Avatar 2: Way of Water ... the PRE-POLL (Are you interested?)

[Mad_Jack]

If I wasn't dead broke at the moment, I'd probably go see it. For movies like this, I don't really expect anything other than to entertained by pretty colors... If it has some interesting dialogue and acting, I don't really need to have much of a plot.

 

[ThrorII]

I have no interest in a 'Ferngully' / 'Smurf' / 'Moana' mash up.

 

[MarkB]

I didnt see the original in the theater, I saw it on stream. I didnt think much of it. I was told it was because I didnt see it in 3D. So, I suppose if had the chance I could see the sequel in the theater for the best experience of it. Though, its been so many years I'm just over it.

My main recollection of seeing it in 3D at the cinema was of there being someone with big hair a couple of rows down whose head was blocking the bottom-left part of the screen, and frequently appeared to be paradoxically further away than the foreground details and subtitles it was partially obscuring.

 

[briggart]

I have yet to watch the first one, so it's unlikely I'll see the second one in a theater, unless some friend organizes a viewing.

 

[TwoSix]

There's no real point to watching Avatar on streaming. You don't watch it for the plot or the characters, you watch it to be immersed in the experience. It needs to be seen in IMAX 3D to appreciate it. Otherwise, it's like judging a roller coaster by watching a GoPro video of someone else riding the roller coaster.

 

[CleverNickName]

There's no real point to watching Avatar on streaming. You don't watch it for the plot or the characters, you watch it to be immersed in the experience. It needs to be seen in IMAX 3D to appreciate it. Otherwise, it's like judging a roller coaster by watching a GoPro video of someone else riding the roller coaster.

Correction: it would be like judging a roller coaster by watching a GoPro video on a giant IMAX 3D screen.

 

[Ryujin]

There's no real point to watching Avatar on streaming. You don't watch it for the plot or the characters, you watch it to be immersed in the experience. It needs to be seen in IMAX 3D to appreciate it. Otherwise, it's like judging a roller coaster by watching a GoPro video of someone else riding the roller coaster.

When I watch motorcycle racing on TV or Youtube, I find myself leaning into the turns

 

[pukunui]

I've never seen the original. Not planning to see this one or any subsequent sequels. I am, however, grateful for the work these films have brought to the industry here in NZ.

 

[nevin]

So for those of you who don't know, the KING OF THE WORLD (aka, James Cameron) is about to unleash upon us a multitude of Avatar movies, starting with ....

Avatar: The Way of Water (Avatar 2), in Theaters everywhere on December 16, 2022.

It already had its premiere, and reviews are GOOD. VERY VERY GOOD.

That said ... premiere reviews are almost universally very good. Here's what we do know-

1. It's the sequel to Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time (non-inflation adjusted, world-wide gross).

2. It's three hours and twelve minutes.

3. It's the sequel to Avatar, the second-highest grossing film of all time, inflation adjusted. As for the highest? Frankly, my dear EnWorld reader, I don't give a darn.

4. It's three hours and twelve minutes.

5. Trailer? TRAILER!


6. It's three hours and twelve minutes.

7. There are blue people.

8. It's three hours and twelve minutes.

9. You can (and probably should) see it in IMAX 3D.

10. Apparently, James Cameron has spent, like, a BILLION DOLLARS on these films. Give or take a few hundred million.

11. It's THREE HOURS and TWELVE MINUTES.

12. They changed the best thing about Avatar .... THE FONT.


So, are you going to be seeing Avatar? Are you excited? Is this your favorite Blue Person entertainment (non Smurf, non percussion division)? A poll is placed for your entertainment!

1. Yes but its been so long im not excited. Im sure it'll be good but its been 13 years, id already hit stage 5 acceptance that it was never coming out.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Where's the polls I'd go watch it, but I'm broke and in debt option?

I heard it draws inspiration from all of James Cameron's past movies and is really good.

Personally never saw the OG movie.

 

[Stalker0]

Avatar really captured me when it first came out. I do think its very very late to be throwing in a sequel, but hey JC has shown me the magic before, so I'm going to give this one a go.

 

[Umbran]

There's no real point to watching Avatar on streaming. You don't watch it for the plot or the characters, you watch it to be immersed in the experience. It needs to be seen in IMAX 3D to appreciate it. Otherwise, it's like judging a roller coaster by watching a GoPro video of someone else riding the roller coaster.

For you, maybe.

But, on the whole, telling people what they can, and cannot, appreciate is maybe not the greatest approach to discussing media.

 

[TwoSix]

For you, maybe.

But, on the whole, telling people what they can, and cannot, appreciate is maybe not the greatest approach to discussing media.

Perhaps. But that doesn't change the fact I'm right. I'm not telling them what they "can do", I'm making a recommendation as to what they "should do".

 

[Kobold Stew]

As someone who consumes tons of pop culture, who loves science fiction, and has sufficient disposable income, I find myself stunned at how uninteresting this movie looks.

The first film is the least interesting thing Sigourney Weaver has ever done, had no memorable lines or scenes or characters, and featured aliens that I could not find compelling. Yes it made money, and continues to do so since it keeps being re-released, and to their credit (I believe) they are not re-editing it each time. So there's one nice thing about it.

I am stunned that this has a chance at making money. My students haven't seen the first film, and so I imagine that it's being targeted at me. The trailer looks dull, and I don't know any of the characters. The message seems ham-fisted, and spelled out in the trailer.

Profound disinterest means that I won't be seeing it, ever, I expect.

 

[Ath-kethin]

Anybody is a fool to bet against Jim Cameron at this point. He is the Jim Steinman of filmmakers: his movies are grandiose and ridiculous and overblown and awesome.

I'll be seeing this one in IMAX, tyvm.

 

[Ryujin]

Oh, I have no doubt that it will make a bajillion dollars. Might even break records.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I should be tempted, because James Cameron movies are always at least decent as movies, and invariably spectacular in the "justifying seeing it on a big screen" sort of way. Logically this should be a place where I spend my filmgoing dollars. But at the same time... meh.

I just don't care about Avatar. Nobody not named James Cameron cares about Avatar. I saw the original and kind of liked it, like most humans, but, like most humans, I have zero Avatar investment. Honestly the most interesting thing about Avatar is how nearly everyone went and saw it and yet it had so little lasting cultural impact.

So in conclusion... no if left to my own devices. But if the family wants to go see it around Christmas I'm not actively opposed.

 

[Mallus]

I’m going to see it. In 3D. Once. Like I did the first one.

Visual spectacle is fine by me as long as it’s spectacular enough.

I’m a lifelong reader of fantasy & science fiction. I’m used to the story not being good (but dragons and spacecraft being amazing).

If I feel like my intelligence was insulted after seeing it, I’ll read one of Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels… to reacquaint myself with what that actually feels like.

 

[aco175]

Also, I predict we'll get 4 films, the next one being the Road of Fire and the Path of Earth.

The 4th one will likely be called Scorched Earth, to finish the political statement the first one started about climate change.

I recently saw an interview with the actor Matt Damon about how he turned down the lead in the first film after being offered like 10% of the royalties. Calling it the biggest financial loss in Hollywood.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I recently saw an interview with the actor Matt Damon about how he turned down the lead in the first film after being offered like 10% of the royalties. Calling it the biggest financial loss in Hollywood.

Maybe he’s had a bigger loss since the interview. Do you think he was paid in crypto for those ads?

Fortune favors the brave, indeed!