Well, the production of both TinTin and Ready Player One ( not even talking about the not-marvelous boring marvel universe of tele-shows ) are highly dependent on the same kinds of technologies that were used on the first Avatar. Things like virtual cameras and face capturing rigs were developments of various technical teams under the supervision of James Cameron the king the first.
Probably because Edwards was a visual effects artist, he understand the technology very well. He kind of reminds James Cameron in this regard. And some critics already pointed out that The Creator reminded them of James Cameron. When a director is oblivious to how effects are being actually made, they tend to give the visual effects people unnecessary work. And also usually not enough time. And expect a very good result. This leads to some atrocious effects movies. On the other hand there are directors like Cameron, Spielberg, Nolan or Edwards that actually understand the process so well that they can produce insane results.
Don't get me wrong. Robert Rodriguez is actually quite good. Given a proper screenplay and a proper budget he can make very good movies. Like for example his most expensive film - Alita Battle Angel which was written by James Cameron and given a good 200 million dollars to work with. Also there are other people who tried what he is doing and make cheap movies. But those are nowhere near as good as what Robert Rodriguez can pull off using the same method.
In the beginning of Avatar, Jake Sully is a marine joining a group of marines in a new area. Even though he is given a special role, to be in an Avatar. Instead of going to action with his actual human body. James Cameron written a flaw to the character that works as a catalyst to a change. Jake cannot walk. But in the body of the Avatar he can walk. He can run and jump all he wants. This, technically, sparks a controversial opinion in him. Which makes him choose the side of the Na'vi instead of the marines.
It's funny how something like Stable Diffusion even though called AI is better expressed with the name CGI. While something like Avatar, even though called CGI, is better expressed with some other term that perhaps doesn't exist, because people were okay with CGI. Yes, technically there is a term Motion Capture, or as the producer of the movie calls it E-Motion Capture, since it's an improved version that captures emotions, rather than just motions. But James Cameron, the director of the films calls the process Performance Capture instead. And the funny thing is, all 3 of those terms completely avoid the second half of the process. The putting together of the scene in software and then rendering it out into pictures. Something that is until now has been referred to as CGI.
There is a lot of talk about how pointless some of the stuff is in Avatar and Avatar 2. Especially in the second one with all the water swimming scenes. When I saw it for the first time it reminded me a lot of Le Grand Blue, the dolphins movie from Besson. And it seems like James Cameron learned this technique from Besson. The goofing around scenes in Leon is just another example of this same technique. It doesn't make any sense to be there on paper. But it injects to much awesomeness into the movie that it makes the movie instantly a million times more re-watchable. There is no big reveal in Leon. It's not about the plot. You come back to Leon to see Leon and Matilda drop water on each other.
Speaking of sex, here we are dealing with the director of Nymphomaniac, so you will see naked parts of both sexes. He is not the kind of director that censors himself. And more than that, he opened his own studio so he could censor himself as little as legally possible. Therefor sometimes you get borderline pornographic, or actually pornographic material from Lars. Though, in his case and with his sensibilities those scenes are more than just simply porn. And they are there to make you feel a certain way. To make you engage with the emotions on screen and be present within the movie. Like 3D for James Cameron, which makes you feel on Pandora or Titanic, Lars uses everything he can to make you feel what the characters are feeling. And if they are horny, he has to make you horny too. Therefor he shows you stuff to make you horny.
On the other side of the country a man named James saw a string of numbers separated by dots appear on his screen. It was an IP address of somebody who's computer just tried to download a page from a server that James was operating. He copied the numbers into a program. That program gave him a normal street address. And then he sent that address to somebody in a text messaging app.
I have a problem perhaps only with the casting in this movie. Everybody is too damn hot! It is a bit distracting. Also the lead actor Ansel Elgort looks a bit too much like my brother. I felt so much cringe through out the movie seeing my brother kissing Lily James ( Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella ). But other than that, the movie is very good, indeed.
