AVATAR (2009) was a *MIND-BOGGLING* EXPERIENCE!!

[@HildegardActual]

So where the story is concerned, you gotta realize more is happening in the story than what the theatrical release shows, most Avatar fans consider the extended cut to be the actual cannon. The humans can't go anywhere else for Unobtainium (fun fact that's an engineering term, for something hard to get, gee wiz) because it's incredibly rare and it's needed for the equipment on Earth that keeps the planets atmospheric processors running. They have no real choice but to mine it. If the RDA don't keep up the resource harvesting Earth and everybody on it will die because the planet is basically on life support. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and if you wanna maybe get the full story I *HIGHLY* reccommend the extended cut.

[@Omfgwhtavid]

I felt like the extended cut added nothing of value

[@ayogaby6143]

⁠​⁠@@OmfgwhtavidI feel like you get more context about earth’s condition and grace’s school and neytiri’s sister and how Jake became the leader with tsu’tey’s death yk that’s stuff

[@danielmorency2242]

The IMAX 3D at the theatre was absolutely jaw-dropping. I actually asked one of my friends sitting next to me if he was seeing what I was seeing. For this film, the bigger the screen the better.

[@blitzgirl6522]

Love to find reactions to this movie by smaller channels! Your sense of humor was very relatable. The main reason why the sequel came out 13 years later is because Cameron wanted to wait for the technology to catch up. Now they've been filming several films back-to-back so the kid actors don't age out. He has had ideas for Pandora for a long time! I love that Avatar is a passion project for him.

[@firebros9492]

Ikr,we don't get much directors who plan movies ahead of time and I mean decades,in the end you'll always find haters for every movie so it isn't a surprise

[@UnHuecoEnMiCorazon]

Yes! He knew what he wanted for the next movies, but he had to wait for the technology to catch up with him!

[@blastingweevil2968]

you cannot understand how truly breathtaking and mind bending this film was on the "BIG" Screen... i watched this 6 times on the big screen it left the audience speechless.. it truly is a masterpiece of a movie.

[@phonmunky]

To be fair they didn’t forget that they destroyed the tree, they just hit it before the mining team got there so we didn’t see them start the excavation. Then they saw the number of Na’vi gathering and sent their forces there as a preemptive strike that would basically destroy the Na’vi and not have to worry about them interfering anymore.

[@richardb6260]

The extended cut has scenes of an overcrowded Earth at the beginning. There's an inevitable backlash when a film is this successful. Some people like to think they're too cool to like a film that's enjoyed by the masses. I LMAO at the person who LMAO'd at "unobtanium". It's actually a real scientific/engineering term for a substance that is hypothetical, rare, and/or hard to obtain. When they were building the SR-71 Blackbird jet, they needed titanium. They referred to titanium as unobtanium because Russia had control of most of the titanium deposits.

[@zeno4538]

It's always been very cool to hate avatar. The vague bones of avatar is a familiar story but it's told in an undeniably unique way. The heros journey archetype is an example of a familiar story, but a movie shouldn't lose points for using it. Most people care more about characters, and the tension that comes from routing for them against odds. Do the characters feel like real people that grow and have an "arch" do we route for them or do we hate and fear them. People who hyperfixate on originality just want to hate this movie and can't find another reason. The same people will say the batman movies are the greatest movies ever despite those movies not being very original.

[@richardb6260]

@@zeno4538 also, to hold Dances With Wolves up as being original is ignorant. Plenty of films that came before had the same type of story about a "civilized" man find a place among a more primitive people. Lawrence of Arabia, The Man Who Would be King, the A Man Called Horse films, and and Farewell to the King to name a few. Also, critics ignore that Cameron himself has stated that the film was inspired by the film At Play in the Fields of the Lord which was based on a book from the 60s. There are far more parallels between that film and Avatar than there is with DWW. Credit to Cameron for acknowledging that.

