Avatar: The Way of Water
 

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I wanted to be cynical and expected to see a huge waste of development hell but this looks amazing.

My biggest memory of Avatar was my friends telling me Kirstie Alley was sitting in the row in front of them and wouldn't STFU the whole movie and she kept gasping loudly and then after the movie she was sobbing in the lobby with popcorn all over her shirt.

the franchise with no fandom

Saw this trailer in 3D before Dr. Strange and thought it looked beautiful and was like "damn, I actually want to see this now"..... Watched the trailer again here and without the 3D was just like "whatever".

I am real curious as to how it does. As Destor says there is like zero fandom about Avatar.... feel like there is a general fandom for anything James Cameron makes though...

I think it will do well, but nowhere near the success of the first

I never got the hype for the first one. It was ok. But nothing about it, from the story to the cgi, was groundbreaking, and we’ve seen better cgi since. Can’t say I’m interested in this at all.

1st film was the 1st real d 3d film people went soley to check the tech out

At the time it was "groundbreaking" technology or whatever, but I remember being "unimpressed" by the 3D in the animated parts.... I remember thinking it was kinda neat in the scenes with humans, but then in the CGI bits it was just "one more element of fakeness".....

This trailer looked beautiful in 3D though, so I dunno.

Damn. Must watch in 3-D

I mean it was just Dances with Wolves in space but it really was stunning to see in 3D. You "had" to see the Matrix on DVD with all the extras. You "had" to see Planet Earth on Blu-Ray and you "had" to see Avatar in 3d. It didn't disappoint visually.

The unfortunate thing was that because it made a billion dollars, studios just saw the cash grab opportunities and made everything "in 3d" even when it wasn't meant to be. Notice how nothing is in 3d now.

Something tells me this will be considered a success in a post-covid movie world but not to the point where it will start another 3d movie trend.

I'm assuming this is still supposed to be in 3d?

all blockbusters get a 3d release but nothing is shot with it in mind.. this was though yes

Up in 3D was the shit....

Most def a "time and place" thing in much the way "Twister" was for audiophiles. Difference there, though, was when it got home video releases, people masturbated themselves raw over being able to set up surround sound with all the truly dynamicly mixed audio. Can't really set up an immersive screen in your living room unless you're one of those folks who went all in on an Occulus (still calling it that, fuck the Zuck rebrand) or something and have enough headsets for everyone on the couch around you.

I liked the movie, but I can't lie and say a bunch of it was not only the experience of how it was shot, and being really top-notch 3D at a time where that kind of quality was reserved for about maybe a total of 10 minutes of movie runtime or something "for the kids" like a Pixar flick. A lot of that enjoyment had to do with being in reasonable proximity to a pretty much "brand new" IMAX screen at the time (it was actually a couple of months after the renovation, but the release of AVATAR was treated as the "opening"). It was really impressive there, but not quite as when you watch it at home on your regular-ass TV.

If I still lived near Wichita, I'd absolutely go see this with a couple of friends I know would be down for it. Up here, though, I don't really feel like driving to/through Pittsburgh just for this. Whole different bear. I'm sure it'll be an alright, film but a lot less... "it" without the accompanying experience.

Yeah, it was one of the few shot that way to begin with. And the cash-grab thing made it worse because the visual quality was a lot worse in most of the things that tried to retroactively shoehorn 3D into something that was clearly already in the can when they decided to try to make extra money.

Funniest part about it to me was all the outlets and studios that called it a gimmick and doomed to fail trying to jump aboard when the opening weekend numbers came out. It somehow reminded me of when all the music companies were saying how Napster was killing the music industry and the MP3 format was the devil and websites even hosting songs from indy bands with their own music couldn't host files of that type... but then those same companies (Sony in particular, but there were others backing different manufacturers) were simultaneously rushing MP3 players out to market.