I just watched the Avatar sequel. "Avatar: The Way of Water". Wow, I was impressed. Not so much with the story, but with what is required to make a "motion capture" movie like that. The plot was standard good guys vs. bad guys. Enjoyable enough. But how they do this kind of movie that looks like it's in a fantastical location, but they're really filming everything inside, with real human actors, in a big open warehouse for the most part, that doesn't even have "sets". The movie was long - a bit over three hours. But after watching that last night, today I ended up watching hours more of "... the making of ..." type videos that were included on the Blu-ray disk set. It was an eye opener when I looked at IMDB after the film last night to see who the actors were, and found out that the young teenage girl - appeared about 13 years old - was Sigourney Weaver, who's probably five or six times that old in real life. Pretty amazing stuff, at least to me.
I would recommend this movie for the fantasy locations it takes you to, as well as appreciating the technical prowess needed to make this film. The plot is decent (although predictable) action/adventure - villains you hate, good guys you root for. I generally don't like movies that are loaded with extensive action and special effects (I was into that more when I was younger). This one was different though - I actually got into the "locations" they were "filming" at and what was happening.
Geek heaven!
) The ILM guys would talk about their projects, we did too. They even borrowed some of our hardware from time to time. The food truck was the place to be if the technical aspects of imagining interested you! All that tech is ancient history now... might as be talking silent pictures! 
