Avatar: The Way of Water (December 16, 2022) Twentieth/Disney

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it was better on a second watch. i am viewing this as something of a reboot. way of water leaves a lot of questions unanswered but if they didn't what would they fill all these projected sequels with.

cameron has in one film made strong characters out of the children which has to be applauded and sets it up nicely for their individual arcs.

IMO cinema needs directors with vision and for that alone cameron deserves our patience while his story unfolds.

sequels need more earth, more politics, more nuance and factions among the humans, more advanced tech, more history of pandora (before humans, first contact, eywa's history), more human history like failed attempts to colonise/control other planets.

7/10 for me. promising start.
 

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Felt mad long, visuals were beautiful, a few scenes dragged which means a lot in a 3hr movie.

A lot of scenes and even score beats felt like pieces of other movies and songs.

The best scenes to me involved the human military technology.

Lang killed it as always. The teens were on point, their dialogue was more natural and close to how teens speak in real life. Zoe did her thing. Knew it was Cliff Curtis from the jump. Sam Worthingtons accent kept slipping through.

I’d watch it again at home. 7/10.
 

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I really enjoyed this. Never saw the first so I had to catch up on what was going on, but I thought the character building and pacing were good.

I didn’t like Jake at all. Spent almost the entire movie being coward, which is true to his colonizer core :mjpls:

The kids were the best characters to me. Loved the action.
 

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Yeah the "underperform" article was a bit premature.. this been heating up
Everyone doubts Cameron every time Lol. This has no competition for a couple of months. I keep hearing of more "casual" people going to see it. My mom sister, brother in law, their nephew etc going tuesday. Already almost 900mil worldwide
 
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