{"id":8287,"date":"2022-12-13T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/avatar-the-way-of-water-review-a-soggy-twee-trillion-dollar-screensaver\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T17:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:37:55","slug":"avatar-the-way-of-water-review-a-soggy-twee-trillion-dollar-screensaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/avatar-the-way-of-water-review-a-soggy-twee-trillion-dollar-screensaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar: The Way of Water review \u2013 a soggy, twee, trillion-dollar screensaver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirteen years in the making, James Cameron\u2019s insipid, overlong followup to his sci-fi record-breaker is a very expensive beached whale <\/p>\n

Drenching us with a disappointment that can hardly be admitted out loud, James Cameron\u2019s soggy new digitised film has beached like a massive, pointless whale. The story, which might fill a 30-minute cartoon, is stretched as if by some AI program into a three-hour movie of epic tweeness.<\/p>\n

The first Avatar was a pioneering 3D sci-fi spectacular which Cameron delivered in 2009. Now, after 13 years of unimaginably expensive pixel-crunching, the aquatic followup has arrived, with a third and a fourth on the way. This one is available in 3D and 2D, and so at any rate keeping loyal to that three-dimensional vision that Cameron almost single-handedly revived but which the rest of the industry has quietly forgotten about. Yet the whole idea of the \u201cavatar\u201d from the first movie \u2013 the artificially created body that can be remotely piloted into an unknown world and which crucially formed a dramatic part of the audience\u2019s 3D experience \u2013 has been left behind.<\/p>\n

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\nThirteen years in the making, James Cameron\u2019s insipid, overlong followup to his sci-fi record-breaker is a very expensive beached whale
\nDrenching us with a disappointment that can hardly be admitted out loud, James Cameron\u2019s soggy new digitised film has beached like a massive, pointless whale. The story, which might fill a 30-minute cartoon, is stretched as if by some AI program into a three-hour movie of epic tweeness.
\nThe first Avatar was a pioneering 3D sci-fi spectacular which Cameron delivered in 2009. Now, after 13 years of unimaginably expensive pixel-crunching, the aquatic followup has arrived, with a third and a fourth on the way. This one is available in 3D and 2D, and so at any rate keeping loyal to that three-dimensional vision that Cameron almost single-handedly revived but which the rest of the industry has quietly forgotten about. Yet the whole idea of the \u201cavatar\u201d from the first movie \u2013 the artificially created body that can be remotely piloted into an unknown world and which crucially formed a dramatic part of the audience\u2019s 3D experience \u2013 has been left behind. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirteen years in the making, James Cameron\u2019s insipid, overlong followup to his sci-fi record-breaker is a very expensive beached whale Drenching us with a disappointment that can hardly be admitted out loud, James Cameron\u2019s soggy new digitised film has beached like a massive, pointless whale. The story, which might fill a 30-minute cartoon, is stretched …<\/p>\n

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