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Forum Archive 2023 => dMw's Community Centre => Community Archive => Movies, Music & Books => Topic started by: Snokio on August 02, 2013, 11:42:52 AM

Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: Snokio on August 02, 2013, 11:42:52 AM
Announced today, there will be a quadrilogy by James Cameron to be released December 2016:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/01/avatar-sequels-start-in-2016/


 (http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/01/avatar-sequels-start-in-2016/)
Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: TeaLeaf on August 02, 2013, 01:17:56 PM
I sense a corporate longing for box set sales revenue.
Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: Tutonic on August 02, 2013, 01:37:05 PM
Let's hope they hire a script writer this time.
Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: smilodon on August 02, 2013, 01:51:10 PM
While Avatar 1 did grow on me with repeat viewing the story was horribly derivative. Dances with Wolves in the jungle. It's not impossible that a franchise can do something interesting with the story, Chronicles of Riddick comes to mind. However for Hollywood it's pretty unlikely :(

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Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: Penfold on August 09, 2013, 09:29:42 PM
For me it was just another reincarnation of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'. At least one of the other incarnations, Apocalypse Now, was a cracking film.


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Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: Tutonic on August 09, 2013, 09:56:29 PM
Quote from: Penfold;374097For me it was just another reincarnation of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'. At least one of the other incarnations, Apocalypse Now, was a cracking film.


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Or Dances With Wolves, or Pocahontas or etc etc.....
Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: BrotherTobious on August 09, 2013, 10:00:33 PM
It was a showcase in that here's a ton of cash do your worse

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Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: Penfold on August 10, 2013, 12:53:42 AM
I did enjoy watching it though :)
Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: T-Bag on August 11, 2013, 12:22:24 PM
I don't know how you can make 3 more films out of it. The natives weren't all that interesting. Either they'll force some back story in that will taint the original storyline which loads of "Why didn't they just use that against the humans?" questions...etc, or they'll have to have a series on unfortunate events happen. I can't see enough material for more than 1 new film personally.

I'd personally like to find out more about humans on other planets encountering other lifeforms. Having all of space to play around in gives a lot more scope, but completely neglects the "blue people" who are what everyone thinks of when they picture Avatar.
Title: Avatar 2, 3 & 4
Post by: smilodon on August 11, 2013, 06:01:42 PM
The only way I can see it working is if the Avatar technology is used in different scenarios i.e humans get to enter Avatars from different species on different worlds as you mention. This would open up all kinds of possibilities. But more stories set on Pandora would be hard to make interesting. I agree though a lot of people will just ask where are the big blue people?
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