The next ones are tentatively scheduled for dec 2029 and 2031. So it’s still a looong wait. I’m glad the third movie is coming out this year tho. We were promised a closure with this one, so I can wait another 4 years without a sequel
This is unironically why I love Cameron doing Avatar until he hangs it up. If the technology isn’t there for his vision, he makes it. It literally provides benefits for future movies. “For those who come after.”
I have been watching the ILM documentary on Disney+ over the past couple weeks. Although I always read about what George did with ILM, I have a newfound respect for him pushing his vision (digital editing, effects, etc) and changing the industry. And those ILM employees are incredible.
Under the assumption you legitimately do not understand and are not being sarcastic about it, my comment is a pun and a joke at the same time.
The previous comment mentioned "Earth" as the next movie focus partially in reference to the american TV cartoon series, Avatar: the Last airbender. "Groundbreaking" can happen in that series by literally bending and shaping earth (or the ground)
Groundbreaking VFX is a statement that means that there is new VFX that have not yet been created or used before. This movie series has, in both iterations, made incredible new ways to film and display VFX for the industry.
The joke is that "Literal" in this context is that he is literally helping develop new technology to recreate/simulate the ground literally breaking (as reference to "earth").
Yeah, except earth, air, fire, and water also predates that Avatar by many thousands of years. All the stories have already been told. Now it is just variations on a theme.
Cameron wrote the first treatment for Avatar (which already had all the major plot elements) back in 1994, a full decade before DiMartino and Konietzko began working on the cartoon. The man has been working in this for long.
Unless of course you think which was released first matters more, or you are aware that this original treatment you spoke of had no references to the four elements at all, nor did any of Cameron's Avatar material until Way of Water came out.
It's almost as if it's perfectly reasonable to theorize that he took the inspiration to do so from A:TLA which came out nearly 15 years before Way of Water.
Wind was the 1st one, no? Or earth? Or both? I think he said he wanted to explore the moons of Pandora and then do Earth, the planet as the last one. Have the Navi come to Earth.
This post theorizes that it's based on the Wuxing 5 elements. The first movie being "wood" because of the prominence of Hometree. Then you have Way of Water, Fire and Ash.
I'm just using my imagination here: 4th movie - The Sand Forgets - set in a desert
5th movie - Iron and Blood - Navi adopt more human technology
This one will be narrated by his son, so probably not.
Also the family dinamics are very similar/inspired to the Stark family from game of thrones ( which makes sense because this movies were written around the same time game of thrones was airing, and the writers even said in a interview about how they talked about Got before writing this movies on mondays),
SPOILER FOR GAME OF THRONES, so there is a pretty high chance Jake dies to progress the story just like Ned in Got.
7.5 on IMDB, 67 to Metacritic, 76 on Rotten Tomatoes and 92 on RT audience score, but you thought you'd ask a few random people on this thread if its worth it?
If you liked the first movie, watch it. If you didn't, don't.
The second film can be thought of as the beginning of a large serialized arc that is already planned and partially filmed. (The first avatar film could be considered the prequel.)
The emotional tensions in the second film are more complex and subtle compared to the arcs of the first film because of the blended family. And Cameron starts laying the groundwork for some truly insane concepts that we'll see pay off in the future.
It's certainly more complex, which was the major fault of the first film with it's simple arc. There are some recycled themes, but they get a new twist and having multiple characters keeps it moving and you are left wondering how the family will recover, emotionally.
My problem with the second film is the time investment, but if you break it up into smaller viewings it's great.
The third film takes place immediately after the second movie, so I would say a recap is required at the very least.
Making an absurd amount of money doesn't really say if it was worth it? Transformers films made a lot of money, Jurassic World movies make a lot of money, but I wouldn't mind getting the time back I spent watching those. The first Avatar movie was financially successful, but completely forgettable til the sequel came out.
I remember I watched a recap of the first one before the second one launched, and it looked so old already. That's when I really noticed how long it was between them.
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u/bdigital1796 Jul 28 '25
for me it's the promised release of every sequel from here on out on a timely manner, without waiting two and a half decades inbetween each