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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2022 0:07:20 GMT 1
The effects look amazing. With all due respect to Marvel it’s been ages since the special effects in a blockbuster have actually impressed me.
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Post by Indiana Jones on Dec 19, 2022 21:22:19 GMT 1
The effects look amazing. With all due respect to Marvel it’s been ages since the special effects in a blockbuster have actually impressed me. It reportedly cost as much as not one but two John Carters, if rumors are to be believed, so the CGI better look good.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 19, 2022 22:57:43 GMT 1
The effects look amazing. With all due respect to Marvel it’s been ages since the special effects in a blockbuster have actually impressed me. It reportedly cost as much as not one but two John Carters, if rumors are to be believed, so the CGI better look good. The CGI is transcendent. Worth every dollar spent and every day that passed. Absolutely nothing comes even close. Nothing… It's the HFR bits that are somewhat problematic.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 19, 2022 23:07:23 GMT 1
It reportedly cost as much as not one but two John Carters, if rumors are to be believed, so the CGI better look good. The CGI is transcendent. Worth every dollar spent and every day that passed. Absolutely nothing comes even close. Nothing… It's the HFR bits that are somewhat problematic. HFR? WTF?
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 19, 2022 23:38:45 GMT 1
The CGI is transcendent. Worth every dollar spent and every day that passed. Absolutely nothing comes even close. Nothing… It's the HFR bits that are somewhat problematic. HFR? WTF? The movie randomly switches to 48 or maybe 60 frames per second at some moments. It took me out of it every now and then.
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Post by Grandmaster on Dec 26, 2022 14:32:33 GMT 1
So it will break a billion but will it make 1.5? I have doubts
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Post by Grandmaster on Dec 26, 2022 14:33:37 GMT 1
Havent seen it. Too little 2d showings. And my wife cant see 3d after her eye issues. So if you are wondering where the Sakaar review is... It will be a while longer.
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Post by Indiana Jones on Dec 27, 2022 17:43:51 GMT 1
So it will break a billion but will it make 1.5? I have doubts I think between 1.3 and 1.6 billion is a safe bet.
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Post by AQUA JAR!™ on Dec 27, 2022 18:30:13 GMT 1
So it will break a billion but will it make 1.5? I have doubts I think between 1.3 and 1.6 billion is a safe bet. i'm no box office expert, but if it has cruised to 1B in like 10 days, isn't 2b almost a certainty?
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 27, 2022 18:57:53 GMT 1
I think between 1.3 and 1.6 billion is a safe bet. i'm no box office expert, but if it has cruised to 1B in like 10 days, isn't 2b almost a certainty?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 29, 2022 16:51:54 GMT 1
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 29, 2022 17:37:27 GMT 1
He has voiced this opinion more and more over time. I was somewhat prepared for a follow-up with less violence -- gun or otherwise. I think he made his quota. A second viewing of the film does reveal some noticeable gaps in the action sequences where there was likely more violence.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 29, 2022 17:56:52 GMT 1
He has voiced this opinion more and more over time. I was somewhat prepared for a follow-up with less violence -- gun or otherwise. I think he made his quota. A second viewing of the film does reveal some noticeable gaps in the action sequences where there was likely more violence. Lets be honest. {Spoiler} The humans barely got off a shot the whole movie. Other than the son, who had to die, I think we only saw 1 Na'vi get killed in the final battle. The helicopter gunships never fired a shot either. This made for a boring fight scene in my opinion.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 29, 2022 18:26:41 GMT 1
He has voiced this opinion more and more over time. I was somewhat prepared for a follow-up with less violence -- gun or otherwise. I think he made his quota. A second viewing of the film does reveal some noticeable gaps in the action sequences where there was likely more violence. Lets be honest. {Spoiler}The humans barely got off a shot the whole movie. Other than the son, who had to die, I think we only saw 1 Na'vi get killed in the final battle. The helicopter gunships never fired a shot either. This made for a boring fight scene in my opinion. That didn't bother me at all. {Spoiler}No named Navi die in the film aside from Neteyam. We see several members of the Metkayina tribe get shot and presumably die in the water. A bunch more die in a flashback. The humans seem to go out of their way not to kill the indigenous throughout the movie.
