If the practice, inconceivably, becomes the standard, I may never see another blockbuster. It’s also bound to greatly confuse those who notice the difference but aren’t in the loop as to why or how. Although audiences are gifted less high frame rate, the technique only further distracts, as the film schizophrenically cuts between expected motion and horribly smooth action. How does an artificially inflated frame rate, the most standardized metric in art, look more natural to viewers who are accustomed, throughout their entire lives, to the previous standard? I humbly speak for the film-going public when I answer, “it does not.”Īvatar 2 further innovates by switching between (perceived) twenty-four and forty-eight frames per second. To this end, all three are desperately trying to incorporate a higher frame rate into their films, which is said to make look film more “realistic,” a supposition I’ve never understood. Talented filmmakers like Cameron, Ang Lee, and Peter Jackson, occasionally allow hubris to misguide them in their quest for innovation and cutting-edge superficialities. There, they must learn to adapt to their new home as Colonel Miles Quaritch, cloned and in an avatar body, searches for their whereabouts.Īvatar 2 is an impressively large and extraordinarily long film, but there is one constant which is unwaveringly distracting – the high frame rate. When marines return to seek revenge and use Pandora as a second Earth, the couple must flee from their forest home and into the water of a coastal tribe. The film follows the continuing lives of Jake Sully and Neytiri. But lo! Avatar: The Way of Water may buck the trend – rather than gross the GDP of Suriname, the film may only gross the GDP of Belize – a pittance.

His contributions to the medium have been rewarded by audiences repeatedly, adored by a burgeoning demographic in the eighties and frequently breaking box office records since releasing Titanic in 1997.

Sometimes divisive with critics but always pushing forward, Cameron has often dragged the cinema kicking and screaming into the age of digital wizardry. Welcome back into the media cycle, James Cameron.

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