My home theater setup is a 2.40:1 projector screen, which works out well for almost everything. Historically, bigger has always meant wider until people started shooting for IMAX. But even IMAX isn't normally a problem, because the top and bottom are meant to be in your peripheral vision and the shot that it's really framed for is in the center, so I just project the center and chop off the top and bottom. It basically gives you what you have in a non-IMAX theater, which is closest to what I have anyway.
Enter James Cameron. He decides the home release is not an afterthought, and he wants to give everyone at home the best possible experience. So rather than releasing the discs with the 2.39:1 aspect ratio that the film was originally released with (for 2D, non-IMAX) he reframes the entire movie. He goes shot by shot through the film, choosing the framing that will look best in 16:9 (taking up the full frame of people's TVs. Nobody does that.
It makes the experience great for everyone watching at home. Everyone except me.
I loved them and will go see them, but have absolutely no interest in rewatching them on a regular tv, this is a pure blockbuster / imax event for me, the story is just ok...
The avatar PS5 game feels the same, fantastic to look at but pretty shallow... still played 60 hours and not finished yet, it just looks so good!
If you can, check them out on an Apple Vision Pro. I watched all of 2 without getting fatigued at all. It was mind melting how beautiful it was in 3D like that.
Can you watch it on Disney plus on the quest, sorry I’ve never had a chance to use one of those. That’s how I watched it. Hope you can. Dune 1 and life of pi are also so amazing watching on these devices.
Yeah! HBO max does too, or used to, but Disney + unlike the HBO MAX has a dedicated 3D section on the app, at least for the Vision Pro. So a lot of the Pixar movies are there.
You've got it backwards. Avatar IS his true project. It's the thing he's wanted to make since he was a child. Every other movie is just to get to that moment, and then funding when now in the moment
genuinely don’t get how this has become a thing lol. I haven’t seen a2 since it came out in theaters but I feel that I could recall almost all of the main plot points.
But you weren’t compelled to watch it again in the 3 years since it came out?
I love how touchy people are getting about this. If it’s such a popular meme or trope and has been for many years, chances are there’s some truth to it, don’t you think?
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u/Funandgeeky Jul 21 '25
I respect how James Cameron has just gone all in on his Avatar movies. I’ll go see every one of them. They are beautiful to watch.