James Cameron Says He Must Find a Cheaper Way to Produce the Avatar Movies in Order to Continue With Avatar 4 and 5 - IGN

[eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip]

Vfx cheaper. But in this article and everywhere else he does stress "if they do make one". It's clear he won't if he can't. I don't think he would use AI.

[mastod0n@lemmy.world]

It definitely sounds like that to me.

[mthomsonkiwi@piefed.social]

Would making the movies cheaper translate into cheaper ticket prices? My local is $26 a ticket now. It's ridiculous! I'm not going to see everything that comes out when it costs that much, and we've got access to streaming now.

[pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip]

If James Cameron's; Muppet Avatar: The Way of Fuzz happens, I might never watch any other movie, ever again.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

wish he would go back to making cheaper movies and working within a constraint set. his older stuff was way better.

[myrrh@ttrpg.network]

...it was the first (and one of the few) well-produced modern 3D film and mustered a plurality of its box office return on the hype surrounding that novelty...

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

And he got away again, I couldn't believe it!

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

I have an idea: cut the film length in half, remove the warfare and turn it into a nature documentary.

My mom really likes the movies, so I went with her to the cinema. I like the progress in CGI and have read their papers on water rendering a bunch of times, and I can feel myself getting immersed when things start off. They are beautiful worlds with so much creativity!

And then the warfare starts and it all turns into a CGI mess with no story value. Such a disappointment.

[ecvanalog@lemmy.world]

It’s easy to joke about, but I feel like this is a microcosm of the problems plaguing Hollywood. The notion that a franchise routinely closing in on $2B a movie at the box office is somehow not profitable speaks to how absolutely unhinged the budgets are going in.

[ftp@feddit.uk]

Wait for real?! Good thing I didn’t bother to watch 3 yet, after the end of 2 was just setting up yet another rematch.

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

Yep. Many parts of 3 were a literal repeat of 2, including whale hunting, a big showdown at the water village, and Quarritch AGAIN gets away at the end.

[sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works]

I watched it three times and enjoyed it more each time.

[sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works]

I actually think this is a great idea. Saldana did a great job though. And Worthington was fine.

Edit: nobody's showing up for Worthington though. No offense to him.

[nachbarcelona@piefed.social]

He could make blue giant dildos for merch, and simultaneously go fuck himself with one of those.

[lordmayor@piefed.social]

He could probably do a nature documentary set in that world for cheap and people would pay to see it.

It would spare us the tiresome dialog.

[janx@piefed.social]

If there's a single dollar giant corporations and billionaires don't have, they'll destroy your life to get it. That's why their limitless greed is so dangerous to everyone, it's quite literally never enough...

[simsalabim@lemmy.world]

As long as it makes as much money as it does, I think we're in the minority.

[fatvegan@leminal.space]

Everything about movies is just stupid. Napoleon dynamite cost 400k to make. Half of that money went into the jamiroquai song. Marketing for a movie costs more than a movie used to cost. A movie made 10 million dollars? Absolute failure. People like the rock get paid 50million per movie to just be there. I really hope Hollywood just collapses

[andyburke@fedia.io]

... you got me. I would certainly consider seeing that.

[iww4@lemmy.zip]

Because it is the easiest way to save monney