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NinjaPug 04-15-2016 04:14 PM

Avatar - James Cameron says 4 sequels on the way.
 
Seems like every time Cameron talks about this he adds another movie to it. I'm fascinated by anything Cameron does from a technological standpoint especially when he puts this much time into developing it.

New movies expected to come December 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023. New logo below.

http://images.hitfix.com/assets/1041...VATAR_logo.jpg

http://deadline.com/2016/04/james-ca...on-1201737814/

TheSkeletonMan939 04-15-2016 04:27 PM

Did the original Avatar film leave any cultural impact whatsoever?

I've never seen it and I only ever heard people praise it for its 3D effects.

CyberCubed 04-15-2016 04:34 PM

I won't see any of them.

shuriken 04-15-2016 04:35 PM

^^ It's a decent movie. Kinda reminds me of Fern-gully a bit. But I don't know if anyone is legitimately excited for this other than Cameron himself.

drgon78 04-15-2016 05:00 PM

Basically "Dances with Wolves" set on another planet with smurf/thundercats/Native American type aliens. The effects were good but otherwise OK.

turtlefanforever 04-15-2016 06:37 PM

Personally
 
i thought it was horrible. I could sit here and nit pick it for a while but i don't wanna turn this thread into a big argument, i'll keep it simple and say i didn't like it.

Cool for anyone that does. It got some major praise. I don't really think they'll make 4 sequels though. Eventually it's not gonna be a box office success. I don't doubt a trilogy but after a 3rd movie in the franchise i don't really see where it could be or where the interest would be.

IndigoErth 04-15-2016 08:01 PM

Four? o.O

Wonder if the fact that Disney is adding an area for it to their theme park has much to do with it.

ToTheNines 04-15-2016 08:28 PM

Jakesullyfan will be happy.

JakeSully 04-25-2016 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by drgon78 (Post 1569420)
Basically "Dances with Wolves" set on another planet with smurf/thundercats/Native American type aliens. The effects were good but otherwise OK.

What's with DWW? is it the only white man go native story people know cause it won awards?

Ever heard of Man Called Horse, Last of the Mohicans, Dune, Lawrence of Arabia, Fort Apache, Broken Arrow 1950 with Jimmy Stewart etc.? other stories like that, it's nothing new you know and has been used many times in various forms over the years.

Spike Spiegel 04-25-2016 05:42 AM

I have watched the first two Terminator films and Aliens many, many times and consider myself something of a fan of Cameron's work...but I've only been able to bother watching the first Avatar movie once in its entirety.

Once you get beyond the FX, it's just really dull.

The Deadman 04-22-2017 12:16 PM

Release Dates Announced for Next Four Avatar Movies

sdp 04-22-2017 03:09 PM

Avatar hadn't been on my radar until people kept talking about it and talking about it so when it released I was curious and ended up watching it like a month later. I never understood what was so "magical" about the 3D effects but hey it was a nice movie, nothing amazing though.

A few years later or so I remember having arguments online about how it wasn't a memorable movie and that no one would be interested in the franchise anymore when Cameron kept talking about the movie and people saying I was incorrect.

Since then the general consensus is now what I used to think that it wasn't something memorable. Funnily enough my thoughts have also changed, I really want to go back to Pandora now, I don't remember the film but it could definitely tell a few more stories and we haven't really been to an alien world since then like we did with Avatar.

Andrew NDB 04-22-2017 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by The Deadman (Post 1678477)

Until they're delayed and pushed back again. Meaningless.

Andrew NDB 09-26-2017 07:42 PM

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news...L&ocid=UP97DHP

Started production yesterday. 1 billion dollar budget, which actually seems small for 4 movies (Avengers 3 and 4, shot together, are 1 billion collectively).

sdp 09-26-2017 10:47 PM

I'm curious. I think Cameron can make an awesome world, I criticized the first one since it was so overrated but now that it's so heavily ignored I think it's become underrated.


Now, we know what the sequel will be about:



but the other 3 will have to be a surprise ;)

Andrew NDB 12-20-2021 06:27 PM

Jake and Neytiri have an adopted human son in Avatar 2.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/...CHGMdfjUTdtmJQ

Andrew NDB 04-28-2022 03:45 PM

The title is Avatar: The Way of Water.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/...xX0tHTpDuMc4II

oldmanwinters 04-28-2022 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB (Post 1928138)
The title is Avatar: The Way of Water.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/...xX0tHTpDuMc4II

Guess that just leaves Earth, Wind, and Fire for the other sequel subtitles?

neatoman 04-28-2022 03:58 PM

And in part six, the fire nation attacks!

Leo656 04-28-2022 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters (Post 1928139)
Guess that just leaves Earth, Wind, and Fire for the other sequel subtitles?

