Five Improvements the New Avatar Movies are Going To Need

As I’m sure you’re all aware, there will be Avatars 2 and 3.   I mean it was pretty inevitable considering the first is the highest grossing film of all time.    While we as audiences will be tied up waiting and anticipating through the year 2015 it gives us plenty of time to make suggestions.

Lord knows I’m sure all of us would like to see some improvements in these films.  Something tells me that Cameron will rise to the occasion.  After all, Avatar was really the “first” in this new wave of technological cinema.

Here are five improvements I’d like to see….

Better Storyline


Well at least Cameron admitted that he’s going to need to improve the story.  Well it’s not that he admitted he needed to improve it.  It’s that he said he pledged to improve it as part of the new series.   As most of us know the original movie had about 700 plot holes not to mention many people thought it was a rip off of Pocahontas (which it sure as hell seemed to be).   We all know that the first Avatar was about one thing: visualization.  It was the pioneering movie in what will be a surge in 3D computerized imagery and Cameron is to be commended for it, but even he has to know the story sucked.

Much better acting


I mean you guys do realize that Sam Worthington was supposed to play an American right?  His American accent was virtually gone the last 45 minutes of the movie.   And frankly I thought much of the acting was a bit cheesy.  The only actor I enjoyed was Zoe Saldana and I think that might just be because she has a sexy voice.   Seriously though, we’re gonna need you guys to try a little harder so I give a shit more.

Consistency in Avatar Faces


If you’re gonna have an Avatar face then have an Avatar face.  Why was it that Sigourney Weaver’s Avatar face looked exactly like her real face and yet the other Avatars were pretty decent?  Either go one way or the other.  Don’t make one look human and the other look Avatar.  I guess this means pay even more attention to detail now that you know what you did in the first movie.

Better Screenplay


There were an awful ton of cheesy lines in the original Avatar.   Most of them gobbled up by the military.  I mean I’m sure that the rednecks of the world ate that crap up but to any person with a hint of class these lines were contrived and very WWE wrestling if you ask me.  Let’s get some real dialogue in here Jame.  Hell, you wrote Titanic and that was pretty decent.   Step it up here buddy.

New Characters


I’m not 100% how you can make a sequel to the original.  I almost fee like prequels are the way to go.  I mean what the hell is left for the Na’vi?  I have absolutely no idea and I’m not really all that interested.  I would however be interested in how the humans got there, how the Na’vi came to be, etc etc.   That might take some interesting new characters.  Who knows?  I just think it could be interesting.

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  1. I remember hearing they were going to be exploring the oceans of Pandora. Other than that hardly any other news. Maybe there will be a batch of evil Na’vi and possibly a planetary civil war or something.

  2. I suspect that it will be an entirely new set of characters with no connections to the characters in the first movie. The consistent elements tying the second movie to the first will be the huge, lush world that Cameron creates. I’m betting we won’t see any Jake Sully in the sequel.

  3. Actually, isn’t Weaver’s Avatar an earlier model than the one Worthington uses? It would make sense that they got better at replicating the facial structure of the Na’vi after a few tries, while the earlier ones are admittedly more human.

  4. Here’s a sequel concept. The story is that the human race comes back with lizard-proofed equipment. This is fairly realistic, as the strawman mankind in avatar wouldn’t give up after losing one battle. The Na’vi lose horribly. (which would make for an at least kind of original plot) The biggest part of the movie would be set in the charred, post-apocalyptic remains of Pandora, to provide some much-goddamn-needed INTERESTING scenery. Seriously, eff Avatar. Ahem, good day to all of you.

  5. Re: face. Weren’t the avatars created using the DNA of the humans who would use them? I’m pretty sure that’s why they asked Jake to take over the very expensive avatar they had created for his recently deceased twin brother. It made sense to me that they would resemble their human controllers for that reason alone.

    Don’t get me wrong, this movie was full of holes, I just didn’t think that was one of them.

  6. The whole movie was a glorified rehash of Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves.

    Hoping that the next 2 movies will be good is like hoping for Lucas to make another good Star Wars movie.

