‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review

Avatar: The Way of Water is one of the most beautifully designed movies in cinema history. Avatar: The Way of Water is also one of the emptiest pieces of media in cinema history. James Cameron’s technologically developed sci-fi epic is actually quite terrible. It looks great but has little to no substance. This wouldn’t be an issue, except it pretends it does. This is the try-hard movie of the century and fails everyone it presumes to represent. Did I mention how pretty the movie is? I hope that I did because that is all this movie has going for it. There is something lost in the translation of what the movie thinks it is and what it actually is. It begs the question the first installment did, is this a visual homage to precolonial civilizations or appropriation as a means for a white person to tell indigenous stories? That’s what we’re going to unravel. Welcome to the roast of Avatar: The Way of Water. [Yes, we’re about to roast some water.] Everything That Glitters Make no mistake, seeing this in 3D was incredible. It was like watching a giant 4K television in ‘vivid’ mode for three hours straight. The movie is smoother than the silk pajamas from the TLC “Creep” video. Shot in a few different (very high) frame rates, you’ll find it looks a hell of a lot like a video game. So yeah, the movie is for all intents and purposes a glorified and gratuitous cutscene. Cameron is a believer in the immersion that 3D visuals offer audiences, so much, in fact, that film technology had to…