_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

I would watch the heck out of Anviltar tbh

And I’ll probably watch these sequels, actually

So you're the guy

it took me what, 13 years to see this? idk why except that ppl were like “it’s an incredible spectacle with pretty much nothing beneath it” and i was like “i don’t need another cameron film like that”

but at this point i’m pretty down with a movie that suggests we need to connect to the lifeforce that binds us to the earth and to each other to destroy all colonists

gimme avatar 2

I love avatar unabashedly

me too. some folks I know IRL (who think Wes Anderson is the GOAT and sneered at this film) did a lot of mental gymnastics to hold this film to different standards than other action movie spectacles.

(the discourse was much better ITT). also lol at jjjusten takedown of Shakey and Dan rejoinder upthread.

I refuse to believe any of you are excited about this. I mean, I believe it, but at the same time, I refuse. Love me some Cameron, hate that he's wasted his time with these Smurfs.

I'm excited for the new one too but I can look at enormous CGI trees and characters jumping on floating rocks all day. I understand 200% why people would get nothing out of this franchise

I enjoyed the first one fine at the time but have barely thought about it since and can’t imagine spending an entire career on this thinly imagined nonsense.

the coded racial stuff felt v icky & outdated to me in 2009, its hard for me to imagine it playing any better in 2022

My wife hadn’t seen Avatar and we started watching it together recently. After an hour she didn’t understand why she was watching a boring film that looks like a video game without the fun of being able to play it and decided to stop watching – and I totally got her point.

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I mean it’s not particularly sophisticated in its deployment, but ‘industrialized colonists v. naturist natives’ is kind of an archetype and I’m not sure what coded racial stuff is in there that’s particularly icky? Seemed intentionally broad. Unless you’re referring to something specific that I’m forgetting.

I liked Avatar. I mean a lot’s been written about how it made a bazillion dollars yet made absolutely minimal cultural impact considering. It did evaporate off of me almost immediately. But, y’know, had fun seeing it in IMAX, good spectacle, action set pieces were solid.

I’m actually kinda stoked for Part 2. I’m a sucker for underwater shit.

I rode the 3D Avatar ride at Disney World in February and it was awesome. It made me want to see another Avatar movie. (Because it would be a lot cheaper than going to Disney World again.)

Avatar: The Way Of Holding Your Water:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-way-of-water-runtime-1235251391/

Film expert Gregg Turkington (as seen on AMC) just called this the greatest movie of all time

nonsense. that would have to be either The Greatest Show on Earth or The Greatest Story Ever Told.