Avatar Wet Cats Massacre

I'm looking forward to a proper blockbuster that isn't a superhero film. I enjoyed the first and never understood how much hate it gets.

Those blue people look weird and creepy. Hard pass from me.

Speaking of Avatar, I went to this place in Thailand that is like a toilet theme park. So you've got a really big toilet you can climb into, cave toilets, a Tarzan toilet in a treehouse, a magical land of toilets!

And they had an Avatar toilet! You walked up a rope bridge to the top of a tree, and there's a little placard explaining the concept of the Avatar sky toilet.

I didn't use it though, it was pretty smelly.

Edit: And no, I'm not making this up. aroundtravels.com/new_articles/park-amazing-amazing-toilets-toilets-thailand-suan-nai-dum.html

Having said this I didn't see it at the cinema, so didn't get the 3D experience.

It was fine for testing out my 3D plasma tv.
All I remember was they had sex by touching tails together.

I wouldn't say the 3D in it was poor, but I didn't see anything particularly better about it than any other 3D film. Or to put it another way it didn't add anything more to the experience than the 3D in any other 3D film.

Gravity is one of the exceptions to that as it is basically a theme park ride of a film and 3D lends itself well to that. I would also say Hugo worked, because it was trying to capture the magic of those early films for the contemporary viewers, as well as using it to heighten the artificial look, rather than pretending it in anyway looked life-like.

Outside of the 3D, Avatar was just nothing. I honestly can barely remember anything about it, beyond blue aliens and evil humans burning down their tree. I'm sure I will see the new one, just because I'm sure everyone will be talking about it, but can't say it is something I'm either anticipating or dreading. It will likely be fine and an acceptable way to spend 2-3 hours.

I just hope it doesn't kickstart another wave of 3D films.

Always a good time to post a Ryan Davis hot take.

I like Avatar well enough, although I remain baffled as to how it made QUITE so much money (Titanic, highest-grossing film at that point, was still at least half-a-bil above every other film ever, so if Avatar had made, like, $1.5bn or something fair enough; but $2.8bn or whatever it was? Bonkers).

I think Cam's $2bn figure is because they've spent about a billion dollars on films 2 and 3 altogether, with some of that money also serving as development for the presumed 4 and 5. But those last two only happen if the first two are a success. So I can see how it all adds up.

Frankly it's barmy that Fox rolled the dice on this in such a big way, although I can see Disney risking that kind of cash as they'll be thinking of Fortnite skins and theme parks and onesies.

“We must make £3 billion, Jake Soooly”

Yeah I can see it doing well, but not well enough. Seems like a complete act of hubris on Cameron's part. I can't believe he's still pushing 3D, it's totally shit.

I mean, M Night only made one Sixth Sense and everyone knows "I see dead people"

Consider how quotable his Terminator and Aliens films are, how memorable The Abyss or Titanic. Avatar’s claim to fame is that it made people want to kill themselves because humans are so ugly. And because shit movies are so successful sometimes.

I've got my 3D ticket booked but expect to enjoy it as much as the original, which is not at all but the 3D visuals will be good.

I've not liked a Cameron movie since True Lies and I say that as someone who has Aliens as his favourite film.

True Lies is great, his output since then not so much. However as that's currently only two movies (until next week) that's not saying a lot. In an alternate universe Cameron didn't make Avatar but a fuckton of other great films instead, I'd prefer to be in that one.