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Just a head's up for anyone interested in seeing Lightyear, the new trailer for it gives a lot of the plot away.
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May 6, 2022 17:03
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May 6, 2022 17:20
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May 6, 2022 17:26
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what i loving love is that the thing this most looks like is a sequel to eXistenZ it's like he knows me
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May 6, 2022 17:46
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Bullshit that they didn't include Existenz and Videodrome on his list  Movie looks fuckin' dope though.
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May 6, 2022 17:55
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feedmyleg posted:Bullshit that they didn't include Existenz and Videodrome on his list i've noticed that a lot of directors will do this thing where they specifically don't list the movies that are most similar to the one the trailer is for no seriously i have noticed that! i have apophenia  hahabut yeah those are literally his two best so it's weird to now list them
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May 6, 2022 17:59
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Yeah I'd been thinking the same thing, last time and now, that ExistenZ should absolutely be on that list but isn't
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May 6, 2022 18:11
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The master of body horror has done it again.
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Lastdancer posted:Yeah I'd been thinking the same thing, last time and now, that ExistenZ should absolutely be on that list but isn't i know and understand why it was a commercial flop, but i really don't get why even fans of his tend to rate it low. it's so drat entertaining.
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May 6, 2022 18:15
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I think it's seen as too 90s and too goofy by many. But they are wrong because it rules.
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May 6, 2022 18:17
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feedmyleg posted:But they are wrong because it rules.
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May 6, 2022 18:39
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Movie rules but I am way too much of a wimp to see it. I'm shuddering just watching the trailer.
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May 6, 2022 18:52
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Benson Cunningham posted:Movie rules but I am way too much of a wimp to see it. I'm shuddering just watching the trailer. Sure, it gets gross and visceral, but it's also super fun. The fun definitely helps balance it out if you're squeemish.
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May 6, 2022 19:32
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muscles like this! posted:Just a head's up for anyone interested in seeing Lightyear, the new trailer for it gives a lot of the plot away. Considering how much this very thread was confused by how this movie fits in they must have had a lot of feedback in their testing and tracking that nobody gets it and therefore included a lot of plot in the trailer. It's not necessarily a last resort but it's usually not the preferred tactic unless this kind of situation happens.
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May 6, 2022 20:08
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precision posted:i've noticed that a lot of directors will do this thing where they specifically don't list the movies that are most similar to the one the trailer is for I'd say that there are some elements from Crash and Dead Ringers in what was in the trailer though - specifically the fetishisation of medical practice and trauma to the human body, not to mention the body horror aspect of The Fly.
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May 6, 2022 22:21
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LesterGroans posted:the added bonus of annoying me by having Laura Dern remove her sunglasses Also this shot is in every one of the Dominion trailers and kills me every time  1) where the gently caress are you exactly, because tbh it kinda looks like you're up at that lake in Alaska where they made Wolverine and that could be an interesting direction for the franchise 2) are you aware that you are posed exactly identically and moving in an identical fashion at an identical rate? Are you making a tik tok 3) oh no it's a fuckin huge/deadly dinosaur, no sense in running, quick get your little knife & taser(?) ready This trailer showed with Multiverse this weekend of course and I felt so cheered when my teenage son leaned over and muttered, "God, I hate Blue so much." Like they've pushed so hard to establish Blue through the last couple movies as the Good Dinosaur You Should Care About and yet have totally fuckin failed, I figure my son's demographic is exactly who they're targeting and he gives exactly zero shits about Blue. F U Universal
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rivetz posted:this shot is in every one of the Dominion trailers and kills me every time To be fair, this is the only shot in the trailers I actually like. And I think the moving in sync thing is part of it. It just works. I also acknowledge everything you said is correct. What can I say? I’m an easy mark.
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May 8, 2022 23:36
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May 9, 2022 13:20
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Yep that's another Avatar. Didn't really feel much watching that tbh
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May 9, 2022 13:42
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James Cameron makes good movies. One of my favorite hobbies is reading how people remember nothing about Avatar. [edit] I think one of those soldier avatars is probably Quaritch lmao. teagone fucked around with this message at 13:48 on May 9, 2022 |
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May 9, 2022 13:42
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BonoMan posted:Yep that's another Avatar. Didn't really feel much watching that tbh The teaser for the first film was just as cryptic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnMbDdhCe8 I don't recall many going head over heels for it either. I'm a Cameron fanboy though, so I'm all in already. teagone fucked around with this message at 13:47 on May 9, 2022 |
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May 9, 2022 13:43
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God drat I cannot loving wait for Avatar 2. James Cameron doing James Cameron things for four more movies? Let’s loving go. Just flexing on ocean/underwater filming for 3 hours in an alien planet give me space whales and space sharks and space fish with more gimmicky Pandora poo poo. Third one can be uh… caves? I don’t care. 4 and 5 can go back to Earth to show how hosed things are.
