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And, uh...
Well, there it is.
I hope it falls down the stairs, lands face first into a turd, then catches fire.
Disney gonna muscle everyone else out of the theater and people gonna go just because there’s nothing else to see
hell i dont think that's even necessary for it to make a bajillion dollars, but they are sure gunna do that too
what argument is there to make
(Alita is far from the greatest film ever, but it's vastly more interesting than Avatar.)
My plan was to gesticulate wildly and just shout “really!?!” over and over again, why, do you think that won’t be convincing?
Look it's real simple
This is the wrong kind of largely-CG movie meant to sell merchandise, the wrong kind of childish story pitched to the cheap seats, the wrong kind of cross-platform IP. Even the nostalgia is all wrong - nostalgia for James Cameron movies? Who would have that? Nice try jerkwads.
This is a wholly unique failure of imagination, completely unlike how the rest of the blockbuster industry functions, obviously. Can't believe you can't see it.
Love that movie, that butcher shop scene was amazing.
it's a movie that understands that there is nothing funnier than great violence being visited upon joe piscopo and runs with it
It was an ambitious mess, but at least it had ambition, more than I can say for Avatar.
Avatar 2 clears a billion, no problem. I have doubts it reaches 2 billion.
It's like it found the magic point where it's too late and the iron is completely cold, and yet it hasn't been so long that people have nostalgia to warm the iron with.
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actually think the distance from the first Avatar is gunna be in Avatar 2's favor. feels like an event again. diminishing returns hit on the subsequent sequels if anywhere.
Is that? It looks like a child. I was assuming that was his child since it's definitely a human but living with them. I watched that "this family stays together" bit again, and I'm pretty sure the trailer wants you to assume that's their child? But that would mean his human form fathered the child which is why I was confused. So basically what I'm saying is that trailer is confusing as hell! But it is pretty. And there's water.
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They've become so accustomed to having their tastes catered to, they've spent so long at the exact center of the current media landscape, that they are offended by this aberration. This one thing got popular without their help or approval, and they hate that. They're supposed to be the arbiters and beneficiaries of popular culture, how the hell did somebody get by them?
It reminds me of the outsized animus that people held for disco, or boy bands, or Twilight. "People like that?! But I don't like that!! What the fuck!!!!!"
I think the first movie traffics in colonialist, anti-Native tropes, and I think it sucks shit, but I think the energy people put into hating Avatar for being "undeservedly" popular is so fucking weird. Just well and truly bizarre.
As for me the uh... hm, the music in the trailer was real pretty I guess?
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They did sort of graft parts of two separate story arcs from the manga together for the movie
His robot had a big knife
Also post-watching Avatar 1 in theaters opening weekend, tbh
I don't think it'll do anything to hinder its success (nor am I doubting its success) but hey, $20 less than it'd have made otherwise and I'm sure I'll find something else to watch during that time instead. Worst case, I wait a few weeks in December and see Babylon on Xmas weekend
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I also liked Alita, but then again I found Green Hornet alright, so maybe I have bad taste
It is, and I'm paraphrasing an interview with the producer I read in Empire Magazine while on the shitter, a kid who was born on the base/planet and then ran away and lived like "tarzan" (his words) and was taken in by the main characters from the first movie, giving the movie "a parallel to real life mixed race couples" (his words).
In addition to what I'm sure will be a very moving examination of interracial relationships, the movie will apparently also feature underwater crab mechs.
Gimme
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My only real memory was taking my Cree friend along to see it, and she just burst the fuck out laughing when Michelle Rodrigues shows up with her war-painted helicopter near the end, and then telling me to "never take her to a movie like that again" when it was all over.
Good times.
Oh man, there are some shots in there. That cliff!
...I should rewatch The Handmaiden, god that movie ruled
He's back! In pog form! Playing the same character again. I think? I zoned out after reading about the Tarzan child and the crab mechs.
To chat more because I am excited:
I know it's just a trailer, but it feels like he's operating in his looser, bigger, more experimental mode - closer to a Sympathy for Lady Vengeance than a Handmaiden.
I like that mode from him a lot - I have a lot of fondness for Lady Vengeance, even though it's a real messy flick. Because when those wild swings connect, they hit hard - the debate between the parents about the, shall we say, order of operations is a scene that takes up a lot of real estate in my head.
his name is James Cameron, hero of the sea!
Oh boy