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Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

Chronicles posted:

Robocop 2 is perfect as is

there can always be more cgi and explosions.

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Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Cranappleberry posted:

there can always be more cgi and explosions.

gently caress you, Michael Bay.

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005


SolarFire2 posted:

Why doesn't Quaritch shoot a hostage the second Jake and Neytiri start killing his guys?

All actual evil actions are laundered onto his disposable nameless henchmen in preparation for Quaritch going babyface.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
In Avatar 2 the entire reason the space marines are trying to capture Sully is because he's a Chief and leading a rebellion. But as soon as his family is threatened he abdicates and goes into hiding. The marines find this out and they STILL go chase after him.

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
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and you are
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Illegal Hen
Quaritch has a personal beef with Sully so I can see it being a personal vendetta.

Also just because Sully abdicated his position doesn't mean he's not influential. Even with the time passed the RDA still considers him Public Enemy Number One.

Jake Sully is more or less the Osama Bin Laden to the RDA.

Moofia Boss Val
May 14, 2021

What the RDA knew is that Jake betrayed them, then rallied together the Na'vi clans and told them about the RDA's vulnerabilities, which led to devastating casualties. The RDA was only barely managing to win when Ewya sent the wildlife after them. Then in the second movie, Jake seemingly goes a long distance. For all the RDA knows he could have been travelling far to recover some secret weapon or relic from a cache, or rallying more support. The RDA had no way of knowing that Jake abandoned the fight against them.

Finger Prince
Jan 5, 2007


That's a lot of back story cut from whole cloth. It really isn't any deeper than "bad guy holds grudge".

Rockos Modern Bask
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

I mean the realization at the end that jakeskully has is that he can't run from this and they will hunt down and kill his family regardless of what he does, and ended up taking his eldest from him to hammer the point home.

Moofia Boss Val
May 14, 2021

Sounds like the third movie has been retitled as "Fire and Ash". In Cameron's outline for the sequels, he had the third movie labelled as "The Seed Bearer". My guess is that after how disappointing it was that the second movie rehashed the aesthetics of the first movie, they're really trying to play up how 3 is going to have lots of new things to see.



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Cool shot. Looks like we are in for cool dragon vs dragon aerial combat? Only other instance in movies I can think of was the start of Eragon but you only saw that for 10 seconds.

The guy on the left has a rocket launcher. Seems like these Na'vi have allied with the RDA, as expected. Seems to be unclear whether or not this taking place in Ash tribe territory, or if they are invading the tropics.

Moofia Boss Val fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Aug 10, 2024

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

I'm glad we're finally getting to the volcano level, although I already hate the damage-over-time mechanic it has!

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008

Mierenneuker posted:

I'm glad we're finally getting to the volcano level, although I already hate the damage-over-time mechanic it has!

Can't wait for Avatar 4: The Swamp Level with guest producer Hidetaka Miyazaki.

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten
The movie where the Na’vi go to Earth is the sewer level then?

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I feel like if the Navi invent high-flying airships, they really need to invent shirts at some point. It gets cold up there, and they got no insulation on their bodies at all.

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


I love the first two movies and I am looking forward to the third.

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Kart Barfunkel posted:

I love the first two movies and I am looking forward to the third.

hell yes

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


A few things I wanna point out about the concept art:

1. The woman in the fire appears to be wearing ceremonial kuru from other na’vi. Also the claw hands look cool.

2. Those big wind jellyfish pulled by the flying stingrays go all the way back to Cameron’s original concepts for his first un produced movie Xenogenesis. Can’t wait to see them.

3. Those new flying creatures look awesome. They seem to be doing the lip snarl thing the way those panthers in the first movie did. Doesn’t look like the ash people themselves cut off their own kuru, but if they do, how do they tame these beasts?

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Looking forward to the porn parody, Fire & rear end.

Moofia Boss Val
May 14, 2021

New images from D23 Brazil:



Looks like they are deliberating what to do next.




The Ash Tribe here seem to already have RDA weapons by the time they encounter Quarritch, so either they looted the ruins of Hell's Gate (the RDA base in the first movie), or the RDA has been entreating with Na'vi tribes offscreen during A2 or during A3.






