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James Cameron announces all shooting on Avatar 2 is complete. Avatar 3 95% done.
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If it's timed to be the first big movie post vaccine it absolutely has the chance to be the biggest movie ever
Marvel movies were never as good as T1, Aliens, The Abyss or T2. That's why.
Avatar was fine. Gorgeous to look it, the 3D was exceptionally well done, it was good. I remember reading all the blurbs about people being depressed because they couldn't live on Pandora, the huge box office and repeat business it got, and I kind of envied people who loved it that much. For me it was a disposable blockbuster and I haven't really thought about it since the fuss over the 3D blu ray being exclusive to a certain electronics brand had died down.
James Cameron releasing a big budget action movie will get me to check it out, whatever it was, the fact it's an Avatar sequel is pretty much incidental. It's weird that something as huge as Avatar left so little impression on me. I bought the 3D blu ray, watched it once, and haven't watched it since. It's sat on my shelf right now, just zero desire to bother watching it again.
James Cameron releasing a big budget action movie will get me to check it out, whatever it was, the fact it's an Avatar sequel is pretty much incidental. It's weird that something as huge as Avatar left so little impression on me. I bought the 3D blu ray, watched it once, and haven't watched it since. It's sat on my shelf right now, just zero desire to bother watching it again.
I never personally liked the movie, but I'd agree with all of this. There's no denying what a master craftsmen he is on a number of levels. Virtually every shot is eye catching.
huh? i was trying to be funny, because its been such a long time and the movie really doesnt have any iconic or even memorable characters. a joke probably made a thousand times already lol, but yea sorry didnt mean to be a dick.
i mean if you read past that you'll see i wasn't shitting on the franchise particularly aggressively... in fact i'll bet the sequels will be just fine, hell, they might even turn out great. who knows? like i said i'm open-minded.
I made a terrible mistake bumping this thread lmao
Just wanted to share the photo of Edie Falco and Kevin Dorman
Just wanted to share the photo of Edie Falco and Kevin Dorman
Well hey, I'm sorry you had to be the butt of my pent up frustration with everyone who says what you said but unironically. If I could sort of... spread my comment evenly across all users it's meant for, instead of just you, I would lol
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JC looking to be crowned king of the world for the third time
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Yep. So both Avatar 2&3 are now wrapped for capture and live action shooting. AFAIK, they've also made a decent dent in Avatar 4 as well.
Damn, the king may actually get to see this thing through to the end 🙏
Any news on 4k HDR version of Avatar? Want to re-watch and surprised that this versions hasn't been release yet
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I don't think the movie was mastered in 4K. I think it was 2k.
There's a universe out there were I've already seen Avatar 2... feels bad man.
This is correct, as far as I know. Until recently it was very rare for effects heavy films to be mastered in 4K. 2K is much more budget conscious, and nobody really notices.
I mean, Disney released a 4K UHD for AotC and that was mastered in what, 1080p?
Weren't the prequels shot on film or am I misremembering?
No, only TPM was, though it had some digital shots as well. AtoC and RotS were completely digital, and George was a huge part of the widespread adoption of digital photography in cinema.
The sequels were shot on a mix of film and digital, but were primarily film.
I believe both the of the Star Wars Story films were digital.
TPM was shot on 35mm film with 1 test scene being shot on one of the first digital HDCAM prototypes (the blood, midichlorian scene)
AOTC was fully shot on digital with F900 Panavision cameras, apparently the resolution on tape (for action scenes) was compressed 3:1 1440x1080 and I remember George's producer bragging about the fact that you could still zoom into the image for further shot manipulation.
I think ILM hated pulling greenscreen keys from this footage, at least that is what I heard.
ROTS was 4:4:4 1080p on Sony HDC-F950 Cameras.
In terms of CGI, even ROTS was basically 1-2 years before PBR was really a thing.
So that is the main reason AOTC feels like it looks "cheap". It was still pretty much "too early" to shoot fully digital, the compositing suffered and the CGI was not done with PBR workflows.
Yeah. For instance I don't know of any CGI animated movies that haven't been rendered at 2K.
That of course doesn't stop Disney from releasing their shit in UHD. :p
LOL that means it was shot without any compression in R, G, B channels. makes it much easier to do nice post-processing magic with it. AOTC did not have that yet, it had chroma compression.
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