[@KayoMichiels]

People usually don't like it because of the hype... but when they actually watch it... yeah... James Cameron knows how to build a world for a movie.. from the mechanics of how the space ship works, and how the hinges on the mobile suits articulate, to the language the navi speaks... it's mindblowing!

[@Ciffer-1998]

pretty sure that people hate it just because its not original which is weird considering that no movie can be original considering that we have almost a century since people started making movies

[@krono5el]

Crazy Avatar is still blowing minds after all this time and the second one if even more insane : D cant wait for the next one : )

[@raddpeanutt]

Hope you react to the second one! I absolutely love these movies. Also fun fact, in the end scene where Parker approaches them and says “you know this ain’t over”, that part wasn’t in the movie originally, I believe they added that scene in this year to hint to the sequels!

[@lucas.2.3.9.4]

23:40 yes Sam Worthington is Australian

[@gilliantwible4703]

The extended version shows much more of earth

[@wolfsong4720]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I think you'd really love The Way of Water, I personally thought it was superior to the first one.

[@yasminareacts]

A lot of people have been saying that they like the sequel more so I'm excited to watch it!

[@Omfgwhtavid]

I don’t think it holds a candle to the original but to each their own

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

I love both Avatar movies

[@honeymelon_b]

james cameron originally had the initial ideas for avatar in the 80’s, but didn’t actually make and release the film until much later. the reason the second film didn’t come out until over a decade later is because a lot of the film takes place under water and james cameron had to invent the technology in order to record and capture the film.

[@sliceout9040]

You have no idea what it was like to see this movie in 3D cinema in 2009. The first movie ever to be shown in 3D and by far the best CGI the world had seen at that point in time. It was so unbelievable that I went two weekends in a row and I pulled all my friends into the cinema because they had to see this masterpiece.

[@gothicseiya]

you always pick the best movies to watch

[@luissimoes2645]

People give James Cameron and Avatar in general a hard time when it comes to storytelling and plot. I completely disagree. Avatar's plot in my opinion is very well written. It manages to balance worldbuilding and current action very well while still managing to give us lot of information on this planet and the Na'Vi that have been here for a long time and have a deep history. Plus, I really like the characters in this one. Jake is one of those marines with a closed mind and currently waiting for his death without caring what happens to him (you can see more of that in the extended edition in the earth scene) until he finds a new porpouse in life and proves himself and to others that he is much smartert than they think. Grace, a scientist who loves her work and the planet that she is studying and the new people she meets and we learn that she is a colder person to Jake beacuse she sees in him the smae type of persons who neglect her work and beacuse they are the reason that the Na'Vi hate them (specially beacuse of thhe massacre that happened in the Na'Vi school and where Neytiri's sister died). Norm, a graduated scientist eager and honored to be working on a project like this just to be overshadowed by a guy who neither cares nor knows much about it and who slowly gets to know his companion a little better until he comes around and likes him. Trudy, a brave and great pilot with a good heart who tries to fight for the right reasons but still keeps the team with realistic expectations. Parker, who, dispite being painted as a douch through the whole movie, in the end seems to have a good heart and did not want any of hat destruction to happen and who seems to be in a lot of pressure probably because earth is dying without the Unobtanium along with millions of people and probably including his family. When criticising the movie, a lot of people resort to fallacies to diminish what was created and the explanations that were provided. A good example of this is that people seem to ignore the in-story real and canonic deiety, Eywa, or when they introduce creatures like the one on the second movie wich are intelligent creatures with more brain power than the humans or the Na'Vi and just because of their phisical aspect are currently refered as "smart whales" to make the movie and it's explanatios dull. I think this franchise suffers a lot of criticism because of it's success in the box office. If it didn't make so much money and was just a bit lower profile franchise people would praise it more. Is it the best franchise ever? No. Did other franchises deserve to do more money than this one? Yes. Does it deserve the hate it ets just because of it's success? I don't think so.

[@MrMonkey2150]

It’s just amazing all round, the plot is great.

