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01:01now part three of James Cameron's CGI extravaganza saga comes out this Friday. It's going to be
01:06attached to an Avengers Doomsday trailer, I hear. So let's talk about it.
01:14So Avatar Fire and Dash is part three of James Cameron's Avatar saga. We once again follow the family of
01:21Sully's as the humans are trying to make their push to take over Pandora. But there's something
01:25that happens that gives the humans an opportunity through possible reverse engineering of breathing
01:31on Pandora without any masks. Humans being able to breathe on Pandora would definitely take away a
01:36handicap that is holding them back from just sweeping the place entirely. All right, so we have a new
01:42Avatar movie. This movie once again stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and I gotta give the stars
01:48praise in this video. The stars being everyone who worked on the CGI for this film. Stars, heroes,
01:53the lot of them. This film looks incredible. Avatar always has. Whenever an Avatar movie has come to
02:00theaters, it's always been head and shoulders above anything that's come to theaters before it. And
02:05whereas I believe James Cameron is rolling with the same tech for Fire and Ash as he was with Way of
02:09Water, maybe it's the Dolby Vision 3D high frame rate whatever. But watching Fire and Ash, I was like,
02:15this looks much better than Way of Water does on Disney Plus. I mean, this movie's about as live
02:21action as any Disney live action remake of a Disney animated classic that both of which are about as
02:28real. Thing is, James Cameron commits to the point where you go, yeah, live action. Absolutely.
02:34There are moments in this movie where you're seeing the water, you know, it's the shallow water brushing
02:39up against rocks and you see the foam that you're like, nothing's real. You don't think of it at the
02:45time. You think of it on the drive home and you're like, nothing I fucking saw existed in the real
02:51world. I mean, there are live action actors in these movies, but for the most part, for the rest
02:57of the 99% of the film, nothing on screen exists in the corporeal world that I roll in. It's
03:03absolutely incredible. The action sequences as well. That's right. I'm talking about the best parts of
03:08the movie involving CGI and action sequences. CGI action sequences. I mean, they're commonplace at this
03:14point, a dime a dozen in any given blockbuster film. I just see James Cameron avatar movies as
03:19that bar where he goes, this is where we should be right now. And it felt like after the first avatar
03:23movie, other movies had a level of realism to aim for. Then there are other movies where the studio
03:28just goes, ah, fuck it. That's good enough. To be fair, there's a whole conversation about overworked,
03:33underpaid CGI departments and employees that don't have the time or resources to get the job done.
03:38But it's refreshing to see James Cameron in an avatar film show the world, hey, technologically,
03:43this is actually where we're supposed to be at. But when it comes right down to it,
03:46when the big throwdown's going down and it's people and Na'vi fighting with animals getting
03:51involved, like way of water did, like the first avatar movie did, it's absolute spectacle. What
03:58can I say? It's a blast. That said, the movie's kind of ridiculous too. There's something that
04:02happens in the movie with spider. I buy one of the things. I do not buy the other. It's completely
04:10ridiculous. One of the, I think it's in the trailer. I, hold on. Yep. Okay. It's in the trailer.
04:15So spider, something happens to him. AWOG grants him the ability to breathe the air of Pandora. That
04:22does lead to some emotional moments. One in particular, I thought it was the best scene in
04:26the film. Some moral dilemmas going down, but I feel like James Cameron is erasing that which made
04:31spider more compelling. I mean, at the very least more interesting, you know, he's this human being
04:35who needs a mask to breathe on Pandora. The only family he's really known have been the Sully's.
04:41He has his Na'vi family, but he has constant reminders. The fact that he can't connect with
04:46AWOG. He can't do the thing, take a braid, link with the animals or any of the spirit trees. The
04:51fact that he always has the mask, but he has these constant reminders that remind him he is the alien.
04:57For some reason, James Cameron's like, yeah, let's melt all that stuff away and just make him feel more
05:01basic per Pandora. Not only did I not buy it, just came across as silly. I can feel the tapping of
05:07keyboards right now. People going, yeah, that's kind of Avatar. I never saw him as silly though. I saw
05:13them as human stories being told through aliens. A human being altered by some sort of biological
05:18reaction per AWOG's design. I can buy it. Him getting the thing in the back of his head that
05:23allows him to link with animals and spirit trees. I just, that's a step too far for me, I guess.