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May 9, 2022 13:49
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One of those soldier avatars is deffo Col. Quaritch haha. The face looked really familiar. I think this confirms it from an interview last year. I think I remembered it being rumored this is how they'd handle the character, and lmao, that's pretty funny.
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May 9, 2022 13:54
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A decade ago I used to try and figure out what parts of a movie were CG. Watching that trailer I'm trying to figure out what parts aren't CG.
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May 9, 2022 13:57
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is 3d still centric to the avatar franchise, or was it just the first one? i never got to watch the first one, and i wonder how weird it is without the 3d stuff on a modern tv
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May 9, 2022 14:17
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kliras posted:is 3d still centric to the avatar franchise, or was it just the first one? It is. Cameron utilized 120 FPS capture this time around for some action scenes to smooth out the effects of film judder in 3D. I do remember reading that he also tried to push for glasses free stereo 3D but that tech still isn't quite ready for the consumer theater experience I guess. I'm biased, but I think the first film holds up as one of the better sci-fi actioners compared to most blockbuster fare come out in the last 10 years. The optimal viewing experience for the film was of course 70mm IMAX 3D, but the at-home experience is just as good If you can look past the "it's just ferngully/dances with wolves in space" memes. It's just as generally enjoyable as your standard MCU film, if I had to compare. But like, with way better action and visuals. Better politics too, lol.
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May 9, 2022 14:25
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teagone posted:The teaser for the first film was just as cryptic Yeah I didn't really care about the first film either. So I guess I'm not the market for this lol
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teagone posted:The teaser for the first film was just as cryptic Why is the trailer posted on some dude's YouTube and now like the official channel?
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BonoMan posted:Yeah I didn't really care about the first film either. So I guess I'm not the market for this lol I'm quite fond of films like The Last Samurai and The Last of the Mohicans, so that poo poo but in space directed by the guy who made Terminator 2 and Aliens aligns perfectly with the poo poo I vibe with lol. clown shoes posted:Why is the trailer posted on some dude's YouTube and now like the official channel? The Way of Water trailer hasn't been officially released yet. The teaser for the first film was just the first search result that came up on YT and was decent quality.
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People always cite some momentary and fleeting cultural obsession with Avatar that was quickly dropped after the movie left theaters, how it broke people's brains, how a bunch of people were depressed that they could never visit Pandora, how people started learning the na'vi language and thinking of themselves as na'vi and whatever. Now I just really question how true any of that ever was. I certainly never met anyone who gave a poo poo about Avatar other than maybe seeing it twice and going "I liked that a lot!" In retrospect I think it was just a handful of your run-of-the-mill weirdos who got signal-boosted by a sensationalistic media landscape searching for some deeper explanation to why the movie was making so much money. That they spent the time and effort to track down the most obsessed weirdos out there who pop up in the wake of any big sci-fi movie but are generally ignored and relegated to small corners of the internet before they move on and obsess about something else. That the media just wasn't used to seeing how obsessed internet dorks get and were encountering the idea of furries for the first time. And that in reality, a lot of people felt burned by how awkward and stilted the Star Wars prequels were despite all the hype and marketing, and just wanted some escapist sci-fi fantasy which Avatar gave it to them, with an added bonus of having some whiz-bang 3D tech and a lot of hype around the special effects. I don't think the "people got depressed about not being able to visit this incredible magical fantasy land" ever existed outside of some news producer's mind. Anyway, like y'all that teaser did nothing for me and I have no desire to watch the movie based on that. I hope it's good because I enjoy science-fiction and would like to watch a good science-fiction movie, but I'll continue waiting for something that interests or excites me before thinking about the movie again.
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It's literally the highest grossing movie of all time. To try to dismiss Avatar in retrospect is pretty loving funny.
