Avatar 4 not on the cards?
Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 are pressing ahead. Avatar 4 appears to have dropped off the schedule, though...
Considering that Avatar, by distance, is the biggest film of all time at the worldwide box office, we still don't detect an awful lot of enthusiasm for the planned sequels. That might just be how we're reading things (and we have mentioned this before), but whenever we pen a story about the Avatar follow-ups, the response we get tends to be alone the lines of 'the first one wasn't actually that special'. Or less kind words.
We'd wager right now though that Avatar 2 will nonetheless be a sizeable hit, when James Cameron brings it to cinemas in 2014. And heck, we'd also suggest that Avatar 3 won't be doing shabby business either, when it turns up the year after.
We'll be a bit more cautious with our cash where Avatar 4 is concerned, though. The film was mentioned by James Cameron earlier in the year, but producer Jon Landau appears to have nixed the idea for the time being.
He told Courier Post that "we are doing two back-to-back, but not a third". That goes back to the original plan for the Avatar sequels, and while it doesn't rule out Avatar 4 entirely, it makes it a lot less likely.
More on the story, here. We'll just have to make do with two Avatar sequels for the time being...
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I enjoyed the first even on repeated viewings. I would even visit the cinema for them. It wasnt brilliant but very enjoyable.
Avatar was certainly a visually impressive film, but from a storyline and character perspective it was bland and derivative.
Avatar is a f**king terrible fim. Rewatched it on DVD few nights ago,it really doesn't stand up to repeat viewing
Yet you still took the time to rewatch it (and possibly bought the dvd). I wouldnt do that for a movie I found boring let alone f**king terrible
Yet you still rewatched it. I wouldn't do that for a movie I found boring let alone one I hated
Ironicaly I found the film's characters very 2-dimensional
I got 2/3 of the way through and turned it off. It was tedious and dull. Maybe I should have seen it at the cinema to get the 'wow' factor, but that says something about the movie in it's self. It relied on the 3D 'Wow', and doesn't hold up as a story at all.
"It’s a general rule of geek snobbery that crappiness can be forgiven, but popularity cannot."
Lore Sjöberg
Avatar is visually an absolute stunning film, the colours, the landscape you name it. Story wise, not so brilliant, although i have seen an awful lot worse and still enjoyed the movie itself. However when i think of Avatar sequels i just think....."Oh No!" not sure i will see them in the cinema, may wait till DVD release....depending on reviews of course.
Right. I figure the script can only get better, though...
You would think that, but considering the fact that Cameron is now well and truly into his self-righteous, tree-hugging state of mind, I wouldn't bet on it! I would sure love to read the original 80-page treatment he wrote back in 1994, I bet it wasn't nearly as hippy-dippy as the eventual film, his wife is an environmentalist extremist, so he probably gets all the save-the-trees nonsense from her...
I watched 'Avatar' on Film4 recently, turned it off before the end, simply couldn't watch any more, and I'm a big fan of Cameron's work (mostly), but 'Avatar' is easily his worst film to date, the man's ego has gone supernova, and he seems to think he's doing the world some great charitable service by making films about big CGI blue aliens, gimme a break... a visually stunning film, to be sure, but with a lackluster and cliche-ridden script, the most annoying alien race in film history (I was cheering for the marines to just genocide the whole lot o' them!), not to mention ridiculously heavy-handed environmentalist claptrap preaching of the highest order... a pity, 'cause I was really looking forward to this film throughout 2009, but gave it a wide berth on it's release, looks like my instincts were right, 'nuff said.
Yawn! More blue things being lovely to each other, and boring bad guys saying bad racist things about blue people...I can't wait for your next installation Mr. Cameron (sarcasm). Just more flashing lights...smoke and mirrors etc. Take your time Cameron! Take about 50 years! Hopefully I'll be long gone by then, and I'm quite sure they don't have Multiplexes in the afterlife.
The odds are on to it being another big hit, but it will forever be the prime example of "style over content".