MotW: Avatar - The Way of Water

If you ask around qll the purist hate the soap opera effect. I get their point. It makes movies not look like classic cinema, it gives them what the name sames, a soap opera look. Some movies may even throw documentary vibes instead of featured films.

However I have always been a hue fan of the effect. I don't even play shooters, but the higher the frame rate, the higher the refresh rate, the more 3D look you get. I simply love that realistic feel, specially for high fantasy and sci-fi, and if you add sterecopic 3D to that then we have another level of impact.

This movie is nothing less than spectacular when it comes to visuals, at 120 FPS and with 3D, this is the future, to me this is a new standard. I saw Ant Man on 3D after this, and Guardians Of The Galaxy. Movies that came after this one the same year. An those movies looked 2 decades older, even on 3D.

That said, for some reason, this is only achievable with the 3D effect. A pure 4K HDR version with high frame rate may still look pretty, but nothing close to what the 3D version offers.

In fact, even if the movie may not be appealing to some, the sterecopic 3D alone is worth the watch, you won't move from the seat starring at how marvelous this looks.

I hope 3D has a come back in the future when it becomes less of an extra expense and more like an extra feature similar to Doble Vision. The 3D free tech should improve for that to happen, but still, it is crazy we already have the technology to make all movies look like this, but because of the film culture I doubt this will happen.

James Cameron is indeed an innovator, movies were never the same after Terminator 2, and at least technically speaking films catch up to this that seems way ahead of its time.

Regarding the movie itself, it's OK, not a movie I want to watch multiple times. It's entertaining yes, but not a masterpiece in terms of storytelling.

It has a social commentary, and it talks about the big oil industry, and corporations thirst for resources as a whole. How technology improves because of this, but ultimate natural technology is far more purposeful and therefore and uderdog corporations tend to underestimate.

It also has some cool "Aliens" and "Terminator 2" vibes in certain scenes, so if someone likes those movies they will easily recognize it and give nostalgic feeling to those films.

Again, of you are going to watch this, 3D is the way to go, if you watch it in 2D you will be missing out. It is a whole different experience, a whole different film without the 3D effect.