What can you do in 13 years? Given that amount of time, J.K. Rowling published all seven of his Harry Potter books and contributed to the first six film adaptations. Taylor Swift has released eight of his studio albums, two of which he has re-recorded. The Yankees have won the World Series his eighth time.
James Cameron made one movie.
“Avatar: Path of WaterA nearly three-hour sci-fi epic, the sequel to 2009’s Avatar broke box office records and garnered a dedicated fan base. (Three Academy Awards for art direction, cinematography, and visual effects didn’t hurt, either.) It’s set for a holiday-season release on December 16 in theaters.
If you remember very little about Pandora, here’s a refresher on the plot of “Avatar,” how it became a phenomenon, and the dangers the sequel faces.
Ok, I should check before I get my hopes up again. Is this really, finally, really happening?
yes.
why did it take so long?
In short, a dazzling (and expensive) array of visual effects means that these films take forever to take a day before production. Also, because much of the sequel was filmed underwater, new motion capture techniques had to be developed to accomplish this feat.
13 years is a long time, but not enough to see the original Avatar. Is it possible to see the “water path” anyway?
Well, yes, but it’s like jumping into the “Star Wars” franchise with The Empire Strikes Back. How did Han Solo get into that carbonite? What is his relationship with Princess Leia?
OK, got it. Not an option. So where can I see “Avatar”?
You won’t be able to find it on Disney+ after release delete silently From the streaming service in August. However, you can see “Avatar” in theaters starting Sept. 23 when Disney re-releases it with remastered audio and images.
I don’t have time to watch a nearly three hour movie again. hit me with the highlights
It is the middle of the 22nd century, and humanity has depleted the Earth’s natural resources, so they are colonizing the Moon, now known as Pandora. The moon is home to both the precious mineral Unobtainium and a tribe of native 10-foot-tall blue creatures known as Na. What appears to be a mashup of the Blue Man Group, centaurs, professional basketball players, and armed supermodels’ vi. interact with the tribe while their bodies remain in remote locations.
The main character is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who after his death replaced his identical twin brother in the Avatar program. Within the program, a power struggle erupts over what is worth sacrificing to obtain the unobtanium and the value of Na’vi’s life. In the woods, as Jake tries to convince the Na’vi to accept him as their own. And in Jake himself. He grapples with the ethics of what he does, which is complicated by the fact that he fell in love with one of his Na’vi women, Neytiri (Zoe he Saldanha).
After Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), head of the security forces of the group mining unobtanium, destroys the Na’vi meeting house, Hometree, killing many of them, Jake decides to take his place. Face him in your Na’vi form. The Quaritch nearly kills Jake before Neytiri fatally shoots the Colonel in the chest with two arrows. Falling in love with Neytiri and gaining Na’vi’s trust, Jake chooses to transition into his avatar form permanently.The closing shot of the film is his eyes waking up to Pandora.
The visual effects in the movie were a big deal, right?
Oh yes. The reviewer described and praised the performance her use of capture, focusing as much or more on the imagery as on the plot. This was a new innovation at the time, most notably used by Gollum in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. movie.
Didn’t “Avatar” come out in 3D?
Yes it was filmed with a 3D camera system. The system gave Cameron a real-time augmented reality view by integrating the live actor with a computer-generated environment within the viewfinder. “Avatar” is one of the films he reignited the craze for 3-D movie releases, though he may actually have never seen it in 3-D. Many theaters did not yet have 3-D projection systems.
What about the movie itself? How was it?
It grossed over $2.8 billion at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing film of all time before adjusting for inflation. Manohra Dargis, reviewing the film for The New York Times, named the film a critic’s pick, calling it “shining, goofy and blissfully insane”.
Both critics and audiences praised the visuals and immersive world-building, but the story itself was familiar to anyone who’d seen “Dances With Wolves” or “The Last Samurai”. It received a much lower rating, with the majority of reviewers dismissing it as generic or non-original. In her review, Darges also noted that Cameron’s writing, especially the dialogue, sometimes veered into “comically broad” territory (case in point: “Yeah, who’s to blame?” cursing creatures like).
Is Cameron writing a sequel too?
Yes, he had the sole scripting credit on ‘Avatar,’ but he co-wrote ‘Water Paths’ with Josh Friedman, who wrote Steven Spielberg’s 2005 adaptation of ‘War of the Worlds.’ I’m writing the next “Star Trek 4” movie.
What do you know about “The Way of Water” so far?
Cameron, who directed ‘Titanic’ and won an Academy Award, will return to the ocean with a sequel that, as you might guess from the title, is largely set underwater. More than a decade after the events of the first film, he focuses on Jake Sully and Neytiri and their underage children. It also introduces a new tribe of reef-dwelling Na’vi known as Metkaina.
Is Zoe Saldanha back?
Saldanha, who became a fan favorite for her performance as Neytiri and played the green-skinned Gamora in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, is back in ‘Water Path’ with Worthington, Lang and Sigourney Weaver. I was. , Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder. Yes, some of their characters are clearly dead. No, I still don’t know how it works.
They include notable newcomers such as Kate Winslet (Na’vi leader, Ronal), Cliff Curtis (Metkaina clan leader, Tonowari), Eddie Falco (soldier), and Jemain Clement (marine biologist). To do.
Will the sequel be screened in 3D?
yes. However, there is good news for those who wear glasses. He doesn’t need two sets to see the movie. a new laser system No special glasses required. (As in the first case, many theaters still don’t have the necessary equipment.)
Should we wait another 13 years for Avatar 3?
Cameron is under contract to produce three more sequels, currently slated for release in 2024, 2026 and 2028.
But just in case, we might make pencils in 2035, 2048, and 2061.