Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and I'm blue daba dee daba die
because Disney have just dropped the first trailer for Avatar 2.
The first movie released all the way back in 2009 and the several sequels that we're getting on the
film have remained a closely guarded secret since then. The film was a box office phenomenon that's
pretty much remained as the highest grossing film of all time for the 13 years since it's release.
Avengers Endgame managed to snatch the crown back from it only for the
inevitable to happen and it once more regained it's spot at the top.
However, there hasn't really been that much hype for it and I have to admit
that I wasn't that interested. I think I'd probably only seen the movie at the cinema
when it released and then maybe watched it once more at home. I always remembered it
being kinda mid with a heavy reliance on the 3D that kinda lost it's appeal once
you removed that. However I actually went back at the weekend and rewatched the film
and I have to say that I was wrong and it definitely stands on it's own two feet even
without the technology behind it. The movie really captivated me and I think it stands on it's own
two feet without needing to strap massive glasses onto your head sometimes over your glasses.
Now I'm guessing a lot of you are in the same boat as me where you haven't watched the movie
since it released so if you need a quick catch up then the next part of the video is for you.
I've left timecodes below if you just wanna skip to the trailer stuff but we start off
in the far distant future of 2154. The world is almost a barren wasteland due to humanity
using up all of Earth's natural resources and it now looks like a night out in Glasgow.
Early on we meet Jake Sully, an ex marine who was left paralysed after a combat mission he was on
went awry. Jakes brother was part of the Avatar programme which allowed someone to
control a host body through their consciouness so that humans could interact with the locals
on any planet they landed on by looking like them. However Jakes brother died
and due to the Avatars taking genetic material from the person piloting them
they needed a match which came in the form of Jake, his twin brothers twin...brother.
Keep up yeah.
Anyway along with the Resources Development Administration or RDA for short they headed
out to the Planet Pandora. Attempting to obtain a special element called
Unobtanium...which...yeah I forgot it was called that.
Attempting to obtain a special element called Unobtanium, Jake,
his friend Norm and Dr. Grace attempted to integrate with the locals.
On their first day in the wild Jake was attacked by a beast called a Thanator and
after he got lost in the jungle he came across Neytiri who saved his life. Neytiri is part of
the Na'vi who Jake was trying to integrate with and though she was initially gonna kill
him she ended up saying her hand after an omen from her God Eywa landed on her arrow.
The Na'vi are a very spiritual and they believe that all life exists
in an ecosystem where life is born, someone lives and they go back to the
ground to be reprocessed so that more life can come from them. Typical stuff you tell
that girl at College you fancy cos you seen her reading a book on candles once.
Book on candles anyway after taking him before her tribe, Neytiri was ordered to
teach Jake their ways and after training for three months the pair fell in love.
Now this group of Na'vi lived inside a giant tree which had a huge pile of unobtanium below
it and Jake was ordered to integrate with the Na'vi and convince them to lose.
However Jake, Grace and Norm all knew that they'd never abandon it because of their
connection to nature and with the RDA learned of this they launched an attack on Hometree.
They ended up destroying it and after Jake, Grace, Norm tried to warn the people they
were arrested and held as traitors like when you, yes you, go watch a video from another channel,
bloody traitor. Anyway with help from a pilot named Trudy they escaped but
sadly grace was shot an killed by the RDA's security leader Colonel Miles.
In order to show that he truly was one of them now, Jake managed to mind meld with a giant winged
beast known as a Toruk that only the legendary ancestors of the tribe have managed to tame.
After finding the rest of the Na'vi at their sacred home the tree of souls,
they went out and gathered the other tribs from the planet in order to have
one final stand against the RDA. Attacking from the skies and ground,
the Na'vi managed to push them into a retreat and Jake went head to head with the colonel.
However his real body was damaged in the battle and after sending the humans packing, he ended
up transferring his consciouness through the tree of souls and into his Avatar which ended the film.
Now as for the Way Of Water Trailer, we open with the flux vortex and a
group of the Na'vi running up roots that connect the floating platforms.
Incase you don't know this area features a gravitational anomaly at it and this was where
the final battle took place in the first film. Due to the gravity being off kilter it messed
with the instruments used by the humans and thus they were unable to utilise their radar.
This explains later on why the avatars being used by the humans might ride on the native
beasts of the planet instead of remaining in their ships whilst fighting the Na'vi.
We do see more gravitational anomalies near the ocean areas so that makes a lot of sense to me.
At the front you might also notice a human who pops up later in the trailer in the jungle.
He ends up being pretty close to the Na'vi by the looks of it and according to the wiki for the film
this is a character known as Javier Socorro. Though the RDA ended up fleeing the planet in
the first movie there were clearly some humans left behind and from what we know of the film,
Javier was born on Pandora. He is going to be rescued and adopted by Jake and Neytiri
who have several other children.
