Amph James Cameron's Avatar (The Way of Water, Fire and Ash + sequels)

IMO, How to Train Your Dragon did it better, and three times in a row.

 

Twice, at least. The third one wasn't as good as the first two (suffered from a rather repetitive villain). But otherwise agreed.

 

And as someone mentioned above, when comparing this to so many of the other blockbusters we get these days, Avatar is totally earnest in all of its sensibilities, which makes it all the more appealing a draw (even if it isn't on a totally conscious level) as a world one would theoretically want to escape into, rather than one so filled with snark or attempts to sort of 'apologize' for the silly nature of the source material, the names, the costumes, etc. Like Otto Octavius' name being the source of some long, drawn out, ill-advised joke that (for me, at least) fell totally flat on its face in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and actually took me out of the movie by essentially making a mockery of the campy character name as if it is something the film is ashamed to be associated with, instead of taking it and wearing it on its sleeve with pride.

Laugh all you want at Unobtanium or whatever, but Avatar isn't laughing with you or cracking jokes about itself. It's inherently pulpy/silly/campy/whatever term you want to apply, it is space opera, but it never looks down on itself for being that. It owns that that's what it is and trusts that the audience will buy into the world and do the same.

 

Same

 

Did you watch the teaser in 2D?

The 2D version didn't wow me at all. But the 3D version looks much more impressive and immersive.

 

I saw the trailer before MoM in 3D. It looks beautiful, I'll be there opening night because it'll be something to do. I'm sure it'll be fun.

 

Oh, what a funny coincidence. The 3D IMAX showing was the fourth one for me.

 

This is going to blow everyones mind.

 

Was that a video game cut scene from 2011?

 

I didn’t like the first film, and have been cynical about this franchise since 2009, but I gotta admit, that trailer in front of Dr Strange was pretty engaging. Guess it’s true what they say; never bet against Cameron…

 

No matter what images they throw at me, I will reject it all as long as it's branded with the Papyrus font.

 

Eh, looks fine.

 

The trailer doesn't look very impressive in 2D, but it looks a bit more enticing in 3D.

 

Yup. That looks like Avatar alright.

 

Thats not papyrus anymore.

 

I'm sure it's going to get chewed up by the critics by the time of its release, but I don't really care. I'm excited for it.

 

It looked like Jake and Neytiri have two children, one a female Na'vi and the other apparently a human boy. Considering it's a time-skip from the last movie, I'm wondering if they're leading to an eventual film where the children take up the leading roles. I'd love to see the girl taking up a lead role at some point.

 

They have three children all Navi, the boy is adopted.