Avatar: The Way Of Water

What can I say? After a 13-year long wait from the original movie released in 2009, we finally get the first sequel to Avatar. These Avatar films were made for the big screen, especially IMAX. That said, even on a 4K TV via Blu-ray, the visuals still look absolutely stunning, especially the underwater scenes! The Avatar sequel that made over $2.32 billion at the global box office doesn't lie. With several new character introductions, new Na'vi tribes, fantastic new places in Pandora to explore, new exotic Pandoran sea life, all of which are quite refreshing, but all Avatar actors and their motion-cap performances, and the special FX steal the show. The plot picks up several years after the original where Avatar Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his mate Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) now have a full blown family w/ kids, all fighting to survive against militaristic humans who have come back to Pandora, including a "revived" Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) as a cloned Avatar himself, dead set on exterminating the entire Sully family and the Na'vi tribes who protect them. Actress Sigourney Weaver is also back in a different (related) role, but you'll have to watch the film to find out exactly how. Just like the first film, prepare for lots of action, riveting, emotional dialog, decent character development, and stunning visual F/X. Fair warning though, if you wear your heart on your sleeve at all, you might want some tissues handy for this one... Don't get me wrong, this movie is not without its flaws. For one its quite long, a little over three hours. However, if you enjoyed the first film and own it on DVD or Bluray, you'll enjoy this sequel in your collection as well. There's extra commentaries, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage of how they made the film on the Bluray disc that you can't get anywhere else, so its well worth owning on Bluray. Highly Recommended.

For all of us with large 3D blu-ray collections and/or home 3D blu-ray glasses, players, projectors, or TVs (or any newbies thereby)---this 3D blu-ray is a rare and magnificent gift! Hopefully it sells as it deserves to do so (extremely well) and other big directors follow James Cameron's sterling example: providing a top-quality movie in not just 4K but home-3D as well. Although 4K provides greater detail for larger TV's and projection screens over HD, 3D provides not just quantitative improvement but QUALITATIVE enhancement: a whole new dimension is added! In other words, while 4K gives a great simulation in providing a crisp, flat picture of 3-dimensional reality, 3D blu-ray provides the actual thing! It's a different, fully immersive experience. As to the quality of this 3D blu-ray, it's topnotch. There's fine detail in the additive 2K rendering, crisp resolution between items, excellent depth of field into the screen, and appropriate protrusions out of the screen into the room, surrounding the viewers. Seen projected in 3D onto a large wall screen (mine being 120"), viewed up close, with full surround sound turned up, it's like being INSIDE the movie (not just watching it from outside, as is the case with HD or UHD). As to the enhancement value to the movie's plot: Cameron moves us from a rich jungle environment into a lavish island/ocean scenario. The 3D rendering of waves, seashores, into the ocean and beneath reaches out and sucks you in! As in Cameron's iconic Titanic, the alien aspects (to us air-breathing mammals) of this watery world are nothing less than stunning. This goes double for the mechanical, battle scenes. Truly, being inundated by waves pouring out of the screen or surrounded by brilliantly colored alien sea-critters or ducking from zooming submersibles is alone worthy purchasing the 3D blu-ray! As to my personal experience, my advice to people who have the necessary equipment is to purchase both the 4K disc and the 3D blu-ray version. This wondrous, uniquely beautiful Sci-Fi epic saga should be savored in all its renderings, from the 3-dimensional to the most detailed. The first thing I did before viewing the 3D of "The Way of Water" was to go back and watch yet again my 3D of the first Avatar. It was even better than I remembered! I'm sure I'll do the same with this first sequel, watching it several times over the coming years. I pre-ordered the 3D and 4K versions the very first day they were available and eagerly awaited their arrival for months, then viewed them immediately. I was not disappointed. The storyline of course has similar elements to the first blockbuster, plus continuing characters. But Cameron and his collaborators kick it up to a whole new level. Just as 3D adds a whole new dimension to the experience, "The Way of Water" adds a whole new reality---a whole new and different world!---to the original. Further underlying the spectacle and special effects is the family aspects, which greatly enriches and broadens the emotional impact from the first movie. I can't wait for the next installment to see what new, amazing things Cameron adds on top of the existing, rich brew! To all those involved in any way in making and distributing this incredible 3D Sci-Fi high-adventure I don't just say "thank you," I say BRAVO!

