof51 wrote:My decision to skip the first one continues to hold up
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:48 pm
One person's cadence is another person's quintrilogy is another person's "Mongoian clusterfuck."
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:34 pm
"Did somebody say quintrilogy?"
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:47 pm
The first time I saw Quintron and Miss Pussycat live was back before the Great White tragedy and there used to be a flume attached to the Drum Buddy that would shoot a huge burst of flames straight up from the organ as Quintron took all his clothes off because, yknow, there's fire pouring out of his instrument and it's hot -- five movies' worth of that excitement would be worth whatever Cameron is pissing away here on tree elves
EDIT: And hey, they can bring along Helen Mirren (WTF)
EDIT: And hey, they can bring along Helen Mirren (WTF)
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:20 am
Josh Brolin turned down the Avatar sequels and Cameron called him names in response
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:14 am
It's well known that Cameron is a difficult director and has done some crazy shit to actors (Ed Harris vowed to never work with him again.) so this is is just par the course. Plus I think Deadpool 2 is still a better choice. I would much rather see Brolin be Cable in multiple sequels than whatever Cameron cooks (Defecates?) up.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:41 pm
I wonder if him and Arnold are on the outs, or at least have agreed not to work with each other as actor and director anymore.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:45 pm
They are not. Arnold will be back to Terminate with Cameron again.flyonthewall2983 wrote:I wonder if him and Arnold are on the outs, or at least have agreed not to work with each other as actor and director anymore.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:59 pm
It's got an interesting plot. Arnold will play the guy the machines are based on, a concept I can't believe nobody thought of or gave much credence to previously.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:11 pm
Except in this deleted scene (wise choice) from Terminator 3flyonthewall2983 wrote:It's got an interesting plot. Arnold will play the guy the machines are based on, a concept I can't believe nobody thought of or gave much credence to previously.
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:07 pm
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:44 pm
Cameron gives a surreal update involving children underwater.
Having flashbacks to Ed Harris and The Abyss.“We’ve done a tremendous amount of testing, and we did it successfully, for the first time, just last Tuesday [November 14th]. We actually played an entire scene underwater with our young cast. We’ve got six teenagers and one seven-year-old, and they’re all playing a scene underwater. We’ve been training them for six months now, with how to hold their breath, and they’re all up in the two to four minute range. They’re all perfectly capable of acting underwater, very calmly while holding their breath. We’re not doing any of this on scuba. And we’re getting really good data, beautiful character motion and great facial performance capture. We’ve basically cracked the code.”
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:27 pm
Or that scene showing the effects of the breathable fluid on the rat. The film is unedited now but that scene was cut out of the first VHS versions of the film in the UK for animal cruelty.
Though this also makes me think of that Chris Cunningham directed music video for Portishead: Only You
Though this also makes me think of that Chris Cunningham directed music video for Portishead: Only You
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:45 pm
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:51 pm
It's interesting to see him acknowledge it could fail miserably but yet still think that people want five more after the first one. I mean as I recall the film wrapped up the story in a fairly complete fashion. I cannot fathom how he plans to expand this out. How many times can Pandora be invaded by humans?“This could be the seeds of utter damnation and doom for the project, or it could be the thing that makes it stand apart and continue to be unique,”
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:55 pm
I liked this link in the sidebar to an article just posted yesterday: "James Cameron Hopes for ‘Avengers’ Fatigue: ‘There Are Other Stories To Tell’ In Sci-Fi"
Re: Avatar and the Avatar Cadence (James Cameron, 2009-2025)
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:50 am
At least one of them was initially announced as a prequel, so he could go in that direction as well. Being multigenerational provides lots of options.Big Ben wrote:It's interesting to see him acknowledge it could fail miserably but yet still think that people want five more after the first one. I mean as I recall the film wrapped up the story in a fairly complete fashion. I cannot fathom how he plans to expand this out. How many times can Pandora be invaded by humans?“This could be the seeds of utter damnation and doom for the project, or it could be the thing that makes it stand apart and continue to be unique,”
Also, I'm pretty sure he's still only making four more films -- 2 and 3 are currently in production, then once he's finished post on those he'll shoot 4 and 5. "Five-film epic" is referring to the first movie plus the four new ones.