“Avatar 2” is declared a visual masterpiece, better than the first

I don't trust those first reactions, they're mostly always bought shills. Let's wait for the critics to have their say, there's no fucking way this is a quality movie, script-wise.

I hated the first one, I ain't going like this one either

That looks like a painting. Is it a cartoon?

I can’t believe all the SJWs haven’t cancelled it for cultural appropriation already.

The first film was unbelievably stupid and boring. I was braindead after I heard "unobtanium". Big loud stupid headache of a movie.

I am sure it will do great and the CGI will be beyond this world. You would think people would learn to trust James Cameron by now.

[quote] I don't trust those first reactions, they're mostly always bought shills. Let's wait for the critics to have their say, there's no fucking way this is a quality movie, script-wise.

David Ehlrich is the chief critic at IndieWire

Avatar The Way of Water: lol imagine being dumb enough to bet against James Cameron. or teen alien Sigourney Weaver. or giant whales subtitled in papyrus.

light years better than the first & easily one of the best theatrical experiences in ages. streaming found dead in a ditch.

I was, uh, not exactly champing at the bit for an Avatar 2 (even if “James Cameron + wet” tends to work out pretty well). now I can’t *wait* to see Avatar 3. that’s basically all I wanted out of this and it delivered in a big way.

Cameron always delivers. He knows how to put a film together. Even his lesser films hold some interest. Should be visually dazzling at the least. His heavy-handed scripts work, even at their clunkiest. I predict boffo biz, a reason to get out of the house and go to the theater for the holidays.

I see the studio marketing people have arrived!

I see the troll who hasn't seen the film or have any sense of what the public wants has arrived.

Tail fuckin'!

They said Cats was mind-blowing too...

Cartoon film

Then it's perfect for Datalounge.

I'm excited to see a film become a big box office hit that is not Marvel.

R15 It’s ALL Disney so that hardly matters!

R10 I see the resident cunt has arrived.

I'll see it just to get the fuck away from annoying relatives. Spark up mary jane with the posse and have some fun.

I sincerely doubt you've ever seen a cunt, unless you've looked in the mirror R17.

R19 I see you.

Someone just said on Twitter that Neytiri dies. But no doubt she will be back as an African girl.

And why would you post that spoiler here, asshole. F&F R21. Good thing I don’t recognize the name and will hopefully forget it in about a month when I go see this.

Neytiri is the main character's girlfriend. The main character dies!

NEYTIRI DIES!

The main character dies.

That's funny. Everyone lived in Titanic.

Smurfette fucks Sam Worthington’s fliddy corpse.

The Twitter reviewer also said Jake gets with Kate Winslut's character. She becomes his new girlfriend. A Titanic connection.

I hope a de-aged Robert Patrick show up and fucks the hell out of everybody.

The first film had zero cultural impact despite all the money it made. Nobody talks about it. Nobody quotes it. Other blockbuster films have entered the cultural zeitgeist and are still talked about to this day. Jaws, Star Wars, Aliens, Terminator, even Titanic. Avatar holds that special place where it made over a billion dollars yet you’d never know it happened.

Avatar has made almost 3 billion to date, turd breath.

R31= James Cameron

I refuse to see such a naked pandering to Malay homosexuals with cyanosis.

What even is this film about? I have seen a few trailers and I literally still have no idea what the plot is supposed to be.

And before anyone tries to explain Pandora please don't. I saw the first movie. I just have no idea what the story for this one is supposed to be.

How refreshing to see a movie trailer that doesn't GIVE AWAY EVERY SINLGE PLOT POINT to a braindead audience.

I felt I had had several birthdays watching the first one. Tall blue people with tails. Woo hoo!

I came to say what R1 said. Since Wonder Woman 2, every major studio release has been met with insanely hyperbolic early reviews that have proved to be almost universally overturned by later reviews. WW2/1984 was heralded as better than the first, as "transcending the genre," yada yada, and it was an hour too long and terrible. It had something like a 98 on Metacritic the day it came out; it currently has a 60%.

More recently, Bros had something like an 88% the day it came out. Its Metacritic rating is now 72%.

The craziest of them to me is The Guardian's recent reviews of Amazon's Rings of Power.

This is from its August 31 original review:

[quote] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review – so astounding it makes House of the Dragon look amateur. The visual splendour of this rich, gorgeous Tolkien drama will make you gawp throughout. Watch it on the largest TV you can...This is enormously enjoyable TV, a cinematic feast. Now, I just need to find someone with a huge telly to let me watch with them.

And then after the finale, on October 17, The Guardian published this review:

[quote] Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker. The world’s most expensive show – which looked like an episode of Hollyoaks, only with woeful acting – was so inept that every episode left you sniggering. Bear McCreary’s ever-present score was syrupy and phoned in, as if he fell asleep on the “Fantasy” preset on his keyboard. The whole thing was lit as if it was an episode of Hollyoaks. Given the sheer amount of money thrown at the show, some of the visual effects were incredibly inept. Tonally, too, the drama didn’t know if it was meant to be for beginner-, intermediate- or expert-level Tolkien fans. As such, it felt like it was made for nobody.

I'm 44. All my life, there's been a divide between critical reviews that didn't match popular opinions about movies. But only since 2020 have almost all early reviews clearly been purchased or traded for glowing hyperbole overturned by honest opinions after movies are released. Avatar is exactly the kind of spectacle movie that I now expect to underwrite A+++ reviews to sell tickets.

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Well, OP, you know, people say a lot of things.