Avatar's Weirdest Deleted Scenes Would've Made The Movie Better
Did cutting the weirdest moments out of Avatar hurt James Cameron's box office extravaganza? With the combined might of the Marvel Cinematic Universe only able to oust Avatar from cinema's record books temporarily, the Na'vi must've been doing something right. Upon release in 2009, Avatar met with mammoth commercial success, but through the massive piles of cash, it's easy to lose sight of how contemporary reviews were largely positive towards the James Cameron sci-fi opus.
Opinion has shifted considerably since, but even Avatar's harshest critics struggle to find fault withCameron's visual world-building. The moon of Pandora arrives rendered in unprecedented levels of cinematic detail, and there's a rich variety to the alien environments, arguably making Pandora Avatar's most interesting and well-rounded character. James Cameron spent many years crafting Avatar's geography, flora, and fauna, and the hard work pays off, as each vibrant leaf and glowing blue mushroom feels curated by hand. At over 2-and-a-half hours, Avatar doesn't exactly weigh in light for a family-friendly blockbuster. Given the intricacy of the world Cameron sought to introduce, however, cinema-goers might've been expecting a longer stay. Sure enough, Avatar snipped plenty from its initial edit.
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Cameron's original Avatar cut was significantly darker, riskier, and weirder than the finished film. And whereas some dropped ideas were definitely surplus to requirements, others could've vastly improved Avatar's story. One missing sequence (released with only semi-complete CGI) sees Jake Sully ingest a psychoactive worm that the Na'vi use for «dream hunts» — essentially a drug trip
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