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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
A Visual Spectacle with No Real Story
When I watched Avatar in IMAX years ago, I was thoroughly moved by the imagery, the world, the characters, and the story. What facilitated that emotion was a blind approach where I went into the movie with no real idea about it. I took a similar approach to this movie too.
I was dazzled by what True IMAX could bring to life. The visual brilliance of this movie brought out the world and the characters to life, but the story lacked depth.
It mostly contained a lot of platitudes about family, about the way of water, and a whole lot of action with no meaningful underlying message. It was just about eat or be eaten. At certain points, it felt more like the Fast and the Furious series than it did of the wondrous landscape Pandora could have been.
Visually stunning. Kudos to all the people that made it happen. Fire the writers twice for essentially dishing out a meaningless story that focused on platitudes and not at all on character formation, suspenseful twists, or anything that could have made the movie as good as the first one.
Jana Gana Mana (2022)
A movie that tries to tackle everything and ultimately becomes nothing
"Producer: So what social issues in India would you like to address in this movie?
Director: Yes."
I was following the structure of the story at the beginning and I was thoroughly entertained. It's a good thriller and it delivers. The story even has a good moral in it.
However, the movie tries to address so many distinct issues that exist in India through nothing but a grandstanding delivery of Prithviraj. We need movies to tell us stories that will stick with us. Not speech essays we'll all forget in two seconds.
They should have just stuck to the core message of the perfectly good story and ended it there rather than trying to score brownie points in every corner.
6/10.
Kidding (2018)
Deciding who you want to be in the face of pain.
The bleakness of this show, the darkness in it, shows you the contrast in human behavior as you reel from a loss. Jim Carrey continues to hold on to the goodness in him while the rest just delve deeper into the pit of their suffering. All the characters find the usefulness and weaknessess of their choices. The show gives you enough perspectives to see through on what pain can do to one another and how you can choose to percieve it and deal with it.
Amazing show. Absolutely love it.