Avatar The Way of Water: All hail James Cameron for putting Marvel in its place

Like its path breaking predecessor, director James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water alternately embraces and rejects genre tropes. And nothing is as dazzling as the second act stretch in which the movie forgoes plot in favour of endless vibes.Despite Tom Cruise’s valiant efforts, blockbuster filmmaking has been ruined over the last decade by the Marvel machine. When superhero movies aren’t trampling over each other to grab the audience’s attention, they’re making it impossible for anything that cost less than $200 million to even find reasonable exhibition. But most problematically, these movies have taught an entire generation of viewers to not only accept mediocrity.

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