Four More Avatar Movies announced on April 14, 2016

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I win again. And again, and again, and again...

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6ix, you are Lucy from the Peanuts comics. A book used Lucy to illustrate a point about rationality: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/01/20

Because you don't click links, 6ix, here is the dialog:

Lucy: Look, Charlie Brown! The snow is coming up!

Charlie Brown: It’s not coming up, Lucy. It’s falling down from the sky!

Lucy: Don’t be so stupid! That’s just the wind blowing it around! It’s coming up! It’s coming right up out of the ground!

Lucy: I was right! I was right!

Charlie Brown: I better go home. My stomach is beginning to hurt.

The Peanuts comic illustrated a point in Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Download the free book from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.pet/search.php?req=Rationality+What+It+Is+Why
+It+Seems+Scarce+Why+It+Matters

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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That just may be the dumbest reply of yours to date.

I wouldn't even be replying to it if it weren't to thank you for putting out more copyrighted material for "free" and showing us how the "richest man on fff.net" doesn't pay for anything.





This is probably why Avatar 2 succeeded. It's the first movie that the Leftoid woketards cheerleaded and actually paid to see in the theaters.

Fuck James Cameron, but you've got to admire the dude's ability to get the normies AND the woketards out to see one of his films. Nobody else in Hollywood appears to have cracked that code.

Looking very much forward to his dickless and gunless, soy-fueled Terminator reboot.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

This is probably why Avatar 2 succeeded. It's the first movie that the Leftoid woketards cheerleaded and actually paid to see in the theaters.

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I saw a free copy: Avatar.The.Way.Of.Water.2022.UltraHD.HEVC.Dual.YG.mkv (13.2 GB) It is in both Spanish and English. The Spanish soundtrack is 9 out of 10, so that is what I listened to. The English soundtrack is 6/10.

James Cameron Says ‘Avatar 2’ Is Profitable and He’ll Make the Sequels

January 6, 2023 10:19am

“Avatar 3, which is already in the can – we’ve already captured and photographed the whole film so we’re in extended post-production to do all that CG magic. And then Avatar 4 and 5 are both written. We even have some of 4 in the can. We’ve begun a franchise at this point. We’ve begun a saga that can now play out over multiple films.”

Previously, Cameron made headlines by seemingly speculating that The Way of Water would have to earn at least $2 billion at the box office just to break even and justify a sequel. “To clarify, I never actually gave it a number,” Cameron said. “I said it would has to be among the highest-grossing films in history and somebody else applied that number and it got picked up. The number is actually less.”

The director also discussed the idea of his film Titanic as a metaphor for societal indifference to global warming. “The captain died with a pocket full of radio telegram warnings about ice ahead but they still steamed full tilt because they thought they could get away with it and the unthinkable wouldn’t happen – and it happened,” Cameron said. “We live in the 90 seconds between the time they saw the iceberg and when they were unable to turn.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-cameron-avat
ar-2-profitable-sequels-1235292374/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Well, good luck.

You couldn't get me to watch the free one. I've had 13 or so years to watch the first one for free and that never happened.

Maybe people are so bored of superhero flicks finally that it was actually a genius move to brake conventional wisdom and make the sequel 13 years later long after anybody usually cares.


I wish there were more young James Cameron types in Hollywood today. Not the white male apologist near-billionaire version we've got today, but the hungry perfectionist visionary that brought us the original two Alien and Terminator movies, and movies like The Abyss and Strange Days.

I won't be tuning in to see his Terminator reboot either.




At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much Avitar 2 makes. The real number is how much it makes above the costs.

Disney/FOX needs to be honest with that number. Why are they still hiding it despite the current recorded revenue?

Could it be, perhaps, that they're still worried that in the end Top Gun Maverick will still have been a much greater investment for those involved than Avatar 2 ultimately ends up being? That would be terrible news for a company that has already lost so much money in 2022 through a long string of bad movie releases and more than half of their market capital drying up in the stock market.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well, good luck.

