Yo, let me know what you think.. I have opinions

So far,

I'm wondering if I should've seen it in the theater. But I was absolutely unimpressed with the first one and most of Cameron's body of work other than the classics if I'm honest. 🤷🏽

The first was just Pocahontas meets Dances with Wolves in space. The just innovative thing was the 3D pulling back to suck the audience into the world rather than pointing things out of the screen at you. But no one goes to the theater JUST to watch the 3D🤷🏽

A buddy of mine saw this one twice and tried to get so my friends to go as a group... So fun so awesome so pretty...

I'm about a half hour in and I'm wondering what he hasn't. Cameron didn't how many years filming this and the upcoming planned sequels so the kids didn't age up like they do in stranger things even though it's supposed to be like months apart 🤷🏽

... But like....

When is it going to stop looking like a ps4 cutscene? Especially when they look at anything on a screen. Then it looks like the terrible night vision in any late 2010s ps3/4 game.

Why is it not cultural appropriation when a white kid paints his body blue and pretend to be an native?

Oooh and he has dreads!

So spider is experiencing species dysphoria? But Jake and the rest are fully transitioned?

Ooooooooohhhhh I like Neytiri's pantyhose/ riding chaps

Oooohhhhh shit. They got water animals now. That just be "The Way of the Water"

Ok. Water people have tats? So they're Samoan?

Into it.

Bouncy floors suspended over water seems like a bad idea

Now THAT is a sunset.

It's this the one gorgeous shot in the whole film?

Ok. Maybe it's the light rays and different lays of texture letting my eyes distracted... But underwater it doesn't look like ps4 graphics anymore

Wait. Nevermind spoke to soon...

Just don't do closeups Cameron!

What was that New Zealand movie...

Oh! Whale Rider! I think...

So Abatsr Pocahontas/ Dances with Wolves in space.

And Way of the Water is Whale Rider in space. 🤷🏽

"the way of water has no beginning and no end"

Oh God please no! It says I have 2 hours left!

Now the big whaleonster is moving and a suddenly jerky speed. Like the physics of water and being squeezed into a small rock don't affect it... Super video game mode.

There's always a bigger fish

This movie is Whale Rider

They touch fins in the sunlight?

This movie is Whale Rider

I like that Kiri has these moments of awe for nature and says she speaks with Eywa. I wish there was a lot more of this. The whole native culture where they're in the vines swinging it in the ocean they would have an awesome and reverence for the better spirits.

In the first didn't they like day thank you and pat their animals after they dismounted? They don't do that as much here in this one.

Where's that native spirit of being one with nature. Sure they still ride and what not. But no one seems to excude that except this half breed girl🤷🏽

"keep at it and I'll put a knot in your tail"

Definitely a dad threat

Why do the water people have feather garnishes on their clothes instead of shells or fish bones?

This movie is Whale Rider I swear

So of Cameron's just remaking other native culture films in space what's next?

Apocalyptico? Green inferno?

I'm really hoping he just remakes Smoke Signals🤷🏽

"Ayyyy Ne-TI-ri. Get stoic. It's a great day to be indigenous"

So there was more than one spirit tree?

This movie is Whale Rider

Whales can have tattoos too apparently

Beautiful shots so far.

Sunset fisherman

Fire and Death

https://nostr.build/av/e7d8f88ed798aa788393657c9523d8860a0cb5e3d7977440176c5da7d2e2e6bb.mp4

He did the ponytail sex thing with the shape. So now it's super Whale Rider right?

Oh shit are those... Crab Walkers??

The AT-ATs of the avatar universe??

Of course... Crab cannons...

In the first they space mined unobtainium

In the way of water they hunt whales for ambergris I mean ummm amrita

This movie is ps4 cutscene Whale Rider

They just did this same fucking scene 5 minute ago. Do they really need to die every ship jumping in the water again? I know you have shark cruisers and crab cannons

They shot that hey almost as if they were like yeah let's make it easy for them to get rescued🤷🏽

Ooooooh what are these handcuffs????

They look like slap bracelets like when I was a kid!

Did they just resuse a taking down a helicopter shot from earlier in the movie??

Wow physics and cgi on boat crash is laughable

They seriously need to stop speed ramping the all cgi shots. It just makes every character look fake af.

If this is a ps4 game let me play already those is the longest cutscene ever

Second boat crash explosion also looks awful

Is it turning into titanic now??

I guess Cameron has experience...

Clever whale girl

Whale boat jump looks dumb af.

They really dunno what to do with the physics of these supposed to be heavy things!

They even speed ramp normal human motion wtf.

Stop! It looks terrible! At peace give the eye a second to scan over the cgi. When we can't see the detail because your blurring the notion it just looks like a stutter blue blob glitching

You promised to kill the kid if he didn't come alone.

Now you hear gunfire and your men don't respond... But you just stand there with the kid?

🤷🏽Ok🤷🏽

"you think I care about a kid, he's not mine... We're not even the same species"

Um...

Well.

1. You spent 2 hours of this 3 your movie trying to figure out how to capture kids so you can get the adults... So yeah you care about kids...

2. That's totally your kid, and you care, and in a second when this situation is over your going to care🤷🏽

3. Come on this is your arc??? Missed opportunity with the fucking hating navi but now becoming one thing. Way better if he hated himself now that he was one. Maybe that's why he slips up and that leads to this final showdown. Because his mind is on his disgusted he is with himself instead of fully being in the game🤷🏽

Ps4 cutscene rematch

Avatar Jake vs avatar Quaritch

Fight

I think sinking ships in movies are just an excuse so filmmakers can use dutch angles when they're not clever enough to motivate one for real🤷🏽

This movie is titanic in space

Why are you going for the sleeper hold Jake?? His ponytail was in your face just wrap it round a couple times!

Was that a "damn I think I got to save my dad" face? Or was it a "no we need a bad guy for avatar 3!" Face?