What You Need to Know Before ‘The Way of Water’

The rap on the primary Avatar — although it’s the highest-grossing movie within the historical past of cinema — is that nobody remembers it. Supposedly, James Cameron’s magnum opus left behind no cultural footprint by any means. I are inclined to disagree; no one who noticed Avatar forgot the characters’ distinctive look, or the superior 3D aerial sequences. I actually didn’t.

Nonetheless, it has been 13 years since Avatar first opened in theaters. That’s a very long time. (Marvel has launched 28 films within the intervening years. 28! Plus tv exhibits!) So even should you did see Avatar and do keep in mind its broad strokes, you may be a bit fuzzy on the main points. And with the sequel, Avatar: The Method of Water, lastly coming to theaters, you positively may wish to brush up on a number of the specifics. Plus, the brand new film options quite a lot of returning actors, however some are taking part in the identical characters, and others are taking part in new characters. At the least one or two are taking part in a personality who died within the first film! So it will probably get a bit complicated.

To that finish, I ready this primer on all of the essential characters and plot factors from the primary Avatar. That is the important stuff you want to know earlier than the you head again to Pandora.

That’s the place Avatar left issues for The Method of Water, which opens in theaters on December 16. And if you wish to revisit Avatar for your self, it’s presently streaming on Disney+. Whether or not you keep in mind it or not, you may be shocked to see how nicely it holds up 13 years later.