You couldn't get me to watch the free one. I've had 13 or so years to watch the first one for free and that never happened.

Maybe people are so bored of superhero flicks finally that it was actually a genius move to brake conventional wisdom and make the sequel 13 years later long after anybody usually cares.


I wish there were more young James Cameron types in Hollywood today. Not the white male apologist near-billionaire version we've got today, but the hungry perfectionist visionary that brought us the original two Alien and Terminator movies, and movies like The Abyss and Strange Days.

I won't be tuning in to see his Terminator reboot either.




At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much Avitar 2 makes. The real number is how much it makes above the costs.

Disney/FOX needs to be honest with that number. Why are they still hiding it despite the current recorded revenue?

Could it be, perhaps, that they're still worried that in the end Top Gun Maverick will still have been a much greater investment for those involved than Avatar 2 ultimately ends up being? That would be terrible news for a company that has already lost so much money in 2022 through a long string of bad movie releases and more than half of their market capital drying up in the stock market.

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6ix, you define yourself by your resentments.

And yes, I mean “resentments” rather than “grievances.” Grievances are about things you believe you deserve, and might be diminished if you get some of what you want. Resentment is about feeling that you’re being looked down on, and can only be assuaged by hurting the people you, at some level, envy, such as Hollywood, Disney, James Cameron.

Consider the phrase (and associated sentiment), popular on the right, “owning the libs.” In context, “owning” doesn’t mean defeating progressive policies, say by repealing the Affordable Care Act. It means, instead, humiliating liberals personally — making them look weak and foolish, making their Disney movies (Avatar 2 and plain old Avatar) look like failures.

And does anyone doubt that resentment on the part of those who felt disrespected by Walt Disney and Hollywood was central to the rise of Donald Trump? Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”?

I’m not saying that the decline of manufacturing jobs in the heartland was a myth: It really did happen, and it hurt millions of Americans. But the failure of Trump’s trade wars to deliver a manufacturing revival doesn’t seem to have turned off his base. Why?

The likely answer is that Trump’s anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. (James Cameron is a Canadian. Avatar 2 was filmed in New Zealand. Disney is in California, the state viscerally hated by Trump and his voters.) “The world is laughing at us” was a consistent theme of Trump speeches, and his supporters surely imagined that the same was true of domestic globalist elites.

And I have a theory that Trump’s own underlying ludicrousness, his manifest lack of the intellectual capacity and emotional maturity to be president, was part of what endeared him to his base. You fancy liberals think you’re so smart? Well, we’ll show you, by electing someone you consider a clown!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well, good luck.

You couldn't get me to watch the free one. I've had 13 or so years to watch the first one for free and that never happened.

Maybe people are so bored of superhero flicks finally that it was actually a genius move to brake conventional wisdom and make the sequel 13 years later long after anybody usually cares.


I wish there were more young James Cameron types in Hollywood today. Not the white male apologist near-billionaire version we've got today, but the hungry perfectionist visionary that brought us the original two Alien and Terminator movies, and movies like The Abyss and Strange Days.

I won't be tuning in to see his Terminator reboot either.




At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much Avitar 2 makes. The real number is how much it makes above the costs.

Disney/FOX needs to be honest with that number. Why are they still hiding it despite the current recorded revenue?

Could it be, perhaps, that they're still worried that in the end Top Gun Maverick will still have been a much greater investment for those involved than Avatar 2 ultimately ends up being? That would be terrible news for a company that has already lost so much money in 2022 through a long string of bad movie releases and more than half of their market capital drying up in the stock market.

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6ix, you define yourself by your resentments.

And yes, I mean “resentments” rather than “grievances.” Grievances are about things you believe you deserve, and might be diminished if you get some of what you want. Resentment is about feeling that you’re being looked down on, and can only be assuaged by hurting the people you, at some level, envy, such as Hollywood, Disney, James Cameron.

Consider the phrase (and associated sentiment), popular on the right, “owning the libs.” In context, “owning” doesn’t mean defeating progressive policies, say by repealing the Affordable Care Act. It means, instead, humiliating liberals personally — making them look weak and foolish, making their Disney movies (Avatar 2 and plain old Avatar) look like failures.

