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.
At this point I can’t tell if it is some kind of trolling or are you serious
Why would I be trolling?
Because this is the internet and that’s how it works now, I suppose.
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 in Imax and had a great time. I know several people who also saw it and loved it.
I saw it. It was entertaining
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.
I saw it on a grainy pirated cam rip with Russian subtitles.
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 admit I saw Pukahontious 2: water is wet.
China homie.
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?
If you can confirm that James Cameron used Sentinel Island people as the direct design influence for the Na’Vi, you might have some kind of a point. But he didn’t. He made them sexy babies with big eyes so he could override your Disney brain and sell some toys.
There must have been some primitive tribes that were nihilistic nothing is scared, did slash and burn farming, and animal torture.
We’re literally in decade four of people underestimating James Cameron
At a certain point, his success and money is just self-sustaining. He could release a video of him shitting and it would make half a billion domestic. Like, there are at least 3 more Avatar movies coming. Terminator was an actual cultural phenomenon that people can remember the names of all of the characters and the plot, and yet it only did a fraction of the numbers Avatar does. Explain that.
Gotta love the realistic space ships.
Literally melted in my seat when I saw the radiators. FUCKING incredible
I wish I could watch movies the same way as you lol
Bro thermodynamics rules
Like literally
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
Wdym cuz? Those water scenes were hella lit, fr fr, no cap.
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.
Yeah. But not for 2 hours
It was okay
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.
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)
Edit: Curious as to what the downvoters are taking issue with about my comment. Nothing wrong with liking the movie, but you have to admit the plot was basically identical to the first one, just with new characters and a different setting
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?
I saw it. Enjoyed it. It was fun to watch. Not sure what else you really need in a movie tbh
Memorable plot, characters, themes.
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.
Chinese distribution. China made the Warcraft movie profitable because audiences hated it in North America.
Hi, nice to meet you. You missed nothing.
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.
We even went to a new “4D” room where the seats moved, you got wind and mist etc. It’s like a thrill ride at that point almost.
Doesn’t it strike you as odd, that unless you pay $30 to see a 3 hour movie in IMAX 3D, the movie isn’t good?
I mean, it’s not that much about the movie but about the experience. It’s just an FX festival. Of course that’s only going to work with the appropriate equipment.
That is a very strange conclusion. Plenty of movies are good without an immersive 3d experience. Most are, actually. Avatar just isn’t one of them.
But it was, none the less, an extremely fun experience. Things can be good for different reasons.
It’s kinda like watching a video of an amusement park ride and being like, “don’t you think it’s weird to have to drive to the park and get on the ride for it to be good.”
Made it 80 minutes further than we did. Even the intro was snooze fest.
Also: deep sea explorer done right and not implode himself by sparing expense.
I mean it’s more Fern Gully than pure Pocahontas.
Made three out of the top four grossing movies of all time.
I don’t really like any of them, but you can’t argue with the results. The man knows how to put bums on cinema seats.
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?
Wasn’t it blue Dances With Wolves?
More like Smurfs with Ferngully
Last of the Smurfhicans
@Spaghetti_Hitchens @The_Picard_Maneuver for think so
There are quite a few more sequels in planning
it’s up to five films total, now. the remaining three with tentative release dates stretching from 2025 to 2031. cameron has a plan for a further two more but disney hasn’t committed past the fifth one—yet
Avatar 3: The Way of Earth
Avatar 4: The Way of Fire
Avatar 5: The Last
AirbenderAvatarAvatar 5: way of the stayin alive ha ha ha staying alive
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 then, “Let’s remake them all, but earthier”
The studio execs are reading along and thinking, “at 2 billion each, you bet I will!”
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.
