The game isn’t good. Triple AAA or not.
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Given that they could accelerate masses to relativistic speeds. It never made sense to me why they bothered to do anything other than shatter the planet (a Chevy engine block could do that job at those speeds) and then collect the now more readily available unobtainium from the vacuum of space with no fighting required or any loses of any kind.
They also want to colonise the planet. Can't really do that if it's in pieces.
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Technically humans are the aliens in that franchise. The blue folks are the native inhabitants.
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The first one used some crazy tech that is now regularly part of making video games. The movie itself is rather mid, IMO (I mean, it's just Fern Gully but sci-fi instead of fantasy 🤷♂️), but the stuff that went into making it is fascinating as hell.
Idk, I like the big special effects rollercoasters that James Cameron and Co. have made.
The first time he flies a banshee in the first movie is a pretty cool scene, the battle in the floating mountains was badass, and the sheer scale of everything on Pandora is incredible to see (even if it's all CGI).
The second one was still a CGI rollercoaster that was fun to watch. I liked Spider cause he was actually kinda badass. The underwater scenes were spectacular to watch and there was more world building with the water navi.
I'll be interested to see what these other new navi are like and how they fit into everything else. The trailer makes it look like they're going to partner with the RDA somehow. I kinda want to know why.
The thing that I think a lot of people forget about the first Avatar is that it was pretty much the first big blockbuster to be available with those RealD 3D glasses. I distinctly remember wanting to go see it so I could check out RealD and find out if it lived up to the hype.
Of course, it had the James Cameron name recognition, so it was probably going to be pretty successful regardless, but I don't know if it would have been quite so record-shattering if it weren’t for the novelty of RealD, combined with the higher ticket price of 3D showings.
Yeah, one of the nice things about it was that not only was it proper 3D, but it was a showcase of how 3D could and should be done. If anyone didn't watch it in 3D in the theaters, the only other option for seeing it as intended is VR now.
I'm in the camp of people that has watched it and the second one multiple times. Made sure to catch them in theater first, I rarely bother to see movies in theater. But at home I watch them in my VR theater in perfect 3D, the visuals are actually better in my setup(4k raw videofile on Virtual Desktop, tuned to the exact size and distance I want the screen to be), the sound isn't quite what a theater would do, but mostly cuz I don't actually like how "big" they go with the sound at theaters. I'd rather it feel like I'm there, than being so over the top. My audio at home doesn't have to drown out a crowd of people.
I think the whole experience in VR is better than theater, the movie presents better at a reasonable volume and soundstage.
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