Sci-Fi Avatar: Fire and Ash

[Zantera]

I know Edie Falco has appeared before in Avatar but I only just watched The Sopranos late last year and so this was the first Avatar movie I saw having the image of Carmela Soprano in my head. And yeah she's pretty wasted here. Definitely feels like one of those "Hey I like you, I'm gonna cast you in this movie" but then the role is just a big pile of nothing. Then again she'll get some nice checks for doing almost nothing so good for her!

It also felt weird seeing Ribisi again because he only really had a cameo in the second one right? Here it was a couple of scenes at least. Good for him but it felt like they shot all his scenes in one afternoon or something. And he wasn't the only one. There are so many characters that just kinda appear for a scene or two because they are part of the Avatar world but their actual impact on the story is very minimal.

 

[Drizzle]

I know Edie Falco has appeared before in Avatar but I only just watched The Sopranos late last year and so this was the first Avatar movie I saw having the image of Carmela Soprano in my head. And yeah she's pretty wasted here. Definitely feels like one of those "Hey I like you, I'm gonna cast you in this movie" but then the role is just a big pile of nothing. Then again she'll get some nice checks for doing almost nothing so good for her!

I know she was also in Nurse Jackie but Carmela Soprano was such an iconic role for her that it was hard for me not to picture animal lover Tony yelling at her while watching the movie.



"You leave those ****in' whales alone, Carm!"

It also felt weird seeing Ribisi again because he only really had a cameo in the second one right? Here it was a couple of scenes at least. Good for him but it felt like they shot all his scenes in one afternoon or something. And he wasn't the only one. There are so many characters that just kinda appear for a scene or two because they are part of the Avatar world but their actual impact on the story is very minimal.

I couldn't remember this from Fire and Ash but I saw that Ribisi's character's father is supposed to be in charge of the whole operation, which would explain why he's even still around after that massive failure on his part in the first movie.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Primal Slayer]

If we get the 4th one, I do wonder what they'll do about the military. We can't have ANOTHER film where they attack a tribe and Jake has to unite everyone to go to war with them taking down the troops.

and I forget.....why arent they focusing on the other side of the planet?
Edit - oh yes...Unobtanium.

 

[Lily Adler]

If we get the 4th one, I do wonder what they'll do about the military. We can't have ANOTHER film where they attack a tribe and Jake has to unite everyone to go to war with them taking down the troops.

and I forget.....why arent they focusing on the other side of the planet?
Edit - oh yes...Unobtanium.

You're giving this film series too much credit story wise.

 

[Kane52630]

Varang you bad b****

 

[Dr.]

A bit ‘o trivia:

According to Wikipedia, the term “unobtainium” can be traced back to the 1950s US aerospace industry.

Unobtainium, n. A substance having the exact high test properties required for a piece of hardware or other item of use, but not obtainable either because it theoretically cannot exist or because technology is insufficiently advanced to produce it. Humorous or ironical. — Listed in "Interim Glossary, Aero-Space Terms," as compiled by Woodford Heflin and published in February 1958 by the Air University of the US Air Force.​

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By the 1990s, the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as "Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications].”​

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Unobtainium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kane52630]

A ★★★★½ review of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

No thoughts, just Colonel Lockjaw & Colonel Quaritch doing the Spider-Man pointing meme. A fantastic sequel that only James Cameron can conjure up, and it makes The Way of Water feel like a two-parter rather than its own movie. It expands on the movie ideas from the last movie, along with giving...

letterboxd.com

 

[squeekness]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

Hope Im still alive by then. 4 years is a long time.

 

[Primal Slayer]

To think i was 20/21 when the first film came out and Cameron wants me to be in my "30s" when this comes out???

 

[squeekness]

To think i was 20/21 when the first film came out and Cameron wants me to be in my "30s" when this comes out???

I'll be 63.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I thought this movie was fine and slightly better than the 2nd one. But it's very samey by the same token in many regards. I was hoping we would get more originality here now that Way of Water did the Force Awakens soft reboot legacy sequel thing, and we get that for a while. But it devolves into the same thing, and I think in particular Jake Sully is pretty unlikable in this movie, and it retreads that "He has to get his groove back" narrative we just did a movie ago. The CGI and visuals are great. But if we are getting more of these, I say get rid of the sky people entirely and come up with a story about the Na'vi fighting another tribe or some other Pandora based antagonist comes up. Cause if next movie is just sky people are still trying to colonize and fail, then I don't need to see that movie. Cause I have 3 times now

3.5/5 for me.

 

[squeekness]

 

[:eek:]

https://deadline.com/video/james-cameron-video-interview-avatar-fire-and-ash-oscars/

 

[:eek:]

How ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Legally Pulled Off That Sigourney Weaver, Jack Champion Kiss

How do you film a make-out scene between a septuagenarian actress and an underage actor?

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Lily Adler]

To think i was 20/21 when the first film came out and Cameron wants me to be in my "30s" when this comes out???

I just entered high school.

 

[Drizzle]

I was 21 when the first one came out and if Avatar 5 is still on schedule for 2031 then I'll be 43 when that last one comes out.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[psylockolussus]

I hope James Cameron surprises us that's its the final Avatar film!

 

[blueharvest]