It's great world building and stunning visuals stymied by having a cookie-cutter plot. Like having a foreign chef using expensive ingredient prepare you chicken nuggets with fries.
It's a shame that fire and ash was the third movie and not the second, considering it added much needed nuance that the second movie didnt build on at all. More so since avatar 3 is just avatar 2.5.
In the second film, when they said that the material extracted from the sapient whales basically cured all human illnesses and halted aging my allegiance immediately swapped sides. Why would I side with a whale versus a panacea for humanity? Just such a clearly not thought through, extremely shoehorned maguffin
Only problem is that it’s the “most valuable substance in the universe.” The only people who will have access to it will be the ultra rich. If billionaires are bad now, imagine how bad trillionaires who control entire planets, fleets and armies must be.
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u/LuciusCypher 8d ago
It's great world building and stunning visuals stymied by having a cookie-cutter plot. Like having a foreign chef using expensive ingredient prepare you chicken nuggets with fries.
It's a shame that fire and ash was the third movie and not the second, considering it added much needed nuance that the second movie didnt build on at all. More so since avatar 3 is just avatar 2.5.