@@kaiholeung903 As a married man and a father, yes. All the interactions between the chief and his wife are hilarious. My wife and I couldn't stop laughing and pointing at each other during the: "You should stay here so you and the baby are safe" "I'm going to fight" followed by him saying absolutely nothing else about it to her lol. Pick your battles people, and remember, all out war is less scary than a fight with the missus.
I’m still not fully convinced that Jakes plan to abandon his position and take his family to the water tribe was a fully justified idea. You can clearly see that the forest tribe has evolved since the first movie, they’re all using RDA guns, explosives, and even military vehicles in the movie. I mean they completely eradicated an entire armored train without a sweat. They would easily put up a really tough fight against Quaritches little squad of avatars.
@@jimmyannunziata6133 I hope so! It’s obvious that Avatar 2 and 3 are gonna be one big connected story, given that they’re filmed at the same time and James Cameron said that he had to split the original story for Avatar 2 in half. I’m super excited :)
@@killjoy117007 yup, and bring hellfire upon on themselves from humans arriving in droves, but it seems it happens anyways. I heard this film was rewritten from originally being a space battle and Cameron wanting the films not to stray from Pandora
@@killjoy117007 We learn that the squad of Avatars are push overs. They only manage to kill one son after all of the battles where no Navi die and they get dropped near effortlessly. What was the point? Just so they could go up to the floating mountains where Jake is not at?
The older brother dying really was emotional, imagine loosing your oldest child, he had the same characteristics too Jake which too me was such a bummer he’s gone
It’s would have been better if the younger brother died because the the younger brother was probably the best character in the film. Not that I want him to die, but it would make for a more emotional moment considering he was more developed.
I actually laughed in the theater when the oldest son died. The film ended and one person clapped in the theater once then nothing. This movie was trash.
Really? That was the worst part of the movie for me. He literally had almost not dialogue the whole movie... I don't even think him and Neytiri had a conversation... It was just bad writing to choose him to die and make such a big deal out of it. If it had been Loak or Kiri that died the impact of the ending would have made sense. But choosing a character who literally had no screen time was such a boring choice. The only thing emotional about his death was Zoe Saldana's amazing acting. That's it.
@@kbg12ilathat’s what I’m saying, there’s not enough character development for me to care for these characters when they just got introduced. If it was Jake Sully or his wife then that would’ve been different. I was a bit disappointed with the storyline but the movie looks crazy visually.
Well half of them left to warn the tu kuun before that. And some died in the initial clash, but mostly the sea dragon moved and payakan caused a bunch of havoc making the ships run and the warriors give chase, as sully finds Loak and the final approach begins. It happens in a matter of minutes
@@JoseMolina-jz9hh same, though I think it could be different based on the director cut since there will be one. Cameron cut out a lot for it to not drag out too long.
The deal was for jake sully to come alone right? So he did it for the safety for their kids. I only noticed it because everybody talking about it. But who am I? I'm just there trying to enjoy the fiction tory instead of searching for a flaw.
My one big gripe literally was all of the other blue people just disappearing (minus the one sea girl) in the final act. Weird how that happens. Overall, thought it was great. Visuals are superb and despite the plot holes, the story has a lot of emotion.
Knowing all the cuts that happened from the last movie to keep it under 3 hours, I bet you that they had atleast another hour or 2 of filming cut cause this movie is almost 4 hours long...
The chief of the sea tribe was there in the final act to save his daughter and get revenge for the whales and then just crickets... they all just vanish and she wasn't even rescued yet and the boss wasn't killed yet. Jake and the kids just left her on the rock with the dead son. That was weird too. This whole movie unless your brain is on off or autopolit it's hard to watch.
The mother is about to murder Spider and they don't even address it afterwards lmao. The kids see him as a brother. Jake even embraces him like a son at the end. They just go on like nothing happened.
I like the part where the water people, and I mean every single damn one of em, disappeared from the film for 45 min. Then, somehow, after leaving Jake and clan for dead, they adopt them as water 💦 tribe and the movie ends.
@@alfangel2003 the movie just wasn’t loooong enough to flesh out the relationships of Jake, his four kids, Spider, his absent father, the sociopolitical enviro plot and the fish out of water immigrant stuff so they just didn’t do it but wanted the payoff at the end. Welcome to the way of the water…..even tho you still can’t swim worth a damn.
I was sure to myself, that they were going to be the ones right at the end to help them out from drowning. I just wished they at least showed us them preparing water traps and using the environment of their natural habitat, to defend against the humans. At least in the first movie, the humans were almost out matched by the Na'vi in air to air.
Honestly this movie isn’t really that good in my opinion. Lol. Story is bad doesn’t make sense with the spider kid, sully leaving, learning the water Navi way, the whole outcast whale, cloning of the bad guys and the bad guys just connecting with the flying animal with no idea or training, the one daughter who’s really connected to the eywa but almost died? People hunting the whales for money like in the first movie and now the earth is dying? So many random stories and nothing makes sense.
I'm calling it that Eywa divinely conceived a child within Sigourney Weaver's character which is why Kiri has such a connection to the planet and wildlife.
1. we dont realy have a idea how dense the material is. We are on a diffrent planet and for all we now the wood has the strength of titanium. 2. Size matters. I rememeber that scense of "papa dragon" beeing impaled by a "simple" arrow 5 to 10 times the size of a "normal" arrow. Combined with the strength needed to draw it etc. we are talking about a lot of power here. I dont think a "tank" would have it as easy as you think.
Im so glad someone else picked up on that xD was all the kids saying 'Bro' in the movie? I just remember it making me grind my teeth everytime I heard them talk like that
Would have been cool to explore Jake’s fading relationship with Eywa (tree god), idk maybe there’s some badass Navi tribe who doesn’t accept the half breeds or Jake as leader. Something else could have been the reason to explore other regions to either rekindle his relationship with the god or realize his adopted daughter is the new chosen one.
It pissed me off that the oldest son was killed off. He seemed the most level headed out of all of Jake's kids. I would have liked more screen time or plot around him. He was very likable. The story felt all over the place too. Like trying to put too many plots into one film and not explaining enough in the beginning.
Well, it sets up the younger brother to grow into being more responsible and level headed and a leader. I enjoyed that all the kids seemed to take after Jake. I don't really see Neteri's personality in them, even the girls. Is that weird?
@Numpteez and you just stated the problem of killing him off. He was the obvious choice and I saw it a mile away if his purpose was to only give his younger brother character development then that is a bad character.
when they arrived in water town and the chief said like "your skills will be useless here treeclimbers!"... and there were literally giant mangrove forests behind them which we conveniently never saw again
The whole movie my friends and I were calling Spider "Monkey boy" and at the end one of the Na'vi actually called him "Monkey boy" and we all burst out laughing
The problem with these movies is they rely too much on you being blown away by the cgi and cinematography and not thinking too hard about the characters or plot.
Neytiri going mad after losing the eldest son was probably my favorite part of the movie. There’s nothing more terrifying than a mother who just lost her child, so seeing her go berserk was a really cool scene. That, and the whale fight scenes, were worth the price of admission
Lol peeps have the strangest criticisms of this movie. I don’t get what’s wrong with that line 😂 like if it realistic for a kid to say that? Maybe not but it fits with the film. I dunno man lol
There is a ton of world building done efficiently through dialogue if you're paying attention. From Quaritch's conversation with the General (notice the military leader has been upgraded 4 ranks from Colonel and is now the undisputed head of the colony) we know that this expedition's primary mission is no longer profit driven but as a lifeboat colony for humanity. The dollar value on the whale juice doesn't really matter because it is at best a side piece to the main action which is creating a massive human colony.
most useless character in the movie. 3rd one will come out and he'l be on daddy's side going against jake and the kids... and then daddy dies and spider finally becomes navi. Stupid, I can already see it coming.
Spider was helping his dad to get back to his real family, the sully clan. And he had to play politics with the humans and learn their ways in the style jake had to learn the omaticaya people ways
14:48 Nah Alex you're forgettin' some shit bro, Quaritch finds his old mech and they recover footage from it showing Jake attacking him, and eventually Neytiri killing him. He sees the arrows in his old skeleton, and this is where it all comes in place, you see on his face the anger, sadness and slight fear. So, they do give him a solid reason to hate Jake, and Quaritch's memories were backed up right before the final fight, after Jake betrayed him in the first movie. He also particularly dislikes Neytiri a lot more after finding out it was really her specifically who killed him. His motivations as Quaritch make sense, especially because he's loyal to a mission, so whether he had a personal grudge or not he was going to do this. 15:25 Spider has empathy to a huge fault, this isn't really unbelievable, it's just annoying because you've watched 3 hours of kids being stupid lmao. 17:28 she doesn't die as an Avatar, she gets shots by Quaritch in her og homosapien body, but the wounds are too great, so they bring her unconscious Avatar body to the tree in an attempt to permanently transfer her consciousness into her Avatar body, which was completely unharmed the entire time. The transfer of consciousness was never made, the Avatar body just stays in it's default unconscious state as before and they just place it back in a tank to not waste it I guess.
Exactly this. Some of the plot points they point out as problems are explained in the movie. A second watch really does wonders. Except for the disappearing water tribe I suppose. Also about Spider, I think there's more to him helping out the military na'vis. I think it's him wanting to prove above all else that he's na'vi, and the chance to show humans in na'vi bodies how it's done makes him feel like he's better at it than them. The whole time he's laughing and sneering at them. He doesn't fully realize what he's doing because he gets caught up in the moment of feeling good about himself.
Really silly thing I haven't seen anyone bring up. Right when they're all free and getting off the ship, they see the fire coming in and retreat back into the ship... but they could easily swim under the fire. They spent the whole movie getting good enough to breath under water, to do that. Same thing with stupidly traveling deeper into the sinking ship to avoid the water. They merely had to grab onto something early on and hold their breath until the strong current subsided, then swim out. But must agree the biggest two plot weaknesses were: -The repeated use of the boys getting in trouble and the kids getting captured. -The water tribe vanishing instead of sticking around for 5 more minutes to easily finish everyone off. Was cool to see the synergy of Neytiri being an absolute murderous savage, drawing agro, while Jake moves tactically and did a lot of sneak killing. Though she's not being that smart, and Jake is probably spending a lot of time just trying to keep her ass alive haha.
I'd honestly have to give this movie a 3/10, 1 point for the visuals, 1 for the last hour and 1 for the new animals which I found interesting. Aside from that the story made absolutely no sense, had nothing to support it or 90% of its plots from the original. The only thing that made sense is that the humans came back. We had no evidence that Quaritch had a wife let alone a son, his wife left the planet and abandoned the baby because "babies can't go in stasis", the kid was younger then some of Jake Sully's sons, nothing was explained about how Kiri came into existence nor was shown in any capacity that Grace was pregnant. The main reason they went after Jake was because he was the clan leader that was putting up some resistance and he passed the leadership on and left so there was no reason to pursue him since Quaritch's "clone" didn't have the memories of his fight with Jake while he was human and Quaritch clearly didn't care about his human body as he literally crushed the skull in his hand. They could of made this sequel entirely different by just saying the Omaticaya needed a new home after hometree was destroyed (Eywa is everywhere and the tree of souls wasn't a viable village it was tiny) so they went to the Metkayina clan for refuge then started the sequel there with Jake and his people learning their ways for literally the first hour of the movie then could of just said "10 Years Later" then spent 30-40 minutes of family building time with his daughter & 2 sons before humans invaded, then the rest of the movie dealing with the new threats (that made sense) and then ended the sequel. In the 3rd movie make it about war and the conclusion to the human threat and if the 3rd movie was successful make a 4th & 5th movie with a new threat but not necessarily a human threat either as it could of been a threat between other clans. They could of cut Kiri, Quaritch and Spider completely out of the movie and it'd of been better, but possibly still keep scenes with Jake and Neytiri seeing Grace through Eywa via some means with the new connections they made with the Metkayina.
The only memory Steven Lang's character didn't have was the one of how he died, which he saw how later in the movie. He remembers the betrayal by Jake and everything that led up to right before the final fight of Avatar 1. Spider was helping quaritch cause he was being tortured and quaritch said he would stop it if spider helped them.
The point of them running away was Jake knew they would get the whole tribe killed if they stayed. But Jake didn't realize til the end that his problems are just gonna follow him and hiding from issues doesn't solve them.
The story had to happen… but considering that MyJake was a Marines, well-versed in military operations, he would have mounted an attack within days of their arrivals. A year would not have gone by so peacefully watching the humans destroy the forest and set up camp.
