So what if the Avatar 2 story was a familiar rehash. That wasn't the problem. Terminator 2: Judgment Day was literally, a big budget remake of the first one. And nobody complained. Its because James Cameron went back into the elements that made the first one a classic and improved them. Same story, only bigger and better.

But this time, in this "Avatar: Way of Water" project, he veered off into self indulgent boredom. The brilliantly simple and inspired elements of the first story are all but scattered to the wind and the sea here. He touched on a few interesting, familiar paths but abandoned them over and over, until we were left with a vacuous, disappointing ending that did NOTHING but lay there like one of those beached weird-eyed whales in the Pandoran Sea.

I hope Avatar 3 gets back to business, and lets a FEMALE CENTERED story grow and develop into something that is worth sitting through for three hours. We're no longer impressed with the visuals of Pandora alone. The kickass, female centered STORY that made the first one so good to the very last frame...rehash it right.