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Review on Avatar: The Way Of Water – Die In The Water



You know that brief moment of horror when you visit an elderly relative’s home, and you sit down in front of the TV and realize they haven’t turned off motion smoothing yet? Even if you’ve never heard the term before, chances are you’re familiar with its form—suddenly your favorite show looks like a soap opera or is filmed like a movie. family drama and all the actors are just looking this way. weird–not enough to look completely inhuman, but enough to be distracting. Avatar: The Way Of Water dares to ask a question that absolutely no one has thought of: What if you were stuck in that strange motion nightmare zone for more than three hours and couldn’t turn it off? In fact, what if all those slick, almost-but-not-very-unreal looking actors were rendered in 3D and a few dozen feet tall?

To be fair, not all of Avatar 2 looks like it’s been padded with artificial frames for motion-smoothing effects. The weirdness just sticks to the human cast, who don’t make up the bulk of the movie in any single shot – but when they do show up (and they do appear for a large portion of the very long first act), it’s hard to do anything but be distracted by its strange appearance. And, for a movie franchise that owns a whole lot of notoriety for the fact that it lives on the absolute pinnacle of technology, this is a rough way to start things off.

And things, unfortunately, are still quite difficult. Even as the weirdness of the human actors wears off (it never goes away completely, but it becomes less pronounced when there’s less live action), the visual effects don’t match up. strangely began to become more and more prominent. Make no mistake: large parts of this movie are absolutely stunning. Nearly all of the underwater and underwater effects are rendered perfectly and there are some truly amazing animations working to capture the little micro-expressions in the acting that make the characters Na’vi looks very real. These moments are just chopped between others that are significantly longer and more annoying that look like they’ve been ripped out of a PS5 game’s cutscene. Sure, the PS5’s cutscenes look great, but they really don’t meet the scrutiny they need to be subjected to when they’re in both IMAX and 3D formats.

All told, there’s probably going to be about a good hour of Way of Water that looks like something you’d want to write home about, which wouldn’t be a bad rate if the movie weren’t three hours long. lake and ten minutes long.

Worse yet, that one hour of truly stunning visuals is mostly due to a series of lengthy, scene-chewing montages that carry very little weight in terms of story or plot. The movie is at its best when it pretends to be the prettiest screensaver you’ll ever see in your life, then collapses spectacularly the moment it tries to get any blue aliens rendered worthily. Its love tells anything resembling a compelling story.

Much of the plot of Avatar 2 is figuratively and literally recycled from Avatar 1. “Sky People” are returning to Pandora. The villain Evil Marine (Stephen Lang) from the first film is also back, along with his platoon of Evil Marine chronicles. There was a jumble of mismatched plot devices that made them come back. At one point, it was because the Earth was dying and humans wanted to repopulate Pandora, and at another, it was because there was a new natural resource flavored with Unobtanium that humans had. want to mine (we won’t reveal what it actually is, but trust us: it’s a doozy). However, neither of these really matters. Instead, the story tries its best to keep us interested in Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family, his real Na’vi wife, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and 5 kids half Na’vi, half his Avatar, in which a child played. by Sigourney Weaver, it might be the most awkward casting of all time.

The point is that Jake Sully is as attractive and lovable as a driftwood, and his chemistry with Saldana as the central couple is as captivating as a can of spoiled milk. Saldana is almost seen as a “savage” mother, other than because she can’t understand “The Man in the Sky” the way Jake does, receiving very little dialogue other than wailing, growling, and hissing. , disagreeing with most of Jake’s choices. Meanwhile, the kids are all written to be human (and to be honest, obnoxious). The only Na’vi trait they have is their tendency to grit their teeth when cornered—otherwise, they spend their time calling each other “buddy” and often act like a bunch of schoolchildren High school noise that you want to avoid at the mall. This really succeeds in highlighting the fact that Avatar 2 staunchly refuses to take part in its outmoded and frankly weird central pretentiousness, where the oppressor of humanity rushes in to save the lives of the people. Indigenous people are oppressed as a chosen hero, while somehow better than them in every way. customs and traditions. Jake has no real character to talk about – he treats his kids like a training sergeant, the bosses around the native Na’vi are like he owns the place, and making unilateral decisions that Neytiri hated but eventually realized that they were all right.

The kids, too, are all interchangeable and flat like the rest of the characters in the movie. They exist almost exclusively to be prisoners or to get into various dangerous situations that prompt Jake to act–I’m not even sure I can confidently tell you any of their names, though despite having spent the past three hours with them. I’m in the theater. Several times Weaver’s teenage character gets hints of her own side plot that might set her apart, but that never materializes and the film leaves any question about whether she’s going to be. answered and not satisfied.

Way of Water really gives the impression that what James Cameron is really interested in Pandora is something you would find in a National Geographic documentary rather than a blockbuster. There’s more care and detail put into the presentation moments of things like whaling insights on Pandora than in any of the plot key character moments. Creature designs and technology express thought and care clearly–even the distinction between the Na’vi in ​​the forest and the Na’vi on the reef has been meticulously crafted and reliable. It’s a shame that there’s no real story to tell them and no real reason to feel invested in them other than their physical beauty.

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