I don’t think that’s the case … That’s your creation. It seemed like Jake left because he knew they couldn’t win the inevitable fight that was coming. So he tried to get away. Admittedly, I was high on 6 grams of mushrooms when I watched it, but that sounds off.
What upset me the most...The son's dying wish was to go home, but instead of taking him to the sacred tree, they just drop him in the foreign water plant.
The sea clan was actually... meaningless. So much build-up, so much screen time, but when they are truly gonna do something they disappear? They are right there, on their beasts, armed to the teeth, angry as shit for the dead whales & their captured princess... & Jake tells them to hold for a WHILE because the bad guy only wants him so Jake moves forward. But once the battle starts, why are the sea clan not doing shit? In fact, they are gone entirely. WTF!? Why do we spend 3 hours getting to know characters that do nothing? We only saw glimpses of other clans in the first film prior to the final battle but they sure as hell took PART of said battle & did something! And Kate Winslet's character... Mother of God, save me! She is that tribe's spiritual leader but she is from start to finish angry & hostile & not wanting to help, & they never ever explain why she has this attitude before the Sully family even arrives. It is suggested they don't want Sully's war there at their home as well & that makes perfect sense. But the woman never looses up. And right before the final battle, that they never actually anticipate in, she only then understands that the humans are after Jake specifically. Uhm... that was implied already when Jake arrived 2 hours earlier in the film to her village, is the woman totally dense? The whole thing about the Na'vi is how tolerant & loving they are. Kate's character was none of this. I saw no love or understanding from her at all, besides for her whale. She felt more like one of the humans with her attitude, just hateful & narrow minded, how can SHE be their spiritual leader? And without any given explanation as to why she is like this it all falls flat.
- the Metkayina clan did took the fight right after the Tulkan whale attacked the vessel. They only ‘disappeared’ right around the nighttime when the war wore off. They are sea people, native hunters who doesn’t like wars and tend to outcast others like the chief clan explained in the film. - Ronal, Kate Winslet in the film, was not angry and hostile the entire film. She was skeptic and unwelcoming of outsiders in nature, that was her own character. But she DID accepted Jake’s family towards the end. She provided medicine, allowed her people to teach Jake and Neytiri with their children of the way of water and their ways, and more importantly, you complain that she was angry. Ofc, her peaceful tribe just got disturbed, adding to her spirit sister being (the Tulkan whale with cub) murdered and hunted. She DID loosen up the end, if you think every character have no substance, then that is meaningless. People do have attitude all the time.
I'd like to see what the humans on Earth are being told about the war, the Navi and Pandora. Maybe the regular humans would protest the war effort if they found out what's going on?
It's not a war....its a colonization of an alien planet by an independent corporation. Think Elon Musk and SpaceX with paid mercenaries and no conscience to speak of.
depends on the state of the Earth at this point. If what the General and colonel are saying is true that Earth is literarily on its last leg and they are desperate for new worlds to colonize etc. then the Regular humans back on earth wouldn't care as much due to desperation. But if it wasn't as bad then their might be protest
There's still so much potential for this story. I think they didn't quite meet the bar in this film as they did the last, but it's still a really good movie. I'd watch it again. I think they just lacked the Macro-plot of the overall series. Like, it didn't bother me that Quaritch was essentially let loose to hunt down and kill Jake. (however, I don't like that he just ran away from the forest people). But I want to know who is behind this whole operation. On one hand it seems like humanity is desperate and trying to find a new home, but on another hand it seems like humanity is being run by a bunch of rich corporations that are only on Pandora for rich minerals and immortality serums, and profit. I wanted to see who is really behind it all; I want to see Emperor Palpatine, not just Darth Vader, if that make sense. I really hope the third movie dives into that a little deeper, otherwise, I think I'll loose interest pretty quick.
I think Cameron cut a 1 hour of scene from this movie that's why some scenes seems out of place or some stories building up suddenly jump to another one.
I on the other hand would like way more if they removed the entire human part and made the story only around the nature and Navi. It is cool to watch all the giant human tech moving around, but it feels like a disturbance from the pretty stuff which is the nature for me.
Same! I was a bit dissappointed that they didnt explain the macro more. I want to know more about future humanity. I think a sick ass plot line would be one where some Navi would be want to live in a human way or love human made stuff. Just like in real history when some natives sold huge amounts of land just for booze. I think that would be hilarious and would be really interesting to explore that idea.
The reason the general wants to kill sully so bad even tho he has no memory of him is because if you remember, the general saw sully kill the "human general" on that screen in the movie. How did you miss it
Lol i think you also missed the point that they need to kill him because of the extremely coordinated attacks on supplies and transport but other than that its a stupid gruge and even more stupid to bring the colenel back
@@pitch5330 worse is at the end nothing is solved. the humans are still there, the enemy is still alive and well, in 3 hours nothing changed for the planet
But I think confusing part is when he talks to spider he says I’m not him, I don’t care. And as a character that’s supposed to be pragmatic to a fault, him going after one guy who does nothing seems just stupid. Who cares about sully.
Yeah man. Those along with Sully showing his mate love, and being there for his kids, and the ending with Sullys stick together made me choke up bad lol
Did anyone noticed a little sort of frame rate drops at certain parts of movie? Seriously, alot of the movie looked like 60 fps, but there was was like a few choppy scenes. It was something weird. J/s
Depends if you watched in HFR. Actions scene and lots of CGI heavy scene were in HFR. Other were in 24fps. The switch between 24->48 could look choppy especially if you were watching digital 3D since you polarize 1/2 of the picture and during switch your eyes catch the switch
The 3D worked against it here and I’m surprised they didn’t just do the whole movie in 48fps. It would have been much less distracting. I get that it’s much more work and expense with a 99% CGI movie, but you’re spending $300M, what’s another $100M$ when you’re going to make it all back in a week?
It’s because 48 frames is a lot less cinematic at certain times/moments and other times 48 frames enhances shots, especially for 3D. Some technical thing I’ve heard explained but any time there fast motion on screen 3D benefited greatly from 48 frames
I really enjoyed it, my hype had initially disappeared for this movie because of how long we had to wait but I thought I'd give it a shot and now I'm 💯 % invested it this world again. No, it wasn't perfect, and there were some 🤦🏻 moments and questions, but it didn't ruin the film whatsoever. Can't wait for the next one. 👍
For years I thought Stephen Lang’s character was gonna be captured by some corrupt, immoral Na’Vi tribe or outcasts, and revived as his human self. But when I heard he was that Na’Vi in the trailer, I knew his human self had to be dead. That scene of his Na’Vi self going back to where he died & picking up his own skull was a really cool concept to me though.
My question is who makes the Military Avatars clothes and Oakley sunglasses? Like who got the contract to make 18 ft tall Avatars underwear, pants, wife-beaters, and shoes? Can someone make a parody where someone gets the contract to make clothes and accessories, then finds out the Avatars get killed after working long hours to make their clothes? LOL
I think Alex opinion is on point in this one. The movie wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. The visuals were amazing, the characters were good, some moments were good... But the plot is pretty weak. By the way, I think the final battle from Avatar 2009 is a lot better than the final battle of The way of water. It just feels a lot more massive, climatic and epic, and the music has a lot to do with this. Avatar's 2 music was painfully average in key moments of the movie, like the final battle. It didn't have the punch and tribal-musical motives of the 2009 movie's original score. Anyways, pretty sure a lot of Avatar fans expected a lot more from The way of water. This was a beautiful movie, but an interesting one? Nah, not really. Hopefully the 3rd one will be better, if it ever comes out.
Yea man, In the first movie the stakes were much higher. Watching the second movie after 13 years and the respective "epic final battle" is just him fighting the "bad guy" who he already fought in the first movie makes the ending very lackluster. And the sea navi disappear, wtf ? Its a good movie, but overall disappointing. The first movie was much more polished and tight, this one feels like a copied/less version of the first one (excluding the visuals which were in fact outstanding).
It hit me hard when the oldest son died. Zoe wailing and the whole family cryimg over his dead body just got me. And to think that the beginning of the film with Zoe singing with the beads is actually the funeral for their eldest son made it more emotional. Its a great family film at its core and you'll get invested if you have a family of your own that you love.
I think James Cameron is planning on making this series a generational epic. In my opinion spider saved his dad because Quaritch saved him. I also think they are planting the seed in spider to be the next antagonist after his dad.
It’s funny how a lot of the issues this movie has mirror a lot of the issues we see in average superhero movies, excluding imperfect cgi of course. James Cameron shouldn’t try to knock down others when his own story leaves a lot to be desired
@@purefoldnz3070 Mind you this a movie with 10+ of planning in the making and an auteur director like James cameron. Avatar shouldn't even be in the same sentence as marvel phase 4 lol It's no better than Wakanda forever imo with stunning visuals but story line lacking and filled with plot holes
@@undermoonstars which plot holes? Its still better than anything in phase four. Its not following a boring MCU formula with the same cinematography same music, same quippy dialogue, same lazy cgi and same mostly bloodless violence. I wouldn't say ten years in the planning since they wrote 4 sequels and already directed two or three.
Not really, if it works the first time then it could a second time and not doing a MCU Villain who appears for 1 movie and dies and nobody remembers him again after some movies
So a bottle of brain liquid of an alien whale worth 80m sustains space travel which probably costs a few 100 billions for every rocket shiplaunch, considering it's 2150 AD
I have to hard disagree with you on Spider's character. He didn't betray Jake and co at any point. He thought he had finally found his father, whom he never knew as a child, in the body of the very race he idolized. Of COURSE he's going to initially hope and try for a relationship with him. What kid wouldn't want their parent(s) after never knowing them? He wasn't helping them go against the Navi. In his child-like mind, he thought he was helping his dad become more Navi and maybe get him to see them how he sees them. As soon as he realizes that's never going to happen, he peace's out the second he gets the chance to, knowing now his father will never be who he wants him to be. Also, kids are ABSOLUTELY asshole bullies, drag others they don't like into bad situations, and abandon them. It's just not the dark alley of your neighborhood here, it's the "blink and you're dead" nature of the planet, because that's where they have to play. Imagine playing hide and seek in the forest or mountains and some shithead kids leaving you alone cuz they're dicks. Now there's mountain lions and cougars and shit instead of the creepy guy down the street pushing an old shopping cart. Your responses are based on living in cities your whole lives, instead of living as a part of nature and the food chain as they do here. They very heavily point out how rough the terrain, flora and fauna are on this world in the first movie.
I agree. Also Alex was getting way too hung up on why Spider saved him at the end. Uhhh its basically his dad and he also just saved spider from getting his throat slit. That's plenty of reason to not let this person die
My dad left me to go help Mr Cameron make Avatar 2… he’s been gone 14 years. I just want my dad back Mr Cameron. Please stop making him animate so many blue people so you can make movies with political messages about anti-whaling which everyone already decided 30 years ago was a bad thing and China isn’t gonna stop just because of Avatar 2. Please, my mom made him dinner 14 years ago, it’s gonna get cold if you don’t stop making him work on Avatar 3 right now. Please, none of us need Avatar 3. Let my dad come home Mr Cameron, I beg of you
6/10 is a fair score. They abandon basically any plot of the first movie. The bad guy's only mission is to kill Sulley, no lives or money matters. Predictable on which kid dies. And the bad guy magically survives just for the sake of making another movie.
We were cheated out of a re-appearance of the shark thing that Lo'ak was saved from. Was really looking forward to one or several of those chomping up humans that fell overboard after the whale attack
My major gripe is that the movie forces you to be on the side of the blue aliens by depicting all of humanity as singularly evil colonial power of destruction. Providing some moral ambiguity by showing the dire conditions on Earth forcing the settlement of Pandora and some humans to rout for (besides the scientist buffoons who appear for milliseconds on screen time anyway) the movie would have been more engaging.
Yeah I'm still upset about the battle scenes, especially the last one how an entire army of Navi just ups and disappears even though they were there to save their daughter lol, such a big hole and flaw in the movie I almost didn't want to finish, it just makes me upset that people support the movie and the story is lazy, just because the movie looks beautiful doesn't mean it deserves a trilogy 😅
I thought the reason why Spider saved his father despite everything is...Well...Because its his father in the end and for him it was the right thing to do.
