Oh god no

[Hand of Evil]

Umm, a couple of things here: Just because you can does not mean you should, number of dollars spent does not necessarily indicate quality.

Agree, not saying it should be done, just that I don't think we are qualified to know better in this case, I have not made two movies that have made billions. James Cameron has not disappointed me in a movie.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

There's another sequel in the works where the blue people stand by the side of a highway and some gov't folks throw some litter out. The blue people cry. It's hella sad, yo.

I'd watch that. It sounds intense.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't smell a flop. I smell a high powered marketing campaign and another couple billion dollar grossing movies.

I smell disappointing returns. I don't think that the financial success of the original Avatar movie will translate into a franchise. There isn't a lot of tie-in merchandise, for example. Nor is there much demand for any, as near as I can tell. I don't see a bunch of sites that sit around talking about Avatar related trivia. I don't see that there's a community of "Avataries" that match, say Star Wars fandom, or Harry Potter fandom, or Star Trek fandom, or anything like that.

I could be wrong, but this seems like exactly the kind of wrong-headed Hollywood thinking that led to the production of, say Ghostbusters 2 or The Lion King 2½, not the kind of thinking that led to The Empire Strikes Back.

I got more of a Fern Gully vibe from it myself.

In any case, clearly the plot wasn't the engaging part of the movie. And the spectacle is more of a novelty thing the first time around, not something that I believe you can repeat.

 

[Desdichado]

Agree, not saying it should be done, just that I don't think we are qualified to know better in this case, I have not made two movies that have made billions. James Cameron has not disappointed me in a movie.

He's disappointed me plenty. Heck, I haven't loved anything he's done other than Aliens and the Terminators. Everything else has been "meh" at best.

And just because Titanic and Avatar made a big ole pile of money doesn't mean that everything he's touched as turned to gold. The Abyss barely squeeked its way into profitability. He won a Razzie for the screenplay of Rambo 2. And he hasn't done anything in years.

I don't think that there's any reason to assume that he's got what it takes, especially with a concept that seems iffy to begin with.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

Agree, not saying it should be done, just that I don't think we are qualified to know better in this case, I have not made two movies that have made billions. James Cameron has not disappointed me in a movie.

But he's disappointed me and, again, it doesn't really matter how much money his movies have made. At all. A massive group of people seeing something doesn't mean it's good.

 

[WayneLigon]

Really loved the first one, and I'm interested to see what he does next with the whole thing. I'd also like to see some prequel stuff set back on Earth.

 

[Dog Moon]

I did not like the first one and will not be watching the second one.

I would prefer it to be an Avatar the Last Airbender movie and would rather watch a second one of those even though I didn't like the first one of those very much either. However, for the chance the see my favorite character in the show, Toff, I would like to see a second one... but sadly I doubt it would be much better than the first one, even with her inclusion.

Toff: "I see it!"

Others: "What? Where?"

Toff: "That's what it will sound like when one of you sees it. Blind, remember?" as she waves her hand in front of her face.