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- Mar 14, 2021
Seen it. Didn't hate it but consider it aggressively average...but because I post on Kiwi Farms and am thus shamelessly autistic I will be launching into a long rant about all the stuff (I can remember) wrong with it. I'm too tired tonight but I'll try to nail everything before the film swans off to not Polynesia.
For the thread thus far though;
It's anti-gun - main character uses a gun as his sole ranged weapon throughout, many of the natives do too. So...I dunno? But somehow, despite being a Britbong I am somehow bringing up what none of you are. Namely why the shit are all of these looted guns designed for humans being used by 9 foot tall three fingered cat people with no modification?
The fanbase - I am deeply uncomfortable with all the teenage/younger blue alien ass on display knowing that a non-zero amount of the fandom is perving the hell out when it happens
Sigourney Weaver voicing her immaculately conceived daughter - thanks, I just thought they had a wrongly aged actress. Knowing it is her makes it so much worse.
For the thread thus far though;
It's anti-gun - main character uses a gun as his sole ranged weapon throughout, many of the natives do too. So...I dunno? But somehow, despite being a Britbong I am somehow bringing up what none of you are. Namely why the shit are all of these looted guns designed for humans being used by 9 foot tall three fingered cat people with no modification?
The fanbase - I am deeply uncomfortable with all the teenage/younger blue alien ass on display knowing that a non-zero amount of the fandom is perving the hell out when it happens
Sigourney Weaver voicing her immaculately conceived daughter - thanks, I just thought they had a wrongly aged actress. Knowing it is her makes it so much worse.
First of all, despite how bad the film is, it did one thing the prior one didn't. It made me interested in another film. There's a lot of stuff that could be run with and made interesting. Unfortunately what we are probably getting is more of the same but worst.
On to the other stuff. I will miss things out but will try to edit in as I go on;
Opening intro/everything about our main character; he has gone heavily into the distinction between himself and the "sky people." To the degree that in a better film it could be seen as a deliberate attempt to distance himself from his own betrayal. Shame this will never be explored in more detail.
I don't know if this was the same in the prior movie but "female lead" has the one earing that looks like those generic ear hoops and it takes me out of the film every time I see it.
The landing sequence as the big bad corporation returns to the planet confirms a single one of those could wipe out the largest of villages of the natives. This is not a war, it's just an ongoing delay before an orbital bombardment,
They bring back everyone's favourite bad guy from the first as a Na'vi along with his team of previously undefined underlings. Awesome. So much potential especially the immortality angle for so many decent bad villains. Ah no, they make these military trained guys so incompetent that they lose a quarter of their number while waiting an extraction because they have to be told by their officer to do basic shit like watching their rear. DAMNIT. I still see potential but seriously fuck this. Also the random animalistic screaming is apparently tied to the body since clone does it when he revives.
I wanted them to make the new commander paraplegic. Her constant use of the armoured suit for things like coffee drinking and other stuff made it look like she might be, the facility is built for her size (and conveniently 9 foot blue cat people) and it would have been an interesting take on the random military leader. Instead she is needlessly indulgent as her specialised team who are the only ones that can get into the area the insurrectionists are hiding are allowed to fuck off to go hunt someone who stopped being relevant to her objectives half an hour into the movie. Great leadership!
The focused on Na'vi family had one child too many at the start of the movie. This was unchanged at the end.
This film was blatantly two movies crudely shoved into one. The first, disgustingly cut short, was about all of these revived soldiers in Na'vi bodies as they took on the tools of the enemy to fight them, eventually leading to the lead abandoning his rebel alliance to draw them away. You can see it in them starting to do the same journey as the original movie with their own spin on it, actual effort was put in to drop names on all these characters who in the finished version had less development than the vampire kill squad in Blade 2.
I don't think I have words for Spider. I will simply for now say that he was treated as just shy of a pet by the main cast to the degree that when captured by the villains I was waiting for the heroes to yell "I'll buy you another one" as they abandoned him.
On to the other stuff. I will miss things out but will try to edit in as I go on;
Opening intro/everything about our main character; he has gone heavily into the distinction between himself and the "sky people." To the degree that in a better film it could be seen as a deliberate attempt to distance himself from his own betrayal. Shame this will never be explored in more detail.
I don't know if this was the same in the prior movie but "female lead" has the one earing that looks like those generic ear hoops and it takes me out of the film every time I see it.
The landing sequence as the big bad corporation returns to the planet confirms a single one of those could wipe out the largest of villages of the natives. This is not a war, it's just an ongoing delay before an orbital bombardment,
They bring back everyone's favourite bad guy from the first as a Na'vi along with his team of previously undefined underlings. Awesome. So much potential especially the immortality angle for so many decent bad villains. Ah no, they make these military trained guys so incompetent that they lose a quarter of their number while waiting an extraction because they have to be told by their officer to do basic shit like watching their rear. DAMNIT. I still see potential but seriously fuck this. Also the random animalistic screaming is apparently tied to the body since clone does it when he revives.
I wanted them to make the new commander paraplegic. Her constant use of the armoured suit for things like coffee drinking and other stuff made it look like she might be, the facility is built for her size (and conveniently 9 foot blue cat people) and it would have been an interesting take on the random military leader. Instead she is needlessly indulgent as her specialised team who are the only ones that can get into the area the insurrectionists are hiding are allowed to fuck off to go hunt someone who stopped being relevant to her objectives half an hour into the movie. Great leadership!
The focused on Na'vi family had one child too many at the start of the movie. This was unchanged at the end.
This film was blatantly two movies crudely shoved into one. The first, disgustingly cut short, was about all of these revived soldiers in Na'vi bodies as they took on the tools of the enemy to fight them, eventually leading to the lead abandoning his rebel alliance to draw them away. You can see it in them starting to do the same journey as the original movie with their own spin on it, actual effort was put in to drop names on all these characters who in the finished version had less development than the vampire kill squad in Blade 2.
I don't think I have words for Spider. I will simply for now say that he was treated as just shy of a pet by the main cast to the degree that when captured by the villains I was waiting for the heroes to yell "I'll buy you another one" as they abandoned him.