Yeah but he clearly cared about Kiri more than anything and his dad said he would kill her if he lived and so him saving him didn't make any sense. Maybe if the scene was instead spider being expected to kill him and then not do it because of a small moment but having him take his dad the whole way out with all that time to regret his choice... I can see what they're trying to do but they just didn't build it up well.
@@kbg12ilalet’s put it like this, if Spider hadn’t saved his father after literally watching him drowning I would have disliked Spider. What kind of a person could watch their own father slowly drown in front of them and not do anything? It would be Someone like Steven Lang and Spjder doesn’t want to be like his father. Sometimes doing the right thing may not always be the most logical.
@@Gizmomaster The issue is, to have feelings for someone you must spend time with them.If someone comes and tells you "I'm your father" while killing your people , i don't think you will have any son - father feelings going on. He already had the father figure and family as well... so yea, makes no sense.
Spider still has empathy for Quaritch, he couldn't live with himself letting him die, even after everything. He hates Quaritch, but they did bond a little, and his dad showed a willingness to protect him. He's a 16 year old kid with a big heart and always felt a little out of place, I think his actions made sense for his character.
Jacke uses his brother's avatar from the first movie. That means his son and daughter are not his biological children once the avatar DNA wasn't made from his DNA. He is actually, uncle Jake.
Can someone mention that horrible second to last sentence from Jake specifically “We’re water people now” I burst out laughing dialogue so bad it’s good🤣
@@studentstudent5044 I mean I guess it’s not really bad cause no lie I enjoyed the movie but that one part of dialogue and how it was said felt out of place but it didn’t make the movie bad it was really hilarious to me
@@studentstudent5044 Ayy man Ima be honest I tripped on shrooms and watched it and man it was amazing all the characters, the visuals they were so damn good honestly wish I can watch it again for the first time I definitely loved this movie it was better than a lot that have come out recently so ima show all my love for this especially cause I want them to green light the sequels💯🙏🏾
Steven Langes character does know why he hates Jake, he says it during the video. They have the memories right before the final battle of the first film
The water Na'vi disappeared during the end battle because Cameron released un unfinished movie, lol. 100% you know that's true. 13 years wasn't enough time to complete the CGI.
How do they even figure out the anti-aging thing is specifcally from those whales?? just seems so niche of a thing as opposed to mining. like who did experiments and thought "oh..let's just try this particular animals brain fluid"?? Also continuity error: Stephan Lang didn't have his giant scar on his face from the first movie when he did the recording (despite stating the recording was just before they went into the climax of the movie) :D So after the fight with Jake and Miles Quaritch, Sully has to take a big breath to get out and was drowing before the whale popped up but Miles Quaritch was drowing in the water before even Spider turned up. how the fuck did Spider get him out of the water on his own before he died from drowing?? the Na'Vi had to have help to get out I doubt a human kid could manage it solo
How do they even figure out the anti-aging thing is specifcally from those whales?? just seems so niche of a thing as opposed to mining. like who did experiments and thought "oh..let's just try this particular animals brain fluid"??- as a cientist, usually you study something and gradually you find uses for that. for example you could study the plant aloe vera, then the leaft, then the components of the leaft, and with the components you find what it can be used for. after that comes the refining and incrementing results.
@@noem.7430 but that's after maaaany years, they were there originally to mine an ore. The city was established over the span if 1 year. 1 year is far too soon to discover something like that
Spyder didn't make any sense in this movie, he was born and alive during the first movie and we never heard of him yet he was younger? then some of Jake's kids, and didn't Jake at the end of the first movie choose who could stay and who they were kicking off the planet, why would he of let some random kid and/or new born baby stay.... it was like WTF, none of this makes any sense. They tried to solve it by saying babies can't go in stasis, like what? so his mom abandoned him on an alien planet.
Watched you non spoiler review before going and just come back.... I really enjoyed it so was with AJ with an 8/10 Yes it's derivative and its on the nose but it's done well. And yes, the effects do make it a spectacle.... I just cant imagine watching this for the first time on the small screen... I would advise everyone just to go watch this if only for the spectacle of it all because you won't see anything else like this visually.
@@JoseMolina-jz9hhit’s a slog at best. My family and I don’t enjoy derivative rehashes of tropes and films we’ve already seen. It was so lazy and generic. All spectacle without substance
@@InnerAtanih right... you're superficial, got it. And you must have an incredible attention span. We are all measly viewers of movies, this guy is a connoisseur of cinema, watch him twirl his intellectual mustache
I couldn't get over the part where the younger brother goes off to warn the outcast whale that the humans are on their way. The other kids warn him not to go, but he of course goes off because he needs to save the whale. The others start to follow him, then the Sigourney Weaver character sees them take off, towards danger, *with the youngest daughter alongside her* and thinks, "sure, taking my defenceless little sister headfirst into the entire human army is a great idea!" Such a stupid contrived way to get the youngest daughter into the final battle when she would've and should've been back at the village with the rest of the ones who couldn't fight.
I feel like a lot of people misunderstand spider. What he is is simply confused. He has seen both sides. What happened to his father and what the na'vi are like so his allegiance is kinda split. Spider could almost represent us as viewers because while we do enjoy the na'vi taking humans down, we know that all humans aren't pieces of shit. I mean, spider almost turned quaritch soft. That alone is proof enough that he will somehow mend the bond between humans and na'vi. Him doing both sides isn't a bug, its a feature.
he didnt see the human side at all, he has 0 memories of anything human related hence it making 0 sense, he even shouldve died cause the world is not made for humans
@@nolandderlugner1351 spider was birthed by humans and the human scientists even took care of him. He speaks english. He does not hate humans. He makes constant effort to stop quaritch from being his former self. Its not like he can just escape. Marines have guns and they track him all the time. Plus, he just hangs around the na'vi. He is never actually mentioned as an active member of the na'vi so he mostly knows what kind of world he is into. This is why he does not object to the fact that neytiri almost killed him.
Spider did a really good job acting like a na’vi despite being human - but the actor seemed way to old to be called a kid. He looks like a full grown man. Early twenties at least
Sigourna Weaver’s character/soul was reincarnated, it’s the same person just reborn, that’s why she spazzed out while trying to communicate with her mom who was really just a manifestation of herself and not actually her. When Awa tried to save her in the end of the first movie but couldn’t, her soul was transferred over to the Avatar body, but she had to be reborn for her to come back alive. It’s not really like Jesus since there’s no higher power involved, it’s just the planet’s soul and biological connections doing what it always does, and Weaver’s child character has a unique connection with Awa and thus the world and it’s inhabitants, she’s a daughter of the planet itself not of a God figure. Awa is their god but you know what I mean, the Navi’s spirituality is based on tangible truths/science which was why Weaver was so fascinated with the world.
He does have the memories of Jake’s betrayal just not his own death which he did see early on in the film. Not a plot hole. Also grace died in her human form. You just need to watch the first film again lol
I got to say, as an Australian it was fucking annoying having an Aussie play the whaler. Should have been someone from one of those ‘other’ countries that, you know, actually harvest whale. Unlike us aussies, who actually spend a great deal of our time and money preserving the sea and sea life around our shores.
Avatar: Deadliest Catch... First 20 mins were great the rest of it instead of mining rock they mine brains, replace forest with water and add children... and we get the exact same movie
Winning formula for Cameron sequels!! AlienS: same movie as first, but with space marines, a child, and shit ton of more alienS!! T2: same movie as first, but with a kid and a more vicious Terminator as the villain!
4:12 - reminds me of Cameron’s Aliens where in 2122 a space freighter carrying an oil refinery with a crew shuttle, hibernation pods, and multiple life vessels is stated to be worth 400 million dollars. Dude, there’re houses worth more than that.
I loved the first Avatar but had some of the same issues as you 1) It felt mostly a rehash of the first film 2) They way they brought back the same villian was so stupid and it takes away from the weight of the first film. If theyre gonna kill villians just to bring them back then nothing matters. Like they did w Palpatine. In this film they did one worse by not even killing the main villian. 3) Brings me to the third point, that this felt like half of a movie. There wasnt a big epic battle which I assume was left for part 3. 4) I felt like the soundtrack was lacking. 5) So much of this movie felt familiar. It felt like it stole too much from popular movies. At times it was Lion King, then it was Tarzan, then it was Finding Nemo, later Waterworld & Star Wars, at the end it was Titanic but mostly it was a repeat of the first Avatar film. 6) Also they never explained how a dead Sigorne Weaver character ends up pregnant in part 2. Huh? wth 7) Also the motivation for the humans hunting the whales was way cheap and underexplained. How did humans randomly discover that a liquid inside whales stops aging. wut? 8) I didnt feel as wowed by the effects because again we've seen them before. 9) The lenght of it felt long. They couldve cut an 1hr and told them same story. 10) Why is the Tarzan kid helping the bad Avatar marines? Whats his motivation? 11) I hated that like 3 times people drowned and then were completely ok the next second. Dumb
I feel like the only one defending Spider. I’m seeing it again so maybe I just don’t remember but Spider is a human with kind of an identity crisis, and they imply this in a couple small moments. He also has the same connection to his “father” that Quaritch has with him. Spider never actually helps the humans, he’s more so kind of just saying they’re dumbasses and taunting them. It’s clear he actively dislikes everything that is happening here. He saves Quaritch because of this innate familial connection he has because while he might feel that jake or whatever is a father figure, Quaritch actually is his father. Even if he’s an asshole, you don’t want to lose the possibility of learning more about your father. When he says “fuck” before rescuing him he knows logically it’s the wrong move, but he’s driving by some sort of emotion It honestly made perfect sense to me so I don’t get why everyone has a problem with this character. I do think that the film cut out a lot of important stuff tho, interested to see a directors cut
Could you really consider someone to be “good” if they watch their own father die and do nothing? Honestly if he had left him to die my opinion of Spider would be much worse. It shows Spider is more decent than his father and also keeps alive a good villain. It’s the same dilemma with GI Joe and Cobra Commander. With cobra hanging from a cliff he calls out for help and the hero always saves him only to get pushed off the cliff by Cobra Commander seconds later, but the hero ultimately gets saved. Doing good things is a good unto itself, you don’t expect to be rewarded and often aren’t but that’s not the reason why you do them. You do good things because it’s the right thing to do. And saving Quaritch was the right thing to do.
@@Gizmomaster agreed. I hadn’t thought about that angle of this situation. I’m finding this movie is super polarising with its story and I find that fascinating. Even amongst my friend group I’m seeing opinions about the story and I have to wonder if we even saw the same movie. Seeing the same thing in critic reviews. I do wonder whether I’m just giving it free points or whether the nickel Back effect has taken root in Avatar. It has problems for sure, but the ones people raise are to me a strength of the film
hes become Mellow Joe. Always giving way more points than the other two and then regretting it later during the spoilers. he doesnt know what hes doin at this point.
Perhaps major movie companies see his channel is one of the biggest and are subsidizing those good reviews?? Remember the other big reviewers giving Wakanda Forever high scores??
@@joppai I also loved the part where the Na'vi ran up to Quaritch and yelled that if he or a loved one had been diagnosed with mesothelioma, he may be entitled to financial compensation. Seeing Quaritch's tears of relief was so heartwarming!
Hey I really enjoyed this video, I just wanted to say that cause y’all are really doing good work out here and the diversity of opinions really helps y’all discuss the quality of a film. I do just want to list my interpretations of certain scenes to see what y’all think of them, 1. I think he is going to leave, when he says that this is his home and he’s going to fight I think he was talking about the planet as a whole not just the tribe 2. The reason they were after Jake (in my opinion) is because like you said, he cost them a whole lotta money and he was the reason for their success, if they get him out of the way, even if the other tribes go to war the humans have a better chance 3. Lang wants revenge because even if he doesn’t remember him, he still killed him, he killed the “real” Lang and even saw the recording of how he died. 4. I think the reason the kid was helping them was because of the offer Lang made to him which was “I’m not asking you to betray Sully, you’re to loyal, but if you at least give us something then I don’t have to give you back to the scientists, so by teaching them the way of the avi (I think that’s what their called) he’s giving them information that’s not substantial enough to get sully or win the entire war, but at least keeps him out of that weird spinning device. 5. The whale swore off killing which is why they haven’t built any guns or anything, the reason that one whale is an outcast is because he tried to fight back and got other people killed, regardless of how justified or intentional or not, if you’re a whale and you kill, you’re out, that’s what the tribe leader and daughter told the younger brother, which is why the whale was not welcomed back for helping the water tribe at the end, he killed a lot of people on that boat (even though it was absolutely justified) 6. This one’s not a point but a cool fact I noticed, you can sort of tell the brother was shot in the movie during that short scene of them underwater before they go back up for air because you can see that the way he’s swimming is different. 7. Only 80 million for that vial, I think the reason it’s only 80 million is likely because they can get like a couple vials per whale, and it also doesn’t list how long it stops human aging, if each vial is only for a couple months to a year than 80 million seems about right for another year of life 9. Stupid kids is sorta understandable, I still agree that it feels a little forced just to push the plot forward, but I also like that although the kid says sorry, he doesn’t change because there hasn’t been any real consequences up to the brother’s death, aside from bruises and cuts they always came out relatively fine. 10. It really did feel like an animal documentary at points with how long it would go on, but I actually liked that because (I’m probably reaching here) they mention how connected the water tribe is to the whales and a lot of the sea animals, and by focusing on them we kinda feel the same (again I’m likely reaching) 11. I think the reason the kid saved his dad at the end was because he sorta grew to care about him during the sir time together, they laugh and joke around a couple times when they’re flying together and learning the ways of the Avi, and also he have gave up his hostage to save his life so maybe he felt he owed him one 12. The biggest issue, the kids getting kidnapped so many times, this one I agree with that they got kidnapped too many times, but a part of me also liked that they didn’t get away each time cause it’s realistic that they are surrounded and caught again (although it’s weird I’m talking about realism in a movie like avatar) Those were my interpretations and everyone reading feel free to tell me if you think I’m wrong and to tell your interpretations, overall I enjoyed the movie Edit: oh and spider never shot anyone I believe, although he did still rip the gas mask off of people and he stated that humans can only breath the planets air for a couple seconds before they die so he still killed people
The part where Jakes son enters the mouth of the big whale and sees into his memories tells the audience that people before this movie, so in the first movie did harvest the juice in those whales too beacuse that was in the past
Still very confusing though, official lore beforehand stated that one of those space to ground shuttles used for transportation was about eighth of the size of the spaceship, and we know hells gate from the previous movie was the central operating center of the single spaceship in orbit
@@lordofthepies And about Hell's Gate, what about it? Did the RDA retake the place? Why wouldn't they? There are a lot of things that were just glossed over.
Yesss!!! That's why they knew that the whale juice stops human ageing for good. That's why they came back, because humanity and the earth are dying and they want/need to take over Pandora now. That's what that General stated
@@Numpteezthis is how easy. It is to fool the modern film audience. They were just willing to believe this had already been established just because the movie said so
@@jacobrobinson787 there's simply too much to continue from Avatar 1 and explore in Avatar 2 that 3 hours is not enough. If studio executives would allow Cameron to make his movie 4 hours for the sake of addressingn those issues, then he would have released the movie with that runtime. I just hope that there's a Director's cut of this film so we would aunderstand some of the confusing bits of the plot.
They should have explained that because of what happened to Jake's twin brother in the first film (he died while they were making his avatar body), they started taking regular imprints of their soldiers and staff. Which they could also use that same concept to put Sigourney Weaver's character back into her Avatar body.
How did you guys miss out the part where they explain why they created theyr own Navi?? The new general says that the zone where Navi bases is located any human or ship troop they send the planets fauna atacks and kills them, so they create theyr own Navi that go to the jungle and when the raptor/panthers see them thay just growl and keep theyr way and there the guy sees the recording of how his original gets killed and takes it way to personal...
thats not the problem. the problem is the weird cheap way of bringing back old villains. mind copying and cloning? thats such a weird sci-fi plot. they did all that just to have steven lang back in the film.
@@51iohC Ithink there is no cloning just copying the minds of dead soldiers to create theyr own navi these are not avatars like in the first movie, i imagine noy many soldiers that are alive would sacrifice theyr lives to be born anew in a Navi body dunno bro.
I also notice they missed that the soldiers backed up there memories after Jake had already betrayed them 2 hours before the major battle in the first one. So he had a good reason to chase Jake. There nick picking is ridiculous its like they just want to shit on stuff its what is wrong with critics/reviewers these days
From a guy who made so much money he basicaly retired to the bottom of the ocean, comes a sequel no one asked for that takes part in the ocean. Guy should have stayed exploring the titanic
My main gripe with the film was with Spider. There seems to be a missing scene somewhere. How did he go from so loyal to helping the humans? It seemed to happen out of nowhere? That was really bizarre.
He was tortured and didnt budge, did not even give them a thought. He was their prisoner and his father saved him from more torture. He did not help the humans any more than he had to so they did not kill him. The moment he could, he sabotaged the controls and fought humans. He only saved his father in the end because he stood down to save him. The "missing scene" must have been you dozing off lol
@@SombraCheeksyeah I’ve seen people complain about spider a lot. I’m not sure why to me he never actually betrayed his family. He never truly helped the humans, and soon as he got a chance he helped the Na’vi
Kind of wish his character maybe was the one that never felt truely excepted and an outcast but being among humans he felt excepted. To be fair he didnt need to be in the movie at all, did he? Only really there to kind of pull at his fathers heart strings. Was hoping they also maybe explore a bit more at him noticing also the savage side the Na'vi can have. In some scenes, Neytiri seemed terrifing. Lets not forget she was going to kill Jake.
@@SombraCheeks The 'missing scene' was Spider having inner monologue where he goes, "I'll train him to think Na'vi" to try and disconnect the cloned soldiers from their past memories. Especially where the colonel gets intimidated that Jake pacified and partnered with one of those winged creatures and so rushes to do it himself. I... worry they're going to try and have the colonel change heart by the third movie after he's blindly went on this vengeance mission.
Cameron is some kind of wizard, I don't know how he can make a movie so obviously bad on a whole number of levels and still have me glued to the screen for over 3 hours.
I just love how everybody complains about the Avatar movies for their lack of substance and story, but applauds Top Gun Maverick when it has the same flaws: awesome visuals, meh story. I love both movies, but it just feels dumb to complain about only one of them. That movie was full of plotholes and was just about: dangerous mission, short time to train.
The difference is that Top Gun: Maverick had fun characters, decent dialogue, was emotionally engaging and the action scenes were exciting. Avatar 2 had none of these things. I was gobsmacked by how underwhelming the final act was.
The coolest part of this movie, bar none, was when the RDA returned with a fucking fleet of ships. The whole scene from the ships showing up - just remembering just how absolutely massive these ships were blew my mind a bit - and them all landing on Pandora, scorching the forest. One wall of fire from one of them landing just wipes out hundreds of miles of forest territory, absolutely obliterating the Na'vi's home. And the vehicle design was top-tier; I adored the new Scorpion gunship design. So sharp, sleek and just fucking badass. I want one of them.
First time I recall in cinema it actually being shown what a realistic space faring engine will do to a planet if aimed at it, let along brought into atmosphere.
21:11 the whale killing the captain and severing his arm was a callback to how the captain was responsible for the whale missing a fin.
Also captain ahab was dismembered. I suspect this guy ain't dead
@@bigmol1633 robot arm bad guy confirmed
yup the second captains arm got severed I was all arm for an arm!
Haha nice catch man, didn’t think of that
@@DS-mi9ru he’s def still alive
The loudest laugh in my theater was after the kid fight when Jake asked how bad did the other kids looked compared to his boys.
mine too
It was a tie between that and "who has the harpoon now?" in mine lol.
He’s just a blue army dad 😂
Tbh this is the only punchline in this movie. I mean can you find another joke in this movie is funny?
@@kaiholeung903 As a married man and a father, yes. All the interactions between the chief and his wife are hilarious. My wife and I couldn't stop laughing and pointing at each other during the:
"You should stay here so you and the baby are safe"
"I'm going to fight"
followed by him saying absolutely nothing else about it to her lol. Pick your battles people, and remember, all out war is less scary than a fight with the missus.
I’m still not fully convinced that Jakes plan to abandon his position and take his family to the water tribe was a fully justified idea. You can clearly see that the forest tribe has evolved since the first movie, they’re all using RDA guns, explosives, and even military vehicles in the movie. I mean they completely eradicated an entire armored train without a sweat. They would easily put up a really tough fight against Quaritches little squad of avatars.
The whole issue was that quaritch and his squad could sneak into their mountains and lair. That’s why they left
All the tribes will combine for the 3rd movie
@@jimmyannunziata6133 I hope so! It’s obvious that Avatar 2 and 3 are gonna be one big connected story, given that they’re filmed at the same time and James Cameron said that he had to split the original story for Avatar 2 in half. I’m super excited :)
@@killjoy117007 yup, and bring hellfire upon on themselves from humans arriving in droves, but it seems it happens anyways. I heard this film was rewritten from originally being a space battle and Cameron wanting the films not to stray from Pandora
@@killjoy117007 We learn that the squad of Avatars are push overs. They only manage to kill one son after all of the battles where no Navi die and they get dropped near effortlessly. What was the point? Just so they could go up to the floating mountains where Jake is not at?
The older brother dying really was emotional, imagine loosing your oldest child, he had the same characteristics too Jake which too me was such a bummer he’s gone
And he was the only named character, one of the focus characters that died. Nobody else though.
It’s would have been better if the younger brother died because the the younger brother was probably the best character in the film. Not that I want him to die, but it would make for a more emotional moment considering he was more developed.
I actually laughed in the theater when the oldest son died. The film ended and one person clapped in the theater once then nothing. This movie was trash.
Really? That was the worst part of the movie for me. He literally had almost not dialogue the whole movie... I don't even think him and Neytiri had a conversation... It was just bad writing to choose him to die and make such a big deal out of it. If it had been Loak or Kiri that died the impact of the ending would have made sense. But choosing a character who literally had no screen time was such a boring choice. The only thing emotional about his death was Zoe Saldana's amazing acting. That's it.
@@kbg12ilathat’s what I’m saying, there’s not enough character development for me to care for these characters when they just got introduced. If it was Jake Sully or his wife then that would’ve been different. I was a bit disappointed with the storyline but the movie looks crazy visually.
Even my 11 year old brother seeing the Na'vi army disappear halfway through the battle was like "wtf???"
Well half of them left to warn the tu kuun before that. And some died in the initial clash, but mostly the sea dragon moved and payakan caused a bunch of havoc making the ships run and the warriors give chase, as sully finds Loak and the final approach begins. It happens in a matter of minutes
@@JoseMolina-jz9hh same, though I think it could be different based on the director cut since there will be one. Cameron cut out a lot for it to not drag out too long.
The deal was for jake sully to come alone right? So he did it for the safety for their kids. I only noticed it because everybody talking about it. But who am I? I'm just there trying to enjoy the fiction tory instead of searching for a flaw.
AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD DOES NØT SAY "W.T.*" GET YOUR MANNERS UP TO PAR...SONNY BOY...REPORT WILL BE SENT....
My one big gripe literally was all of the other blue people just disappearing (minus the one sea girl) in the final act. Weird how that happens. Overall, thought it was great. Visuals are superb and despite the plot holes, the story has a lot of emotion.
nah it was just the kids keep kidnapped over and over and over again.
Knowing all the cuts that happened from the last movie to keep it under 3 hours, I bet you that they had atleast another hour or 2 of filming cut cause this movie is almost 4 hours long...
The chief of the sea tribe was there in the final act to save his daughter and get revenge for the whales and then just crickets... they all just vanish and she wasn't even rescued yet and the boss wasn't killed yet. Jake and the kids just left her on the rock with the dead son. That was weird too. This whole movie unless your brain is on off or autopolit it's hard to watch.
@Faysal 10/10…..Jesus, what were you watching?
The titanic sinking scene though lol same kind of music playing and camera angles
The mother is about to murder Spider and they don't even address it afterwards lmao. The kids see him as a brother. Jake even embraces him like a son at the end. They just go on like nothing happened.
I took it as a bluff. She knew of the connection and used it against Quaritch.
I like the part where the water people, and I mean every single damn one of em, disappeared from the film for 45 min. Then, somehow, after leaving Jake and clan for dead, they adopt them as water 💦 tribe and the movie ends.
Yeah what happened to them?
@@alfangel2003 the movie just wasn’t loooong enough to flesh out the relationships of Jake, his four kids, Spider, his absent father, the sociopolitical enviro plot and the fish out of water immigrant stuff so they just didn’t do it but wanted the payoff at the end. Welcome to the way of the water…..even tho you still can’t swim worth a damn.
I was sure to myself, that they were going to be the ones right at the end to help them out from drowning. I just wished they at least showed us them preparing water traps and using the environment of their natural habitat, to defend against the humans. At least in the first movie, the humans were almost out matched by the Na'vi in air to air.
Honestly this movie isn’t really that good in my opinion. Lol. Story is bad doesn’t make sense with the spider kid, sully leaving, learning the water Navi way, the whole outcast whale, cloning of the bad guys and the bad guys just connecting with the flying animal with no idea or training, the one daughter who’s really connected to the eywa but almost died? People hunting the whales for money like in the first movie and now the earth is dying? So many random stories and nothing makes sense.
@@workingZen It would have made infinitely more sense than Sigourney Weaver charming the jellies to save only the women in her family.
I'm calling it that Eywa divinely conceived a child within Sigourney Weaver's character which is why Kiri has such a connection to the planet and wildlife.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking the whole time watching the movie.
I mean, everyone’s calling it 😂
It’s not “calling it” when it is explicitly stated on screen, and visualized during the climax of the movie.
... was that supposed to be a mystery? Lol Pretty obvious from her magical fairy powers to control plants and animals.
Got a Sherlock over here
You'd think the humans would make their war equipment arrow and spear proof by now...
The whole human army wasn’t involved in this movie. It was basically a team of “fisherman”
Well to do that they need to do researches, for that some people must survive their attack
@Jacky138 Not really they would be easier to hit, wtf lmao, Heavier equipment would be stupid because the gravity is also heavier on pandora
If that happened the blue Indians will lose
1. we dont realy have a idea how dense the material is. We are on a diffrent planet and for all we now the wood has the strength of titanium.
2. Size matters. I rememeber that scense of "papa dragon" beeing impaled by a "simple" arrow 5 to 10 times the size of a "normal" arrow. Combined with the strength needed to draw it etc. we are talking about a lot of power here.
I dont think a "tank" would have it as easy as you think.
I’m surprised you guys didn’t talk about Spider constantly saying “BRO”
Im so glad someone else picked up on that xD was all the kids saying 'Bro' in the movie? I just remember it making me grind my teeth everytime I heard them talk like that
Not even just Spider ALL the kids, Na'vi went from aliens to 2005 american teenagers lmao
I swear
Yeah man, and Jake son even drops a couple bro’s 🤣 Ridiculous lmao
@@k--music And they talked english. like people do in all sci-fi and fantasy movies. Are you kinda slow or something?
Hell with the Review going straight to the spoilers section! 💯😂
Would have been cool to explore Jake’s fading relationship with Eywa (tree god), idk maybe there’s some badass Navi tribe who doesn’t accept the half breeds or Jake as leader. Something else could have been the reason to explore other regions to either rekindle his relationship with the god or realize his adopted daughter is the new chosen one.
Much better ideas than what we got
Next AVATAR
It pissed me off that the oldest son was killed off. He seemed the most level headed out of all of Jake's kids. I would have liked more screen time or plot around him. He was very likable. The story felt all over the place too. Like trying to put too many plots into one film and not explaining enough in the beginning.
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Well, it sets up the younger brother to grow into being more responsible and level headed and a leader. I enjoyed that all the kids seemed to take after Jake. I don't really see Neteri's personality in them, even the girls. Is that weird?
@@artboymoy Neteri has very little personality outside of being Omaticaya and a mother
The eldest brother dying is a story trope
@Numpteez and you just stated the problem of killing him off. He was the obvious choice and I saw it a mile away if his purpose was to only give his younger brother character development then that is a bad character.
when they arrived in water town and the chief said like "your skills will be useless here treeclimbers!"... and there were literally giant mangrove forests behind them which we conveniently never saw again
I was hating the green guys more than humans for a while therr
Yeah, this was really a missed opportunity
Besides "plot", my head canon was maybe because there's more food on the reef than the mangroves which is why they better evolved to the water.
Well there water avatars why would they go to the forest?
@@luckymark571 because our main protagonist is a forest avatar so they profit from forest beeing there??
The whole movie my friends and I were calling Spider "Monkey boy" and at the end one of the Na'vi actually called him "Monkey boy" and we all burst out laughing
Bobcat Golthwait: Monkey boy!!!
The problem with these movies is they rely too much on you being blown away by the cgi and cinematography and not thinking too hard about the characters or plot.
but wait the kids got kidnapped ...again!
and it works. how stupid and uncreative of you to think it wouldn't!
Have you seen the movie?
Well it had characters and plot
That's literally why you go to the movie theater lol!!!
I'm surprised the space marines didn't just nuke the site from orbit
It's the the only way to be sure
It's too bad they didn't.
They plan to move their people to Pandora since Earth is dying, no need to contaminate it with nukes before most of humanity even gets there.
Well if worth thinking realistically it would be hard for anything to burn because Pandora a is carbon dioxide moon, not oxygen
I kinda wish space marines were real they would massacre our whole planet which includes all of you so that's a happy ending for sure
Neytiri going mad after losing the eldest son was probably my favorite part of the movie.
There’s nothing more terrifying than a mother who just lost her child, so seeing her go berserk was a really cool scene.
That, and the whale fight scenes, were worth the price of admission
I couldn’t stop laughing when the guy gets shot with the arrow during the last scene and the kid cries out “ITS MOM !”
Yeah 😂😂😂
everybody laughed lol
Lol peeps have the strangest criticisms of this movie. I don’t get what’s wrong with that line 😂 like if it realistic for a kid to say that? Maybe not but it fits with the film. I dunno man lol
@@jame2433 Woke lefty's upset it's better than She MCU
@@jame2433 I don't think he was criticizing it, people laughed because it's a funny line (and probably funny on purpose)
There is a ton of world building done efficiently through dialogue if you're paying attention. From Quaritch's conversation with the General (notice the military leader has been upgraded 4 ranks from Colonel and is now the undisputed head of the colony) we know that this expedition's primary mission is no longer profit driven but as a lifeboat colony for humanity. The dollar value on the whale juice doesn't really matter because it is at best a side piece to the main action which is creating a massive human colony.
Spider was "helping" his "dad" because Quaritch made a deal with him so he wouldn't get tortured anymore.
Not his dad it's avatar with Quaritich memories.
he saved his dad from drowning because he let the little girl go to save him first
@@RobertK1993 Quaritch still has the memories of the kid being his own. It’s like saying a step dad isn’t a dad even though he raised him 🥴
most useless character in the movie. 3rd one will come out and he'l be on daddy's side going against jake and the kids... and then daddy dies and spider finally becomes navi. Stupid, I can already see it coming.
Spider was helping his dad to get back to his real family, the sully clan. And he had to play politics with the humans and learn their ways in the style jake had to learn the omaticaya people ways
14:48 Nah Alex you're forgettin' some shit bro, Quaritch finds his old mech and they recover footage from it showing Jake attacking him, and eventually Neytiri killing him. He sees the arrows in his old skeleton, and this is where it all comes in place, you see on his face the anger, sadness and slight fear. So, they do give him a solid reason to hate Jake, and Quaritch's memories were backed up right before the final fight, after Jake betrayed him in the first movie. He also particularly dislikes Neytiri a lot more after finding out it was really her specifically who killed him. His motivations as Quaritch make sense, especially because he's loyal to a mission, so whether he had a personal grudge or not he was going to do this. 15:25 Spider has empathy to a huge fault, this isn't really unbelievable, it's just annoying because you've watched 3 hours of kids being stupid lmao. 17:28 she doesn't die as an Avatar, she gets shots by Quaritch in her og homosapien body, but the wounds are too great, so they bring her unconscious Avatar body to the tree in an attempt to permanently transfer her consciousness into her Avatar body, which was completely unharmed the entire time. The transfer of consciousness was never made, the Avatar body just stays in it's default unconscious state as before and they just place it back in a tank to not waste it I guess.
My guess would be that at some point Eywa will use that avatar more.
Exactly this. Some of the plot points they point out as problems are explained in the movie. A second watch really does wonders. Except for the disappearing water tribe I suppose. Also about Spider, I think there's more to him helping out the military na'vis. I think it's him wanting to prove above all else that he's na'vi, and the chance to show humans in na'vi bodies how it's done makes him feel like he's better at it than them. The whole time he's laughing and sneering at them. He doesn't fully realize what he's doing because he gets caught up in the moment of feeling good about himself.
Quaritch saw his death just like Thanos in the recording lol
ya sometimes i wonder if these 3 were paying attention
@@CustomGameNight they don’t pay any attention just like critical drinker and all the snobby reviewers
@@CustomGameNight I miss when they had there own opinions, instead of reading social media first then making a video.
Then he crushed in his own skull.
Lol we all thought of "There's always a bigger fish" at the shark scene
100% thought that right before the whale showed up. Was hoping for a sea monster tho
Really silly thing I haven't seen anyone bring up. Right when they're all free and getting off the ship, they see the fire coming in and retreat back into the ship... but they could easily swim under the fire. They spent the whole movie getting good enough to breath under water, to do that.
Same thing with stupidly traveling deeper into the sinking ship to avoid the water. They merely had to grab onto something early on and hold their breath until the strong current subsided, then swim out.
But must agree the biggest two plot weaknesses were:
-The repeated use of the boys getting in trouble and the kids getting captured.
-The water tribe vanishing instead of sticking around for 5 more minutes to easily finish everyone off.
Was cool to see the synergy of Neytiri being an absolute murderous savage, drawing agro, while Jake moves tactically and did a lot of sneak killing. Though she's not being that smart, and Jake is probably spending a lot of time just trying to keep her ass alive haha.
Agree 100%
I'd honestly have to give this movie a 3/10, 1 point for the visuals, 1 for the last hour and 1 for the new animals which I found interesting. Aside from that the story made absolutely no sense, had nothing to support it or 90% of its plots from the original. The only thing that made sense is that the humans came back. We had no evidence that Quaritch had a wife let alone a son, his wife left the planet and abandoned the baby because "babies can't go in stasis", the kid was younger then some of Jake Sully's sons, nothing was explained about how Kiri came into existence nor was shown in any capacity that Grace was pregnant. The main reason they went after Jake was because he was the clan leader that was putting up some resistance and he passed the leadership on and left so there was no reason to pursue him since Quaritch's "clone" didn't have the memories of his fight with Jake while he was human and Quaritch clearly didn't care about his human body as he literally crushed the skull in his hand. They could of made this sequel entirely different by just saying the Omaticaya needed a new home after hometree was destroyed (Eywa is everywhere and the tree of souls wasn't a viable village it was tiny) so they went to the Metkayina clan for refuge then started the sequel there with Jake and his people learning their ways for literally the first hour of the movie then could of just said "10 Years Later" then spent 30-40 minutes of family building time with his daughter & 2 sons before humans invaded, then the rest of the movie dealing with the new threats (that made sense) and then ended the sequel. In the 3rd movie make it about war and the conclusion to the human threat and if the 3rd movie was successful make a 4th & 5th movie with a new threat but not necessarily a human threat either as it could of been a threat between other clans. They could of cut Kiri, Quaritch and Spider completely out of the movie and it'd of been better, but possibly still keep scenes with Jake and Neytiri seeing Grace through Eywa via some means with the new connections they made with the Metkayina.
Kiri was okay as a character, just drop the blue female Jesus plot of hers. Make her the next Jake “chosen by Eywa” not a god lol
The only memory Steven Lang's character didn't have was the one of how he died, which he saw how later in the movie. He remembers the betrayal by Jake and everything that led up to right before the final fight of Avatar 1. Spider was helping quaritch cause he was being tortured and quaritch said he would stop it if spider helped them.
The point of them running away was Jake knew they would get the whole tribe killed if they stayed. But Jake didn't realize til the end that his problems are just gonna follow him and hiding from issues doesn't solve them.
But that’s his character from the start, he ran away from his crippled body. It’s thematically fitting
@@JoseMolina-jz9hh You get it.
EXACTLY
The story had to happen… but considering that MyJake was a Marines, well-versed in military operations, he would have mounted an attack within days of their arrivals. A year would not have gone by so peacefully watching the humans destroy the forest and set up camp.
I don’t think that’s the case … That’s your creation. It seemed like Jake left because he knew they couldn’t win the inevitable fight that was coming. So he tried to get away. Admittedly, I was high on 6 grams of mushrooms when I watched it, but that sounds off.
What upset me the most...The son's dying wish was to go home, but instead of taking him to the sacred tree, they just drop him in the foreign water plant.
That was not a plant
The sea clan was actually... meaningless. So much build-up, so much screen time, but when they are truly gonna do something they disappear? They are right there, on their beasts, armed to the teeth, angry as shit for the dead whales & their captured princess... & Jake tells them to hold for a WHILE because the bad guy only wants him so Jake moves forward. But once the battle starts, why are the sea clan not doing shit? In fact, they are gone entirely. WTF!? Why do we spend 3 hours getting to know characters that do nothing? We only saw glimpses of other clans in the first film prior to the final battle but they sure as hell took PART of said battle & did something!
And Kate Winslet's character... Mother of God, save me! She is that tribe's spiritual leader but she is from start to finish angry & hostile & not wanting to help, & they never ever explain why she has this attitude before the Sully family even arrives. It is suggested they don't want Sully's war there at their home as well & that makes perfect sense. But the woman never looses up. And right before the final battle, that they never actually anticipate in, she only then understands that the humans are after Jake specifically. Uhm... that was implied already when Jake arrived 2 hours earlier in the film to her village, is the woman totally dense?
The whole thing about the Na'vi is how tolerant & loving they are. Kate's character was none of this. I saw no love or understanding from her at all, besides for her whale. She felt more like one of the humans with her attitude, just hateful & narrow minded, how can SHE be their spiritual leader? And without any given explanation as to why she is like this it all falls flat.
- the Metkayina clan did took the fight right after the Tulkan whale attacked the vessel. They only ‘disappeared’ right around the nighttime when the war wore off. They are sea people, native hunters who doesn’t like wars and tend to outcast others like the chief clan explained in the film.
- Ronal, Kate Winslet in the film, was not angry and hostile the entire film. She was skeptic and unwelcoming of outsiders in nature, that was her own character. But she DID accepted Jake’s family towards the end. She provided medicine, allowed her people to teach Jake and Neytiri with their children of the way of water and their ways, and more importantly, you complain that she was angry. Ofc, her peaceful tribe just got disturbed, adding to her spirit sister being (the Tulkan whale with cub) murdered and hunted. She DID loosen up the end, if you think every character have no substance, then that is meaningless. People do have attitude all the time.
@@Red_Rebel preach.
She also was flying into battle while being noticeably pregnant. Terrible motherhood instincts.
I'd like to see what the humans on Earth are being told about the war, the Navi and Pandora.
Maybe the regular humans would protest the war effort if they found out what's going on?
Anti white cuckery trying to guilt trip us over natives used for control
It's not a war....its a colonization of an alien planet by an independent corporation. Think Elon Musk and SpaceX with paid mercenaries and no conscience to speak of.
Operations on Pandora are safe and effective.
depends on the state of the Earth at this point. If what the General and colonel are saying is true that Earth is literarily on its last leg and they are desperate for new worlds to colonize etc. then the Regular humans back on earth wouldn't care as much due to desperation. But if it wasn't as bad then their might be protest
@@Eagles083neytiri will go to earth in 5
There's still so much potential for this story. I think they didn't quite meet the bar in this film as they did the last, but it's still a really good movie. I'd watch it again. I think they just lacked the Macro-plot of the overall series. Like, it didn't bother me that Quaritch was essentially let loose to hunt down and kill Jake. (however, I don't like that he just ran away from the forest people). But I want to know who is behind this whole operation. On one hand it seems like humanity is desperate and trying to find a new home, but on another hand it seems like humanity is being run by a bunch of rich corporations that are only on Pandora for rich minerals and immortality serums, and profit. I wanted to see who is really behind it all; I want to see Emperor Palpatine, not just Darth Vader, if that make sense. I really hope the third movie dives into that a little deeper, otherwise, I think I'll loose interest pretty quick.
Dude don’t fall for that free giveaway crap. I was scammed and I don’t know if the real joe is not aware about this 😢
@@aikimi9081 yah, I just reported it
I think Cameron cut a 1 hour of scene from this movie that's why some scenes seems out of place or some stories building up suddenly jump to another one.
I on the other hand would like way more if they removed the entire human part and made the story only around the nature and Navi. It is cool to watch all the giant human tech moving around, but it feels like a disturbance from the pretty stuff which is the nature for me.
Same! I was a bit dissappointed that they didnt explain the macro more. I want to know more about future humanity. I think a sick ass plot line would be one where some Navi would be want to live in a human way or love human made stuff. Just like in real history when some natives sold huge amounts of land just for booze. I think that would be hilarious and would be really interesting to explore that idea.
The reason the general wants to kill sully so bad even tho he has no memory of him is because if you remember, the general saw sully kill the "human general" on that screen in the movie. How did you miss it
Lol i think you also missed the point that they need to kill him because of the extremely coordinated attacks on supplies and transport but other than that its a stupid gruge and even more stupid to bring the colenel back
Blue monkey meet Lockheed Martin
@@pitch5330 worse is at the end nothing is solved. the humans are still there, the enemy is still alive and well, in 3 hours nothing changed for the planet
@@Necr0e1 it definitely did change alot for the worse plus yeah of course hes still alive theres like 5 more movies coming
But I think confusing part is when he talks to spider he says I’m not him, I don’t care. And as a character that’s supposed to be pragmatic to a fault, him going after one guy who does nothing seems just stupid. Who cares about sully.
the mother whale and baby whale death scene almost got me tear up, and then neytiri crying at the end just released everything from my eyes
Yeah man. Those along with Sully showing his mate love, and being there for his kids, and the ending with Sullys stick together made me choke up bad lol
Yeah the final scene where jake was with his son in the memory actually got me more than I thought it would
Facts.
Yeah that wrecked me too.
@@TheBrawlingBrothers Same. The only time I've teared up in theaters in a long time
Did anyone noticed a little sort of frame rate drops at certain parts of movie? Seriously, alot of the movie looked like 60 fps, but there was was like a few choppy scenes. It was something weird. J/s
The ps5 was lagging a bit the graphics are too good
Depends if you watched in HFR.
Actions scene and lots of CGI heavy scene were in HFR. Other were in 24fps. The switch between 24->48 could look choppy especially if you were watching digital 3D since you polarize 1/2 of the picture and during switch your eyes catch the switch
Yo that’s crazy bro, literally came back from the movie last night and I noticed that as well. Thought I was too wasted but I guess not.
The 3D worked against it here and I’m surprised they didn’t just do the whole movie in 48fps. It would have been much less distracting. I get that it’s much more work and expense with a 99% CGI movie, but you’re spending $300M, what’s another $100M$ when you’re going to make it all back in a week?
It’s because 48 frames is a lot less cinematic at certain times/moments and other times 48 frames enhances shots, especially for 3D. Some technical thing I’ve heard explained but any time there fast motion on screen 3D benefited greatly from 48 frames
I really enjoyed it, my hype had initially disappeared for this movie because of how long we had to wait but I thought I'd give it a shot and now I'm 💯 % invested it this world again. No, it wasn't perfect, and there were some 🤦🏻 moments and questions, but it didn't ruin the film whatsoever.
Can't wait for the next one. 👍
Watching this in a 4k Dolby Atmos showing was truly an unforgettable experience.
For years I thought Stephen Lang’s character was gonna be captured by some corrupt, immoral Na’Vi tribe or outcasts, and revived as his human self. But when I heard he was that Na’Vi in the trailer, I knew his human self had to be dead.
That scene of his Na’Vi self going back to where he died & picking up his own skull was a really cool concept to me though.
My question is who makes the Military Avatars clothes and Oakley sunglasses? Like who got the contract to make 18 ft tall Avatars underwear, pants, wife-beaters, and shoes? Can someone make a parody where someone gets the contract to make clothes and accessories, then finds out the Avatars get killed after working long hours to make their clothes? LOL
still tryna figure out the tattoos thing...did they get them after or cloned with?
I think Alex opinion is on point in this one. The movie wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. The visuals were amazing, the characters were good, some moments were good... But the plot is pretty weak. By the way, I think the final battle from Avatar 2009 is a lot better than the final battle of The way of water. It just feels a lot more massive, climatic and epic, and the music has a lot to do with this. Avatar's 2 music was painfully average in key moments of the movie, like the final battle. It didn't have the punch and tribal-musical motives of the 2009 movie's original score. Anyways, pretty sure a lot of Avatar fans expected a lot more from The way of water. This was a beautiful movie, but an interesting one? Nah, not really. Hopefully the 3rd one will be better, if it ever comes out.
Yea man, In the first movie the stakes were much higher. Watching the second movie after 13 years and the respective "epic final battle" is just him fighting the "bad guy" who he already fought in the first movie makes the ending very lackluster. And the sea navi disappear, wtf ?
Its a good movie, but overall disappointing. The first movie was much more polished and tight, this one feels like a copied/less version of the first one (excluding the visuals which were in fact outstanding).
"There's always a bigger fish!", OMG I thought about that same line when watching it :P
Attack of the Clones moment.
@@Enzo012
The Phantom Menace, but yeah you got it
It hit me hard when the oldest son died. Zoe wailing and the whole family cryimg over his dead body just got me. And to think that the beginning of the film with Zoe singing with the beads is actually the funeral for their eldest son made it more emotional. Its a great family film at its core and you'll get invested if you have a family of your own that you love.
Cringe
@@nickuva6508 not as much as your life
@@nickuva6508 cringe because you like woke movies with LGBT, Feminazi bs political agenda
@@Redron679only people with no love think your comment was cringe. I agree with your points
I think James Cameron is planning on making this series a generational epic. In my opinion spider saved his dad because Quaritch saved him. I also think they are planting the seed in spider to be the next antagonist after his dad.
It’s funny how a lot of the issues this movie has mirror a lot of the issues we see in average superhero movies, excluding imperfect cgi of course. James Cameron shouldn’t try to knock down others when his own story leaves a lot to be desired
not really. Its still better than any phase four film. Even with its faults
@@purefoldnz3070 Mind you this a movie with 10+ of planning in the making and an auteur director like James cameron. Avatar shouldn't even be in the same sentence as marvel phase 4 lol It's no better than Wakanda forever imo with stunning visuals but story line lacking and filled with plot holes
@@undermoonstars which plot holes? Its still better than anything in phase four. Its not following a boring MCU formula with the same cinematography same music, same quippy dialogue, same lazy cgi and same mostly bloodless violence. I wouldn't say ten years in the planning since they wrote 4 sequels and already directed two or three.
@@purefoldnz3070 that means nothing tho,phase 4 is a joke
@@ppsarrakis yeah thats for sure.
The fact that they had to bring back Stephen Lang, just shows how out of ideas for antagonists they were.
Not really, if it works the first time then it could a second time and not doing a MCU Villain who appears for 1 movie and dies and nobody remembers him again after some movies
@@Dragonflee100 both are bad
@@sheltondmello8031 not that bad, i radher have a simple villain then someone who always wants to destroy all planets or something like that
@@Dragonflee100 anything is better than the dumpster fire called dceu thank goodness they ended it
So a bottle of brain liquid of an alien whale worth 80m sustains space travel which probably costs a few 100 billions for every rocket shiplaunch, considering it's 2150 AD
Just watched it and this is the first video I searched for right after haha
I have to hard disagree with you on Spider's character. He didn't betray Jake and co at any point. He thought he had finally found his father, whom he never knew as a child, in the body of the very race he idolized. Of COURSE he's going to initially hope and try for a relationship with him. What kid wouldn't want their parent(s) after never knowing them? He wasn't helping them go against the Navi. In his child-like mind, he thought he was helping his dad become more Navi and maybe get him to see them how he sees them. As soon as he realizes that's never going to happen, he peace's out the second he gets the chance to, knowing now his father will never be who he wants him to be.
Also, kids are ABSOLUTELY asshole bullies, drag others they don't like into bad situations, and abandon them. It's just not the dark alley of your neighborhood here, it's the "blink and you're dead" nature of the planet, because that's where they have to play. Imagine playing hide and seek in the forest or mountains and some shithead kids leaving you alone cuz they're dicks. Now there's mountain lions and cougars and shit instead of the creepy guy down the street pushing an old shopping cart. Your responses are based on living in cities your whole lives, instead of living as a part of nature and the food chain as they do here. They very heavily point out how rough the terrain, flora and fauna are on this world in the first movie.
I agree. Also Alex was getting way too hung up on why Spider saved him at the end. Uhhh its basically his dad and he also just saved spider from getting his throat slit. That's plenty of reason to not let this person die
I can't wait for the Sozen's Comet plotline in Avatar 3
My dad left me to go help Mr Cameron make Avatar 2… he’s been gone 14 years. I just want my dad back Mr Cameron. Please stop making him animate so many blue people so you can make movies with political messages about anti-whaling which everyone already decided 30 years ago was a bad thing and China isn’t gonna stop just because of Avatar 2. Please, my mom made him dinner 14 years ago, it’s gonna get cold if you don’t stop making him work on Avatar 3 right now. Please, none of us need Avatar 3. Let my dad come home Mr Cameron, I beg of you
6/10 is a fair score. They abandon basically any plot of the first movie. The bad guy's only mission is to kill Sulley, no lives or money matters. Predictable on which kid dies. And the bad guy magically survives just for the sake of making another movie.
We were cheated out of a re-appearance of the shark thing that Lo'ak was saved from. Was really looking forward to one or several of those chomping up humans that fell overboard after the whale attack
Literally the only predator in that ocean.
The big tuk fish things are like 5 times bigger and stronger... why would the shark things be used when the big Tuk saves him again at the end
My major gripe is that the movie forces you to be on the side of the blue aliens by depicting all of humanity as singularly evil colonial power of destruction. Providing some moral ambiguity by showing the dire conditions on Earth forcing the settlement of Pandora and some humans to rout for (besides the scientist buffoons who appear for milliseconds on screen time anyway) the movie would have been more engaging.
Yeah I'm still upset about the battle scenes, especially the last one how an entire army of Navi just ups and disappears even though they were there to save their daughter lol, such a big hole and flaw in the movie I almost didn't want to finish, it just makes me upset that people support the movie and the story is lazy, just because the movie looks beautiful doesn't mean it deserves a trilogy 😅
I thought the reason why Spider saved his father despite everything is...Well...Because its his father in the end and for him it was the right thing to do.
plus his father saved his life from Neytiri
Yeah but he clearly cared about Kiri more than anything and his dad said he would kill her if he lived and so him saving him didn't make any sense. Maybe if the scene was instead spider being expected to kill him and then not do it because of a small moment but having him take his dad the whole way out with all that time to regret his choice... I can see what they're trying to do but they just didn't build it up well.
@@kbg12ilalet’s put it like this, if Spider hadn’t saved his father after literally watching him drowning I would have disliked Spider. What kind of a person could watch their own father slowly drown in front of them and not do anything? It would be Someone like Steven Lang and Spjder doesn’t want to be like his father. Sometimes doing the right thing may not always be the most logical.
@@Gizmomaster The issue is, to have feelings for someone you must spend time with them.If someone comes and tells you "I'm your father" while killing your people , i don't think you will have any son - father feelings going on. He already had the father figure and family as well... so yea, makes no sense.
Spider still has empathy for Quaritch, he couldn't live with himself letting him die, even after everything. He hates Quaritch, but they did bond a little, and his dad showed a willingness to protect him. He's a 16 year old kid with a big heart and always felt a little out of place, I think his actions made sense for his character.
I got here so fast, that the Spoiler Section and the non-spoiler review havent even appeared on the channel yet.
Jacke uses his brother's avatar from the first movie. That means his son and daughter are not his biological children once the avatar DNA wasn't made from his DNA. He is actually, uncle Jake.
Can someone mention that horrible second to last sentence from Jake specifically “We’re water people now” I burst out laughing dialogue so bad it’s good🤣
How is it bad?
@@studentstudent5044 I mean I guess it’s not really bad cause no lie I enjoyed the movie but that one part of dialogue and how it was said felt out of place but it didn’t make the movie bad it was really hilarious to me
@@KAGIICHII I can understand what you mean but the movie really is a fantastic experience with good fleshed out scenes, we need to support it❤️
@@studentstudent5044 Ayy man Ima be honest I tripped on shrooms and watched it and man it was amazing all the characters, the visuals they were so damn good honestly wish I can watch it again for the first time I definitely loved this movie it was better than a lot that have come out recently so ima show all my love for this especially cause I want them to green light the sequels💯🙏🏾
@@KAGIICHII exactly. So why make a comment like this if you know you were under the influence anyway.
Steven Langes character does know why he hates Jake, he says it during the video. They have the memories right before the final battle of the first film
This movie has more plot holes than the titanic but boy does it look sharp.....
The film had a plot??
@@thebatman4279 True that😃
My favorite part of this movie was when Spider killed the Act Man with a fire extinguisher
this is pretty much Star Trek 4 minus the time travel
The water Na'vi disappeared during the end battle because Cameron released un unfinished movie, lol. 100% you know that's true. 13 years wasn't enough time to complete the CGI.
The plot was really bad. Abandoning the forest clan which he fought so hard to protect with no guarantee they would be safe...
The right way to say David Attenborough is...David Attenbra :)
How do they even figure out the anti-aging thing is specifcally from those whales?? just seems so niche of a thing as opposed to mining. like who did experiments and thought "oh..let's just try this particular animals brain fluid"??
Also continuity error: Stephan Lang didn't have his giant scar on his face from the first movie when he did the recording (despite stating the recording was just before they went into the climax of the movie) :D
So after the fight with Jake and Miles Quaritch, Sully has to take a big breath to get out and was drowing before the whale popped up but Miles Quaritch was drowing in the water before even Spider turned up. how the fuck did Spider get him out of the water on his own before he died from drowing?? the Na'Vi had to have help to get out I doubt a human kid could manage it solo
How do they even figure out the anti-aging thing is specifcally from those whales?? just seems so niche of a thing as opposed to mining. like who did experiments and thought "oh..let's just try this particular animals brain fluid"??- as a cientist, usually you study something and gradually you find uses for that. for example you could study the plant aloe vera, then the leaft, then the components of the leaft, and with the components you find what it can be used for. after that comes the refining and incrementing results.
@@noem.7430 but that's after maaaany years, they were there originally to mine an ore. The city was established over the span if 1 year. 1 year is far too soon to discover something like that
2 weeks since released already has billion dollar worldwide
Well at least Henry Cavill got the green light to make a 40k franchise as an executive.
Spyder didn't make any sense in this movie, he was born and alive during the first movie and we never heard of him yet he was younger? then some of Jake's kids, and didn't Jake at the end of the first movie choose who could stay and who they were kicking off the planet, why would he of let some random kid and/or new born baby stay.... it was like WTF, none of this makes any sense. They tried to solve it by saying babies can't go in stasis, like what? so his mom abandoned him on an alien planet.
Joe's 8/10 feels more like a 7/10 or 6/10
Yeah more of a rating for the CGI than story.
@@hamhockbeansyeah this movie was like 10/10 CGI & 4/10 story, so 6 seems fair
The movie was a 7/10. Cameron bitches and whines about Marvel movies and then makes a movie with a very generic plot.
@@corruptedpoison1too generous. It was def a 3 or 4 at best. All spectacle without substance
still gave it a 8 lol
Watched you non spoiler review before going and just come back....
I really enjoyed it so was with AJ with an 8/10
Yes it's derivative and its on the nose but it's done well. And yes, the effects do make it a spectacle....
I just cant imagine watching this for the first time on the small screen...
I would advise everyone just to go watch this if only for the spectacle of it all because you won't see anything else like this visually.
It’s an excellent theatre going experience
@@JoseMolina-jz9hhit’s a slog at best. My family and I don’t enjoy derivative rehashes of tropes and films we’ve already seen. It was so lazy and generic. All spectacle without substance
@@InnerAtanih right... you're superficial, got it. And you must have an incredible attention span. We are all measly viewers of movies, this guy is a connoisseur of cinema, watch him twirl his intellectual mustache
@@JoseMolina-jz9hh You good bro?
@@ryankelly7744 fantastic. Just like Avatar 2 ⛱😎
I couldn't get over the part where the younger brother goes off to warn the outcast whale that the humans are on their way. The other kids warn him not to go, but he of course goes off because he needs to save the whale. The others start to follow him, then the Sigourney Weaver character sees them take off, towards danger, *with the youngest daughter alongside her* and thinks, "sure, taking my defenceless little sister headfirst into the entire human army is a great idea!"
Such a stupid contrived way to get the youngest daughter into the final battle when she would've and should've been back at the village with the rest of the ones who couldn't fight.
I feel like a lot of people misunderstand spider. What he is is simply confused. He has seen both sides. What happened to his father and what the na'vi are like so his allegiance is kinda split. Spider could almost represent us as viewers because while we do enjoy the na'vi taking humans down, we know that all humans aren't pieces of shit. I mean, spider almost turned quaritch soft. That alone is proof enough that he will somehow mend the bond between humans and na'vi. Him doing both sides isn't a bug, its a feature.
he didnt see the human side at all, he has 0 memories of anything human related
hence it making 0 sense, he even shouldve died cause the world is not made for humans
@@nolandderlugner1351 spider was birthed by humans and the human scientists even took care of him. He speaks english. He does not hate humans. He makes constant effort to stop quaritch from being his former self. Its not like he can just escape. Marines have guns and they track him all the time. Plus, he just hangs around the na'vi. He is never actually mentioned as an active member of the na'vi so he mostly knows what kind of world he is into. This is why he does not object to the fact that neytiri almost killed him.
No one mentioned one of the dumbest things. If the earth is dying, why are they trying to make anti-aging a thing. Seems counter productive lol
Spider did a really good job acting like a na’vi despite being human - but the actor seemed way to old to be called a kid. He looks like a full grown man. Early twenties at least
He was surrounded by 10ft tall aliens
Where did he look like full grown man?
He didn't look old at all to me. Like 15 honestly
The character just had bad writing and the actor just wasn't convincing. Let's not even talk about hit attempt at hissing
The actor was born in 2004, this film was shot like two years ago. He was around 16 at the time of filming.
Sigourna Weaver’s character/soul was reincarnated, it’s the same person just reborn, that’s why she spazzed out while trying to communicate with her mom who was really just a manifestation of herself and not actually her. When Awa tried to save her in the end of the first movie but couldn’t, her soul was transferred over to the Avatar body, but she had to be reborn for her to come back alive. It’s not really like Jesus since there’s no higher power involved, it’s just the planet’s soul and biological connections doing what it always does, and Weaver’s child character has a unique connection with Awa and thus the world and it’s inhabitants, she’s a daughter of the planet itself not of a God figure. Awa is their god but you know what I mean, the Navi’s spirituality is based on tangible truths/science which was why Weaver was so fascinated with the world.
He does have the memories of Jake’s betrayal just not his own death which he did see early on in the film. Not a plot hole. Also grace died in her human form. You just need to watch the first film again lol
I got to say, as an Australian it was fucking annoying having an Aussie play the whaler. Should have been someone from one of those ‘other’ countries that, you know, actually harvest whale. Unlike us aussies, who actually spend a great deal of our time and money preserving the sea and sea life around our shores.
There was 1 Asian whale hunter. We all know how it is these days “white people bad(and some asian”
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There is still hope for us
I got Soo Many Vibes from his Past Films, Titanic, T2, True Lies
Avatar: Deadliest Catch... First 20 mins were great the rest of it instead of mining rock they mine brains, replace forest with water and add children... and we get the exact same movie
Winning formula for Cameron sequels!!
AlienS: same movie as first, but with space marines, a child, and shit ton of more alienS!!
T2: same movie as first, but with a kid and a more vicious Terminator as the villain!
4:12 - reminds me of Cameron’s Aliens where in 2122 a space freighter carrying an oil refinery with a crew shuttle, hibernation pods, and multiple life vessels is stated to be worth 400 million dollars. Dude, there’re houses worth more than that.
I loved the first Avatar but had some of the same issues as you
1) It felt mostly a rehash of the first film
2) They way they brought back the same villian was so stupid and it takes away from the weight of the first film. If theyre gonna kill villians just to bring them back then nothing matters. Like they did w Palpatine. In this film they did one worse by not even killing the main villian.
3) Brings me to the third point, that this felt like half of a movie. There wasnt a big epic battle which I assume was left for part 3.
4) I felt like the soundtrack was lacking.
5) So much of this movie felt familiar. It felt like it stole too much from popular movies. At times it was Lion King, then it was Tarzan, then it was Finding Nemo, later Waterworld & Star Wars, at the end it was Titanic but mostly it was a repeat of the first Avatar film.
6) Also they never explained how a dead Sigorne Weaver character ends up pregnant in part 2. Huh? wth
7) Also the motivation for the humans hunting the whales was way cheap and underexplained. How did humans randomly discover that a liquid inside whales stops aging. wut?
8) I didnt feel as wowed by the effects because again we've seen them before.
9) The lenght of it felt long. They couldve cut an 1hr and told them same story.
10) Why is the Tarzan kid helping the bad Avatar marines? Whats his motivation?
11) I hated that like 3 times people drowned and then were completely ok the next second. Dumb
It is super dump considering its cost was only 2billion $😂
Can't you recognize, Keri Skywalker?
She is based on Anakin Skywalker, no father created by Eiva.
Don’t think, just consume product and move to next product-
Perfectly said lol
I feel like the only one defending Spider. I’m seeing it again so maybe I just don’t remember but Spider is a human with kind of an identity crisis, and they imply this in a couple small moments. He also has the same connection to his “father” that Quaritch has with him. Spider never actually helps the humans, he’s more so kind of just saying they’re dumbasses and taunting them. It’s clear he actively dislikes everything that is happening here.
He saves Quaritch because of this innate familial connection he has because while he might feel that jake or whatever is a father figure, Quaritch actually is his father. Even if he’s an asshole, you don’t want to lose the possibility of learning more about your father. When he says “fuck” before rescuing him he knows logically it’s the wrong move, but he’s driving by some sort of emotion
It honestly made perfect sense to me so I don’t get why everyone has a problem with this character.
I do think that the film cut out a lot of important stuff tho, interested to see a directors cut
I agree with you on this
Could you really consider someone to be “good” if they watch their own father die and do nothing? Honestly if he had left him to die my opinion of Spider would be much worse.
It shows Spider is more decent than his father and also keeps alive a good villain.
It’s the same dilemma with GI Joe and Cobra Commander. With cobra hanging from a cliff he calls out for help and the hero always saves him only to get pushed off the cliff by Cobra Commander seconds later, but the hero ultimately gets saved.
Doing good things is a good unto itself, you don’t expect to be rewarded and often aren’t but that’s not the reason why you do them. You do good things because it’s the right thing to do. And saving Quaritch was the right thing to do.
@@Gizmomaster agreed. I hadn’t thought about that angle of this situation.
I’m finding this movie is super polarising with its story and I find that fascinating. Even amongst my friend group I’m seeing opinions about the story and I have to wonder if we even saw the same movie. Seeing the same thing in critic reviews. I do wonder whether I’m just giving it free points or whether the nickel
Back effect has taken root in Avatar.
It has problems for sure, but the ones people raise are to me a strength of the film
AJ has spent the whole time picking holes and gives an 8 out 10. Brings back memories of his Star Wars reviews lol.
hes become Mellow Joe. Always giving way more points than the other two and then regretting it later during the spoilers. he doesnt know what hes doin at this point.
Perhaps major movie companies see his channel is one of the biggest and are subsidizing those good reviews?? Remember the other big reviewers giving Wakanda Forever high scores??
OJ and Alex are honest about their experience with films while AJ just has a good time at the theater lmao
Woke liberal
You’re only saying that because he likes a movie that you don’t like. If he gave it a lower grade you’d be praising him
I loved the part where the humans said, "It's whalin' time!" and whaled the whales.
"We're whalers on the moon!"
@@psbox362 we carry a harpoon
lame.
wow really good joke. totally original and not overused and stale
@@joppai I also loved the part where the Na'vi ran up to Quaritch and yelled that if he or a loved one had been diagnosed with mesothelioma, he may be entitled to financial compensation. Seeing Quaritch's tears of relief was so heartwarming!
Hey I really enjoyed this video, I just wanted to say that cause y’all are really doing good work out here and the diversity of opinions really helps y’all discuss the quality of a film. I do just want to list my interpretations of certain scenes to see what y’all think of them,
1. I think he is going to leave, when he says that this is his home and he’s going to fight I think he was talking about the planet as a whole not just the tribe
2. The reason they were after Jake (in my opinion) is because like you said, he cost them a whole lotta money and he was the reason for their success, if they get him out of the way, even if the other tribes go to war the humans have a better chance
3. Lang wants revenge because even if he doesn’t remember him, he still killed him, he killed the “real” Lang and even saw the recording of how he died.
4. I think the reason the kid was helping them was because of the offer Lang made to him which was “I’m not asking you to betray Sully, you’re to loyal, but if you at least give us something then I don’t have to give you back to the scientists, so by teaching them the way of the avi (I think that’s what their called) he’s giving them information that’s not substantial enough to get sully or win the entire war, but at least keeps him out of that weird spinning device.
5. The whale swore off killing which is why they haven’t built any guns or anything, the reason that one whale is an outcast is because he tried to fight back and got other people killed, regardless of how justified or intentional or not, if you’re a whale and you kill, you’re out, that’s what the tribe leader and daughter told the younger brother, which is why the whale was not welcomed back for helping the water tribe at the end, he killed a lot of people on that boat (even though it was absolutely justified)
6. This one’s not a point but a cool fact I noticed, you can sort of tell the brother was shot in the movie during that short scene of them underwater before they go back up for air because you can see that the way he’s swimming is different.
7. Only 80 million for that vial, I think the reason it’s only 80 million is likely because they can get like a couple vials per whale, and it also doesn’t list how long it stops human aging, if each vial is only for a couple months to a year than 80 million seems about right for another year of life
9. Stupid kids is sorta understandable, I still agree that it feels a little forced just to push the plot forward, but I also like that although the kid says sorry, he doesn’t change because there hasn’t been any real consequences up to the brother’s death, aside from bruises and cuts they always came out relatively fine.
10. It really did feel like an animal documentary at points with how long it would go on, but I actually liked that because (I’m probably reaching here) they mention how connected the water tribe is to the whales and a lot of the sea animals, and by focusing on them we kinda feel the same (again I’m likely reaching)
11. I think the reason the kid saved his dad at the end was because he sorta grew to care about him during the sir time together, they laugh and joke around a couple times when they’re flying together and learning the ways of the Avi, and also he have gave up his hostage to save his life so maybe he felt he owed him one
12. The biggest issue, the kids getting kidnapped so many times, this one I agree with that they got kidnapped too many times, but a part of me also liked that they didn’t get away each time cause it’s realistic that they are surrounded and caught again (although it’s weird I’m talking about realism in a movie like avatar)
Those were my interpretations and everyone reading feel free to tell me if you think I’m wrong and to tell your interpretations, overall I enjoyed the movie
Edit: oh and spider never shot anyone I believe, although he did still rip the gas mask off of people and he stated that humans can only breath the planets air for a couple seconds before they die so he still killed people
Your interpretations seems spot on to me
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The part where Jakes son enters the mouth of the big whale and sees into his memories tells the audience that people before this movie, so in the first movie did harvest the juice in those whales too beacuse that was in the past
Still very confusing though, official lore beforehand stated that one of those space to ground shuttles used for transportation was about eighth of the size of the spaceship, and we know hells gate from the previous movie was the central operating center of the single spaceship in orbit
@@lordofthepies And about Hell's Gate, what about it? Did the RDA retake the place? Why wouldn't they? There are a lot of things that were just glossed over.
Yesss!!!
That's why they knew that the whale juice stops human ageing for good. That's why they came back, because humanity and the earth are dying and they want/need to take over Pandora now.
That's what that General stated
@@Numpteezthis is how easy. It is to fool the modern film audience. They were just willing to believe this had already been established just because the movie said so
@@jacobrobinson787 there's simply too much to continue from Avatar 1 and explore in Avatar 2 that 3 hours is not enough. If studio executives would allow Cameron to make his movie 4 hours for the sake of addressingn those issues, then he would have released the movie with that runtime.
I just hope that there's a Director's cut of this film so we would aunderstand some of the confusing bits of the plot.
when the avatar series ends up like bayformers
the crab submarines are so cool and funny I cant help but laugh every time they are shown on screen
Did everyone forget the tracking chip on the kids mask?
They should have explained that because of what happened to Jake's twin brother in the first film (he died while they were making his avatar body), they started taking regular imprints of their soldiers and staff. Which they could also use that same concept to put Sigourney Weaver's character back into her Avatar body.
How did you guys miss out the part where they explain why they created theyr own Navi?? The new general says that the zone where Navi bases is located any human or ship troop they send the planets fauna atacks and kills them, so they create theyr own Navi that go to the jungle and when the raptor/panthers see them thay just growl and keep theyr way and there the guy sees the recording of how his original gets killed and takes it way to personal...
thats not the problem. the problem is the weird cheap way of bringing back old villains. mind copying and cloning? thats such a weird sci-fi plot. they did all that just to have steven lang back in the film.
@@51iohC It's a James Cameron trope. The exact opposite of what Fincher did in Alien 3. I liked Stephen Lang so no complaint here.
@@51iohC Ithink there is no cloning just copying the minds of dead soldiers to create theyr own navi these are not avatars like in the first movie, i imagine noy many soldiers that are alive would sacrifice theyr lives to be born anew in a Navi body dunno bro.
@@51iohC 🤡
I also notice they missed that the soldiers backed up there memories after Jake had already betrayed them 2 hours before the major battle in the first one. So he had a good reason to chase Jake. There nick picking is ridiculous its like they just want to shit on stuff its what is wrong with critics/reviewers these days
From a guy who made so much money he basicaly retired to the bottom of the ocean, comes a sequel no one asked for that takes part in the ocean.
Guy should have stayed exploring the titanic
My main gripe with the film was with Spider. There seems to be a missing scene somewhere. How did he go from so loyal to helping the humans? It seemed to happen out of nowhere? That was really bizarre.
He was tortured and didnt budge, did not even give them a thought. He was their prisoner and his father saved him from more torture. He did not help the humans any more than he had to so they did not kill him. The moment he could, he sabotaged the controls and fought humans. He only saved his father in the end because he stood down to save him. The "missing scene" must have been you dozing off lol
@@SombraCheeksyeah I’ve seen people complain about spider a lot. I’m not sure why to me he never actually betrayed his family. He never truly helped the humans, and soon as he got a chance he helped the Na’vi
my son hated him from the moment he was on screen. He didn't bother me until the final chapter
Kind of wish his character maybe was the one that never felt truely excepted and an outcast but being among humans he felt excepted. To be fair he didnt need to be in the movie at all, did he? Only really there to kind of pull at his fathers heart strings. Was hoping they also maybe explore a bit more at him noticing also the savage side the Na'vi can have. In some scenes, Neytiri seemed terrifing. Lets not forget she was going to kill Jake.
@@SombraCheeks The 'missing scene' was Spider having inner monologue where he goes, "I'll train him to think Na'vi" to try and disconnect the cloned soldiers from their past memories. Especially where the colonel gets intimidated that Jake pacified and partnered with one of those winged creatures and so rushes to do it himself. I... worry they're going to try and have the colonel change heart by the third movie after he's blindly went on this vengeance mission.
Chip hazards smurf costume looked soooo bad he shoulda been a beefcake
Cameron is some kind of wizard, I don't know how he can make a movie so obviously bad on a whole number of levels and still have me glued to the screen for over 3 hours.
Cause of fancy visuals but no real substance.
maybe its not bad? lol
@@absalom0412 if it has no substance then people would hate it
Maybe because you didn’t notice how good it was… but your brain did
@@randomly_random_0 Well people don't understand good movies cause avatar 2 was formulaic with no real substance.
The guy spider hit with the fire extinguisher is just sleeping he's fine he's sooo sleepy
I just love how everybody complains about the Avatar movies for their lack of substance and story, but applauds Top Gun Maverick when it has the same flaws: awesome visuals, meh story.
I love both movies, but it just feels dumb to complain about only one of them. That movie was full of plotholes and was just about: dangerous mission, short time to train.
The difference is that Top Gun: Maverick had fun characters, decent dialogue, was emotionally engaging and the action scenes were exciting. Avatar 2 had none of these things. I was gobsmacked by how underwhelming the final act was.
The coolest part of this movie, bar none, was when the RDA returned with a fucking fleet of ships. The whole scene from the ships showing up - just remembering just how absolutely massive these ships were blew my mind a bit - and them all landing on Pandora, scorching the forest. One wall of fire from one of them landing just wipes out hundreds of miles of forest territory, absolutely obliterating the Na'vi's home.
And the vehicle design was top-tier; I adored the new Scorpion gunship design. So sharp, sleek and just fucking badass. I want one of them.
That scene and the way the ramp dropped for the Mech Troops was very Star Wars inspired
First time I recall in cinema it actually being shown what a realistic space faring engine will do to a planet if aimed at it, let along brought into atmosphere.
They blew it when we didn't get more cool stuff like that, all we got was a big boat at the end...