If you just need to see two movies this month, there should be plenty of other choices. I may see this movie but am not really enthusiastic about it.
I’m one of the many who have made the decision to not go back into cinemas anymore, even for event movies. I was never a big fan of doing so anyway, the ‘big screen’ and ‘crowds of enthusiastic fans’ thing are not draws for me, so it’s not a tough decision. I’ll wait for streaming.
There’s no way I won’t want to see a movie James Cameron has been working on for 10 years so I’m going to avoid ads and just go opening weekend.
My reply is pretty much unchanged since my prior posts back in May. Although like others, I’m a bit hesitant to go to movies with crowds, I think the spectacle will be worth seeing it once in theaters. So at a guess, I’ll probably go see it for a matinee around 3 weeks after opening, when the price is a bit lower and the crowds will have thinned out. Or if it’s a super spectacle and it’s still packed, a week or two longer.
And I fully expect to enjoy said spectacle for the duration, and then spend the next few hours/days/weeks poking fun at all the gaping plot holes, inconsistencies and the like.
We’ve been enthusiastically back at the movies for a while now. Kid Cheesesteak is now 14, and has seen the trailer multiple times to declare that he is NOT interested in whatever movie this is. I’m not particularly interested either. It’s been so long I don’t remember who was in the original, what they did, or how it was resolved. The trailers don’t do a thing to remind me of the state of affairs or why I should care about what is happening now.
Nope. I still hope it crashes and burns at a high rate of speed.
I’m interested enough to likely see it on streaming or Blu-ray. I know that it is a big deal to see it in a theater, but I don’t mind just seeing things on my TV.
It’s been more than thirty years since Cameron made a genuinely good movie, so I’m not seeing a whole lot of reasons to get excited about this.
Still of the view that it will be very pretty but low on original or interesting plot points.
Still of the view that everyone here will be seeing plenty of movies that are low on original or interesting plot points, but only hold Avatar accountable for this flaw.
Sure, but I’m not excited about them, either.
James Cameron is especially well known for weak stories and clunky dialog, so he’s high on my “not excited” list.
BTW, on Sunday, The New York Times ran an article (gift link) on why Avatar had such little cultural impact.
Never seen Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets, then?
It’ll be the only “Once in a generation cinematic experience!” I hold accountable for the flaw 
The preview I saw didn’t get me excited and the 3D tech from the first failed to work on me (which is probably a my-eyeballs thing and not Cameron’s fault) so I can probably wait to see it via streaming without missing out on much. While there’s still differences between home viewing and the theater, they’re a lot less significant than back when it was a big deal to have a 32" standard LED television if not a CRT.
I can’t speak for the public zeitgeist, but one of my favorite quotes comes from Avatar:
