Avatar: The Way Of Water Can Succeed With A Fresh Story
It’s the highest-grossing film of all time by most accounts, it was everything anyone could talk about in 2009, it was one of the first animated incursions into the Oscars, it was James Cameron’s grand return — and yet, for all its merits, it’s almost as if no one remembers what made Avatar so great back in the day of its release. However, those very conditions also makeAvatar: The Way of Water one of 2022’s most intriguing cinematic events.
Nowadays hating on Avatar isn’t even cool; it’s basically mandatory. However, such a position does beg to ask why not even Marvel’s mighty Avengers can dethrone Cameron’s CGI sci-fi spectacle. To look at Avatar so many years later demands one’s acceptance that if Pandora and the Na’Vi were lacking depth or meaning, everyone still fell for it — even more so, that a film so popular in its heyday turned out to be so forgettable should be the best reminder that Cameron can indeed pull off the same trick twice. And now, he's armed with the lesson that all the fancy special effects in the world can’t make up for a shaky script.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Hogwarts Legacy Could Be The Biggest Games of This Holiday Season
In 2009, Avatar was almost bleeding-edge 3D tech. Cameron had new methods built from the ground up to satisfy his visual needs in order to make Pandora the most expressive cinematic world that humanity had seen up to that point. That focus is not too distant from what many triple-A games often do: placing the story quite low on the list of priorities in terms of time and budget because, well, not every game can conjure George R.R. Martin’s magic like Elden Ring can.
Sure, there are fantastic games with amazing stories like Alan Wake, but even for all its greatness, that
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