Avatar: The Way Of Water Trailer: Mount Your Banshees For Another Trip To Pandora

Forget "the legendary floating mountains of Pandora", as a xenoanthropologist named Norm called them. "The Way of Water" will explore the oceanic slope of Pandora, which promises to be even more floating, like the sewers of Derry in Maine. The Na'vi, they "all float here. You will float too."

Or not? Earn what you can in this new trailer, folks. If we're being honest, the movie news cycle moves so quickly and even big news gets buried so fast now that I completely missed the first full trailer for "The Way of Water" earlier this month. . Or maybe I saw it falling, but didn't care enough to watch it, and plum just forgot about it. I don't know if that's a clue to how other moviegoers might react to "The Way of Water," or if it just indicates my own willful ignorance of anything "Avatar" related.

Filmed in native 3D, the first "Avatar" was supposed to be the blockbuster that changed everything, making movies more immersive and interactive, and for a while it sparked a muddy wave of post-converted 3D movies. People have compared it to a ride through a theme park, much like Martin Scorsese characterized superhero movies, and personally I think "Avatar" makes for a better theme park land at Disney World than it does. an enduring film classic worthy of several sequels. I'd rather rewatch Pandora - World of Avatar in Florida than rewatch the first "Avatar" or spend another three hours of my life watching its sequel.

But that's just me! And I'm probably very much in the minority. "Don't bet against James Cameron", yada, yada.

"Avatar: The Way of the Water" doesn't hit theaters until December 16, 2022.