Cameron talks about what to expect.

Zoe Saldana says shooting for Avatar 2, and possibly Avatar 3, will start next year.

The Title for Avatar 2 is
Avatar: The Way of Water

Only took them ten years to make it.

Why isn't anybody else here commenting on it?

I saw it, and it has some lovely sequences, but it was more violence, too much of that.

I'm guessing that none of the other ten, or so, active members here saw it.

I saw it. It was great fun. Better than the first one.

I saw it. A decade wait for another Avatar movie, and still no Toph.

It was very long. Never saw the first, so I can't compare.

My main thought was "Why is the general in charge of all operations on Pandora personally riding along on an airborne extraction, particularly when they have problems losing aircraft? And then personally conducting an interrogation---an interrogation that involved complex (dedicated?) machinery but yielded no result?"

I was also unclear on tech levels that would allow interstellar travel and cloning with memory implantation, but couldn't make the windshield of a military aircraft (helicopter gunship equivalent) resistant to small arms fire.

Certainly people make dumb decisions all the time, but not keeping Quaritch on a short leash takes the cake. He's the reincarnation of a guy who failed 20 years previously and demonstrates no success at pacifying the Na'vi. The closest he comes to an accomplishment is going on patrol and only losing a couple marines (in exchange for capturing one teen-aged human). When he burned a Water People village with no indication (to us) that he knew they were lying to him, and then deliberately aggravated the Water People by bringing whaling to their doorstep (to somehow draw out his target, who was not from the Water People) you can just picture every grunt on the planet---who has been getting Na'vi grief, but enjoyed the indifference of the Water People---facepalming.

This should make s(9oregons) happy.

The movie starts streaming on Disney Plus and Max (formerly HBO Max) on June 7, 2023. It begins screening on HBO the 10th. Run time is three hours, fifteen minutes.

All those great visuals wasted on a lame and dull story.

I was partway into this movie when I realized I did not care about any single character. And the writer doubled down by making the villains almost cartoonishly evil.
You don't make the audience care by making the villains worse.

I wondered why all that sea life had all these pointless lights everywhere. It did not seem very natural.

Interesting that the leader of the sea folk made a reference to the 'whaling' going on over the horizon, but only got upset about it when it happened in his own backyard.
Typical NIMBY.

The motivation for the 'whaling'... errrrg...
Sooooo... these 'whales' just happen to produce a chemical that can stop aging. Not slow it, stop it. Yeahhh... not even trying to keep it more believable.

Also Human technology can build bodies to download human brains into, but they can't reproduce a chemical???
What the fnord?

When the motivation "We like killing!" and "We're just cartoonishly evil!" come off as more believable you should know your script has a big problem.

Even good F/X can't save a bad script.

Oh, another nit I forgot (although this could probably go in the first movie's nits.)

Their ships have these open rotor engines on them, but I don't think we ever see much of anything getting sucked into them and chopped to pieces.

I had an uncle who was involved in testing bird strikes on jet engines (tossing chickens and later turkeys into running engines.) He would end his story of doing this with the revelation that they spent thousands of dollars to determine that the engines could be protected from bird strikes by covering the intakes with a quarter's worth of wire mesh.