There’s a more detectable nostalgia for Top Gun though, and people love Tom Cruise. Even on a basic meme level the original lives on, feels like it has a cultural footprint far more pronounced than Avatar.
I’ve been another one who’s been a bit taken aback by people seemingly desperate for this commenting everywhere (to the extent that I assumed loads of them were bots).
I think the whole ‘cultural footprint’ thing for Avatar isn’t too relevant, the first film made almost $3 billion and I think that and Top Gun Maverick show if you give people A+ action and/or something they’ve never really seen before in a film you can rake it in (I don’t expect this sequel to do nearly as well as the first one but it sounds like it’s got enough wow factor there to give it a chance of big box office again)
Not sure how I feel about being in a dark room full of people where I might need to get up and wee then find my seat again on shrooms.
I can only speak for myself but I’m always keen to see a James Cameron film, and I’m always interested in films that use unusual formats. So a HFR 3D james cameron movie was always going to be my bag. and as @greenfinch says it really does look incredible. Conversely, its rewatch value once it leaves the cinema is going to be zero.
This tweet from May sums it up really:
The old man’s lost his mind.
The trick is to take just the right amount
Glad to also join the ‘Avatar 2 is good’ gang.
Rewatched the first at home last weekend and thought it was worse than my memory of it. Expectations were low going in today.
It’s too long and that middle hour is tough but it looks spectacular throughout and that final hour is proper ‘now this is cinema stuff’. Loved how it was a real ‘greatest hits’ of past Cameron films.
I don’t care for Spider
They should put Titanic back on Disney Plus.
I loved the crabs
Also the new style mechs are cool AF
Thought it was cool the whales had tattoes and were pacifists apart from the absolutely hardcore one who got his revenge.
Makes a massive difference that Disney owns it now.
Otherwise I’d guess they’d have arranged an MCU tentpole or Disney one for the same period
Queen
That’s the best line in the trailer and it’s not even in the film!
Just saw it and I have to say it’s really good. Considering I wasn’t at all fussed about seeing it a few days ago but I rewatched the first one at the weekend and found it very enjoyable, I had a great time with that. It held my attention for its whole run time, which doesn’t happen much nowadays, and I had a great time.
As others have said it looks amazing and the action is so well directed. Unsurprisingly* some Aliens and even Titanic vibes in some scenes.
*This did actually surprise me watching the first film as to how much the military scenes reminded me of Aliens although being Cameron it shouldn’t have
Avatar?
No thanks, I already have Satantango, that’s enough
