The Avatar bodies are really pricey and take a long time to create. In the first film they got Jake to do it specifically because it would have been a huge waste to have to dump his brother’s avatar. And in The Way of Water, Quaritch didn’t gain consciousness until a whole year after the humans had landed back on Pandora, so like 15+years after Quaritch first died. Though there was probably a decent chunk of time before they even decided to make one for him
Watched it again and did no one mentioned that Kiri does the Bene Gesserit voice in the forest to Lo’ak? Also it’s very funny they have a Navi sized prison jumpsuit for Jake Sully.
Really liked Kiri in this. Loved them explaining the circumstances of her birth and why she can’t connect with Eywa and she just goes “that really sucks”
The Terminator films are so good at delivering all that information about this very strange universe while still moving at such a fast pace. It definitely deserves to be used as instruction.
Surprised this isn’t coming up more and apologies if I missed it earlier in the thread but the US conflict Jake Sully lost his legs in was…Venezuela.
not sure why all the discussingfilm-adjacent twitter accounts are saying it cracked a billion already
Most films can’t survive when the world building comes before story and character, but these are the exception. There is so much rich detail given to every physical aspect of Pandora that I can’t help but be mesmerized every time I see one of these. The story always feels copied and pasted from the last one with minor edits, but the minor edits make the world feel expanded in a meaningful way. The wind traders, the fire clan, the squid-ray creatures, etc. It all makes this place feel more real. That being said, I do wonder how much mileage these things have left. The third act was so similar to the last one. I can only watch these two dudes fight it out so many times.