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Me neither, 10 years to make a CGI film?
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I just can't connect with obviously CGI characters. Some day, they will work. And, you can have them as secondary characters now. But, a whole movie with CGI characters? I just don't think it works.
shareYou can't connect with CGI characters? You must've not watched a lot of cartoons as a kid then. Don't tell me you are one of those that can't connect with a character because they aren't the same skin color as you either or even gender. Oh, come on. I'm a mix of white/Native American, and one of my childhood heroes was Captain Steven Hiller from Independence Day aka Will Smith's character. Plus I enjoyed Kenan & Kel and Fresh Prince. I didn't need the character to be white, Native American, and/or even male to identify/connect with and stuff (I watched a bunch of stuff with female characters as well when I was a kid). So I don't want to hear you can't connect with a CGI character. Now, if someone was talking about wanting to bang or wanting to date a CGI/cartoon/animated character, then there would be some issues.
shareHe didn't say he couldn't connect with characters of other races, or female characters. He said he couldn't connect with characters that are presented in the film as real, but are actually just computer-generated fakes.
shareEverything's always about race. :-P I know it's tough to pay attention when you just read your own biases into anything anyone else writes, but these CGI 1's and 0's are supposed to be real. But, they look animated. Just make an animated movie and it would be better. Animated films are beautiful. This isn't. I'm sorry that someone else's opinion damages you so. :-)
shareNeither do I.
It's been done once and was all very impressive, but I find Avatar to not be very watchable, and tiring in fact.
We know as an existing audience what to expect now and it looks like just more of the same, involving a lot of water. Do we really care about a new threat and see how the save themselves, or end up with a cliffhanger for a third film?
Cameron and studios must be banking on a whole new audience who has grown up not really knowing the first one getting caught up in new hype and wanting to go see it because their parents or older siblings saw the first one. As well as a group of people who genuinely can't wait to see an actual sequel.
I think it'd have to return 3 or 4 times the approx. $400m in production cost for studios to be happy with the time it took to arrive.