Who watches these cornball epics?
I thought they were visually interesting...
I watched the first movie. The storyline turned me off as it was nothing more than the age-old story of humans invading and colonizing a planet to procure its resources. Couldn't bring myself to watch what has come since.
Made it halfway through the first one. Despite the dazzling special effects, it’s just the same old tired noble savage trope gussied up. The most fascinating thing for me isn’t the movie, it’s that Cameron has devoted so much of his life to this thing all the way out to Avatar 5 in 2031(?)
Although, I only saw the first story, people don’t go to Cameron’s movies because of the storyline. They go see it for the latest visual tech.
Apparently a horde of suggestible females who like to imagine going to Pandora. After the first one came out, therapists reported a rash of women pining away for a life with the blue people. They wanted so badly for it to be true. Go figure.
I sure don’t. Woke smurf people.
I like watching these digitally enhanced movies to see if they got the physics right. The physics of light in water is very difficult to animate. Avatar I was the first film to get it right. Watching the movie on the big screen was quite an experience.
The premise that the Earth was destroyed by the greedy humans (climate change, pollution) was highly speculative, not supported by empirical evidence. I just ignored the silly stuff, good plot otherwise.
I saw Avatar II on TV and thought it was a reasonable follow up. The underwater scenes were visually stunning and the plot was solid.
I gotta see Avatar III on the big screen. That’s the way to watch it. Dune 3 is coming out in 2026. It will be interesting how they handle “Dune Messiah” and “Children of Dune.”
I think the best movies of 2025 were Brad Pitt in “F1” and Tom Cruise in “Dead Reckoning, part II.” I saw “Weapons” but it wasn’t scary, just weird. I kept saying “that’s not scary.”
I didn’t like the first, never watched the 2nd.