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Some more teasing from Cameron

Oh dear, more anvils.

May I offer you an umbrella good sir?

I still say the movie should open with a bang....specifically of the nuclear kind, then a 15-20 year time skip, sure it would feel like a reboot, but hey maybe they can do something with that.

Also am I the only one who thinks the Pandoran ocean could lead to some accidental nightmare fuel of a horrific kind?

edited 19th Oct '11 11:15:25 AM by syvaris

Anything that saves us from seeing Sam Worthington "act" is a good idea.

I actually liked the first film, but I hope they're a bit more subtle about the whole "humans are bad" and "pollution is wrong" thing.

Other than that, looking forward to this. Should be something nice to look at, at the very least.

edited 21st Oct '11 6:00:49 AM by BaleFire

Regardless of how negative I sound I too enjoyed the original(ducks shoes), as long as they tighten the story up I will be very happy.

All I really know is that I think I would have enjoyed the first a hell of a lot more if it was perhaps at least a half hour shorter. So, as long as the sequel is shorter, I could care less about the plot—I am guaranteed to enjoy it more.

Looks like we're getting THREE sequels....

Staying as far away from this as the internet will allow me to.

Quality aside, this is kind of unprecedented. Three TITANIC budgeted films shot at the same time?

(Pun totally intended.)

edited 26th Jun '12 7:59:22 PM by DirectorCannon

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

So he's making Back to the Future Parts II and III I see.

edited 26th Jun '12 11:09:53 PM by 0dd1

The guy with the submarine that helps in oil spills and reaches record depths and did Titanic said from launch day the sequel would be about oceans, making most complaints up to page 3 are invalid.

Who says a sequel must be linear, or involve the same people? A new story in the general area could be anything. The floating mountains were a highlight of the film, not being one to care about how they don't work, seeing more of the setting sounds good. My issue with the plot was that there was too much idiocy, mostly on the part of Jake Sully. He was established as an idiot from the start but it was still painful, he took too long to show us he's also a marine.

The best monsters where the banshees and Toruk. Unlike most I didn't have much problem with the wildlife resembling Earth's. They at least had different hide textures, sizes, limbs, eyes and such to give off a kind of alien feel but I hope the sequel does better in that regard. The Na'avi could have done with extra limbs, eyes or something. There were plenty of less fingers and foot hand gags missed.

I actually didn't mind the first film. It wasn't the best or most original movie I've ever seen but I was entertained while I watched it.

I will say that Cameron has some things that desperately need to be fixed. The main problem I had with Avatar was that it didn't have a very interesting story. The world was interesting and beautiful but there wasn't a story that made me care about it.

If they fix that then I can see this being very good.

Sigourney Weaver, and probably others, are already signed up for the sequels, so it's nigh-guaranteed that it's going to be about the same people to some degree.

edited 27th Jun '12 12:58:49 PM by Yej

One confirmed, one hinting. Okay? Flashbacks, cameos, and lime lights can all be used while not basing the story around them. Not to mention the actors may not all be reprising the same roles or may be the same characters but reincarnated into different forms.

edited 29th Jun '12 8:08:43 AM by Cider

I still think killing Jake would be for the best.

I think Cameron needs to seriously dial back the incredibly grating preachiness of the film and needs to stop acting like all humans are bastards while the Na'vi are all pure untouchable creatures who are so perfectly in tune with nature and we are horrible irredeemable pricks.

I don't even care about the lack of originality, it was the generally, poorly handled anviliciousness of the film that made me dislike it so much.

I just hope that the ocean features features flying piranhas.

Piranhas in 3-D? No one would watch that!

You know I kind of want one of these movies to be straight up xenofiction. No humans, just two Na'vi tribes fighting each other for some reason. I know this will never happen but I would be interested in that movie.

edited 28th Jun '12 11:44:21 AM by Kostya

That would be infinitely more interesting than the first movie's plot of "Pocahontas in space". I just want a better plot.

I want that and better acting.

Making all of them aliens would at least mean that I wouldn't have to have "Humans are irredeemable bastards" shoved down my throat. Plus it might force Cameron to have to humanise the Na'vi since making an alien race as evil as the humans were next to the pure Na'vi would look incredibly cheesy (not that it wasn't already cheesy with the humans but at least the human characters like Quaritch or Augustine were entertaining)

How was humans are irredeemable bastards shoved down your throat? It was an executive and a bitter ex soldier turned mercenary who were bastards. They even had some redeeming qualities.

The boss admitted he wasn't into killing smurfs, he just really liked money. The "colonel" was convinced the Smurfs were going to kill everyone if they weren't killed first but was willing to let Jake Sully try diplomacy. That didn't work because Jake is an idiot. The events of the movie are as much to blame on Jake as anyone. The reason he's the better guy is because he's not out to destroy someone's way of life. But now you see why Gray And Grey and Black-and-Gray Morality are so rare in California films, audiences apparently don't take too well.

edited 29th Jun '12 8:22:34 AM by Cider