Avatar: The Way of Making the Worst Movie Ever Made (Part One)
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
James Cameron's Avatar series promises to haunt us for another decade, after disappearing into the jungles of Pandora since 2009. In our first series of the year, we look at the making of James Cameron's $2 billion sex dream phantasmagoria nightmare horror fest featuring suburban heterosexual Americans cosplaying as blue people!
Links:
- 'Avatar 2' Needs $2 Billion to Turn a Profit. James Cameron Says [Variety]
- 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Rules Over New Year's, Global Gross Hits $1.38 Billion [Variety]
- 'Minds Will Be Blown': James Cameron Tells Robert Rodriguez Why 'Avatar 2' Is 'Dangerous' and the Key Advice Guillermo Del Toro Gave Him [Variety]
- James Cameron opens up about his long-awaited (and awaited) Avatar sequel [EW]
- Avatar 2 took forever because James Cameron had to make sure Avatar 4 was ready to shoot [Polygon]
- Avatar 3 Will Feature A Villainous Na'vi Fire Nation Called The 'Ash People' [20 Minutes]
- James Cameron Reveals the Low Point of the 13-Year Journey to Finish 'Avatar: The Way of Water' [Collider]
- Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, & Jon Landau Talk 'Avatar: The Way of Water,' IMAX, 3D, and Future Sequels [Collider]
- Edie Falco Shot 'Avatar 2' So Long Ago That She Thought It Had Already Been Released and "Didn't Do Very Well" [THR]
- Sigourney Weaver, 73, talks teen character in 'Avatar 2': Older actors are 'extraordinary' [USA Today]
- James Cameron's old comments prompt Native American boycott of new 'Avatar' sequel [LA Times]
About:
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did you think that you would be in such an epic film? |
| 0:05.0 | No, and no. |
| 0:07.0 | I saw the first one when it was out. |
| 0:10.0 | And that's going back some time. |
| 0:12.0 | And this, the second Avatar, the one's coming out, I shot, I think four years ago. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:20.0 | And then I've been busy, I'm doing stuff, and then somebody mentioned Avatar, and I thought, oh, I guess |
| 0:22.7 | it came out and didn't do very well, |
| 0:24.6 | because I didn't hear anything. So I thought it happens, you know. |
| 0:27.0 | And then somebody recently said, |
| 0:28.5 | oh, Avatar is coming out. So, oh, it hasn't come out yet? |
| 0:33.1 | They don't even tell you anything. |
| 0:34.6 | I will know. They don't, and I will never work again because I said that. But, gays, they're trying to murder me. Come on, if you know the words, let's go. What do I think of her? Yes. I don't think of her. Bitch. Glass a red wine and a swishia. I think you get the bitcha. Bitch coming at you from a distant planet far away |
| 1:06.0 | A planet you've maybe seen in your dreams |
| 1:09.5 | A planet you've maybe seen in movies Planet you've maybe seen in your movies planet you've maybe seen in your dreams, a planet you've maybe seen in movies, a planet |
| 1:13.8 | you've maybe seen in your wildest fantasies. I'm seeing blue and purple. Neon flashes, the |
| 1:21.2 | rush of... Botanicals, fauna. The underbrush, rush past you and your gaping blue limbs. |
| 1:28.4 | Some wood and some... |
| 1:30.0 | The humans call this land Pandora, but the Navi... |
| 1:34.1 | Not the streaming app, Mama. |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah, no. |
| 1:35.9 | This is a faraway planet. |
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