Because it's a shallow prog-rock scribble with no faith in its audience. Two and a half hours of one-note characters yelling at one another to explain the blindingly obvious.

Cameron says he started writing this movie starting in the 70s, and I believe him. You can picture him sitting in his dorm room, listening to Tarkus and Olias of Sunhillow until the grooves wore out, doodling weird furry giantess smut, imagining all the claymation he was gonna do to make the bestest sci-fi film since Dark Star.

What the prequels were to George Lucas, Avatar is to James Cameron. This was his stupid childhood dream project. Somehow it made an entire billion dollars. Introspection will not occur.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

The only reason it even made that much was because of the hue over the tech. God knows it's the only reason my mom bought 5 tickets for all of us to see the original. Now that all of us are adults non of us bothered to see the sequel because we saw what the original was in hindsight. There's just more people now than back then who fell for the new water tank hype plus new kids to pad those numbers even more.

I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy it if they do, nor am k saying nobody should watch it. I'm just saying it's not for me.