05:28Tell you what, the most interesting part of this film are the fire Navi. We've seen spiritual Navi in
05:35the forest. We've seen spiritual Navi with the ocean. We have not seen heathen Navi who have
05:39walked away from Ewa. That's interesting to me. You actually see it in their character. They don't
05:44have that balance of life on Pandora, that need to live up to Ewa. They don't have that spiritual sense
05:50of Zen that the other Navi have shown. No, they're more feral, more brutal. They're savage. You see that
05:55with their fighting technique. Their story is so interesting. However, in this movie,
05:59they're kind of used as wild cards. I get that the humans would use those Navi as wild cards.
06:05I just wish we got more with them because the most interesting part of this story is Quaritch
06:11making friends with the fire Navi. All right, I'm just going to say it. I'm going to be real.
06:15That fire Navi chick is too fine. Oh, she's not even the same species. What? You didn't romance
06:21Tali Zoravas Normandy in Mass Effect 2 or 3? No. You're lying! And no, that's not the only reason
06:28I like the fire Navi. I do think they're the most interesting part of the movie. I'm also saying
06:32that was some mean bush. I do like that Loak, Jake Sully's youngest son, his surviving son,
06:38is basically his coming of age story. Bummer is he kind of disappears for a bit of the movie for him to
06:43do it. But you know, he's dealing with some stuff. He's becoming his own man, dealing with social
06:47anxiety. At least I've heard that's what that gesture means. Also, and to be fair, I do feel
06:51the music did step up from Way of Water to Fire and Ash, at least in some moments. And it's got
06:56to be really tough to have your music live in the shadow of James Horner, who made the overall
07:01musical theme and tone of Pandora. But Way of Water and Fire and Ash just don't have that musical
07:06punch the original had with James Horner's score. Way of Water, the music I could think of,
07:11I recognize from the original Avatar. And that's a thing this movie falls into as well. You know how
07:16Way of Water borrowed from the first Avatar in moments? Fire and Ash borrows from Way of Water
07:21and the original Avatar. Half a little variety in life, man. Jeez. There's a big thing he pulls
07:27from the first Avatar movie. I was like, that's Avatar 1. It doesn't really mean much now because
07:33I've already seen this before. I've seen it done before. The first time in the first Avatar movie,
07:38yeah, it was really cool. Fire and Ash would have been a solid time to step it up. But instead,
07:43I walked out of Fire and Ash feeling numb to the experience. Well, because I've seen the previous
07:47two Avatar films. And there were moments in this movie that should have felt bigger. I felt just
07:52came across as a bit unceremonious. This was the moment for a solid jaw drop. You know,
07:57to have the audience go home like it's Empire Strikes Back. Like, where do we go from here?
08:02I can't wait to see. Bring on the next movie 15 years from now. But I walked out of the theater
08:07with the assurance that Avatar 4 would feel like the same thing over. Like 3 did from 2 to 1. But I
08:15suppose this formula makes these Avatar films billions of dollars. Does he break the mold, go in a
08:21new direction for the sake of art? Or does he do the same play that makes a couple billion dollars
08:26per Avatar film? This movie is equal parts visually impressive, but also thematically disappointing.
08:33James Cameron's just found a comfortable, familiar routine and formula. He doesn't want to step
08:38outside of it. For a movie that is over three hours long and has pretty good momentum, James Cameron's
08:44really good about that. Having a long ass movie not feel like a long ass movie. I mean, maybe the movie
08:49will make two billion bucks. The studio is obviously trying to get it to because they're going to make
08:53you watch the movie four times over to watch the new Avengers Doomsday trailer that comes out each week
08:58for four weeks. They're going to try to get you to double dip, no triple dip, no quadruple dip. I mean,
09:04I guess that's a way to do it. The internet didn't exist. Bummer is, this is the movie that made me
09:09think maybe at this point, James Cameron is a two trick pony. To be fair, those are two damn
09:13entertaining tricks. But when you're constructing a saga around family, invaders, conflict, revenge,
09:20grief, the whole, hey, it's technologically amazing and such a blast of a roller coaster to watch in
09:25theaters ceases to be enough. So yeah, worth watching when it comes out on streaming, which
09:30would lose you 90% of the reason to watch Avatar Fire and Ash. So there that is. All right, so Avatar
09:36Fire and Ash, have you seen it? What did you think about it? Have you liked the Avatar movies thus far?
09:41Have you been like, nope, from the beginning? Whatever you think, comment below, let me know. And as always,
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09:55I'll see you next time.
10:06Bye.
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