It HAD been 14 years since the original, and a pandemic had basically wiped out the theatrical movie attendance for the most part. When Avatar: The Way of Water was announced last year as ACTUALLY coming to theaters, many were skeptical that there had been too much time passing for the general audiences to really care about. As the years passed most of us actually figured that the sequel would be forgotten about, as James Cameron’s obsession with perfection would cause it to be shelved, or else forgotten about by the general populace by the time it actually came out. Mustache twirling villains abounded, and everyone sang Kum Ba Ya around the fire after the baddies were defeated.Īfter the success of Avatar, James Cameron announced he was going to make Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 back to back some time in the future. An indigenous people are being wiped out by the big bad humans, and it’s up to a lone human to stand in the gap and stand up for the humans trying to mine “Unobtainium” (yes, that was actually the name of the mineral in the film). Jokingly referred to as “Dancing with Fern Gully ”, it was a glorious visually stunning film that had a plot line that was as rote and wafer thing as you could get.
Lauded as the single highest grossing film of all time at over 2.5 BILLION dollars (to be fair it was pushed that high by being re-released in cinemas a few years after it’s initial run), Avatar took the world by storm with it’s insane visuals, but really paper thin plot. However, no other film of his has been more puzzling to me than that of Avatar. He’s always been a bit hit or miss, but his hits tend to absolutely ground breaking in the world of movies. James Cameron is a man of many talents, and he has become a true power house of Hollywood cinema over the last 40 years or so.
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