We can catch her pregnant in the first look and they are going to have three
children in the film called Neteyam, Lo'ak and Tuktirey.
The first two of these are sons and the last one is a daughter. This is who I believe we
see skipping along with Javier at the start but it's a bit difficult to make out who they are.
Cut to Neytiri moving through the jungle with the shadow of leaves brushing past her face.
I know the film is kinda getting dunked on for having quote unquote ps2 graphics
but I think it looks really good. I watched this trailer for the first time before doctor
Strange in the multiverse of Madness and it looked stunning on the big screen.
Now Cameron initially just announced this movie and one more sequel however,
he's now gone on to announce an additional three movies on top of this.
So like it or not youre gonna be getting lots of Avatar films.
The main reason for the hold up in the second ones development was because that Motion Capture tech
simply doesn't really work underwater, however Cameron and co have spent the last decade trying
to develop the technology so that they can do it and apparently they've managed to find a way to
bring this into the film. The whole movie will be centred around the Na'vi trying to find a new home
and looking at the castlist we know that there will be several diver characters.
This includes Ronal who will be played by Kate Winslet. According to the wiki on the film,
Ronal is a pivtoal character and not only did Winslett have to learn motion capture for the
movie she also had to learn free diving. Apparently Winslet managed to hold her
breath for seven minutes which is a new world record for any film scene shot underwater.
Take that Tom Cruise.
Bloody Furious.
Now on top of this are two actors who's characters seemingly died in the first film. Cameron has
stated that Sigourney Weaver will be returning however she will be playing a new character
rather than just being Dr. Grace. I kinda have a feeling that she might be the voice of Eywa as
Grace's character went into the tree when trying to transfer between her body and her Avatar.
There's also Stephen Lang who is coming back,
however his character was killed at the end of the movie by Neytiri.
Cameron stated that he wouldn't say exactly how they're bringing him back
but that it's a science fiction story and it'll tie in with that. The premise of the franchise
in general is that humans have found a way to create bodies that they can plant their
minds into so I think that they might end up resurrecting the character through cloning.
Hell the version of the Colonel Miles that we saw in the first film might even have been an Avatar
himself and who knows, Miles might have been in his own Pod controlling himself from the planet.
Now Camear also said that his character will evolve into a really unexpected place across
the upcoming films and that though he will predominantly be an antagonist,
we might see him start to see things from the Na'vi's point of view.
If he is a clone or something that's just being used by the RDA to conquer worlds he'll be pretty
stone cold but their kinship with nature might open his eyes to another side of life.
Now another interesting rumour floating around about the film is that they've actually managed
to do not only underwater motion capture but also 3D without the glasses. Remember your 3Ds, well
it's that, it's that but in a cinema, apparently yeah. Which will be mental, itll be bloody mental.
I think a lot of the first films success was down to revolutionising 3D and though
Hollywood ran it into the ground, doing it with this would be awesome.
Now in the trailer they're clearly playing up there's gonna be way
too much water to the point IGN bout to give this movie a six.
We catch them flying over the ocean, to trees that have their roots pushing the up so they
don't drown and gorgeous beaches. There's also a lot of sealife such as giant gentle whales
and ones that resemble stingrays. Really nice looking imagery that of
course mirrors our own world and the divers in it.
Also does anyone else think the music sounds like Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift.
Say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress staring at the sunset.
Now the free diver we see in this looks like they might be wearing a t-shirt so this might be
similar to Grace in the first film and it could be a human in an avatar. Now it looks like the humans
are still using the avatar strategy to blend in with the locals as we see them constructing or
perhaps repairing a base. Hells gate was abandoned in the first film but they might be back at the
outpost as there's so much stuff there. There's a mech walking along as well as two Avatar Nav'vi.
Not 100% sure who this is but Vin Diesel has been cast in an undiscolsed role
and it looks like Javier and the rest of Jakes kids end up coming across them in the wilderness.
Perhaps they've been sent in to broker peace though they do look like they're
part of the military. Goddamn guys just want that unobtanium. We then
get a shot of the water beasts that the characters could be riding and
similar to the Mountain Banshees they mind meld with them. There are more gravitational
anomalies shown and what loks like an attack on the human base lead by Javier.
The human Avatar looks pretty annoyed by this and we later see it flooding
making me think that they've tried to also set up shop in the oceans of the planet.
We later see both the Na'vi and humans reading themselves for a water battle.
Not much given away and it definitely feels like one of those trailers that could be misleading on
purpose. Lots of beautiful visuals though and I am interested to see the fight between the humans on
the Navi side whilst we also have the humans disguised as the Navi fighting against them.
Anyway that's the trailer, a recap and some tidbits about the film. I'm really excited
to watch it and though I've kinda been a bit meh on the franchise for over ten years now,
rewatching it this week did make me appreciate why it's done so well. I can't wait to see the
movie when it releases at the end of the year and this trailer really was a blast.
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