You forgot "Heart". :trazz:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...83/634/191.jpg

Andrew NDB 04-28-2022 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters (Post 1928139)
Guess that just leaves Earth, Wind, and Fire for the other sequel subtitles?

Something tells me Cameron is going to want to linger on the water aspect.

Xav 04-28-2022 06:36 PM

Does anyone still care about this series at this point?

sdp 04-28-2022 06:43 PM

I hope 3D movies and 4D movies make a big comeback with this. I love watching 3D movies in VR and 4D is the best experience in theaters you can get.

Andrew NDB 04-28-2022 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Xav (Post 1928156)
Does anyone still care about this series at this point?

Like, right this second? No, not really. But if I were to rewatch it I'd probably get re-stoked up. Or if a trailer dropped right now.

Andrew NDB 05-09-2022 11:42 AM

The trailer for part 2:


Andrew NDB 07-03-2022 11:10 PM

How Steven Lang's character comes back:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/quaritc...urn-explained/

Andrew NDB 11-02-2022 11:46 AM

Trailer #2:



I still don't have a strong idea of what this is even about. They're suddenly hanging out in the water a lot because James Cameron loves water, some stuff burns, some kind of human carrier sinks in the ocean and maybe -- maybe -- there's some kind of Na'vi vs. Na'vi struggle? I'm not sure if this is really going to draw in the uninitiated.

Also, it's set 10 years later... but Sigourney Weaver is playing Jake and Neytiri's "adopted teenage daughter"? And it turns out Quaritch is back because his memories were transferred to a Na'vi avatar? Whuh?

IMJ 11-03-2022 11:50 AM

I just can't see this being interesting. The only thing the I.P. really has going for it were 99% photo real special effects on a believable alien world. And those were incredible.

But the premise isn't really captivating on it's own.
The aliens themselves aren't really captivating as protagonists.
From the trailer this one looks even more like a cartoon than a movie on an alien world

If it does well that's great, but that's not saying much. The first Avatar is the biggest movie of all-time and yet nobody really cares about it. I am surprised that Sam Worthington is back. He seemed like he was going to have a really solid career for a few years there, but I've only seen him in two movies in years now - that Schwarzenegger one which was decent and then that Netflix "alien adaptation" flick, whatever that was called.

Leo656 11-03-2022 11:57 AM

It's the most forgettable movie to ever gross a billion dollars. It made all the money in the world, everyone bought it on Blu-ray, and yet nobody ever watches it, nobody ever talks about it... and nobody actually WANTS these movies.

Avatar wasn't even a f*cking "movie", it was an elaborate push to make people buy HDTVs and Blu-ray players. THAT is what it was.

The sequels will do well because by the time the hype train gets done rolling, people will be convinced they've ACTUALLY been "waiting over a decade for this" instead of what they've actually been doing... making jokes about how nobody cares anymore. But we see how fast people flip that script after they get told enough times, "YOU WANT THIS! YOU'RE EXCITED FOR THIS!"

But they don't, and they're not. Nobody cares about these f*cking movies, so it's gonna be really f*cking annoying when they come out and make a sh*tload of money anyway. All hype, no soul. If you don't LOVE CGI, there's nothing to f*cking see or care about with this. And I loathe CGI. So you can imagine how many f*cks I give about Avatar. Like it was "fine" but nothing about it ever made me wanna watch it again.

Coola Yagami 11-03-2022 12:12 PM

I literally did not even remember Avatar was a thing until they started making all the news about End Game getting close to beating it, and then actually beating it. Like I didn't even know it made that much in the box office. Every time I hear Avatar I legit think of Korra, not these blue people from a forgotten old movie that pretty much came and went.

IMJ 11-03-2022 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo656 (Post 1948532)
It's the most forgettable movie to ever gross a billion dollars. It made all the money in the world, everyone bought it on Blu-ray, and yet nobody ever watches it, nobody ever talks about it... and nobody actually WANTS these movies.

Avatar wasn't even a f*cking "movie", it was an elaborate push to make people buy HDTVs and Blu-ray players. THAT is what it was.

The sequels will do well because by the time the hype train gets done rolling, people will be convinced they've ACTUALLY been "waiting over a decade for this" instead of what they've actually been doing... making jokes about how nobody cares anymore. But we see how fast people flip that script after they get told enough times, "YOU WANT THIS! YOU'RE EXCITED FOR THIS!"

But they don't, and they're not. Nobody cares about these f*cking movies, so it's gonna be really f*cking annoying when they come out and make a sh*tload of money anyway. All hype, no soul. If you don't LOVE CGI, there's nothing to f*cking see or care about with this. And I loathe CGI. So you can imagine how many f*cks I give about Avatar. Like it was "fine" but nothing about it ever made me wanna watch it again.

