It made $2 billion but I don’t know anyone that saw it. Or if they did, they didn’t talk about it.
I saw it. I enjoyed it a lot. Pandora’s seas look even more stunning than the forest did in the first movie. Loved meeting the Omatikaya clan and Jake’s new family (Spider and Kiri too, of course). Also, Quaritch being reborn as a Na’vi made him a much scarier and more interesting antagonist than he was. Can’t wait to see what Cameron has in store for us in the sequels.
I saw it, it was shit, specially because I remember the first. The plot of the 2 is horrible, even comparing with first that was generic.
The story moves around the fact that humans want to get rid of blue ppl from a place to explore mineral resources, the leadr of the blues go away, instead of massacre the blue ppl they go for the leader in another place (???)
And half of the movie is just kids doing shit to help the plot show the water, this movie was a long and slow torture.
Holy shit do these movies need to edited down. Watched the latest one a few weeks ago and man was it 90 minutes of plot stretched into a 3 hour film. Felt like I was just watching James Cameron fellate himself on screen. Oh yeah Jimmy, such a beautiful and imaginative world. Shame it’s wasted on the blandest characters and most simplistic themes imaginable.
I believe if was 80 minutes I would remember it as a good movie and a visual masterpiece, but now I remember as a slugg story that destroyed a technical achievement.
I watched it in 3D on mushrooms. It was one hell of an experience that way, but my god it felt like it lasted 10 hours
I saw 3D as well and It was undisputable beautiful, but half of the movie I didn’t see, I was rolling my eyes. I Just can’t accept how a movie so expensive was unable to create a plot aligned with the Idea of a visual masterpiece.
Yeah, my friend was over it as soon as he saw humans sent the same exact general who got his ass kicked the first time back to try to do the exact same thing. Obviously it can’t be 100% realistic but if there was any suspension of disbelief at all it could have been so much better
3D on cannabis and I was bored.
If I remember correctly, Sarge (no idea wtf his name is) had a vendetta and the folks not in his direct circle of troops were hesitant to allow his pursuit of Jake.
Don’t mistake this as some defense of perfect writing, it wasn’t my favorite or anything, but I do think that was talked about.
But iirc the general also sent soldiers after Sarge (I also don’t remember his name) to kill Jake, it was not just the vendetta guy
Yeah, like once Sarge convinced them they were on board but I could’ve sworn there was at least hesitancy. His argument was something like Jake is a symbol? Idk.
Yeah you don’t remember his name. Action and horror movies depend almost solely on the strength of the villain. So when no one can remember even the name of the villain what does it say about the movie?
I don’t remember characters’ names from movies I love either though. I’m very bad with people’s names as well.
You have no idea who Darth Vader is?
Of course I do, I’m just saying it’s very common for me to forget. I loved Scream but I can only remember Tatum. Matthew Lillard I kept calling Shaggy. I recently saw Insidious again and I remember like, Elaine? And that’s it. My memory of characters’ names doesn’t seem to correlate very strongly with the quality of the movie.
Right. So no clue who Dr. Hannibal Lector is, or Joker, Freddy Kuger, or Jason, or Thanos…
I pirated it and told people how not good it was.
Thank you for your service
Well if you only watch it on a small screen that makes sense. In Imax 3D it was stunning, and very engrossing.
So it’s a great theme park ride, but a terrible movie.
And that’s a problem?
I still enjoyed the story, but being so drawn in by the world is what certainly helped make it more enjoyable.
Once it leaves theatres, of course that is a problem lmao. Where can I go see it in imax 3d? Spend half a million dollars on a home cinema?
I watch most movies at home, as do most people (especially since covid), if I can’t even buy tickets to the theme park then what interest is it to me?
The special effects were beautiful it was the plot that was the problem. Pretty much the same as the first one.
I saw it. It was entertaining
I saw it in Imax and had a great time. I know several people who also saw it and loved it.
As a lot of people I saw the first one in 3D IMAX surrounds DTS whatever. Once. Never watched it again. Never saw the second one.
I heard many people mention it. I think mostly high schoolers (I work in education)? Probably the same people who watch anything that’s trending news. People I know who are actually old enough to see the original in theatres mostly seemed uninterested.
So it’s the world’s largest drug money laundering operation.
Knowing James Cameron it’s probably more of a submarine money laundering operation
I saw it on a grainy pirated cam rip with Russian subtitles.
I admit I saw Pukahontious 2: water is wet.
Pros: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie with modern fx.
Cons: As an effect of him writing the script in the 90s, the movie feels like a 90s movie, with ancient overdone tropes, including the racist ones.
oh come on, what racist tropes now?
I mean the Na’vi are an infantilized hodgepodge of several shallow stereotypes of indigenous people precision designed to be sexy so the lowest common denominator sympathizes with them. The commenter may be referring to that.
what stereotypes are these, for example?
- The manner in which they talk
- the lack of technology greater than bows and arrows
- all plants and animals are treated as sacred
- outsiders are not welcome
- clothing that only covers up the naughty bits
The Na’vi are basically native American stereotypes in every conceivable way, except blue and have tails.
Is that not all true even for some tribes today? I don’t mean native American, but for example look at the people on Sentinel Island or similar - I think this is what they were going for with the NaVi
Is that not all true even for some tribes today?
No.
this is what humans were like for thousands of years, how is it racist to make characters based on that?
There must have been some primitive tribes that were nihilistic nothing is scared, did slash and burn farming, and animal torture.
