"Avatar: Fire and Ash": James Cameron lost me in the very first minute
Only because of the first "Avatar" do I keep sitting down for the sequels and get disappointed every time: I fled from number 2 when workers were gutting the insides of a Pandoran whale. "Fire and Ash" is boring from the very first minute. And number 4 is still ahead. Oh.
"Avatar: Fire and Ash", Disney+: I watched the second and third "Avatar" films because of the first one. Both, by the way, I left in the middle. The first was great: the landscapes, the graphics, and the idea was nice, even if I couldn't fully understand it (Jake Sully can exist in two worlds? What is he, a quantum object?). Even the unsophisticated conflict was tolerable: the crude, money-grubbing American comes to kill the Na'vi people and plunder the natural treasures of beautiful Pandora. It really left a taste for more.
And so the dive into the second "Avatar" was grand and painful. Jake Sully and Neytiri are already a mom and dad. The family dynamics are sticky and completely mundane, as are the squabbles between parents and children. The enemy was waiting this time not in the air but in the water. The flying dragons gained amphibious abilities, and the children flew and dived with them. What fun. At home, the family got into a fight again. The hunted Pandoran whale was, for me, the breaking point. Many workers standing in the huge entrails of the deceased, harvesting its organs, organ by organ, piece by piece — it was more than the amount of happiness I could bear in one evening. I said thank you and left.
Even after the bad impression left by the second "Avatar", the first one's merit still stood, and I entered the third, "Avatar: Fire and Ash". So help me, after a minute I was already bored. Two young Na'vi flying for ten minutes on familiar dragons, between familiar floating rocks, making worn-out challenges — one of them is a dead brother (again I didn't understand how, challenged as I am), the second returns home to the annoying family drama. Again there is a crude American general in the picture, this time a local tribe is also discovered that is not at all as kind as the Na'vi, and battles begin between them — we've already seen avatars fighting, haven't we? And then battles with the Americans — we've already seen that, haven't we? And the fourth "Avatar" is still waiting for us. Oh. When does the next bus leave Pandora?