This reflects all of my thoughts about Avatar, but the level of vitriol you poured into this took it over the top. Leo for the win.
Now I want to see you do a YouTube toy video on the new Avatar toys which are actually pretty cool but I won't buy because this I.P. sucks.

Leo656 11-04-2022 01:58 AM

I was up for about 30 hours when I wrote that so I was probably more angry about it than I needed to be. :lol:

Andrew NDB 11-04-2022 02:10 AM

I hate to say it, guys, but I think this a rare case of me saying I think you guys will be wrong and it'll be well loved. People may have forgotten about Avatar but it'll come back to them quick.

Leo656 11-04-2022 02:14 AM

I alluded to that. It will be successful and people will be excited about it for a while.

But that's hype. The same hype that tricks people into thinking the MCU stuff is so life-changing. By the time you get to the theater it's a MUST-SEE EVENT because that's what everyone tells you and so your brain starts to believe it for a bit.

That doesn't and won't erase the fact that for a whole decade not a single person not named "James Cameron" cared.

Andrew NDB 11-04-2022 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Leo656 (Post 1948560)
I alluded to that. It will be successful and people will be excited about it for a while.

But that's hype. The same hype that tricks people into thinking the MCU stuff is so life-changing. By the time you get to the theater it's a MUST-SEE EVENT because that's what everyone tells you and so your brain starts to believe it for a bit.

That doesn't and won't erase the fact that for a whole decade not a single person not named "James Cameron" cared.

The original did serve as an excellent prelude to... a thing we should have gotten along time ago. Obviously this is true. The difference now is that the "Excited about it for while" piece isn't relevant in this particular situation since we'll be getting a brand new Avatar movie every 2 years. For like, quite a few years, apparently. The planet won't be allowed to forget about it. Like, by the time the 3rd movie comes out, theaters will already be re-releasing Avatar 2 a few months beforehand and so on.

Leo656 11-04-2022 02:21 AM

Be cool if anyone actually asked for those movies and it wasn't 100% Cameron whacking off and people lining up with their mouths open because it's Cameron.

Sales of 4K TVs and disc players have been a little flat lately, and now This; I'm sure that's just a coincidence of timing like last time, though.

I really, really cannot stress enough how little I give a sh*t about any and all "Lookit wut we did wit compooters!" movies.

Andrew NDB 11-04-2022 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Leo656 (Post 1948562)
Be cool if anyone actually asked for those movies and it wasn't 100% Cameron whacking off and people lining up with their mouths open because it's Cameron.

Sales of 4K TVs and disc players have been a little flat lately, and now This; I'm sure that's just a coincidence of timing like last time, though.

I really, really cannot stress enough how little I give a sh*t about any and all "Lookit wut we did wit compooters!" movies.

Oh no, the sales of 4K TVs are through the roof. Largely because this is the minimum of the only kind of TV you can even buy anymore because this is the minimum of what resolution is being transmitted in 2022. And those prices have come way down. Now we're getting 8K TVs yet there isn't any actual 8K media to justify it, but they auto-upscale for little to no discernible reason.

Your argument should have been about 3D TVs and 3D blu-ray players, the ones that came out not long after Avatar 1. Then you'd have a point. I'm sure there are a lot of people very angry with the 3D HD and 3D 4K TVs they bought that came with expensive proprietary 3D glasses that were almost immediately unsupported after a couple of years. Not unlike the people on board the HD-DVD train vs. the Blu-Ray train a few years before that.

TigerClaw 11-04-2022 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB (Post 1948564)
Oh no, the sales of 4K TVs are through the roof. Largely because this is the minimum of the only kind of TV you can even buy anymore because this is the minimum of what resolution is being transmitted in 2022. And those prices have come way down. Now we're getting 8K TVs yet there isn't any actual 8K media to justify it, but they auto-upscale for little to no discernible reason.

Your argument should have been about 3D TVs and 3D blu-ray players, the ones that came out not long after Avatar 1. Then you'd have a point. I'm sure there are a lot of people very angry with the 3D HD and 3D 4K TVs they bought that came with expensive proprietary 3D glasses that were almost immediately unsupported after a couple of years. Not unlike the people on board the HD-DVD train vs. the Blu-Ray train a few years before that.

Also we got Black Friday in less then 3 weeks, And 4K TVs will become cheaper.

Andrew NDB 11-25-2022 06:35 PM

Final trailer.



I still have no idea what the movie is about. These trailers say nothing.

ChosenOne 11-25-2022 07:26 PM

I wonder, has anyone shown James Cameron the Horizon games?


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