Skip to main content

Avatar: The Way Of Water

 



On Monday, my aunt took me to see 'Avatar: The Way Of Water', the long awaited sequel to the phenomenon 'Avatar'. Now's it's been 14 years since the last one, so there is literally no excuse for this movie to be lackluster. So was it worth the wait?

As much as I am a fan of the previous 'Avatar', I didn't really expect much out of this one, especially plot wise. The plot is pretty much a revenge story between Jake and Quaritch, who somehow turned into an avatar and had a kid. There's nothing really wrong with that, it's just not the 2 strong points of the movie. The first strong point obviously being the visuals. They are absolutely gorgeous. They truly take you to another world and you just can't get enough of it. The second strong point is the dynamic between Jake and his family, which now has the addition of 5 bad kids (well 4 as the oldest one (RIP) was pretty decent). You can tell that they are close and that they love each other very much, and that they stick together no matter what. I would also like to point that I was pleasantly surprised at the development of Jake and Neytiri's relationship. Not that it was bad in the first movie, it was great in the first movie. But I didn't expect Cameron to extend that. Both have become a voice of reason for each other. Whether Jake was being too harsh on one the kids or Neytiri was acting irrationally towards situations. They are each other's backbone and I loved that.    

As for the weak points of the movie, I will gladly say that the writing for the first one is better than this one. Not that the writing in this is bad, there's just a lot of gray areas. For example: Spider. Spider is Quaritch's son whom Jake and Neytiri adopted. Neytiri is a little iffy with him for obvious reasons. Spider is eventually taken by his father and accompanies him in finding Jake. Cameron could've developed the dynamic between Neytiri, Spider, and Quaritch a little more. The thing is It was obvious that Spider knew his dad was bad news, and he just barely did anything to stop him until like the very end. If he was being held against his will (which he was briefly) then It would've been different. It also would've helped if we dug deeper into Neytiri's baggage and seen animosity between her and Spider. At least that would've given Quaritch an advantage to manipulate Spider into coming to his side and a reason for him to turn against the Na'vi. But it went nowhere. 

But overall, the movie was very good, just not great. And that doesn't really bother me since I wasn't expecting much out of this anyway. I do feel that It was worth the wait and I do recommend the movie (not that is needs it as it is now the highest grossing film of 2022). We've got 3 more Avatar's to go and apparently the next one comes out in 2 years. That better be the case, because there is no way in Hell anyone is waiting another 14 years for another one. Thank you. 

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

American Idol 2025 Thoughts: Day 1

  American Idol  has officially reached its live shows so that means it's time to start the commentaries. For those of you who didn't track these last year, here's an explanation; I will be saying my thoughts on the contestants and their performances. In typical 'me' fashion, I will rank each performance to #1. But unlike my normal lists, this will be from worst to best.  This will be starting the following week as today is just an introduction. Our Top 24 has been chosen and they are as follows;     Canaan James Hill (Platinum)             Gabby Simone  Zaylie Windsor                         Mattie Pruitt  Thunderstorm Artis                  Drew Ryn  Che                                     ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Introduction

Bio My name is Naomi Marie Elidios Chadwick. I was born in San Diego, California, but I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I pretty much have a traditional family, which involves happily married parents, 1 younger sister, and an older brother. I was raised Christian, and I continue to practice Christianity to this day. This is not a spiritual blog but some of the content that I post is influenced by my faith. Every now and then I will post Christian content as well, just not always (except with Billboard ). The picture you see up above is me at the airport with my father after I graduated from AmeriCorps NCCC after 10 months of community service. In response I received a congressional award for community service. I've always been really proud of that. I was diagnosed with Asperger's (a form of Autism) around the age of 6, but I was not informed of my diagnosis until I was 12. I'm very into movies and television (animation especially), and pop culture as a whole, and I...
Post a Comment
Read more

What The Hell Did I Even Watch!?!🤣

I think ever since Lady Gaga's performance in A Star Is Born , musicians have been trying to jump in on the band wagon. The Weekend is one of those musicians who's trying, and failing miserably. First he tried with The Idol , and we all saw how that crashed and burned. And now he decided to turn his newest album Hurry Up Tomorrow into a movie, where he plays a fictionalized version of himself. Oh yeah, Jenna Ortega and  Barry Keoghan are in this too.  The Weekend is obviously on this vendetta to prove to people that he can act, and it's getting kind of pathetic. The movie is just.....not good.  There's barely even a plot, it's just an elongated music video that involves The Weekend crying too much. Now, I will give him some credit for actually trying this time (unlike in The Idol ). But unfortunately, instead of coming off as a troubled musician, this felt like I was watching one of the 3-5 year-olds my mom deals with at her job. I'm aware that this movie was in...
Post a Comment
Read more