Do you think they waited too long to kick these off?
shareThey should have gotten at least the first sequel out no later than 2012, 2013. Not sure what Cameron's been doing this whole time. Aside from bathing in dollar bills.
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shareI'll see them.
To be sure, I very much regret buying the download - I hardly ever watch it, because it's so painfully pedestrian as a story. Also, the "alien world" wasn't remotely alien enough to me, as a sci-fi fan. Every animal was a variation on a similar earth species, nothing truly alien.
But the 3D immersion is something that sticks with me to this day, a decade later. That, I will pay $15 for.
That makes sense.
Personally, I think the film would have been a better Mockumentary than Dances with wolves rehatch.
It's an unusually long gap between an original and its sequel but hardly unprecedented. And the way these movies are done makes them very time consuming to produce. My personal opinion is that the movie was fun to watch, but not too original storywise. It's Braveheart in space. I'll probably go see the first sequel ... and if it's crap I won't bother with the rest, but with four sequels they're going to have do something more than make it an allegory to colonialism on Earth.
I can imagine lots of things they could do. If they want to secure their home the Navi will have to adopt human technology in some way. Probably with a lot more environmental consciousness, but you can imagine some of their people will be very much against the idea while others will start to get used to the advantages of high tech gadgets. The whole conscious biosphere thing is really interesting too. It might have ideas of its own about how much of the planet's surface it will allow the inhabitants to reshape.
Will Jake's artificial body age like the locals? It could, or it could have a termination date like the replicants in Blade Runner, or it could be effectively immortal - you could kill him but he won't simply die on his own no matter how much time passes. Will his offspring inherit those engineered genes too? And other scientists with avatar bodies who stayed behind may end up having children there. You could get an entire subclass of Navi who are regarded as half-breeds and perhaps not accepted by the regressive faction among their own kind. Especially if the synthetic traits are dominant and spread further with every generation.
You could imagine an eventual attempt to occupy and terraform the moon by forces from Earth. That's the most obvious way to escalate the conflict. But I can't imagine more than one of the sequels devoted to that invasion scenario. Four full-length films is a lot of time to fill. If they aren't hits with the public this is going to be the most expensive studio megaflop in cinematic history! James Cameron will have to flee Hollywood and go into hiding for his own safety. 😄
I wasn't even looking forward to the second half of Avatar after watching the first half.
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