I saw it at a 3D theater and preordered the BRD release when it came out. It arrived exactly on time and at a lower price than it is now. I do appreciate the timely release - I'm still waiting on other titles that deserve to be in my collection at home (a forlorn hope for some of those, I'm afraid). The movie IS on the long side, but the pace is brisk and I don't mind a long movie if I'm into it. What I DO mind is the abrupt break for the necessary transition to a second disk. Very poorly timed, especially being on an emotional note between major characters in the story. It's like someone was just looking at the run time clock and nothing else. Poorly managed. The 3D did come across better at home, despite the scale advantages in the theater. I sit moderately close to any movie I see at the theater, 3D or not, but it's been years since I went to a theater except for a few movies where I can expect broad vistas and special effects that would especially benefit from the screen size. More intimate scenes and stories don't really need it, can't really use it. Same goes for sporting events. I much prefer viewing anything at home where the concessions and bathrooms are much closer and better (IMO), and no lines - for the most part. So to sum up, I highly recommend Avatar: The Way Of Water 3D for a home purchase, or even as 2D/4K if you're not a 3D fan (but may need to be an Avatar fan maybe), and I regret their decision to delay the next one by a year or so - I'm looking forward to it.

After watching a few minutes it's easy to get lost in this Opus Magnus! --The CGI is nearly perfect, so much so Everything and Everyone looks so effortlessly REAL! The storyline starts off a bit slow, to give us a chance to find out Who's Who on the magical world of Pandora this time around--including that the human Machoman soldier who was defeated in the original "Avatar" has been physically turned into a Na'vi--as well as his well-trained squad of hunter-killers! --And we learn "our" Na'vi family has been getting along "swell": we find out the daughter is able to commune with Pandoran nature like no other Na'vi --and the younger son can do the same with animals--particularly with a highly intelligent giant Pandoran "whale" which he saves and which later saves him! Anyway, the movie really picks up and moves along faster and faster. Our Na'vi family has to flee their idyllic life when Machoman and his squad of soldier-killers finds them and kills-off their tribe as they barely manage to escape! --Our family travels far and joins in with a different tribe which lives on land and in the water, but Machoman soon enough finds them and they too get targeted for extinction! (Needless to say, Humans are the REAL Bad Guys of the Universe, killing and despoiling Everything that gets in their way!) --But first we are taken on a wild human hunt for those "whales"--and watch a slaughter of them, all to get a liquid the whales make to sustain their intelligence--which also stops aging in humans -- making it the most valuable substance in the universe--for humans! (We REALLY feel sorry fo those whales and hate the hunters! Rightly so!) The storyline moves ever faster and faster, ending in a GREAT fight for survival between humans and Na'vi -- even setting the stage for an "Avatar III"! --CAN'T WAIT!!! (The one drawback I found was the NEW disc kept on stopping and-starting -- but I was able to clean it--semi-microscopic "specs" on the shiny side!--and it played great then! --I've been finding that problem too often on new discs. . . .)

It's entertaining and a visual spectacle. I personally enjoyed it more than the first movie by a small amount, but for all the effort that went into making it, it still doesn't do anything new or interesting with the plot.

Loved it

I couldn't wait to finally be able to buy this set, but was greatly disappointed because on the second BluRay 3D disc (Part 2 of the movie), the movie stopped, by itself, at time 48:18. I was able to get it going again by hitting the play button on the player's remote control. I was then able to continue to the end of the movie. I then tested that disc again and it again stopped, this time at time mark 48:14. A third time of testing then followed with the disc once again stopping at the 48: 16 mark, but this time the stopped image became very pixelated. I was able to get it to play and the pixelation lingered for a short while. These tests happened today, which was the first time that I played this disk. My wife and I watched the first part of the movie on 3D disc 1 and there had been no problem. Needless to say, the defective disc two was a great disappointment. I wonder if anyone else has had this kind of problem. We haven't watched the 2D disc nor the bonus disc. I hope that Amazon will replace this set for one without defect(s). AS A FOLLOW-UP: Amazon gave full credit and I reordered the same item. In the next few days I will test all discs and report back if there is still an issue. So far, my thanks to Amazon for once again providing superior customer support and satisfaction.

Good quality movie.

Excellent movie

Ocupa toda la pantalla del televisor, los detalles se ven nítidos y todo en español latino.

Blu-ray - Sem legendas em Português. Blu-ray - Sem legendas em Português.

Very good copy works in north america.Very happy

If someone does not view the 3d version of this film and sticks to only 4k which is 2d then they are actually being deprived of the real beauty of this film. The film is meant for 3d by the director and it looks even more colour with the blue ray 3d. So do buy the 3d version of this film and feel as if you are in pandora.