Avatar: The Way Of Water Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

I loved the film. I loved watching this family work through its challenges and that line, 'This Family is our Fortress' meant a lot to me personally. The run time did not seem as long as it was, in my opinion. I was blown away by the imagination that has gone into this film, the action and the stunning effects- It all looks so real. I remember back in the day, waiting to see a film you had loved at the cinema, to see the effects look.. not so great. how things have changed..I also have a little wish that this film may touch the next generation and help them to care more about our planet than we have.

I enjoyed the first Avatar film, so had to get this one. Very good and good value

Great film and I hear there's a new film on its way

A sequel to science fiction movie Avatar. You've had over thirteen years to watch that. So anyone reading this really ought to know the plot of the whole thing by now.Avatar: The way of Water is the long promised sequel. Second of five films in total. Here it is. The film you never thought might actually happen. Or probably were never bothered to think about it actually happening, either.The dvd is just that. No more, no less. You can get Blu ray or 4k whatever if you want to watch pretty pictures. But if you're just interested in the movie, the DVD gives you that. With no frills attached.A while has passed. Jake Sully now has a family and all the issues that go with being a parent. It's been a quiet life. Then humanity comes back. With one old face he never expected to see again.They flee to another part of the planet to try and hide. Where other native aliens live by the sea. And in harmony with the sea. It's a slightly messy getting to know you business. And they won't stay hidden forever....This is just over three hours long. But credit to the director. It doesn't drag. The visuals do look a bit too computer gamey at times. At other times they are pretty good. There were moments when I was impressed with the faces and facial expressions of the computer generated characters. It does an excellent job of what science fiction writers call world building. Creating something alien that nonetheless functions perfectly believably.I did have issues with the final act of the film though. It has more endings that the third Lord of the Rings film. I wasn't bothered by how many that had. So if this did bother me, it has to be an issue. All the humans are too much of a caricature. All quite happy to burn and kill everything and take the magic maguffin. The film has rather been overtaken by the real world here. So many people being 'green' these days in a way you never thought possible in 2009. So this just doesn't work well.It repeats too many story beats from the first film. It also leaves too much dangling for future ones. Clearly there is a plan for where all this is going to go over the next three films. Yet if they turn out to be 'Dances with Mountain Smurfs'. 'Dances with Desert Smurfs'. And the finale to be 'Smurfs attack!', then it could get a bit repetitive.We shall see. Maybe. Possibly. One day. This is a capable four star film. Just like the first one. Which never claimed to be the greatest thing ever made either. It's just a chapter in something bigger though, so it's not as strong on it's own as it could be. Four stars for now though.There's nothing extra during or after the end credits.The dvd - like the one for the first film - is totally basic. The movie. Nothing else. It goes straight into the main menu when loaded. There are no extras.Language and subtitle options:Languages: English, French. English audio described. English family friendly track. Which is not something I've seen before. It apparently cuts out any naughty words. I can imagine what Quaritch would say about that. It doesn't cut out violence and explosions though, which is why this is a twelve certificate film.Subtitles: English. Dutch. French. Danish. Norwegian.

My wife and I were rather looking forward to seeing the long awaited ‘Way of the Water’ at our local Showcase cinema. After all it’s been a very long time coming!As we have a 65” LG 3D OLED screen (a flat one, not a stupid curved one), we watched the original Avatar the day before. So, with our RealD 3D glasses on, we settled down to watch this sequel at Showcase and were immediately struck by the very poor 3D imaging, which had no comparison with the superb depth of field and detail in the original Avatar! This was completely unexpected and very disappointing, not what we would have expected from James Cameron.As I already knew that the RealD 3D glasses were the same as the LG TV 3D glasses, I thought it wise to confirm that the polarizing hadn’t deteriorated, but they worked perfectly with the original Avatar. So I queried Showcase about this: They told me that they use an ‘Xplus’ screen and “only receive the drive to install on our systems, and then play at the required specifications”. However, a few days later our daughter and partner went to the Vue cinema in Portsmouth and had exactly the same experience with the RealD 3D presentation there. They then came to us and saw extracts from the original to confirm what it should have looked like in 3D. We then saw other reports stating how good the Imax and Dolby versions were, which were not much help with nothing remotely local in the UK. Since then there have been other reports of people having a similar bad experience with RealD 3D at UK cinemas. So we all decided to wait for the Blue Ray 3D release and just hope that will provide some answers.This arrived last week and it was with some trepidation that I set it up to play!What an unbelievable difference, we were actually watching ‘Way of the Water’ in proper 3D with terrific depth and detail as well (I haven’t confirmed this, but probably better than the original Avatar disc).The underwater scenes were also brilliant, confirming that Cameron had solved the problems filming in such a difficult environment. All in all, he has done an excellent job with the Blue Ray 3D release, which is truly immersive. The only oddity comes when pausing playback: With other 3D discs the 3D image stays on the screen, but with this film it collapses and there is a delay of about 2 seconds before the 3D image is restored after playback is resumed.But this still doesn’t explain what went wrong with the RealD 3D cinema screening?