    We’re looking at money spinners here. Don’t expect anything except crowded cinemas and disappointment.

  7. @Deodorant:
    “The biggest part of the movie would be set in the charred, post-apocalyptic remains of Pandora, to provide some much-goddamn-needed INTERESTING scenery.”

    Are you saying that the scenery created by Cameron in the first one wasn’t interesting?
    … do you HAVE an imagination?

  8. This movie was a blatant rip off of Fern Gully. Don’t believe me go watch it. The Tree. The Bulldozer. All of it. Still loved it though. It was the second most fun I’ve had at the movies next to Inception. The greatest movie off all time in my opinion is still The Usual Suspects.

  9. the reason Sigourney Weaver’s Avatar looks different is because it is a hybrid created from her DNA mixed with the Na’vi’s and only she can control it. Its the whole point of Jake being the only one able to control his avatar created from his identical brother’s DNA.

  10. It’s the story of a white man who travels to a land unlike his own where he learns the culture of the native people. Coming to realize the beauty of the native culture, he then decides to fight against others to save it.

    Which movie does this not describe?:
    A) Avatar
    B) The Last Samurai
    C) Dances with Wolves
    D) Fern Gully
    E) Pocahontas
    F) The Battle for Terra
    G) Star Trek: Insurrection
    H) Batman and Robin

    If you picked A through E you are incorrect.
    If you picked H you are also incorrect because Batman and Robin was such a terrible movie, it is impossible that it is a correct answer to any question.

  11. Two problems I had with this article:

    1. “Why was it that Sigourney Weaver’s Avatar face looked exactly like her real face and yet the other Avatars were pretty decent?”

    It’s because she’s a genetically engineered half-na’vi, half-human. All the human avatars are. This gets explained and referred back to at several points in the film. Just how closely were you following the dialogue, sir or madam?

    2. “There were an awful ton of cheesy lines in the original Avatar. Most of them gobbled up by the military. I mean I’m sure that the rednecks of the world ate that crap up but to any person with a hint of class these lines were contrived and very WWE wrestling if you ask me.”

    So what are you saying? That soldiers can’t have good lines? C’mon. A grunt calling Jake Sully “Meals on wheels” was priceless. Plus I happen to be a college-educated, semi-classy redneck who can appreciate dirty jokes and jackassery as well as a good, unpretentious highbrow witticism, so I take objection to this statement. Btw, the dialogue in WWE is actually much, much worse than Avatar’s.

    I refuse to jump on the “I hate Avatar because it’s the highest-grossing American film of all time and its plot is vaguely derivative” bandwagon. Hell, Hamlet is derivative. That doesn’t make it any less awesome. Seeing Avatar in 3D, on vycodin, while in the company of some great friends was nothing short of mindblowing to such a degree that now I’m compelled to defend it at every turn.

    Proud Avatard.

  12. Nate’s right. Avater isn’t a rip-off of Pocahontas, Fern Gully or Dances With Wolves. All of those movies have the same cliche plot that’s gone back to the original Tarzan books, at least.

  13. Considering Avatar only succeeded in one aspect of film-making, special effects, means it should be quite easy to improve upon it. Oh, wait, it took Cameron a decade to muster up that pathetically stupid and cliche script? Oh, never mind- get ready for more epic environmental-lunacy and eventual dated effects. Thank god that environmental-terrorist Cameron got some justice handed to him losing the oscar top an actual film of quality.

    **note- Fact- Cameron has approved of violent measures to promote his environmental extreme views. Look it up, folks.

  14. Just one thing to say, lets see any one of you make a better movie. So get off your high horse and just enjoy the entertainment that is provided for you. Or choose another movie. Damn people. You think Cameron cares? Hell no, he is laughing all the way to the bank.

  15. the mediocrity of this article dwarfs the flaws of the movie.. How long did it take you to write this? Every one of these complaints is a rehash of something ranted a year ago. Other comments are picking the points apart nicely

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