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Uh ... you might wanna pass, though there's nothing side to it in this one. Movie does oddly retread a lot of the 2nd movie, with the extra layer of the new faction.
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Uh ... you might wanna pass, though there's nothing side to it in this one. Movie does oddly retread a lot of the 2nd movie, with the extra layer of the new faction.
Xarpolis
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This was a pretty entertaining movie. It has some feels, but not sad kinds. They were more hope based. Movie was long. I parked a few minutes before it was scheduled to start (2pm) and I left as soon as it was over. The parking garage said I was there for 4 hours and 13 minutes.
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Brikker
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Rajaah
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So is Avatar 5 the last one?
A2 was Water, A3 was Fire. I assume they're going to finish the elements. Do we think the first movie counted as Earth, Air, or none? It seemed like Earth to me. Guessing 4 will be Air and then 5 will be all four, OR 4 will be Air and 5 will be Earth. Maybe quite literally. You said the story is going to Earth by the end?
A time-jump midway through 4 is going to be interesting. It was made pretty clear in 3 that the real hero of the saga is the young daughter who has godlike powers of asspull magic.
Saw this on opening night, first time in a theater in a while. Enjoyed it a lot, will watch it again before 4. Was the first of the three movies to really have a compelling plot for me, in large part because of the Fire Tribe and the inter-Na'vi conflict it introduced. The "humans are awful disgusting pigs" narrative I could do without, but it is what it is. The Colonel is getting a little played-out but he was good as usual, looking forward to his big face turn eventually (hopefully)
Curious what the Air Tribe is going to be like, since it's the only element they haven't shown us.
In more ways than one yeah. The best thing about the movie for me was the queen of the Fire Nation slinking around being sexy. I didn't realize I could find a blue person that...alluring.
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It feels like they could have done a lot with 2 & 3 other than retread the plot of the original but with some new N'avi... Yeah I get the whole underlying biological network subplot aspect, but this is supposed to be his life's work grand space opera and so far its very redundant.
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Ultimately you need sort of an end game. Only way the current cycle ends is
1) Earth is suddenly incapable of launching missions for some reason
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2) Pandora somehow gets a tactical advantage that negates Earth's technological superiority which in turn allows negotiation
1) Earth is suddenly incapable of launching missions for some reason
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2) Pandora somehow gets a tactical advantage that negates Earth's technological superiority which in turn allows negotiation
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It should end with the natives being put onto reservations. Earth colonizes and Makes Pandora Great Again. Then the giant blue trannies show up and ruin everything. Earth finds another planet. LV-223. Earth abandons new said planet immediately. Then find Yautja Prime. Earth abandons. Earth is stuck finding a new planet that doesn't suck. Earth creates the Terran Confederation soon find themselves in a intergalactic war with the Kilrathi. A small band of Terran pilots have to make emergency landing on Crematoria, a prison planet...
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Having more time to meditate on this movie, I think I like it the most of the 3 Avatar movies.
The first was cutting-edge for its time and all that, but didn't have much of a story beyond Feelings. I watched it several times to see it with different people, but not because it was all that good of a story.
The second was significantly prettier than the first, and great if you care about the ocean (much like Star Trek: The Voyage Home is enhanced by caring about whales), but I never rewatched it and it was never all that interesting to me storywise. The family dynamics made it feel more like a Disney movie.
The third was a better action movie and the villains were a real threat. At this point I know who all these people are, so the movie works on a character drama level and not just a visual spectacle level.
3 was waaaay too much about "we gotta protect Spider!" for me though. That was great for the kids in the audience, but I couldn't care less about this Spider guy. At least they turned the amount of "bro" WAY down.
The first was cutting-edge for its time and all that, but didn't have much of a story beyond Feelings. I watched it several times to see it with different people, but not because it was all that good of a story.
The second was significantly prettier than the first, and great if you care about the ocean (much like Star Trek: The Voyage Home is enhanced by caring about whales), but I never rewatched it and it was never all that interesting to me storywise. The family dynamics made it feel more like a Disney movie.
The third was a better action movie and the villains were a real threat. At this point I know who all these people are, so the movie works on a character drama level and not just a visual spectacle level.
3 was waaaay too much about "we gotta protect Spider!" for me though. That was great for the kids in the audience, but I couldn't care less about this Spider guy. At least they turned the amount of "bro" WAY down.
Hateyou
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I’d say 1 was air, with all the floating islands and flying lizards and living high up in a tree. Earth would maybe be cave avatars? Wonder if they’ll be short and have beards and swing axes.
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Yeh, guilty as charged, I care about The Humpback Whales. They're extremely intelligent mammals, and deserve better than having a bunch of Chinese whaler assholes drive up to them and murder them for their blubber. Thankfully that practice has pretty much ended in the West (probably in large part because of things like Star Trek IV changing people's minds), and, like most things that damage the environment at this point, it's only still a problem from the Eastasia bloc because they don't give a shit.
Drinker is such a miserable sop that it's easy to write him off, and I think he was a bit too hard on this movie. That said, I'm glad he mentioned the incredibly monolithic racial makeup of the vile, scummy humans in the movie.
This movie had basically ZERO diversity whatsoever on the human side. I haven't seen a cast this white in ages. Where was the representation? Pretty cool of Jim Cameron to make sure the environment-obliterating, greedy, destructive humans were 99% White Europeans. Couldn't even find a non-white in the background extras!
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Norway, the USSR, and Australia caught the most humpback whales by numbers if you're interested in that sort of thing. Japan (not China) is the only Asian country even in the running, and they caught mostly sperm and blue whales. Norway and USSR still caught more fin, sperm, and blue whales than Japan.
China never really had a whaling industry at all.
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Humans are summararaly the complete evil bad- they are all white
lol eve watch the live action beauty and the beast. Magic old time French blackies - until its time to be evil and raid the castle- where all the brow ppl go? Lol
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Watched it last night, felt repetitive, boring and way too long. And I'm a huge James Cameron fan. I can't believe this was made by the same man who made Aliens and The Abyss. I will be sad if this series is the twilight of his career but I'll still have him in my top 5 directors of all time list just for his prior body of work.