I wonder if the timely arrive of these wind traders' was by accident, or if the leaders deliberated and decided to send for transportation to reach the Ash Tribe.

Moofia Boss Val
May 14, 2021

A couple days ago, a trailer for Avatar 3 was shown to theater owners at CinemaCon. Naturally it isn't in the interests of these business owners to be a snitch and leak it. Hopefully the trailer will be published online soon. The first trailer for Avatar 2 went up in early May, so maybe it is a month away at most.

We got an image of a new ship from Empire magazine:






Wow. No way the heroes with their bows and arrows and their flesh and blood mounts could defeat that through force of arms. The whale in the second movie didn't even destroy the seadragon, just damaged the deck. The seadragon was only destroyed from the inside because Spider grabbed a fire extinguisher and smashed the controls. No chance the heroes will be able to do that again, let alone repeat it for all of these ships. I am guessing the heroes will have to flee inland away from the naval motherships, but they might be dogged by the dragon gunships until they can escape their refueling range.

I am a little puzzled as to how the RDA could build such a large military force so quickly. Yeah, they introduced those little spider construction robots in the second movie that can hasten production, but the manpower that would be required to staff these ships remains limited. Not enough time has passed for human colonists to have children that could grow up to help staff the ships, and the RDA can only import so many people at a time via their spaceships. Here, we are looking at 4x Seadragons (which have... what? 100+ crewmen each?), a humongous ekranoplane carrier (thousands of people like an aircraft carrier?). Not to mention the air force in the background, and possible destroyers screening ahead dropping sound bombs to keep the whales away.

SolarFire2
Oct 16, 2001

"You're awefully cute, but unfortunately for you, you're made of meat." - Meat And Sarcasm Guy!

Moofia Boss Val posted:

A couple days ago, a trailer for Avatar 3 was shown to theater owners at CinemaCon. Naturally it isn't in the interests of these business owners to be a snitch and leak it. Hopefully the trailer will be published online soon. The first trailer for Avatar 2 went up in early May, so maybe it is a month away at most.

We got an image of a new ship from Empire magazine:






I'm glad to see the Admiral Kuznetsov is still going strong in The Future!

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Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

Nice to see that Jean Jacket is still getting work.

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


Give us a trailer, Jim.

Moofia Boss Val
May 14, 2021

A screenshot of Varang is circulating. The trailer is reportedly imminent and will debut with the new Fantastic Four movie next week.

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
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and you are
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Illegal Hen

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013

Moofia Boss Val posted:

A screenshot of Varang is circulating. The trailer is reportedly imminent and will debut with the new Fantastic Four movie next week.



Cool screen at least

Moofia Boss Val
May 14, 2021

Avatar 3 trailer is out. At least it has been uploaded in 4k right away this time unlike with the A2 trailer.

The trailer was not very well made, makes the movie look rather generic. The A2 trailer was more competently crafted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_fFj_0rq8


Jake being paraded through Bridgehead with crowds of humans there is incoherent. IIRC 13 years passed between the end of Avatar 1 when the original Hellsgate people got sent home, and when A2 takes place, and Bridgehead is a massively scaled up operation. The vast majority of Bridgehead's populace would not be made up of original Hellsgate people who saw their friends/coworkers/fellow humans get drafted and then killed by the traitor, and we haven't heard of any massive devastating A1-esque battle happening in the A2 prologue skirmishes. I would imagine most people would not have cared about some fishing boat getting wrecked. I don't think after 13 years there'd be enough people at Bridgehead with a vendetta against Jake to justify crowds this large. Unless this takes place later into the movie after Jake has led an operation that killed a massive number of humans.



Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Jake had been painted as an infamous traitor among the humans of Bridgehead for years.

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




Why don't the humans just blow up the planet and mine their dumb rocks from space while the blue monkey people float away

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


Does the whale jewelry violate the laws of Eywa?

well why not
Feb 9, 2009




Kart Barfunkel posted:

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Jake had been painted as an infamous traitor among the humans of Bridgehead for years.

He’s Bin Laden

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reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008

It's always nice to return to my sweet little ha-ha-hacienda.
the new avatar movie looks really cool

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