May 11, 20224 yr Even after all of this time, I'm uncertain whether I actually liked the first Avatar, and I'm getting no feelings one way or the other over this sequel.... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 11, 20224 yr I enjoyed Avatar, and I would have said that another movie with James Cameron at the helm should inspire confidence........but then I remembered Terminator Dark Fate. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
May 11, 20224 yr 2 hours ago, HiFlyer said: Even after all of this time, I'm uncertain whether I actually liked the first Avatar, and I'm getting no feelings one way or the other over this sequel.... Me too. It was technically impressive, but it was a bit too overblown with its own sense of heavy-handy, tree-hugger preachy self-importance to really like. At times Avatar is a bit like 'James Cameron's greatest hits' too, what with the 'Aliens' style hardware, the Ripley-esque fight with the mech suit bad guy, the 'evil corporation', the casting of the troops being very similar to the Colonial Marines in Aliens, etc. Not that this is terrible of course, Aliens is a kickass movie and the vast majority of Jim Cameron's films and their production design are better than other films, but these production theme similarities did sort of leap off the screen a bit with Avatar. I was vaguely involved in Avatar's production via some FX training I presented for some of its production people (When I answered the phone at work, and the guy on the other end introduced himself as James Cameron, at first I thought it might have been one of my mates taking the mickey, but it turned out it really was him). Avatar was one of the first movies to shift almost all of its post production, and some of its on-set production services to Adobe's Creative Suite, which is what I was training people on. This is because Jim Cameron, like David Fincher, is a big fan of Adobe's stuff, hence me doing that training. They stopped short of doing the final NLE edit of Avatar in Premiere Pro though and did it in Final Cut as was pretty common at the time, but everything else prior to that NLE process was Adobe CS where they made use of a lot of the integration for the VFX, so I'd be interested to know it this one went all the way and used Premiere for the final edit as well because Premiere Pro would certainly be capable of doing that these days. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
May 11, 20224 yr Author 3 hours ago, HiFlyer said: Even after all of this time, I'm uncertain whether I actually liked the first Avatar, and I'm getting no feelings one way or the other over this sequel.... Why does that not suprise me. You are going to have to like something sooner or later or cat points may be deducted. 😁
May 11, 20224 yr Author 1 hour ago, Christopher Low said: I enjoyed Avatar, and I would have said that another movie with James Cameron at the helm should inspire confidence........but then I remembered Terminator Dark Fate. Me too Chris. 👍 There are some negative people around here. You should join my campaign for positivity. There are special cat points for members.
May 22, 20224 yr I am a big 3D fan, have lots of paraphernalia, old tech and new. I never saw the original Avatar, the only 3D movie I remember avoiding. It seemed to me just an anti industrial political propaganda flick. As was Dino de Laurentiss 1976 remake of King Kong. I prefer non political 'no message' films like Peter Jackson's 2006 remake of King Kong and his Lord of the Rings. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
May 22, 20224 yr Moderator I’ve never even seen the first one 😂 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 22, 20224 yr Cameron bought a large chunk of NZ's North Island, and played right through the Covid 19 pandemic.. Gossip is he shot Avatar 2, 3, and 4 in one hit. Whatever your opinion of the storylines, he has a way with his audience
May 23, 20224 yr I liked the first Avatar for one reason only: Colonel Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang. He was brilliant and I was rooting for him all the way although I knew as soon as he appeared that he would be killed off. Lang really had fun playing him and Quaritch is now one of my fav movie characters. Edited May 23, 20224 yr by ThrottleUp
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