Avatar aka Fancier Waterworld
Even if we didn’t have the gross disturbance of some sicko coughing and blowing his nose a few seats down for like the first half hour (I was like OMG are you kidding me? out loud and he left twice before it was finally tolerable) it was, well, not as good as I thought it would be. I mean, visually it was more interesting/impressive than the first as there’s a lot more going on in that regard with the water creatures and sea-to-air fighting, etc.
But story-wise it literally felt like a rough draft, where the writers basically shrugged their shoulders and said, “Good enough, right?” The focus on family angle isn’t the issue; it’s the fact that most of the movie just feels like it’s treading water and lacks the flow (no pun), vision and conciseness of the first one. Whatever arc is supposed to be here with anything is more like a plateau that’s just waiting for the next installment to move things forward. The movie’s overall message of a family learning to trust each other and stick together was pretty much where things began and ended, with very few moving parts otherwise outside of that bubble. Well, we get more of the sky people doubling down oncivilizing suppressing the natives, but more interesting is the new substance that apparently stops human aging. I’m more curious to see where they go with that than anything, because it’s only briefly touched on so far.
Other than the family drama, spends too much time blatantly harkening back to the first movie’s themes almost verbatim. The destruction of chunks of Pandora, the screams of anguish at that and the loss of family members; hell they even used the same *tragedy* theme when mourning the tulkun. It felt kinda patronizing.
For part three we get to looking forward to more of the drawn out unfinished business between Jake and Mr. Hoo-Rah. Hopefully there will be some resolution there, along with everything else. But probably not much, as this vehicle isn’t even half finished yet.
Also, with all the tech in this movie, why didn’t they use some audio trick to make Weaver’s character actually sound younger?
Even if we didn’t have the gross disturbance of some sicko coughing and blowing his nose a few seats down for like the first half hour (I was like OMG are you kidding me? out loud and he left twice before it was finally tolerable) it was, well, not as good as I thought it would be. I mean, visually it was more interesting/impressive than the first as there’s a lot more going on in that regard with the water creatures and sea-to-air fighting, etc.
But story-wise it literally felt like a rough draft, where the writers basically shrugged their shoulders and said, “Good enough, right?” The focus on family angle isn’t the issue; it’s the fact that most of the movie just feels like it’s treading water and lacks the flow (no pun), vision and conciseness of the first one. Whatever arc is supposed to be here with anything is more like a plateau that’s just waiting for the next installment to move things forward. The movie’s overall message of a family learning to trust each other and stick together was pretty much where things began and ended, with very few moving parts otherwise outside of that bubble. Well, we get more of the sky people doubling down on
Other than the family drama, spends too much time blatantly harkening back to the first movie’s themes almost verbatim. The destruction of chunks of Pandora, the screams of anguish at that and the loss of family members; hell they even used the same *tragedy* theme when mourning the tulkun. It felt kinda patronizing.
For part three we get to looking forward to more of the drawn out unfinished business between Jake and Mr. Hoo-Rah. Hopefully there will be some resolution there, along with everything else. But probably not much, as this vehicle isn’t even half finished yet.
Also, with all the tech in this movie, why didn’t they use some audio trick to make Weaver’s character actually sound younger?
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