Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Avatar was a good movie. I want to watch it again this time without the 3d.The 3d was good even thought it took about a half hour for my eyes to adjust just right. And I have 20/20 vision. But after that the 3d was good. It wasn’t what I fully expected with how he said it was gonna be but some parts did standout more than others like the hull and labs’ holographic images and the bio-luminosity of the plants and insects.
The CGI was top notch, especially the Na’vi. Facial animations were nearly flawless compared to the real thing but are the best I’ve ever seen in film since Gollum’s facial animations in rotk in ’03. Skin textures were perfect. Na’vi body movements were, for the most part, flexible and fluid. Cameron gets an A for their look. Pandora. Was. Gorgeous. The best looking alien planet (or moon) and forest/jungle, i’ve ever seen in film ever including in real life, my goodness. The view from every single angle looked just extravagant. The floating mountains looked just heavenly. Majestic. And the films’ vivid colors in no way took anything away from the film at all. To sum it up, Avatar’s the most visually arresting sci-fi/fantasy film I’ve ever seen.
Sound was superb. But what made it even better were the seats fitted with termpur-pedic foam that rattled nicely along with every time deep bass boomed in the film. Pandoran wildlife had great sound effects, as well.I liked the story. And I liked that Cameron didn’t over do it as far as going too far in over-explaining stuff as I thought was gonna happen given how complex the movies’ conceptual science is in the film. As for as the films passion, the movie did conjure up emotions especially anytime that female na’vi cried. Her face and mannerisms looked just so powerfully expressive and meaningful.
Character-wise though, that commander stole the show to me. Damn was he a badass, lol. Especially towards the end. He’s ‘09’s top badass, imo and in my top ten for the last decade and this decade, so far. He was great.
I give this movie an 8.5 outta 10. It was a good movie. A great trendsetter. I have seen sci-fi/fantasy films that I’ve enjoyed more, and I expected a tad more ,specifically with the 3d but, for the most part, the film fulfilled my expectations. And I’m glad to’ve taken part of movie history and the start of what we see in film and how we watch it with regards to cgi. So i’m gonna watch it again but I’m even more exited for what’s to come next technologically speaking.
glad you liked it
"After only 24 days of being released, Avatar has grossed $429 million in the United States and Canada, and $902 million in other territories after 26 days of release with a worldwide total of $1.331 billion."
- wiki
So Avatar's made about a third of what Titanic made in about an 8th of the time.
Forget this. I will say it here and now. I predict that Avatar will surpass Titanic and become the highest grossing film of all time before the start of spring in about 2 months from now. And at the end of it's run, around the beginning of the summer season, it will have grossed just over 2 billion dollars worldwide.
There.
Originally posted by FistOfThe NorthYeah, it has been making movie way quickly. Though, I just can't see it making another 500+ Million
"After only 24 days of being released, Avatar has grossed $429 million in the United States and Canada, and $902 million in other territories after 26 days of release with a worldwide total of $1.331 billion."- wiki
So Avatar's made about a third of what Titanic made in about an 8th of the time.
Forget this. I will say it here and now. I predict that Avatar will surpass Titanic and become the highest grossing film of all time before the start of spring in about 2 months from now. And at the end of it's run, around the beginning of the summer season, it will have grossed just over 2 billion dollars worldwide.
There.
Originally posted by Tired-Hiker
I predict that Avatar 2 will make even more money than Avatar.
You know, i think a sequel would be unessesary. What else would there be to explain.
And why would it be called Avatar 2. I mean the Avatar program would be irrelevant or unnessesary after the events that took place in the end of the movie..
I say just leave it.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
You know, i think a sequel would be unessesary. What else would there be to explain.And why would it be called Avatar 2. I mean the Avatar program would be irrelevant or unnessesary after the events that took place in the end of the movie..
I say just leave it.
agreed, just leave it that is the problem with hollywood, something makes money and they have to quickly do it again to capitalize on it ASAP. that is why we ended up with the crappy Transformers 2.
thank god it wasn't the same for the dark knight. and i'm thankful that pixar doesn't do that.
Originally posted by The Nuul
Avatar Breaks Dark Knight and Spider-Man Records
Source:ComingSoon.net
January 3, 2010ComingSoon.net reports that James Cameron's Avatar has reached $1.02 billion at the worldwide box office after just 17 days, surpassing the $1 billion earned by The Dark Knight in 2008. It also broke Spider-Man's third weekend record domestically:
James Cameron's Avatar (20th Century Fox) continues to be one of the biggest box office phenomenons of the decade--much like Titanic in the prior decade--having grossed $350 million after just 17 days and crossing the one billion mark worldwide. It set a new Near Year's Day weekend box office record with its estimated $68.3 million, down just 10% from Christmas weekend and making it the highest third weekend gross for a movie domestically (surpassing the $45 million made by Spider-Man in 2002).
By next weekend, Cameron's comeback will hit the $400 million mark and by next Sunday, it should pass Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to become the highest-grossing movie of 2009, as well as breaking into the Top 10 highest-grossing movies (domestically) of all time.
