James Cameron Knows What to Get You for Christmas: More Avatar

internetzealot1

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Hopefully the second one will take the Empire Strikes Back route. And hopefully the third one will take the Empire Strikes Back route. Then the series can end like it should.
 

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Wasn't his big promotional thing was that he waiting fifteen years until he felt that the technology was right for Avatar? I really did not like the movie, despite everyone else selling their souls for tickets in my neighborhood. I just seemed to me, in my opinion, that the only thing going for the original Avatar movie was the 3d aspect and the CG. I have heard better dialogue in television shows, and this was a movie he 'had' to put on hold for fifteen years. If this movie came out during that time... I may have had more respect for it. I mean on IMDB they are stating that there will be an Avatar 2 in 2014 and a Avatar 3 in 2015.

The only thing I'm looking forward to next by Cameron is 'At The Mountains of Madness'.
 

icame

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Oh yes because I definitely want to spend $14 to be talked down to by a movie for 2 and a half hours.
 

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hyperdrachen said:
necronmm said:
Well it's still quite a ways away. Here's hoping they improve the story instead of focusing on visuals
Pfft... well maybe I can interest you in a new Sonic game. They're getting back to thier roots and have all the bugs worked out.
Sadly that's more likely to happen than the Avatar sequels actually being good :\
 

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I read this and just asked myself why?... I did not leave watching Avatar thinking. "Hey you know what would be awesome, 6 more hours of that." I mean movie was decent, but Really not worthy of becoming a trilogy. He didn't even set anything up where you would think "Hey this would be an awesome setup if they decided to do another movie."

I mean what are they going to do? I mean i feel like they will just do something like this... Hey lets go back and do more standard evil stuff to try to get this element that no one knows what the hell it's for. And i got a plan this time. Instead of drilling for it Lets place Nukes Strategically all around the planet to make it blow up so we can just get the mineral from the planets remains. And when that fails in then 3rd movie they just go back with a GIANT nuke and try to destroy it from space, but by this time the natives learned how to breath in space and go fly up there and stop them...
 

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Elizabeth Grunewald said:
Cameron's not only giving the movie-going public Christmas presents-- he wants the world at large to benefit, too. EW reports that the director has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox (the production and distribution company behind Avatar) to donate a percentage of the sequels' "presumably-massive" gross to unspecified environmental charities. Cameron tells EW he didn't want to pump the franchise for more money "without a grander plan in place."
So he admits that he's milking the franchise, which marks him as an honest if slightly greedy man, and yet he also states that he's giving away some of the revenue to environmental charities (and makes films with environmental messages), which marks him as a decent man who truly cares about our planet and wants to make a change for good.

I'd say that makes him a much better man than most people, and regardless of my feelings on the Avatar film, or any possible sequels, I certainly have great faith and respect now, more so than before even, for James Cameron. Good show, I say. Good show.

Regarding the films, I liked the first film, and I found the story and characters to be pretty decent given the fact that they were basically transposed from Pocahontas and similar works. The acting was good and the message of the film, while a little pushy towards the viewer, nevertheless was one we can all support. The cinematography was bloody amazing, and the 3D wasn't just a gimmick like in so many other films, though if it wasn't for the 3D the visuals would certainly have been much less impressive. Overall, not an exceptionally good film, but certainly still good and one I'd still love to see sequels to. If the sequels, therefore, can keep the best aspects of the original, then I'll be happy. If they can improve on the original, well then, I'll be over the goddamn moon... :D
 

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Mortons4ck said:
It's like the Matrix all over again.
Thats what I was thinking, another movie I absolutely loved releasing unnecessary sequels because the original was so popular and profitable.
 

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*groan*

... I can see part of the story about jealousy raging in the human camp. But seriously, can he just go with the idea to let the humans come back in 200 years for an epic showdown?
 

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I hope I get here before the nerd-population start bashing on anything that's popular... Oh, wait. I missed that window didn't I?

Personally I can't wait for this. Avatar was a stunningly beautiful movie (I'm a firm believer that movies can tell a visual story, as good as they can tell a narrative. Avatar certainly proved that) and I just want more of that, so thanks Cameron. Plus, pledging to give to the preservation of our own environment is enough reason alone to get me into a theater - I'd rather sit in a comfy chair than clinging to a tree, actually.
 

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Elizabeth Grunewald said:
So James Cameron is taking a page from Lucas's book and milking a franchise to death. The difference of course being that star wars used to be good, and Avatar was never good, just pretty.
 

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Yawniest of yawns. Please get a decent/intriguing story this time before implementing all the techno wizardry.
 

alimination602

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Now the whole donate some profit to Nature charities thing sounds good on paper. But i can't shake the feeling that when he said 'He didn't want to pump the franchise for more money "without a grander plan in place." What he he actually meant was' We still require more work developing the carniverous plants and the 9ft Smurfs. Soon my vision shall come to fruition hahahaha!'
 

Verex

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Oh God this is going to be like Shrek where they raise a family...isn't it?
 

Yoshisummons

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There was an article a while back in POPULAR SCIENCE magazine that the next two movies will take place on different planets on the same system as Pandora with one of them being a water world, but that was a long time ago.
 

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I'm going to use my powers of clarvoyence and guess the story....

THE STORY is about a war between pissed off humans and the blue alien people because they still want the un-ironicly named unobtanium and are still sore after the beating the wildlife put on them. that, or they discover some super evil hiding up the planets bum.