Avatar: The Way of the water (Dec 2022)

Just watched it. No fps issues watching it at home, but sadly no 3d either. Really wish I'd seen it at the cinema now! I found it better than the 1st, much better. Ok no 3D wow watching it at home, but the CGI etc is still phenomenal when watching in 4k&HDR. Everything looked so real and the movements were soo realistic considering this film was even more CGI than the 1st, having much less "human" characters and scenes. Every character felt unique despite being mainly CGI. I don't even know if the children characters were actors or fully CGI, especially the young girl as the movements and animation were so realistic. I liked the story, even though it was mainly predictable and in parts similar to the 1st.


Overall a definite 8.5/10 maybe even a 9 after I rewatch it at some point (maybe in the cinema).


rp2000
 
Last edited:
rp2000 said:
Just watched it. No fps issues watching it at home, but sadly no 3d either. Really wish I'd seen it at the cinema now! I found it better than the 1st, much better. Ok no 3D wow watching it at home, but the CGI etc is still phenomenal when watching in 4k&HDR. Everything looked so real and the movements were soo realistic considering this film was even more CGI than the 1st, having much less "human" characters and scenes. Every character felt unique despite being mainly CGI. I don't even know if the children characters were actors or fully CGI, especially the young girl as the movements and animation were so realistic. I liked the story, even though it was mainly predictable and in parts similar to the 1st.


Overall a definite 8.5/10 maybe even a 9 after I rewatch it at some point (maybe in the cinema).


rp2000
Click to expand...
Sigourney Weaver played one of the children.
 
Saw it, didn't like it. Where did all the kids come from. Even the colonels! Too much hissing, too many swampy haircuts. Too long. Looked like a ps5 cutscene. 4/10
 
rp2000 said:
Just watched it. No fps issues watching it at home, but sadly no 3d either. Really wish I'd seen it at the cinema now! I found it better than the 1st, much better. Ok no 3D wow watching it at home, but the CGI etc is still phenomenal when watching in 4k&HDR. Everything looked so real and the movements were soo realistic considering this film was even more CGI than the 1st, having much less "human" characters and scenes. Every character felt unique despite being mainly CGI. I don't even know if the children characters were actors or fully CGI, especially the young girl as the movements and animation were so realistic. I liked the story, even though it was mainly predictable and in parts similar to the 1st.


Overall a definite 8.5/10 maybe even a 9 after I rewatch it at some point (maybe in the cinema).


rp2000
Click to expand...

Sounds like the first movie then really, a visual treat, but as a film utterly meh. My friends and I watched Avatar many times, usually while high, the story didn't matter, but the dopamine was off the charts anyway...

It's a lot like ROP in that respect, I can see why some people were blown away watching it on their high end TV's (reading through tons of comments all over internet visual presentation was by far the most common positive attribute the series garnered) - but it didn't mask the fact the show was utterly dire, but many people are happy just sitting back and watching their TV be amazing for an hour, nothing wrong with that, but people who love the source are never going think visual fidelity makes a good TV show.
 
Watched this last night and WoW.

I had to pause a few times and asking myself was this real or fake lol.

Was like watching Plannet Earth when it came out on Blueray.

Story was serviceable.

It totally went against the Hollywood tread of dead beat dads etc.

The family unit was front and centre. Which was refreshing in that regards.

I do love me a bit of Weaver.

Also never thought I be routing for a big whale hah
 
Last edited:
Watched this the other night, can't say I was overly impressed, story was meh, CGI was great but I felt it lost the grounding it had in the first film due to the reduction in real stuff added in or at least it felt that way, not sure it actually was, and also, all I could see with Kiri, the character played by Weaver was Cally Tyrol from BSG for some reason lmao, that said, it did entertain me and I didn't fall asleep so I guess that says something for it. So which biome will they be hitting up for the next one? Desert? Mountain? Tundra? Assume we will get a different one for each film :)
 
I watched it the other day (in 3 stints). Overall it wasn't bad, one of my biggest grippes was the kids constantly calling each other BRO or CUZ. At first it wasn't noticeable but once you've heard it once, you hear it every time.
 
Noakesy85 said:
I watched it the other day (in 3 stints). Overall it wasn't bad, one of my biggest grippes was the kids constantly calling each other BRO or CUZ. At first it wasn't noticeable but once you've heard it once, you hear it every time.
Click to expand...
yeah, was hard to suspend your reality when aliens are calling each other Bro
 
CircleFaust said:
yeah, was hard to suspend your reality when aliens are calling each other Bro
Click to expand...
Even in the first Avatar, Jake would call the other Na'vi "Brother" which was somewhat more believable.

I highly doubt he as the only Human/Na'vi hybrid living amongst them decided after all those years to start using terms like Bro and Cuz around his own children?

Can't wait to see how the language evolves into Avatar 3.
 
Noakesy85 said:
I watched it the other day (in 3 stints). Overall it wasn't bad, one of my biggest grippes was the kids constantly calling each other BRO or CUZ. At first it wasn't noticeable but once you've heard it once, you hear it every time.
Click to expand...

One of the things that really struck me about it was how incredibly paper-thin the world building was. They've created this incredible world where all animals get a USB port into the world net and you have sapient, sentient pacifist space-whales who hang out and talk with the water people. And into this fantastic world you've imported a bunch of children who behave exactly like American teenagers with an incredibly clichéd plot about them bonding after one of them takes the newcomer child somewhere they shouldn't and abandons them there which we've only seen roughly a billion times before.

Where did these kids learn "I hate you times infinity"? They're hunter gatherers! They don't go to school. There was a sad story I heard about how for the first one they created a whole language for the Navi and invented instruments for them and composed music for them they sounded alien and different and plausible and... it never made it into the film because Cameron didn't like it. Feels like the whole film is like that.
 
Mr Jack said:
One of the things that really struck me about it was how incredibly paper-thin the world building was. They've created this incredible world where all animals get a USB port into the world net and you have sapient, sentient pacifist space-whales who hang out and talk with the water people. And into this fantastic world you've imported a bunch of children who behave exactly like American teenagers with an incredibly clichéd plot about them bonding after one of them takes the newcomer child somewhere they shouldn't and abandons them there which we've only seen roughly a billion times before.

Where did these kids learn "I hate you times infinity"? They're hunter gatherers! They don't go to school. There was a sad story I heard about how for the first one they created a whole language for the Navi and invented instruments for them and composed music for them they sounded alien and different and plausible and... it never made it into the film because Cameron didn't like it. Feels like the whole film is like that.
Click to expand...
I'm also pretty sure that in that same "I hate you times infinity" argument, one of the kids calls the other a p**is face??
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom