We created a broad canvas for the environment of film. That’s not just on Pandora, but throughout the Alpha Centauri AB system. And we expand out across that system and incorporate more into the story – not necessarily in the second film, but more toward a third film. I’ve already announced this, so I might as well say it: Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora. And I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rain forest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I still haven't seen Avatar nor do I have a strong desire to see it.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Eh, Avatar was okay. As long as you are willing to turn off your brain (or at least put it into tolerate-really-stupid-stereotypes-that-liberals-believe-are-true mode), it's not a bad movie.
Kinda pretty to look at.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I heard pretty much everything except the visuals sucked. & it's about an hour or more too long.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Avatar was a pretty movie, but the story sucked balls. Cameron better have more up his sleeve than rehashing the same plot 3 more times (and the first one was already a rehash...).
With Swartzenegger being cast as the bad guy general, I have a feeling all the films are going to be the same old "the military is bad" bullshit. What's worse is that their visual appeal will be old hat too.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Leisher wrote:Avatar was a pretty movie, but the story sucked balls.
I nearly choked when I heard one of the characters talk about how they were after "unobtainium." That's like calling your movie "working title." The only thing dumber would have been for the guy to say, "We're on this planet looking for a MacGuffin."
If I'm ever the xenobiologist on an interstellar voyage of discovery, I'm naming the first important-looking bird-like animal we come across a MacGuffin. Just because.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
So think of it as a family saga like ‘The Godfather.’
Go fuck yourself.
Avatar was poorly written shit wrapped in a pretty package. The only thing separating it from a film by The Asylum was the budget.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Ugh. I hope these are actually good movies and not derivative dreck, again. Ordinarily that would be ok, not everything needs to be perfect, but so many goddam people were having orgasms over the first movie that it came to my attention that it isn't actually all that.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Aside from Fantastic Four, I'm not sure I've rooted so much for a film to bomb.
I know Disney will be behind this film because they're turning part of their Animal Kingdom park into an Avatar themed area.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
TPRJones wrote:When I saw this I just could not decide which Avatar (Cameron or Shyamalan) I wanted to see a sequel to least. It hurt to think about.
Cameron. That's not even a contest.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
TPRJones wrote:When I saw this I just could not decide which Avatar (Cameron or Shyamalan) I wanted to see a sequel to least. It hurt to think about.
Cameron. That's not even a contest.
M. Night on M. Night
They’ve never got me, and it’s getting worse. It’s almost like, go away. I also think I’m getting more, you know, influenced by other cultures more, as you could see from the movie. So I’m not doing like a straight-up American movie anymore. The tonalities are changing. I always had a European sensibility to my movies. The pacing is always a little bit off for them, and it feels a little stilted, and they need more electricity and all that stuff.
And I’m like, this is the way I think of things. ‘Cause, you know, Hitchcock and Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick, these are my teachers. So it could be a little bit of that, that there’s just a little bit of cultural difference. Just like on this movie, I’m very used to getting on a plane from the U.S., having been savaged by them, and then going to, like in this case, I went to Japan next, and then they’re like, “Genius!”
You can lose your mind a little bit, going on Saturday from being an idiot to Sunday being a genius. But it gives you perspective. But luckily for me, it’s not something I can fight. It’s not my fight to fight. I’m defenseless, it’s the audience, if they choose to fight for me, then they fight for me. And they have through my career, and I’m honored to have that relationship with them. And I’ll keep fighting for that relationship. And maybe, 20 years from now, I’ll get a good review, I’ll sit here together, and be like, “I got a good review! Woohoo!”
I honestly didn't mind The Village and think people were way too harsh, especially when you consider it to simply be a movie about parenting. How many people are moving elves around their house this month yet thought hiding the truth from kids in The Village was unrealistic?
Signs was dumb.
The one with Walberg was dumb too.
I haven't seen any of his other films.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
I'll grant that. Everything else he's made has been shit.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I honestly didn't mind The Village and think people were way too harsh, especially when you consider it to simply be a movie about parenting. How many people are moving elves around their house this month yet thought hiding the truth from kids in The Village was unrealistic?
Signs was dumb.
The one with Walberg was dumb too.
I haven't seen any of his other films.
Agree completely. The Village was decent. But it was like a novella that should have been a short story in terms of content.
Leisher wrote:I honestly didn't mind The Village and think people were way too harsh, especially when you consider it to simply be a movie about parenting.
Parenting and how you can't leave secrets behind no matter how far you run.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."