Honestly, that’s one of the reasons I never see movies in 3D.
Listening to some entertainment/movie podcasts, apparently this film did $180 million on day 1, a projected $550 million for the opening weekend.
Global figures, of course.
Watched it on Friday and was more than pleasantly surprised at how much better it was than the first one. The plot is still straightforward and obvious but the characters had actual character and there was actual emotion in places.
And if like me you enjoy the more techy side of scifi, spaceships, vehicles, aircraft etc. The designs in the movie are mind blowing. Specifically the submarines. Every panel, rivet, flap, propeller, control and button looks like it is actually functional and makes sense.
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3D is great, stop complaining about dark screens or whatever
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He wasn’t literally saying “unobtanium” he was shorthand saying “we’re mining this stuff that’s unobtainable anywhere else”
Wait, is it not really called that and that is just Earth’s nickname for it?
It was used in the first movie.
This may have been the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. I am overwhelmed by the word, dedication, and just downright brain power it took to put this film together. There’s nothing original in the plot, but the vision and execution of every single little detail… holy shit.
At the end, I started applauding. In about 5 seconds, the theater picked up on it, and in 10 seconds, all were applauding. And for a 2:40pm showing on a Monday afternoon, that place was packed.
I’ll go more into it as the conversation develops… I just spent my energies writing a 25th anniversary appreciation post about Titanic. But this film is spectacular, if you miss it on the big screen without an appropriate excuse (you’re an astronaut, you’re dead, you’re James Cameron and have already seen it), that’s solely on you.
Don’t do that.
BTW, I saw it in IMAX, no 3D. 3D doesn’t work with my wonky eyes, so I didn’t lose anything I could’ve had.
And missing huge chunks of stuff that it seemed to me somebody should really be addressing at some point, like what the hell happens to the “Forest People” Na’vi rebellion against the Earth colonizers once Fearless Leader Sully decides to up stakes and join the “Reef People”. But that made more sense to me once I learned that this movie was intended as the second of a four- or five-film series: none of the story arcs are in any way resolved yet.
I hope he makes all five of them. It may not be his absolute best stuff of all time, but if this is what Jim Cameron wants to do, I hope he does it. He’s a great movie-maker and he should just go for it.
Part 3 is filmed mostly and I heard he has worked on filming part of the fourth movie already. I guess they will probably make them?
Especially the whole Kiri thing. I mean, Eywa is obviously Mom#2, and she’s got magic powers. But we find out she has epilepsy and nobody tells her she’s not supposed to commune underwater or she’ll die, so she does it anyway, using giant anemone as ocean robo waldos – and doesn’t die. I guess the fan wank is she dies if she communes (underwater?) with Eywa, but using any of the other Pandora wifi is hunky dory.
So I assume the next movies will be the way of air, earth, fire. Then Jake fights Fire Lord Ozai
I thought that was just it’s not actually epilepsy, they just didn’t know that she had magical Eywa powers and could control other life forms.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I question the decision to focus on Katara and Sokka. I mean, they were there from episode one, and I thought maybe it’d more interesting to take a closer look at-
What?
Oh. Never mind.
Yeah, that was possibly the other interpretation, but no character made that leap. Hell, it was never even discussed again, was it?
BTW what was with Kiri grabbing a lungfish for herself when rescuing her downing mom, but didn’t think to grab one for Mom too?
It’s called The Way of Earth, Wind, and Fire, and is coming out on the 21st night of September.
Really, the Way of Earth, Wind and Fire is coming in September? Makes we want to sing.
Re Spider - was it ever explained how Colonel Jarhead had a baby on Pandora? Where’s Mom? Back on Earth having said, “screw that little brat!” ? Or did Jarhead rape one of the science staff (doesn’t seem like he’d get that “no means no”)?
Some folks can be assholes to everyone except family. And he’s not totally hostile to other humans, just the Na’vi.
Which kind of has the makings of a heel face turn in some future movie, don’t it? Since he’s all blue and shit now.
OTOH, Jarhead didn’t seem to give much of shit about his team members dying. Cameron didn’t even bother to give them more than individual ‘looks’, no personalities beyond “oo rah!”.