And does anyone doubt that resentment on the part of those who felt disrespected by Walt Disney and Hollywood was central to the rise of Donald Trump? Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”?

I’m not saying that the decline of manufacturing jobs in the heartland was a myth: It really did happen, and it hurt millions of Americans. But the failure of Trump’s trade wars to deliver a manufacturing revival doesn’t seem to have turned off his base. Why?

The likely answer is that Trump’s anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. (James Cameron is a Canadian. Avatar 2 was filmed in New Zealand. Disney is in California, the state viscerally hated by Trump and his voters.) “The world is laughing at us” was a consistent theme of Trump speeches, and his supporters surely imagined that the same was true of domestic globalist elites.

And I have a theory that Trump’s own underlying ludicrousness, his manifest lack of the intellectual capacity and emotional maturity to be president, was part of what endeared him to his base. You fancy liberals think you’re so smart? Well, we’ll show you, by electing someone you consider a clown!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Haha! I just read the article that you plagiarized here. Give me a minute. I'll find it.



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6ix, you define yourself by your resentments.

And yes, I mean “resentments” rather than “grievances.” Grievances are about things you believe you deserve, and might be diminished if you get some of what you want. Resentment is about feeling that you’re being looked down on, and can only be assuaged by hurting the people you, at some level, envy, such as Hollywood, Disney, James Cameron.

Consider the phrase (and associated sentiment), popular on the right, “owning the libs.” In context, “owning” doesn’t mean defeating progressive policies, say by repealing the Affordable Care Act. It means, instead, humiliating liberals personally — making them look weak and foolish, making their Disney movies (Avatar 2 and plain old Avatar) look like failures.

And does anyone doubt that resentment on the part of those who felt disrespected by Walt Disney and Hollywood was central to the rise of Donald Trump? Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”?

I’m not saying that the decline of manufacturing jobs in the heartland was a myth: It really did happen, and it hurt millions of Americans. But the failure of Trump’s trade wars to deliver a manufacturing revival doesn’t seem to have turned off his base. Why?

The likely answer is that Trump’s anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. (James Cameron is a Canadian. Avatar 2 was filmed in New Zealand. Disney is in California, the state viscerally hated by Trump and his voters.) “The world is laughing at us” was a consistent theme of Trump speeches, and his supporters surely imagined that the same was true of domestic globalist elites.

And I have a theory that Trump’s own underlying ludicrousness, his manifest lack of the intellectual capacity and emotional maturity to be president, was part of what endeared him to his base. You fancy liberals think you’re so smart? Well, we’ll show you, by electing someone you consider a clown!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Haha! I just read the article that you plagiarized here. Give me a minute. I'll find it.





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Ah... There it is.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/07/paul-krugman-republica
ns-are-making-the-us-small/

It's written by your boy Krugman too. I knew it wouldn't take long before he'd make an ass out of himself after showing he might have a redemption arc.

Let's see exactly what you stole from Krugman's article for your own here...

(Feel free, everyone, to compare the underlined paragraphs to Second's post above)

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Like many liberals, I'm feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude: taking some pleasure in the self-destruction of the American right.

There has never been a spectacle like the chaos we've seen in the House of Representatives this week. It had been a century since a speaker wasn't chosen on the first ballot. The last time that happened, there was an actual substantive dispute: Republican progressives (they existed back then) demanded, and eventually received, procedural reforms that they hoped would favor their agenda.

This time, there has been no significant dispute about policy; Kevin McCarthy and his opponents agree on key policy issues like investigating Hunter Biden's laptop and depriving the Internal Revenue Service of the resources it needs to go after wealthy tax cheats. Long after he tried to appease his opponents by surrendering his dignity, the voting went on.

While the spectacle has been amazing and, yes, entertaining, neither I nor many other liberals are experiencing the kind of glee Republicans would be feeling if the parties' roles were reversed.

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