[Cause]

QuickTidal, on 07 July 2026 - 12:44 PM, said:

Cause, on 21 December 2025 - 06:00 PM, said:

Did you enjoy Avatar back in 2009 but now it’s 2025 and you crave something fresh. So you ask yourself wouldn’t it be cool if I could use generative ai to recreate the film but different.

Now you no longer have to, because that’s exactly what avatar 3 is.

I finally got around to seeing this (never got a chance in theatres, not for lack of trying, busy life) and I would disagree, it's more certainly a continuation of the story that played out in 1 and 2,

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especially the character growth of Neytiri who goes through it in this, grieving the loss of her firstborn, trying to wrangle her second born, hating the adopted child of the humans (Quaritch's kid Spider), and butting heads with Jake...she runs the gamut here while also still being a categorical badass. And Lo'ak going through the pangs of the loss of his brother, and his own need to step up from his reckless ways to learn how to lead and how to do the right thing, in the right moment. The story of the Tulkun was also rewarding as it felt like such a cool facet of Pandora to have sentient speaking whales that have an ancient culture, and their attack on the military was great as it showed how outmatched the humans STILL are when the Pandoran's unite...the Mangkwan are the only reason that the Navi' forces ended up on the backfoot at all until the squid attacks.

I think these movies are best when they immerse you in the world and culture on a slice-of-life level where you almost forget it's a fiction story. When the boys and Tiseya are riding the Tulkun it feels like a BBC documentary.

Also, I'm not sure I'd call some of the best work Weta have ever done "Generative AI" really. I found the effects in this to be nigh-exquisite.

If I had one complaint it would be that Edie Falco is not at all scary as the General of the human forces, and that Parker (Ribisi's RDA head character) doesn't feel as much of an entity here...but then he's always been greyer as a character, not fully evil...

Otherwise, we enjoyed it. I hope 4 and 5 get made as I think the story needs a solid ending and I think that needs to start to happen in the 4th...I know that Cameron said that Neytiri ends up on a human ship and sees what happened to earth in the 4th film and that changes the series in big ways.

The CGI was amazing, that wasnt my point regarding the AI. The story had fresh plot points but it also hit several of the same beats as the 1st and 2nd movie. I literally had deja vu in once scence in particular. Jake Sully in particular had his story go full circle.

[QuickTidal]

Cause, on 07 July 2026 - 03:44 PM, said:

The CGI was amazing, that wasnt my point regarding the AI. The story had fresh plot points but it also hit several of the same beats as the 1st and 2nd movie. I literally had deja vu in once scence in particular. Jake Sully in particular had his story go full circle.

Ah okay. That's a fair statement, Jake is kind of already where he needs to be by the 3rd film, so yeah he's kind of repeating moments of similarity. I will say that his almost turn regarding Spider was a fresh piece of material for him. But yeah, the Toruk Makto stuff is samey samey.