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There's an argument to be had that one of the big reasons Avatar didn't really have any lasting cultural impact despite its massive box office is because soon after the first film dropped, there weren't any sequels. No shows. Nothing to follow up. There wasn't a costant barrage of Avatar media every other year to make the movie a mainstay in the conscience of pop culture compared to say like, Harry Potter or Star Wars. Avatar also came out around the time that VOD and stream services were beginning to take over, so the amount of competition for studios to grab consumer attention was reaching a boiling point. [edit] This is probably why you also don't see a lot of memes about the movie either, as dumb a metric as that is.
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teagone posted:There's an argument to be had that one of the big reasons Avatar didn't really have any lasting cultural impact is because soon after the first film dropped, there weren't any sequels. No shows. Nothing to follow up. There wasn't a costant barrage of Avatar media every other year to make the movie a mainstay in the conscience of pop culture compared to say like, Harry Potter or Star Wars. Avatar also came out around the time that VOD and stream services were beginning to take over, so the amount of competition for studios to grab consumer attention was reaching a boiling point. I would honestly be loving sick of Avatar if Cameron had treated it the way Disney has done with Star Wars.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I would honestly be loving sick of Avatar if Cameron had treated it the way Disney has done with Star Wars. Yeah, 100%  The only Disney Star Wars stuff I've genuinely really liked is The Last Jedi and about 80% of The Mandalorian lol. I dunno if Rebels/Clone Wars finale counts as Disney produced, but count those in if they do. [edit] Oh, some of the anime shorts were pretty good too. But lol at the movies. teagone fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 9, 2022 |
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Im pretty sure a bunch of people are still in Avatar comas after being unable to live in a world that wasnt Pandora or at least Disney's Animal Kingdom's Pandora – The World of Avatar, so im really happy for all the goons finally getting their moms/dads back God bless you in all your works jimmy cameron
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feedmyleg posted:People always cite some momentary and fleeting cultural obsession with Avatar that was quickly dropped after the movie left theaters, how it broke people's brains, how a bunch of people were depressed that they could never visit Pandora, how people started learning the na'vi language and thinking of themselves as na'vi and whatever. Now I just really question how true any of that ever was. I certainly never met anyone who gave a poo poo about Avatar other than maybe seeing it twice and going "I liked that a lot!" This whole Avatar-based depression thing was much more of a phenomenon in China. Also, go watch How to With John Wilson to see what Avatar nerds are up to in the US these days. The trailer didn't seem obviously better than the original film, but maybe I need to see a side-by-side comparison? I guess I'm curious what 10+ years of 3D technology can bring to this. James Cameron has a decent track record with sequels so I am optimistic.
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feedmyleg posted:People always cite some momentary and fleeting cultural obsession with Avatar that was quickly dropped after the movie left theaters, how it broke people's brains, how a bunch of people were depressed that they could never visit Pandora, how people started learning the na'vi language and thinking of themselves as na'vi and whatever. Now I just really question how true any of that ever was. I certainly never met anyone who gave a poo poo about Avatar other than maybe seeing it twice and going "I liked that a lot!" You should watch How to With John Wilson, where he visit an Avatar-themed support group, it's... something alright.
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feedmyleg posted:People always cite some momentary and fleeting cultural obsession with Avatar that was quickly dropped after the movie left theaters, how it broke people's brains, how a bunch of people were depressed that they could never visit Pandora, how people started learning the na'vi language and thinking of themselves as na'vi and whatever. Now I just really question how true any of that ever was. I certainly never met anyone who gave a poo poo about Avatar other than maybe seeing it twice and going "I liked that a lot!" Saving this for when Avatar 2 comes out
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dismissing avatar retroactively is obviously easy, but literally everyone was talking about the movie when it came out and how amazing the 3d experience was. people clearly enjoyed it titanic is probably also a silly movie in retrospect, but cameron's later movies are fantastic as far as pushing the technological envelope, and there's no reason to not give credit where credit is due. that's the curse of watching movies or playing games too late, because you don't get to appreciate what they accomplished at the time with what was available teagone posted:It is. Cameron utilized 120 FPS capture this time around for some action scenes to smooth out the effects of film judder in 3D. I do remember reading that he also tried to push for glasses free stereo 3D but that tech still isn't quite ready for the consumer theater experience I guess.
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