Amph James Cameron's Avatar (The Way of Water + sequels)

I'm not overlooking it, I merely think it goes without saying.
I mean, sure, Disney will continue to profit from its theatrical releases once they make their way to Disney+ (as will all other studios). But I assumed everyone already knows this, so no reason to point it out.

Obviously the big question will remain what goes straight to streaming and what merits a theatrical debut. Even Amazon is fidgeting with their long-standing strategy, as was shown with The Report and The Aeronauts.

Everyone is trying to see what works best. It's going to be a while before things settle down.

I enjoyed Hugo and the Jurassic Park and TPM conversions. Other than that there hasn't been much.

 

True. But a lot of that is going to ride on the ability of studios to accurately measure the value individual titles bring to their services. I mentioned in the TROS box office thread that Netflix has an algorithm that does that but it took them years of data mining to build and who knows how accurate it is. It doesn't help that they're so secretive with their viewership numbers. But it's why so many of their series get canceled after 3 seasons; the algorithm has determined that most shows start to decrease in value after their third season.

Yeah I'd say Avatar utilized it the best of any movie I've seen in 3D (which isn't a lot. I'm just not a fan of the format.). I enjoyed it enough at the time, for a relative novelty. Doctor Strange is probably a close second. That movie had some great sequences for it though.

 

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Even Avatar didn't look half as impressive as some classic 1950s movies that were filmed in early 3D, if you watch them in a revival theatre.

 

Well my first 3D movie experience was Jaws 3D. Avatar beat the pants off that one.

 

No reason to expect otherwise, the 3D being used in the 80s was mostly crap. But try to watch a 50s 3D movie, being shown with dual projectors, and it will probably be the most amazing 3D experience of your life.

 

My first in theater 3D experience was also Jaws. It confused me when the glasses were gray. Previously I had only seen The Creature from the Black Lagoon at home in 3D with the red and blue glasses.

 

I really liked the original Avatar 3D. Most of the 3D after I liked as well. I saw Rise of Skywalker in 3D but nothing jumped out at me as visually amazing in that regard.

 

sounds like quite a letdown.

 

Oh and on the subject of calculating the value of streamed content:

 

"Bob, this AI keeps punching out 'Terminator 7' over and over and over."
"Hit it with a wrench!"

 

[Heavy Austrian accent] Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!! [/Heavy Austrian accent]

 

If people haven't come back to cinemas in sufficient numbers by the time these movies open, it might be impossible for them to make their money back.
These films really depend on huge ticket sales in cinemas.

 

But that's just the thing, we don't know for a fact that there will be a vaccine. It might happen by then, or it might not, there's absolutely no way to predict it.
They still don't have a vaccine for AIDS, so there's definitely no reason to believe scientists can come up with a vaccine for every virus.

 

Whether he deserves it or not, I think Cameron will get praised for resurrecting worldwide cinema after the pandemic.

 

New Zealand, Antarctica and space. The three places we know of that does not active cases of COVID-19.

 

My apartment too! They could've filmed here

 

James Cameron and these Avatar sequels are like how Lucas was in the late-70s planning out SW films.