#I'm looking forward to Avatar 3 for scientific purposes only

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I've seen Avatar 2, The way of water so you don't have to (maybe a thread ?)

I've recently watched Avatar 2 with my parents as we don't have much occasions to do family stuff since my father is sick. Anyway.

Even after 13 years of waiting for the sequel to be released - because according to Google, the first one came in 2009 - , I wasn't very much appealed by it. I was afraid that it might not be as great as when I was... 9 years old ? (IS THAT SO ?! WAS I REALLY THAT YOUNG ?!) And I think it was justified. Let me tell you why.

Disclaimer : I don't really know what I was expecting but I surely wasn't expecting this.

After a few minutes of watching the movie (in French, I'm really sorry but my father couldn't have handled a VO), my first reaction was

"It's like we're having James Cameron making the fanfiction he wrote himself adapted into a movie... he made himself. Like he IS his own number 1 fan. Oh. My. God. "

Because, truth needs to be spoken, the scenario was equal to one of the fanfiction sphere easily found on AO3 or - heavy breathing - FFnet. Which doesn't mean it is bad in itself, but in my opinion, for a movie we waited for so long, I would have appreciated if some efforts had been put to level up the story. But there's worst than that.

Indeed, some scenes appear to be meaningful in the others movies so if Avatar 2 doesn't match James Cameron's expectations about the success of The Way of Water, we might never get the answers of these scenes as the sequel-sequel wouldn't be released. Money matter, u kno.

Also, I have rewatched Avatar 1 to be in the mood. But I'm not 9 anymore, the magic is gone, I feel like it's merely Pocahontas with blue characters and a ecological aspect (but I like Pocahontas more). I will forgive Avatar 1 for the sake of 2009 and the past but I will strike Avatar 2, because water IS NOT under the bridge and 2022 is challenging for the movie industry. Avatar 2 is trully beautiful, it's breathtaking, but it won't be enough to satisfy the audience. I wasn't satisfied ; if it had been for esthetic purposes only - like a video game scenery or else - it would have filled its goal PERFECTLY. But it's not. We wanted a story, and the story is frustrating. As you see :

The first third part of the movie was basically "The Return of Jake Sully apprenticeship - Extented version" as he and his family moved to a water tribe and have to learn a new way of living - the way of water baby. The second third part is basically the children having the existential crisis we all went through as teenagers - searching for our place in this world, our relationship towards others, why we're seen the way people are seeing us etc. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, the third third part of the movie was the famous LAST STAND with the Enemy-brought-back-from-the-dead, who appears to HAVE A SON - but we'll get through this later, I promise because I have many things to say about this special character - because the Grief-Revenge Arc, famously known in the Marvels movies, has the wind in the sterns. And, if I remember it correctly, it's also a part of the Third-Act-Structure writers use to structure their novel. I don't know if that same structure is used to serve other purposes. Anyway.

I have many many things to say about that movie, 3hours it's so f*cking long. Should I make a thread ? *sigh*