Gotta love the realistic space ships.
Literally melted in my seat when I saw the radiators. FUCKING incredible
We’re literally in decade four of people underestimating James Cameron
I don’t know a single person who’s ever seen it
I don’t know how it made so much money. I guess people are seeing it and not talking about it?
This is precisely it. Avatar had originally the exact same problem that the Way of the Water has now. They’re tech demos. Interesting, pretty, they move people to see what’s what on the theater. But, offer close to nothing emotionally or culturally resonant. It’s like a generic roller-coaster, you show up, enjoy the ride, then go get some fries having nothing deeper to say about the experience because the experience doesn’t offer anything deep. It doesn’t mean the movies are bad or that they weren’t enjoyable, that’s why they made so much money. But there’s no conversation to have around them except to remark on how much they cost to make, or how did the CGI looked like or whether other studios will use the tech invented for this movie on other movies. Plot, characters and symbolism are shallow pools. Specially to an audience that is sick and tired of mega blockbuster sequels.
I saw it. Enjoyed it. It was fun to watch. Not sure what else you really need in a movie tbh
Hi, nice to meet you. You missed nothing.
I’m assuming the sequel is also forgettable considering that I’ve barely heard a thing about the plot.
The plot is FUCK YOU THIS WHALE IS GONNA RIP SOME GUYS ARM OFF IN 3D AND IT’S FUCKING DOPE
Oshit I guess I better watch it.
All joking aside, the pissed off whale is a great character, and its story beats land as solidly as its angry attacks.
It has a plot?
No no no no, it doesn’t just have a plot. It has the same plot even with all the same protagonists and antagonists.
Someone better get him out of his sub the air is making him a bit loopy enough to think avatar 2 is a good plot
Dances with FernGully except there’s no Tim Curry.
Or Robin Williams
yo wtf adult me has been sleeping on fern gully
Toxic Love is a banger and it was written by Thomas Dolby who is best known for She Blinded me with Science.
The sequel is literally “the exact same movie as the first one, but this time with water (and bonus animal cruelty)”
I actually enjoyed the first one, but the second movie added nothing of value and cheapened everything that happened in the first one (in that literally no one gives a shit about unobtanium anymore)
My wife and I started watching the second avatar and we turned it off about 90 minutes in, just couldn’t be bothered to care or watch it any more. And we never finished it. What a piece of crap
Watched it in IMAX 3d with my kid. It ruled, so much fun to watch. Will never watch it again though, and certainly never at home. That defeats the entire purpose.
Made it 80 minutes further than we did. Even the intro was snooze fest.
Not lasting 10 minutes into a movie doesn’t really say much about the movie
I forgot/possibly never knew Avatar 2 had come out
It was good, really enjoyable in 3D Imax.
It’s beautiful, but the story is weak af and it takes an hour too long to look at water
Removed by mod
Yeah. But not for 2 hours
I feel like it would’ve been better with only the water stuff. Just take the bad guys out completely. Just have it be the story of the Sully family being accepted into a new tribe. There was still plenty of conflict to focus on.
Me being charitable: if you enjoyed the first you are most likely going to enjoy the second. If you are over the age of 12 and have seen more than 8 movies in your life you are probably not going to enjoy it.
It was such a bad movie too. Dude was really just like “let’s remake the first movie, but wetter”
Wait for the next sequel, “let’s remake both movies, but hotter”
And no character arcs for anyone. Well except for Quarich, he was literally the only reason to see the movie and even his character was boring as shit.
So it may have taken 13 years to come back with a sequel that no one asked for and no one expected. But at least he gave us something. Unlike a certain South African director that shall remain nameless…3 years my ass…
I’m out of the loop, is this about Blomkamp?
Yes, where is my god damn District 9 sequel?
I mean it’s more Fern Gully than pure Pocahontas.
I’ve always called bullshit on the second movie making that much damn money. There’s no way. Not nearly that many people cared about it at all, I seriously think somebody faked that attendance.
Take your meds.
The franchise is huge in China. Just because your group didn’t like it doesn’t mean they are faking anything
I smoked cannabis prior to watching the second movie and was still unimpressed.
Should have done acid
That probably would have made it worse though
Agh does the world need yet another religion?
All jokes aside, I think there was a mini religion for a while after the first movie came out.
Definitely I remember it. Also remember thinking you could just watch professional women’s volleyball instead. Bunch of skinny attractive people jumping around and not one of them are blue.
Im apparently the only person on the face of mother earth who genuinely liked the first movie… I did, no really. But the second one literally had nothing of interest in it. It looked the same, sounded the same, had the same characters and all that, but the movie when nowhere for 3 hours. I dont think I can ever sit through it again.
That isnt true. My six year old liked the first movie.
Also: deep sea explorer done right and not implode himself by sparing expense.
Wasn’t it blue Dances With Wolves?
More like Smurfs with Ferngully
Last of the Smurfhicans
@Spaghetti_Hitchens @The_Picard_Maneuver for think so
He can’t keep getting away with it!
I feel like there was a good movie in Avatar 2 but a lot of the scenes looked like they didn’t render them fully. The FPS changes felt random. If they’d done ALL action in 48 and ALL dialogue in 24 it wouldn’t have been as bad.
The scenes of the kids rescuing the parents were so gorgeous. Stunning. But compare that to the scene of the boat jumping and crashing? Insane how shitty it looked.
Adaptive framerate
It really did feel like a laggy videogame the way the frame rate and graphics would change so randomly.
