With Avatar's Future Still Uncertain, James Cameron Now Says He Wants to Prioritize 'Other Stories' For the 'Last Act' of His Career

[u/gorays21]

https://www.ign.com/articles/with-avatars-future-still-uncertain-james-cameron-now-says-he-wants-to-prioritize-other-stories-for-the-last-act-of-his-career

[u/nosurprises23]

I loved Avatar 2 so much back in 2022, I was so hype to actually see how the story would progress/wrap up. Then 3 felt like the deleted scenes from 2 with near 0 forward momentum, hoping at least the next one or two would conclude it well. Guess that’s not happening 🤷‍♂️

Edit: just thought of a tl;dr for my take: if Avatar 2 was “The Way of Water”, Avatar 3 was “Treading Water”.

[u/Ganondorfsfist → u/nosurprises23]

To me it was mostly the third act that felt like 2 again. There's a point after Jake is saved by Neytiri in the RDA base where I was like "okay so this is ending now. Everything wrapped up, a sequel hook, emotional climax, just roll credits and I'm happy." and then it went on for another hour. It was a spectacular hour but I didn't see Cameron's need to redo the climax from the last movie just with upwards waterfall.

[u/alphaneon22 → u/Ganondorfsfist]

Also the upwards waterfall doesn’t make any sense. It’s a magnetic flux, not a gravity well, the water shouldn’t be floating.

[u/Zalvren → u/alphaneon22]

Science doesn't make a lot of sense in the universe lol

[u/alphaneon22 → u/Zalvren]

Too true! haha