Avatar 2: Does Anyone Still Give a Shit?

Ready or not, the trailer is coming.

Don't care

Don't care. Saw the original twice in the theater. Tried watching again a few times, couldn't get through it after the first two viewings in the theater. It doesn't hold up after seeing it once or twice.

Never bothered with the first one because it looked stupid.

No.

Besides, when my kids were growing up I saw the same story every time they played the tape.

South Park had an episode about it called “Dances With Smurfs.”

That makes me sad.

It was on TV like 6 months ago. It's a terrible movie, I watched like an hour of it and couldn't believe it made so much money

I saw it in theatres. At the time, the 3D was absolutely stunning. Unfortunately, it spawned the whole 3D craze that finally appears to be tapering off.

On reflection, the movie was basically James Cameron showing off his new 3D technology. It just doesn't hold up as a film.

Never managed the entire first one in a single session.

Technically stunning, an absolute tour de force.

Eye-rollingly bad otherwise.

I root for Colonel Quaritch.

I think I remember a threat in the Red Room when this movie came out about how angry people were that Avatar the movie was just a mouthpiece for leftist environmental alarmist bullshit

I remember a thread where some WF members were seriousl insisting that Jake was a traitor to humanity that should have been killed.

You didn't need to state this.

Insert Casablanca meme about gambling here.

Fifteen or however many years in between movies and they release the most dull, silent trailer you could possibly imagine

Man I hope those people who got Avatar tattoos are really, really regretting it now

For what Avatar 2 cost, they could make 500 Toxic Avenger movies.
And okay, Toxie 2 & 3 are weak compared to 1 & 4.
That's half.
Assuming that played out for the 500, that's still 250 movies more entertaining than Avatar.
I'm just saying, maybe capitalism and art aren't friends.

The only excuse I can think of for the hype it got is because it was the biggest event movie Cameron's done since Titanic, cuz otherwise that movie sound like generic ass BS on paper.

When you go to the AO3 fanfic archive, this movie had 100 fics in the tag, and a good portion of those were mistagged Avatar The Last Airbender fics

Tell that to Tererun in the RR

One good Terminator sequel would have been nice.

I meant after T2

Glad we cleared that up. I thought it might be possible you had a redeeming quality, but if you don't think that T2 was shite, then you don't. Yeah, I know, I'm in the minority on this. Don't care, and I'm not about to go around shitting up threads on T2. If people like it, they like it. I don't.

I liked the Terminator with Christian Bale

The rest are just hot garbage though

Okay, I did like that one too. I wish they would have continued with that, I always wanted to see the future war.

What is it about T2 that you didn’t like?

Because the story was so thin that there really wasn't any suspense, especially when this was the fucking trailer for the film


Might as well show Spock dying and then coming back to life in the TWoK trailers. And honestly, with a bit of editing, it'd have been a fine film (provided the trailers didn't show all the shit that they did in that one). Chop out everything between Arnie grabbing the kid off the bike as they're fleeing Patrick in the semi (and any mentions that Arnie was a good guy before that), and cut to Linda Hamilton freaking the fuck out as Arnie walks into the mental hospital.

You've got a much more powerful film at that point. You don't have any idea that the kid's still alive, you don't know what's going on with the time stream and why there are two Terminators. When the kid comes around the corner and says, "Mom! It's okay!" You feel the relief that Linda Hamilton does that her son's okay. You realize that shit has gotten a bit more complicated than you thought. (Get really crazy and have a second Arnie in the beginning that does want to kill the kid, and that's some shit.)

Oh, and the story that Arnie "accidentally" revealed that he was the good guy in an interview, so they had to make adjustments? Bullshit. This was the 90s, Arnie wasn't posting shit on Instagram, every contact he had with the media, and everything he said to the media, got vetted by the studio. If they didn't want it out there before the film was released, it wouldn't have been.

Some creatives can pull off having all that shit in the trailer and still give you a moving film, but Cameron ain't one of them. I've watched TWoK more times than I can count, but the pacing, acting, script, etc., are still so good that when Bone's voice comes over the speaker, saying, "Jim, you better get down here. Better hurry." and Kirk looks over at Spock's empty chair, I still get the "Oh, shit" pit in my stomach, actually made all the worse because I know exactly what's going to happen next. "The ship. Out of danger?"

There's nothing like that in T2. The closest we get is Arnie sacrificing himself, but by this point, you're just kind of expecting it, since you basically knew everything that was going to happen months before you went into see the movie.

The Way Sigourney Weaver Is Back for Avatar 2 Is Absolutely Unhinged

The first one was okay as a technical showpiece. I saw it once in the theater and it was fine.

From a story perspective it was just 'Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest' redone with CGI.

Have zero interest in the sequels.