[@MrMonkey2150]

People only hate on it because it’s successful, I’ve not actually seen people hate on it because it bad 😂

[@mogwiawolf4354]

Grew up watching it my parents took me and my sister to go watch it in 3D when it first came out which was rare since we didn't have a lot of money really and I loved it and have watched hundreds of times at home on DVD and love it and when they re released it theaters I paid for the tickets for me and my family to go see it in 3D again and I paid for the tickets for when avatar 2 came out on December 16th as well to see it and 3D and me and my family loved it a lot I was 20 when I saw it now 21 but I was still in the single digits of age when I first saw this movie and have grown up watching it for a long time

[@EllisThings]

Very cool. The second one is a whole nother step up in world building, storytelling, and especially visual effects- so hope you get to enjoy that one too

[@Shoofyou10]

The Avatar movies are made to be seen on the biggest screen possible in 3D. It really is just an amazing experience. It loses a lot of the feel when seeing it on a regular screen at home.

[@tearsoflight]

I loved this when it came out and even more seeing the extened edition in theatres later. I own the extended extended edition. You're lucky you don't have to wait years to see the 2nd one. Not sure when the next one is scheduled to come out. Also, the first game was visually stunning. The new one I think is coming out very soon.

[@questionablehumor2800]

Beautiful images and universe with heartfelt performances from the Na'vi actors (especially Saldana!), hampered by pandering (Pand(ora/ering)) to the "obtuse capitalism" and "hyper violent military" tropes. Not a surprise from Cameron's vocabulary (Aliens, Terminator#, Abyss, and and and). The morphology of the xeno'fauna is, at times, a stretch to logically justify (hampered by earth based perspective) though a delight to see their animations. But acceptable as Lucas made it legal with the star wars universe. I remember rolling my eyes extra hard when they broke out "unobtain'ium" (at the time, cyclists referred to Titanium bike frames and components as "unobtainium"). Anyway, it's a visually amazing and awesome world, with a very VERY cool mechanism of practical spiritual interconnectivity. Hobbled by the human elements that had to be shoehorned in.

[@tigqc]

Out there beyond that treeline, we have an invasive species of Na'vianoids called Humans. They are very hard to kill.

[@blackpowder99]

The next one is even better

[@cmlemmus494]

With all the low ratings, it's important to recognise that it's "cool" in certain circles to say you don't like whatever thing is most popular. I'm sure you've seen this before in other ways. I'm different than you = I'm better than you (despite the fact that no one actually cares). Everyone like this thing so I hate it. That makes me special. Star Wars, Star Trek, Twilight, Harry Potter, MCU, Avatar. Every big fandom has this undercurrent of people who obsess over their alleged hatred and have to watch every new thing as soon as it comes out just so they can tell you how stupid you are for enjoying it. That's all this is. Forget the box office. Avatar made about $450 million is domestic (US & Canada) DVD and Blu-Ray sales. Think about that... Something like 150 million copies of the physical media sold. So what if a few dozen malcontents on Letterbox want to be internet famous by saying they don't like it. Note, I'm not saying the film doesn't have flaws or that they couldn't have put more thought into the script, just that you can't assume that negative reviews of a popular property were written with honest intentions.

[@kerry-j4m]

You're absolutely correct and well said. I enjoyed both films greatly,waiting for the 3rd movie to come out.

[@atticusel5667]

The way of water is amazing

[@wildbill9490]

You must see the sequel!

[@KennyThisIsTheWay2024]

Hi Yasmina , Just got back from LA comic con I met one power ranger and 2 celebrities and 2 reaction youtubers, Congratulations on watching Avatar your reaction was the best I hope you watch Avatar the way of the water and my third line is nothing's over while I'm breathing!!!💙

[@reconmember4324]

Both Avatar and Avatar : The Way Of Water are on Disney+.

