Avatar: The Way of Water

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Garners Mixed Reactions From Critics

After a 13 year-long wait, the film finally sees the light of day

The early reviews of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water are in. The much-buzzed-about offering has amassed lukewarm responses from critics, after making its way to the screens precisely a decade and 3 years later. While there are speculations about the movie not living up to expectations, makers can heave a sigh of relief as the figures amassed through advance booking have been impressive — a whopping $38 million in North America alone!

What’s more, Cameron reportedly spent years developing a technology that amped up the VFX in the movie, making it a visual spectacle.

The film is scheduled for an India release on December 16, 2022. A world premiere was recently organized, and after the embargo on the reviews lifted, the world wide web has been clogged with interesting reactions.

Here’s A Look At Some Fan Reactions To The Movie:

Avatar 2 has reportedly been made on a budget of $250 million dollars, making it one of the most expensive movies of 2022. Speaking of which, in a recent interview, Cameron revealed that the movie has to earn $2 billion dollars for the numbers to even out.  

He further averred that shooting underwater was a different ball game altogether. “Technically, we didn’t shoot underwater. We captured underwater, which is a whole different set of problems. So we had to solve that. But starting from development, I thought that this time I want to work with a team of writers. We are doing multiple scripts. I’d already decided I wanted to do a trilogy, turned out now I guess it’s a quadrilogy, if that’s the right word. But I had to have a starting point,” said Cameron, further adding, “I set down and just made a bunch of notes for six months. Literally, just every day sitting at my desk, talking about the world, and the characters, trying to fill in what happened the day after Jake woke up in a Na’vi body, and just was carrying the story forward. I knew I had certain goals in mind. I walked in on the first day with the whole writers’ room, and I plopped down 800 pages of notes, single-spaced. I said, “Do your homework, and then we’ll talk.” And then we got together, we had a lot of discussions about that, and every idea we came up with as we went along had to measure up against that standard.” 

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