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First ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Reviews Praise its Beauty, Not its Run Time

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Dec 7 2022
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James Cameron’s latest epic hits theaters next week. Thinking about seeing it? Check out the first batch of Avatar: The Way of Water reviews.

Avatar: The Way of Water continues the themes of the first movie while expanding the world of Pandora. The story picks up ten years after the first movie and follows Sully’s family as they have to find a new home after the Tree of Souls has been burned to ash. The Na’vi continue to battle with the colonizers who are still mining Pandora for its resources – destroying more territory and lives as they go.

The movie drops on December 16 – you can snag tickets now.

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Avatar: The Way of Water Reviews

Reports last month said that The Way of Water would have to make $2 billion to break even. The first movie still sits on the top of the box office list thirteen years later, but things have changed. Post-pandemic theater attendance is down in part due to streaming and ticket cost. Beautiful CG is something we see a lot of, and IMAX and 3D are no longer exotic formats. The movie will have to rely on its story’s merits more this time and hope its visuals are enough to convince folks to go to theaters (for more than three hours) multiple times.

The critics’ reactions lean toward it making a pile of money (I still doubt it’ll make $2b). Here’s what they’re saying…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Author: Mars Garrett
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