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movie review - Avatar, the Way of Water

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.02.08

I can hardly call a movie that cost a billion dollars a "lazy cash grab" but this thing had some fundamental story-telling problems and was a confusing mess to watch. I really didn't enjoy this, and found sitting in a large cinema to do so an obnoxious waste of money. Some of the distracting plot problems included:

I saw no reason for this movie to exist. They told more-or-less the same story, this time with lots of children (some of whom die).

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong