Comments on: James Cameron says Avatar 4 is a prequel to Avatar, does not want people comparing it to Star Wars

By: benher

benher — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:24:00 +0000

I can honestly say, your life is 178 minutes more enriched than mine.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:17:00 +0000

Game Over, man! GAME OVER!!!!!

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:53:00 +0000

”Dances With Smurfs”

By: SumAnon

SumAnon — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:42:00 +0000

I lol’d.

By: Ryan Lenethen

Ryan Lenethen — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:47:00 +0000

He should read “Old Man’s War” and do that instead. Its basically the same technological premis, but with a story a bit more complex than Disney’s Pocahontas .

By: Commodore Crush

Commodore Crush — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:47:00 +0000

I would much rather see a prequel to The Abyss, or for that matter a sequel.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0000

I want Battle Angel, screw those blue kittehs.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:49:00 +0000

I believe he’s referencing a movement where people ignore certain cultural artifacts and act as if they simply don’t exist

By: marilove

marilove — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:37:00 +0000

I’ve never seen the original. I OWN the original. My dad bought the DVD for me. The last time my niece and nephew visited, they watched it, and I read a book.

I don’t know. It’s just so … Avatar.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:18:00 +0000

Meh. Wake me when he makes a hardcore VR sex game involving large, attractive, blue aliens.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:16:00 +0000

You’re thinking of “Get Short Circuit”.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:34:00 +0000

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/oops-family-moves-cross-country-for-non-existent-digital-domain-job.html/

By: Petzl

Petzl — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:10:00 +0000

Sam Worthington created such a nuanced and complex character — are 3 prequels really enough to explore where he had come to by the first Avatar movie?

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:54:00 +0000

Jamie, now that Frank Miller’s graphic novel is in the can, is there any truth to the persistent rumors that Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct the much-anticipated Avatar reboot?

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:39:00 +0000

The movie was way too long.

They talked until they were blue in the face.

By: Carver

Carver — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:49:00 +0000

I wonder what movies he’ll steal the plot from next.

By: ujin

ujin — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:19:00 +0000

Hipster Kitty? Hipster Kitty is that you?

By: Sekino

Sekino — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:08:00 +0000

Yeah, I was happy when I first heard about Last Order. But upon reading the first couple volumes, I found it looked and felt so different that the contrast was a bit jarring (I found the character design was so altered it looked almost like the work of a different artist). Instead, it felt more like a spinoff to me.

I’m probably going to pick it up again at some point and appreciate it on its own merit- without trying too hard to mesh the old and new- since Kishiro is an awesome artist and I’m sure I’ve been missing out on some interesting stuff..

By: disillusion

disillusion — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:04:00 +0000

That’s something I hated too, they completely changed her name just so it would “fit” with a Western audience, though I think the name was actually supposed to be “Gary” and not “Gally” and they screwed up the romanization of it, which could cause problems elsewhere. It is specifically mentioned that she’s named after a male cat.

By: disillusion

disillusion — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:01:00 +0000

You know Gunnm Last Order is like an alternate ending to it with a continuation right? So far Last Order is going for longer than the original series. That said, it is a shame the ending for the first one was rushed and doesn’t meld well with the beginning of the continuation.

Sadly though, I’m actually hoping he focuses more on Avatar so there’s a lower chance of us getting to see the inevitable disaster that will be a Gunnm/Battle Angel movie. But then he could prove me wrong.

By: Dewey Buds

Dewey Buds — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:57:00 +0000

lol you didn’t read the article did you? did you!?

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:49:00 +0000

WTF? You’re saying he must be Cameron’s personal stooge just because he disagrees with you? Solid reasoning there.

By: Matthijs Smith

Matthijs Smith — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:18:00 +0000

People are inevitably going to compare Avatar to Star Wars, because Avatar IS Star Wars: science and magic blended together, served up with special effects that revolutionize the industry and sell a boatload of tickets, all tied together by really stupid writing.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:09:00 +0000

I was so disappointed when I heard that the sequels to Avatar would be all about Pandora.

Because it’s called Avatar, not Pandora, and the idea of the Avatars is a far more beautiful concept than the Na’vi Dances With Wolves story that’s getting the sequels. You could hang all SORTS of stories, by focusing on using the Avatar interface on OTHER alien worlds… imagine a taut spy thriller as a man’s forced to go undercover on an alien world (maybe jumping through several different bodies) to steal some kind of technology or destabilize their government or even diplomacy, for example, maybe they’re a Star Trek type “Federation” of generally peaceful and cooperative alien races and we risk screwing them over, or maybe they’re a hi-tech but byzantine society like Iain Banks The Player of Games (we know Cameron has no qualms about stealing ideas!) with a serious dark side, or maybe there are multiple factions in conflict on the planet and Earth wants one to prosper, despite that it’s not the best one. All of those ideas, and many more, might interest me, and probably far more than “Let’s go back to Pandora.”

You made a billion dollar movie. You’ve earned some cache and name recognition and people are going to follow you to your next movie no matter what. Instead of using it on “The exact same movie, part 2!”, use it to get a little experimental!

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:00:00 +0000

You all are being awful hard on the Beav. As pop culture bubblegum goes, I thought watching Avatar in 3D was pretty thrilling, mostly.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:56:00 +0000

But the problem with a lot of the “greats” now is the fact they are looking to tell some epic story. That’s not what got most of them to the status where they are now, and frankly they kind of suck at it.

I want the James Cameron from Aliens…lots of aliens, space marines, guns, more guns, and some great over acting. That’s what I want from Cameron, an updated and better CGI version of Aliens. < Now I'd pay to see that in the theater.

By: lorq

lorq — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Whereas he apparently is in desperate need of your personal help in defending himself against them.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Agreed. The movie was way too long.

-Sending a flying military base to bombard a giant tree at point blank range….not just launching a couple of small nukes from your nice secure base and ending the movie right there.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:51:00 +0000

It, like Titanic before it, was an eyeful on a big screen. Sheer spectacle. Doesn't really work for repeated viewings (or viewings on smaller displays) due to a clunktastic and endlessly derivative script. Like Rastronomicals above mentions, it's a world that would be worth revisiting with a talented screenwriter onboard. Otherwise, it'll be another empty spectacle, only derivative of Avatar this time, for the love of Mike.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:49:00 +0000

Seriously Ridley should just hand over the Prometheus sequel to Cameron.

It’s be just like Alien vs. Aliens.

This time I’d get to see a lot more proto aliens and people dying.
(and by god there better be a Hudson like character.)