Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[IronJimbo]

1 hour ago, Deuce66 said:

 

Over 4,000,000 people have taken The Flight of Passage since it opened. Line ups are still very long. 

 

 

Where did you get this figure from?

[TomCruiseTop]

1 hour ago, Deep Wang said:

It's best to just smile and nod if they have anything Avatar/James Cameron related in their name or avi pic

11 thousand posts and doesn't recognise Kal.

[Deuce66]

16 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

Where did you get this figure from?

 

from this article - posted on Jon Laudau's FB 

 

https://www.coaster101.com/2018/12/11/what-makes-avatar-flight-of-passage-so-immersive/

 

another article digging into the tech behind the ride

 

http://vfxvoice.com/avatar-flight-of-passage-a-cinematic-multi-sensory-3d-experience-that-soars/

 

 

[Deep Wang]

16 hours ago, JamesCameronScholar said:

11 thousand posts and doesn't recognise Kal.

Well shit, would you look at that!

 

I completely skipped over his other post where he said juggernaut! 

[TomCruiseTop]

Some good news here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/dollar-ending-week-on-stronger-note-11545412658

 

Steady drops lately, I think we'll see this trend continue into 2019, hopefully the major drops come mid-2020.

[IronJimbo]

56 minutes ago, JamesCameronScholar said:

Some good news here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/dollar-ending-week-on-stronger-note-11545412658

 

Steady drops lately, I think we'll see this trend continue into 2019, hopefully the major drops come mid-2020.

You crack me up JCS.

 

If the yuan becomes a 1:1 with the dollar we can expect 20 billies.

[MrGlass2]

Will World GDP be sufficient to buy enough tickets for Avatar 5?

[Stewart]

6 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

Will World GDP be sufficient to buy enough tickets for Avatar 5?

Thinking morbidly, enough people actually have to be still alive to buy tickets... let alone have money to actually buy them!

[IronJimbo]

12 minutes ago, feasby007 said:

Thinking morbidly, enough people actually have to be still alive to buy tickets... let alone have money to actually buy them!

Avatar 2 and 3 will have already shifted the world's priotiories to the conservation of the earth through the sheer force of Jim's story telling meeting his immense visual spectacle.

[MrGlass2]

6 hours ago, feasby007 said:

Thinking morbidly, enough people actually have to be still alive to buy tickets... let alone have money to actually buy them!

Two words: repeat viewing.

[Deuce66]

15 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

Avatar 2 and 3 will have already shifted the world's priotiories to the conservation of the earth through the sheer force of Jim's story telling meeting his immense visual spectacle.

 

Crashing economies around the world and throwing billions of people into mass poverty in the process....not happening sorry. The process if there is one will be a slow creep towards change and stewardship as opposed to exploitation and consumption. You can't stop the poor masses from wanting a better life and that involves more resource use, more power, more of everything and less of the natural world. My long term vision of Earth is a lot closer to WALL-E and Blade Runner than some utopia where we suddenly are living hand in hand with nature, I can't see the latter happening, it's not in our nature. The original script for Avatar (Project 880) is even more pessimistic. 

 

 

 

 

[TomCruiseTop]

21 hours ago, MrGlass2 said:

Will World GDP be sufficient to buy enough tickets for Avatar 5?

It will all go to Jim. 

[TomCruiseTop]

Markets are 'correcting' massively today. I'll save the bragging about my shorts for the politics thread, but if this trend continues into a full blown recession then things are looking very good for Avatar 2... just as many of us hoped. 

 

Merry Christmas Folks. 

[WittyUsername]

I realize that I’m probably going to get all the crap in the world for asking this on a forum like this, but is it possible that Aquaman kind of stole at least some of this movie’s thunder? 

[Heat Vision]

29 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

I realize that I’m probably going to get all the crap in the world for asking this on a forum like this, but is it possible that Aquaman kind of stole at least some of this movie’s thunder? 

Not really. If anything it helped this film get some pointers for underwater scenes.

[Premium George]

AquaMan thunder from avatar 2 

[AniNate]

56 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

I realize that I’m probably going to get all the crap in the world for asking this on a forum like this, but is it possible that Aquaman kind of stole at least some of this movie’s thunder? 

What does that even mean? You think Avatar 2 is going to do worse because of some mediocre superhero movie with a vaguely similar art design two years before it? 

 

 

Edited December 25, 2018 by tribefan695

[WittyUsername]

5 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

What does that even mean? You think Avatar 2 is going to do worse because of some mediocre superhero movie with a vaguely similar art design two years before it? 

 

 

It means that both movies involve underwater worlds, but that since Aquaman came first, I’m wondering if this movie might (the key word being “might”) not seem as innovative as it otherwise would’ve been.

 

Also, do note that I was simply asking a question. I never made any definitive statement.

Edited December 25, 2018 by WittyUsername

[AniNate]

None of us still have a real idea what Avatar 2 will look like, so it's not a question we can answer intelligently.

[KP1025]

I think Avatar 2 will be fine. Aquaman took underwater spectacle to a whole new level, but I fully expect the underwater world of Pandora to be something entirely different and even more breathtaking. There had been a number of films that took viewers to alien planets before Avatar, but it was still revolutionary in its visuals and sense of immersion.