[@curiousthecat]

Big screen and 3D-13 times in theater. Loved it. First time watching it at home on a small screen and 2D was not the experience I remembered. Still watch it occasionally and did buy the second movie. I have to add that I think the movie and Cameron get a lot of hate nowadays for being ‘woke’. That’s just the world we live in

[@Supercat209]

Girl my thing is as bright as the sun

[@AtiaJoy101]

Where did you get your monsters university shirt!?!

[@yasminareacts]

I got it at Disney World a couple years ago!

[@knulldestroyed3081]

For some reason people don’t like this movie, my family members didn’t like it in 2009, I loved it! They enjoyed the second one more though

[@jaybanks3463]

Avatar is the most hated franchise to film nerds Star Wars and super hero fans. They absolutely hate Avatar with a passion. They don’t like that Avatar sits at the top of the all time records. That’s why you see all those bad stars, don’t even listen to them they are a minority because James Cameron has stated many times that although his film is sci fi and fantasy he don’t make them for the sci fi and fantasy crowds or even film crowd he makes his films for the average man and woman who only go to the theaters once or twice a year with family. That’s why 3 of the top 5 highest grossing films of all time is made by him. The simple and predictable plot is all intentional and purposeful. There’s no film making not even 500M by great visual and no plot. There’s has to be a balance and Avatar has just that, I watched this film predicting it but I was still emotionally involved because of the execution. Avatar2 was just as good, especially for families specifically fathers.

[@Cactusfruitsquisher]

Those other movies bore me to death but Avatar just ignites a passion and love for a fictional world that I don’t feel for other big IPs.

[@marcelacassany3052]

You can see a lot in the extended version

[@urborg74]

It's hilarious to hear critics try to speak negatively about a movie that broke so many box office records. Like they know something everyone else doesn't. Just sad people with fragile egos that need to be contrarian to feel better about themselves.

[@charoleawood]

I don't know about looking at user reviews, at least sort by newest first or by the most positive and go from there saying whether you agree with some of the most positive reviews or not. There was a large twitter consensus that Avatar sucks and that nobody cared about it and the second film would flop and so the hate train was rolling strong while the MCU was on the rise --- how times have changed. Also, do watch Way of Water and especially check out the Collector's Cut of the first film.

[@Ciffer-1998]

do you have Avatar 2 on the list to watch movies?

[@MrCoolAttitude]

How the hell did you never watch this movie.

[@yasminareacts]

There are so many popular movies I still haven’t seen yet…

[@kianisjuan1652]

React to the second one soon

[@michaelpeng3555]

Good! ☆☆☆☆☆

[@braedenmartin8596]

I had no idea that was Melvin

[@Keith2XS]

It was okay on the small screen but great in Imax 3D

[@jason-gf8dg]

Avengers endgame is the highest grossing movie of all time I thought?

[@yasminareacts]

It was for about a year or two but Avatar is back at #1

[@izaac1312]

Avatar is the best

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

I like to pretend that the Smurfs were Na'vi space explorers that crash-landed on Earth in 1958. If Gargamel is the antagonist in the third film I want some sort of credit. 💙

[@tylerstaring1881]

You watching avatar the way of water

[@KennyThisIsTheWay2024]

Hope to see you at next avatar 2 Yasmina soon 💙 🔪 Nothing's over while I'm breathing.

[@EthanBSide]

Just watch.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Have you seen the movie RRR

[@dontrelldurant3450]

TBH, you were like 2 when the movie came out.

[@369-ATUM-RA]

I’m jealous you’re so lucky

[@XwolfXXangelX]

🤓There are a lot of bodies we dont see in every movie. Guess no character dies🤥

[@byronthomas153]

8:58

[@firebros9492]

Great reaction,i was only 4 years old when the first movie came out and i wish ive seen it in theatres back then but getting the chance to see the second part in theatres was peaki tell you peak🤌🏽,but if your going to do a reaction to the second part best u have this information that part 2 and 3 are the same movie but it was to long so they had to cut it into two individual films so some answers u won't get till part 3 comes out💯👍🏽

[@spaceman5734]

Where we are really from is a lot prittierrrr