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    8 months ago

    Made three out of the top four grossing movies of all time.

    I don’t really like any of them, but you can’t argue with the results. The man knows how to put bums on cinema seats.

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    Pros: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie with modern fx.

    Cons: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie, with ancient overdone tropes, including the racist ones.

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    I’ve always called bullshit on the second movie making that much damn money. There’s no way. Not nearly that many people cared about it at all, I seriously think somebody faked that attendance.

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      The franchise is huge in China. Just because your group didn’t like it doesn’t mean they are faking anything

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        Im apparently the only person on the face of mother earth who genuinely liked the first movie… I did, no really. But the second one literally had nothing of interest in it. It looked the same, sounded the same, had the same characters and all that, but the movie when nowhere for 3 hours. I dont think I can ever sit through it again.

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      Bravely bold James Cameron

      Rode forth from Hollywood.

      He was not afraid to fail,

      Oh brave James Cameron.

      He was not at all afraid

      To flop in nasty ways.

      Brave, brave, brave, brave James Cameron.

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    He can’t keep getting away with it!

    I feel like there was a good movie in Avatar 2 but a lot of the scenes looked like they didn’t render them fully. The FPS changes felt random. If they’d done ALL action in 48 and ALL dialogue in 24 it wouldn’t have been as bad.

    The scenes of the kids rescuing the parents were so gorgeous. Stunning. But compare that to the scene of the boat jumping and crashing? Insane how shitty it looked.

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    I’m assuming the sequel is also forgettable considering that I’ve barely heard a thing about the plot.

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      The sequel is literally “the exact same movie as the first one, but this time with water (and bonus animal cruelty)”

      I actually enjoyed the first one, but the second movie added nothing of value and cheapened everything that happened in the first one (in that literally no one gives a shit about unobtanium anymore)

      Edit: Curious as to what the downvoters are taking issue with about my comment. Nothing wrong with liking the movie, but you have to admit the plot was basically identical to the first one, just with new characters and a different setting