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It would have to an universal appeal, perhaps a story grounded by human emotions... perhaps the main theme could be something like family. Visually lets make ot a spectacle, so much so it takes everyones breath away. Add in some action for the lads and a bit of romance for the gals. We'll have ourselves a winner. Can't think if any films that will do this though...

Imagine if a film could unlock the full potential of all markets, hily crap it would make so much money. Can't think of films to come that could manage it, not of the top of my head atleast.

Well said matrix, couldn't have said it better myself.

#movement

holy crap what did I miss? How bad did it crumble?

that makes sense, thanks Tele

still don't know what being the dude entails

It had overwatch characters in the trailer, I think it's references are all of the last 40 years.

My friends say I'm like the dude, I'm not sure exactly what they're trying to say. I think it's because I'm relaxed and am hard to anger?

Hey Tommy, welcome! Just as sound and colour were are gimmicks, neither is 3D. When Hollywood uses 6 week post processed 3D for the sole purpose of grabbing, maybe then you could call it gimmick. Avatar though, that's a different story as it was filmed in native 3D for the purpose of delivering something truly beautiful and 2.78 billion dollars says it succeeded in doing so.Avatar had many more draws than 3D, it has a compelling love story and is character driven, the beautiful Pandora that took so many people's breath away (in 2D aswell!), action and science fiction. Cameron doesn't do gimmicks, he's an artisan who works to improve the craft, however if I were to name the new breakthroughs for Avatar 2 this will be my predictions. Dynamic frame rate, Jim (James Cameron) calls frame rate a tool rather than a format, he will play action scenes in higher fps. Underwater motion capture, this has never been done before and in Cameron fashion he has created a new technology to bring his vision to life, except the best underwater visuals of all time (step aside Blue Planet 2 (they used Jim's cameras anyway)).

Well atleast he's right

Hmm

I can make gifs like that, is this how you obtain ultimate power on BOT?

oh sorry I was lost... i thought this was the franchise thread sorry

I was just generalising, that's a fair criticism I prefer Titanic aswell (it's not just "good" tho lol)

So how did the preview go, they like it? Just read the last 8 pages, looks like it's a big spectacle movie that I thought it would be. Although I'll probably understand most references it's not exactly what I'm going for... I just want to enjoy the spectacle not sit there going "oh ye! i remember X", "wow is that Y"... etc So yeah this looks promising.

[Mod edit: Not the franchise wars thread]

great performance in Trumpland to be honest, doesn't get much better

The Last Jedi all over again!

Are there people who actually believe that Disney doesn't influence the critics? How naive.

I would say so! You have the rest of Jims filmography for starters 😂 I thought it was a cool landmark as only 5 other films have achieved but whatever. I guess people are seeing it as me downplaying BP... but thats not the case.

Still can't believe they killed off Hicks and Newt...

reads like it's the IMDB top 100

The exception to that I would say is Historical films, watched some Samurai films and they hold up well.