Internationally, Avatar has grossed $670.2 million which brings its worldwide total to $1.02 billion, making it the fourth-highest grossing movie worldwide EVER, and that's after being in theaters for only 17 days, too. It has surpassed the worldwide gross for The Dark Knight and only needs $46 million more to beat Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. (Currently, Cameron's Titanic still holds the worldwide grossing record with $1.84 billion with $600 million of that domestically.)
What's so remarkable about the movie's success, besides how much of that money is being made in 3D and IMAX venues (with many daily sell-outs still being reported ), is that Avatar is also the biggest non-sequel since George Lucas' original Star Wars and Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. By the end of January, it should have surpassed both of their non-adjusted box office takes. It's still a few days behind Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, which had the benefits of opening in summer, while Avatar will be facing moviegoers' return to school and work starting tomorrow, so we'll have to see whether it can cross the $533 million mark to become the second-highest grossing movie after Cameron's own Titanic.
Didn't the latest Harry Porter movie broke TDK record last year? 😕
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
You know, i think a sequel would be unessesary. What else would there be to explain.And why would it be called Avatar 2. I mean the Avatar program would be irrelevant or unnessesary after the events that took place in the end of the movie..
I say just leave it.
Whas Terminator 2 necessary? Aliens 2? Say what you will, they'll find a reason to make another Avatar. The infrastructure is set up, why waste all that time and energy creating the virtual world of Avatar when you can squeeze more milk from it. Whatever they call it doesn't matter, it will still be Avatar 2.
Oh, here. Hate so say "I told you so," but I did...
Confirmation on an Avatar sequel....
'Avatar' Sequel Confirmed By James Cameron... And Here's What We'd Like To See
Posted 1/8/10 2:00 pm ET by Adam Rosenberg in News
Shortly before "Avatar" came out, director James Cameron told MTV that he has a larger story in mind for the movie's universe. "We'll follow Jake and Neytiri," he said. "I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script."
At that point, there was nothing official to announce. People knew the movie was going to make money -- this is James Cameron we're talking about -- but no one could know just what a monumental success "Avatar" would become. Now that we know? Cameron's much more open to discussing what's next.
At a Q&A with Cameron held in Los Angeles earlier this week, Ain't It Cool News reported that the director said, "Yes, there'll be another." Four simple words, and we have confirmation that a sequel will happen. Not that anyone really doubted it I think, given the amount of money spent developing the technology and the time required to transform stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana into Na'vi.
Now that there's confirmation, we can really get to the nitty-gritty of thinking about what's next. A few weeks ago, MTV contributor Josh Wigler considered the possibility of future stories in the "Avatar" universe moving away from Pandora and onto another of the planet Polyphemus's orbiting moons. A companion novel released alongside the movie, "Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide," indicates that there are two moons orbiting the gas-giant with nitrogen-oxygen atmospheres (a la Earth).
That said, I would still expect Pandora to factor heavily into the next movie. As we all saw in "Avatar," there are a variety of distinctly different Na'vi tribes that call the planet their home. And with the first movie focused as it was on the tribe built up around the Hometree, we really never got a sense of how intra-species politics work between the different tribes.
I think it's likely that the next movie will delve deeper into the Na'vi people and the differences between them. They are painted in very broad strokes in "Avatar," a subjugated race, outclassed and outgunned by human colonists. With the RDA out of the picture for the time being, we should come to recognize the Na'vi less as a singular group and more as a varied species, with the same sorts of subdivisions and class difference that define the human race.
One scenario I could picture for the sequel would focus squarely on internal strife among the Na'vi. Presuming that Cameron has plans for a cliffhanger-conclusion in the second and third entries in his planned trilogy, the entirely of the second movie could set up a Pandora world war of sorts, only to have human aggressors show up at the very end, while the indigenous population is at odds. This would create a nice bridge into the third film, in which the Na'vi would be forced to band together once again.
There's also Unobtainium, the rare mineral that brought humans to Pandora in the first place. It isn't discussed a great deal in the movie, but the "Activist Survival Guide" notes that humans use it for interstellar/deep space travel. In another scenario, the RDA could conceivably return to the Na'vi with an outstretched hand, as Earth's supplies of the valuable mineral start to dwindle.
And now that Jake and Neytiri are both properly coupled Na'vi, a damsel-in-distress storyline -- or perhaps a genre-twisting gentleman-in-distress? -- seems inevitable. One of the two will be captured or in some way taken out of the picture by malevolent forces, requiring the other to embark on a desperate quest to save him/her. A more personal, Na'vi-centric story would be a refreshing change after the sweeping epic that is "Avatar."
These are just a few ideas; I'm sure whatever Cameron's cooking up, it's far more detailed and filled with otherworldly wonders that we've yet to even see. But now that a sequel is confirmed to be coming, the speculation can begin.
Originally posted by Tired-HikerThat it makes them shitloads of money might be all the reasons they need.
Whas Terminator 2 necessary? Aliens 2? Say what you will, they'll find a reason to make another Avatar. The infrastructure is set up, why waste all that time and energy creating the virtual world of Avatar when you can squeeze more milk from it. Whatever they call it doesn't matter, it will still be Avatar 2.