Rajaah
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Watched this opening night, got a bunch of stuff to say about it that I probably should have written right away because now I can't remember a lot of it. I'll probably say more about it later on once I mull over it again.
I'm glad they brought back Stephen Lang in a new, deadlier form. That made me about 10x more interested in the movie once I found that out.
One thing that comes to mind: They did this whole intro thing explaining what happened in the 10? 15? years between Part 1 and where we pick up now. Then you see Pandora getting hit with nukes or whatever. Then it goes right from Sully to "one year later" to a shorter-haired blue guy waking up in a lab and punching out everyone around him, also blue guys.
I'll say this, during that one scene, I was more intrigued than I was at any other point in the movie, because I thought the shorter-haired guy was Sully a year later. That he was imprisoned in a lab with his head shaved and other Naavi were holding him down and working for the humans. Like the humans ALREADY WON and now the Weyland-Yutani equivalent had Jake as a test subject and had subjugated the Naavi so badly already that they were working with their mortal enemies out of necessity or something.
I had about a million questions in that moment and felt actually horrified by what I thought it was telling us. ...then it turns out it's just Lang's character and we cut back to Jake living his nice quiet life.
Just saying that for that one moment the movie had a really intense effect on me where I was genuinely freaked out about what Pandora's fate might have already been. Thought the movie was going to pull a full swerve by having the humans already victorious, and have the rest of it be about the Naavi fighting from below for liberation of the world.
There's some storytelling lesson to glean here but I don't know what. I'd like to see a movie that actually does go all the way and take the kind of risk I thought this movie was taking, for that one scene.
I'm glad they brought back Stephen Lang in a new, deadlier form. That made me about 10x more interested in the movie once I found that out.
One thing that comes to mind: They did this whole intro thing explaining what happened in the 10? 15? years between Part 1 and where we pick up now. Then you see Pandora getting hit with nukes or whatever. Then it goes right from Sully to "one year later" to a shorter-haired blue guy waking up in a lab and punching out everyone around him, also blue guys.
I'll say this, during that one scene, I was more intrigued than I was at any other point in the movie, because I thought the shorter-haired guy was Sully a year later. That he was imprisoned in a lab with his head shaved and other Naavi were holding him down and working for the humans. Like the humans ALREADY WON and now the Weyland-Yutani equivalent had Jake as a test subject and had subjugated the Naavi so badly already that they were working with their mortal enemies out of necessity or something.
I had about a million questions in that moment and felt actually horrified by what I thought it was telling us. ...then it turns out it's just Lang's character and we cut back to Jake living his nice quiet life.
Just saying that for that one moment the movie had a really intense effect on me where I was genuinely freaked out about what Pandora's fate might have already been. Thought the movie was going to pull a full swerve by having the humans already victorious, and have the rest of it be about the Naavi fighting from below for liberation of the world.
There's some storytelling lesson to glean here but I don't know what. I'd like to see a movie that actually does go all the way and take the kind of risk I thought this movie was taking, for that one scene.
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