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Seriously who asked for 4 Avatar sequels?


I mean what’s the deal here?

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I don't think anyone even wants 1 Avatar sequel.
It was a movie in its time, nobody cares or appreciates that movie now.

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Exactly the only reason people cared about it was due to the 3D nobody really cared about the world, characters and story.

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Especially not since it was so shallow, boring and copy/paste (Pocahontas anyone?).
First time I heard he wants to make multiple more I was wondering if he suffered a stroke... or owes someone money.

He's a brilliant movie maker, many of my favorites are from him - so it hurts double that he focuses on this Avatar trash instead of actually good movies. Terminator 2, Aliens, Titanic, Abyss, ... he makes great movies...

But fucking Avatar!? Ugh...

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THATS JUST INCORRECT...THE FILM WAS A MAJOR HIT,THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE NEVER EVEN SAW IT IN 3D...IT WAS A BIG,POPULAR FILM...TIME JUST PROVED IT TO BE A POPCORN FLICK INSTEAD OF A CLASSIC FILM.

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Apart from Avatar being the most successful movie of all time you mean?

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It was all due to the 3D fad, nobody really cared about the story and characters.

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The classical heroes' journey you mean? Then here's some free advice: can your hollywood plans.

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I thought 'Gone with the Wind' was the most successful movie of all time?

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I can't believe you mentioned that movie, you're a RACIST BIGOT!!!

(Just kidding; I'm poking fun at idiotic cancel culture).

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I am!

Avatar was awesome!

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It was just a 3D effect fest, nothing more to it.

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"nothing more to it."

I know just as long as you ignore the excellent action scenes, the fun adventures, the great music, the awesome tech, the cool battles, the awesome mechs and awesome dialogue, there was nothing more to it.

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NOBODY talks about the movie. It had no lasting cultural impact. Things like The Matrix, for example, now that isa movie that got people talking and was a huge influence even beyond film.

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Ah, a Wachowski sister groupie! Enjoy your Jupiter Ascending while we stick around James Cameron, ok?

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Wachowski went woke and will ruin The Matrix with the fourth film. Cameron is also woke and you will see that all over these Avatar sequels. Not good.

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Matrix was already ruined by 2 and 3, dude. Cameron still gets his shot.

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No. One. Cameron is weird and obsessive. Happened to him, Lucas, and Jackson.

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I don't mind having sequels for Avatar. Avatar was an okay flick with good 3D (that's now all but dead), but I REALLY want blu-ray releases of The Abyss and True Lies, and Cameron, asshat that he is, is holding them up, in large part because of these sequels.

https://www.filmstories.co.uk/features/true-lies-the-abyss-and-the-blu-ray-4k-problem/

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The Abyss was quite good, how come it is not on BR?

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I agree! The Abyss is very good (I also enjoyed the novelization by Orson Scott Card), and was better than True Lies. Although, I was in the USMC when Cameron came onto Camp Pendleton base to consult for True Lies, and we met him and hung out with his brother a bit, so I have a personal affinity for True Lies (I do enjoy True Lies, but I like The Abyss more, including the Director's Cut). The biggest hang-up on both movies is remastering them. A lot of the work is done, but Cameron has to approve much of it, and apparently he can't be bothered to complete that simple and probably not very time consuming task.

A quote from that article I linked:


The traditional hold-up to the release thus far, though, is James Cameron himself. That he has to personally approve the new transfers for both films, and the bottom line is that he simply hasn’t to our knowledge done that yet. In more recent times, he’s been focused heavily on his quartet of Avatar sequels, as well as his work on Terminator: Dark Fate and Alita: Battle Angel (and he was active on the promotional tour for the latter two).

As he told Empire back at the end of 2018, “it’s a question of time-management. True Lies and The Abyss both have Blu-ray transfers that are complete for my review. The problem is the next 14 hours when I have to go back and trim the color and get each one perfect. That’s 28 hours. I don’t have 28 hours”.

He clearly didn’t.

But again, follow the evidence and the timeline here. At the end of 2018, the transfers were ready for review, by his own words. Is it too much of a leap to suggest that he’s approved at least the one for The Abyss, given that the subsequent colour grading was allowed to go ahead? It’s not just the transfers, either. In 2017, The Digital Bits reported that “the work needed to compile new special features” had been done as well. That’s not actually the compiling of the features themselves, but more putting together what the shape of the eventual discs would be like.

Yet as those who have been following the non-existent high definition disc releases of these films know only too well, it’s little secret that they’ve been worked on, and it’s little secret that they’ve been planned. But without Cameron’s signature signing them off, they remain in limbo.

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