It was more or less the same in the first film. Faceless RDA soldiers dies by the hundreds and Navi are only killed incidentally - home tree crushes a bunch of them and some get blown up with rockets. I think only two Navi die by human hands in the first one.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 29, 2022 19:32:25 GMT 1
Lets be honest. {Spoiler}The humans barely got off a shot the whole movie. Other than the son, who had to die, I think we only saw 1 Na'vi get killed in the final battle. The helicopter gunships never fired a shot either. This made for a boring fight scene in my opinion. That didn't bother me at all. {Spoiler}No named Navi die in the film aside from Neteyam. We see several members of the Metkayina tribe get shot and presumably die in the water. A bunch more die in a flashback. The humans seem to go out of their way not to kill the indigenous throughout the movie.
It was more or less the same in the first film. Faceless RDA soldiers dies by the hundreds and Navi are only killed incidentally - home tree crushes a bunch of them and some get blown up with rockets. I think only two Navi die by human hands in the first one. That's now how I remember the first movie. As I recall the Na'vi put up a good fight but were getting massacred before their magic animal friends came in to help.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 29, 2022 20:20:16 GMT 1
That didn't bother me at all. {Spoiler}No named Navi die in the film aside from Neteyam. We see several members of the Metkayina tribe get shot and presumably die in the water. A bunch more die in a flashback. The humans seem to go out of their way not to kill the indigenous throughout the movie.
It was more or less the same in the first film. Faceless RDA soldiers dies by the hundreds and Navi are only killed incidentally - home tree crushes a bunch of them and some get blown up with rockets. I think only two Navi die by human hands in the first one. That's now how I remember the first movie. As I recall the Na'vi put up a good fight but were getting massacred before their magic animal friends came in to help. {Spoiler}You're right about the higher body count in the first movie. Avatar is a lot closer to a proper war movie than Avatar 2.
The humans in Avatar 2 have multiple opportunities to kill Navi en mass - both named and unnamed - and they either botch the chance or get distracted. Quaritch gives orders not to kill hostages or to abstain from using weapons (like depth charges) to avoid killing HVTs on multiple occasions.
Avatar 2's RDA focuses on building Bridgehead and its strip-mining operations, not engaging with the natives. Their main objective is to assassinate Jake Sully. They only seem to respond to native raids and launch no major offensives like the first film.
Had the Navi engaged with a proper military force and not a small squad of recombinants and their whaling buddies - I might be upset about the low Navi body count. It is admittedly odd when pointed out, but it didn't bother me in the moment (or even after the fact).
What bothered me about the battle scenes towards the end was the sudden and complete disappearance of the Metkayina. Where did they go? Clearly, not all of Quaritch's squad or the whalers had been dispatched. I am willing to bet there are deleted scenes that explain this, but that caught my attention more, in the moment, than the body counts.
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Post by AQUA KEN! on Jan 2, 2023 17:56:11 GMT 1
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Post by Indiana Jones on Jan 5, 2023 16:38:23 GMT 1
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 10, 2023 23:47:29 GMT 1
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Post by Indiana Jones on Jan 17, 2023 22:31:40 GMT 1
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Post by Indiana Jones on Jan 19, 2023 19:25:22 GMT 1
Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones) has been cast for Avatar 3.
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Post by AQUA KEN! on Jan 22, 2023 19:28:50 GMT 1
Avatar 2 has now joined the 2 billion club.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 23, 2023 19:12:34 GMT 1
Zoe Saldana is the first person to appear in 4 $2 Billion movies!
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 26, 2023 23:24:35 GMT 1
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 26, 2023 23:43:12 GMT 1
Where are all those people who said this movie would under-perform?
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 26, 2023 23:45:50 GMT 1
Where are all those people who said this movie would under-perfrom? In a watery grave, I suspect. Hee hee hee...
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Post by Indiana Jones on Feb 15, 2023 18:34:32 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA KEN! on Feb 15, 2023 19:54:50 GMT 1
Avatar 2 looking at Endgame like "soon..."
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Post by Indiana Jones on Feb 22, 2023 3:11:52 GMT 1
It's now the 3rd highest grossing movie ever.
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Post by primemcgee on Feb 22, 2023 4:36:28 GMT 1
Where are all those people who said this movie would under-perform? How can it under-perform when they can cook the books domestically and internationally? Hollywood accounting literally means lying about expenses and profits. They police themselves.
When they said Black Panther was really popular--the theater around the block from me played it for 3 months and I saw no lineups ever. At least in the days when Terminator or something came out, there was some public enthusiasm in that you heard catch phrases.
Is Sam Worthington as popular as Charlton Heston was after Ben-Hur?
It doesn't look like it.
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