![]() ![]() Characters and themes are archetypally simplistic - almost to a fault - but that’s what makes them digestible and relatable for a mass global audience.Ĭameron’s stories, ideas, and dialog have always had the subtle edge of a sledgehammer, but they work. Only these are films and they’re made on a huge scale fully realizing every little itch of Cameron’s wild imagination. I love the cheesy pulp sci-fi qualities of the characters and story that harken back to the Tarzan and Princess of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I enjoyed the hell out of Avatarand I enjoyed Avatar: The Way of Water even more. Was the wait and hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable production budget all worth it? Well, I guess that depends on who you ask.įor me, I loved it. While he waited, he assembled a team of screenwriters to flesh out multiple story installments for his grand vision of Pandora. Ever the cinematic perfectionist, James Cameron once again had to wait for the visual effects technology to catch up to his ambition. ![]() ![]() Thirteen years is a damn long time between franchise installments. But Quaritch is hungry for revenge and ready for war. Fearing another bloody conflict, Jake takes his family to live with a tribe of the seafaring Metkayina hoping to restore their once-peaceful lives. Led by the Recombinant Na'vi avatar clone of Mile Quaritch (Stephen Lang), a team of lethal resurrected RDA mercs is on the hunt for Jake and his family to halt a revolt before it even starts. When the RDA forces return, they’re not there to strip-mine unobtanium but to terraform and colonize all of Pandora. The general sentiment is that Avatar delivered the story much better than many previous attempts.For sixteen years, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his wife Neyteri (Zoe Saldana) have lived peacefully on Pandora with their Na’vi children. The bible and the others before them are deliberate rehashes.Īvatar does indeed have a rehashed story but it is how that same, tired story is executed that people will judge. I don't even mean accidentally copied, those books are literally new iterations of the same thing to suit who they wanted them to appeal to. This is hardly a new concept because much older stories like those in the bible are simply rehashed from even older stories and those even older stories were themselves rehashed from others before them. Every movie is a rehash of somebody else's story that existed long before the medium of film, I'm doubtful either of us can single out one single movie that is actually a unique story that hasn't been changed slightly to make its own. Yes, sure, it's a plot I wish happened that way more often in real life, and I agree with the sentiments on display, but that doesn't make anything but the world-building unique. So 7.8 average is very highly rated.Ĭan you not see what a rehash of other stories this is? Bad people come to steal the lives and life of small good tribe tribe fights back and win (mostly because of a former bad guy turned good) ![]() It's certainly not a case of upvotes which a useless metric for scoring movies, it's again a numbers game but in this case it is a scale from 0-10. Popularity is a numbers game and you are definitely on the vastly smaller side of the numbers. The fact that 1.3 million people have upvoted this film doesn't make it any better, I'm afraid. ![]()
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