Avatar: The Way of Water

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Also I don't understand why the Avatar films cost way more money than other films that look much more expensive. Do they have a better catering on set?
 
Well for the first one they developed new camera technology to film it, and I believe they've done similar this time with the underwater stuff :o That won't be cheap!
 
Yeah this is a 3+ hour long cut scene from a game that seems SHIT ANYWAY
 
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The only enjoyment I derived was from the 4DX chairs flinging me around - and even they weren’t working for the first hour until I informed the cinema staff during a merciful break from the film

TURGID AND INTERMINABLE
 
I should have left when they had subtitles for the music composer whale
 
The biggest problem for this film is James Cameron’s arrogance that he could just wait a decade before following up. The film feels entirely irrelevant now, the only thing holding it up is its unprecedented marketing machine. It all feels very empty.
 
What an absolutely barmy analogy

The Stranger Things Kids are supposed to grow up. Each season is a different time capsule of the 80s

The show never tries to hide that they're older

Their growth and growing pains are featured throughout the storylines

What the fuck is he talking about :D
 
the extent to which madame funks HATES the existence of this movie and James Cameron himself is quite iconic :D
 
I gave it 3 points for the visuals which ARE beautiful. If you have any inclination to watch this at all, I strongly recommend forking out for the 3D IMax experience, because I cannot even IMAGINE the tedium if you just watched it flat. :D

Obviously one doesn't go into these things for complex interpersonal dynamics and scintillating dialogue, but honestly, it's getting to M Night Shyamalan levels with James Cameron now. The plot could have been written on the back of a fag packet and the dialogue, in addition to being ATROCIOUS, was so aggressively American throughout. If you took a drink every time somebody said "Bro" or "Dude" you'd be sitting in a pool of your own vomit by minute 35.

Kate Winslet's much-hyped breath holding must have been kept back for one of the later sequels because she's barely in this one. She does have one of my favourite lines of dialogue though; "THAT WHALE WAS A COMPOSER!" :D

Speaking of which, Jesus Christ the sentient whale plotline. I genuinely lost it when Navi Meets World was basically like 'U OK HUN?' and the emo-whale replied (via subtitle) 'CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT, TOO PAINFUL'.

Honestly I'd recommend it as a work of The Room-esque insane accidental genius on a hyper budget if large stretches of it weren't so FUCKING BORING.

I also couldn't stop chuckling that there was dreadlocked white hippie eco-warrior boy named SPIDER!

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I saw this this morning and what an ORDEAL. Just before going in a woman and her kids, all toddlers, were waiting. Someone else asked arent they a little young? Her response: "Yeah, but they like dinosaurs and other blue things." :manson:

They were in the row in front of me and it was a merry-go-round of getting up for the toilet and after about 90 minutes they left, and I tempted to leave but I stuck it out, closed my eyes briefly for half an hour and by then it was nearly over.

I'll probably see it again once the kids go back to school and on a weekday.
 
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The “too painful” moment got me as well

I SPLUTTERED

Everyone else seemed ENRAPTURED :manson:
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a text I received from a friend tonight after I told her "good luck!"

omg I loooooved it
and I want MORE haha
even after 3 hours!

it also has an A- cinemascore from those who've seen it in the US which is fantastic. I think it will have really long legs and do great numbers in the end (maybe not this weekend because you'd have to be insane to risk death for Avatar 2).
 
Well I haven't decided I hate it yet, so I'll go and see it in the next few days now my trip is off.

It debuted at #3 in Japan between two huge anime movies that had already been around for 6 and 3 weeks (they are huge though).

It's higher than "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond" though, so I guess that's a win
 
I didn’t hate it. The script is dreadful and maybe they should have spent sometime trying to craft a more original take but it eventually won me over.

Comparing it to the trash we get from marvel every 3 months this at least looked meticulous and not just an ugly cgi monstrosity. That final battle was a big fun action sequence.
 
There is something to be said about it being just this big laborious movie that is not trying to setup 4 future movies and 10 streaming shows and it’s not trying to hit the nostalgia button. It’s just one man’s silly world that he is making at his leisure. I’m happy to go watch the 3rd.
 
I felt like the last-minute introduction of an arc for the previously one dimensional villain was annoyingly cynical brand extension. They’re obviously going for a Darth Vader thing but he’s just not interesting in the slightest (for me). They should have killed him and brought in a fresh villain for #3.

On villains though, the visual of Edie Falco in a giant Aliens-style mechanoid thing casually sipping a cup of tea did crack me up.
 
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