The announcement of Avatar: The Way of Water, as well as the additional Avatar installments, has film fans dishing out their hot takes on James Cameron's franchise, and some of the unorthodox opinions that are downright spicy. From the name of the movie to its latest legacy, here are a few opinions people felt the need to share.
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Hindsight Is 20/20
Should have called this franchise Pandora not Avatar.
— Daniel Richtman #BlackLivesMatter (@DanielRPK) April 30, 2022
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It Changed Cinema For The Better
Unpopular opinion: Avatar changed cinema for the better. They worked on advanced CGI for that time and made 3D so popular.
i fully get it's easy to dunk on AVATAR but considering it's the first blockbuster series in decades to put just one guy's expansive, expensive and wholly original artistic vision on the screen i'd think we might be be a little less cynical about the blue people in space movie
people on twitter love to complain about the monoculture pipeline of Marvel, DC, Star Wars, etc, but James Cameron comes along to make a fully original goofy-ass space adventure where people ride flying dinosaurs holding machine guns and their first instinct is to mock it
AVATAR has many issues and is a deeply silly motion picture, but it also has some of the most elegantly staged and directed action of the last 20 years, and increasingly stands apart from the infinite examples of bland, artless action that's become the unfortunate norm since 2009
the most likely worst case scenario for AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER is that it'll look amazing, have terrific action scenes and show us some beautiful sci-fi nonsense while dialogue and story is peak cringe and this is actually still a pretty enjoyable night at the movies
i just think it's weird to pick the AVATAR series to be smug over considering how rare what james cameron is attempting (one of the best directors to ever do it) and how rare it is in modern movies even if it's not for you
