Avatar: The Way of Water (Blu-ray)

For all of us with large 3D blu-ray collections and/or home 3D blu-ray glasses, players, projectors, or TVs (or any newbies thereby)---this 3D blu-ray is a rare and magnificent gift! Hopefully it sells as it deserves to do so (extremely well) and other big directors follow James Cameron's sterling example: providing a top-quality movie in not just 4K but home-3D as well. Although 4K provides greater detail for larger TV's and projection screens over HD, 3D provides not just quantitative improvement but QUALITATIVE enhancement: a whole new dimension is added! In other words, while 4K gives a great simulation in providing a crisp, flat picture of 3-dimensional reality, 3D blu-ray provides the actual thing! It's a different, fully immersive experience. As to the quality of this 3D blu-ray, it's topnotch. There's fine detail in the additive 2K rendering, crisp resolution between items, excellent depth of field into the screen, and appropriate protrusions out of the screen into the room, surrounding the viewers. Seen projected in 3D onto a large wall screen (mine being 120"), viewed up close, with full surround sound turned up, it's like being INSIDE the movie (not just watching it from outside, as is the case with HD or UHD). As to the enhancement value to the movie's plot: Cameron moves us from a rich jungle environment into a lavish island/ocean scenario. The 3D rendering of waves, seashores, into the ocean and beneath reaches out and sucks you in! As in Cameron's iconic Titanic, the alien aspects (to us air-breathing mammals) of this watery world are nothing less than stunning. This goes double for the mechanical, battle scenes. Truly, being inundated by waves pouring out of the screen or surrounded by brilliantly colored alien sea-critters or ducking from zooming submersibles is alone worthy purchasing the 3D blu-ray! As to my personal experience, my advice to people who have the necessary equipment is to purchase both the 4K disc and the 3D blu-ray version. This wondrous, uniquely beautiful Sci-Fi epic saga should be savored in all its renderings, from the 3-dimensional to the most detailed. The first thing I did before viewing the 3D of "The Way of Water" was to go back and watch yet again my 3D of the first Avatar. It was even better than I remembered! I'm sure I'll do the same with this first sequel, watching it several times over the coming years. I pre-ordered the 3D and 4K versions the very first day they were available and eagerly awaited their arrival for months, then viewed them immediately. I was not disappointed. The storyline of course has similar elements to the first blockbuster, plus continuing characters. But Cameron and his collaborators kick it up to a whole new level. Just as 3D adds a whole new dimension to the experience, "The Way of Water" adds a whole new reality---a whole new and different world!---to the original. Further underlying the spectacle and special effects is the family aspects, which greatly enriches and broadens the emotional impact from the first movie. I can't wait for the next installment to see what new, amazing things Cameron adds on top of the existing, rich brew! To all those involved in any way in making and distributing this incredible 3D Sci-Fi high-adventure I don't just say "thank you," I say BRAVO!

Make sure you watch the first one, and then watch the way of the water are the And roll, snap, then there's the third one they're all good

Great.

What can I say? After a 13-year long wait from the original movie released in 2009, we finally get the first sequel to Avatar. These Avatar films were made for the big screen, especially IMAX. That said, even on a 4K TV via Blu-ray, the visuals still look absolutely stunning, especially the underwater scenes! The Avatar sequel that made over $2.32 billion at the global box office doesn't lie. With several new character introductions, new Na'vi tribes, fantastic new places in Pandora to explore, new exotic Pandoran sea life, all of which are quite refreshing, but all Avatar actors and their motion-cap performances, and the special FX steal the show. The plot picks up several years after the original where Avatar Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his mate Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) now have a full blown family w/ kids, all fighting to survive against militaristic humans who have come back to Pandora, including a "revived" Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) as a cloned Avatar himself, dead set on exterminating the entire Sully family and the Na'vi tribes who protect them. Actress Sigourney Weaver is also back in a different (related) role, but you'll have to watch the film to find out exactly how. Just like the first film, prepare for lots of action, riveting, emotional dialog, decent character development, and stunning visual F/X. Fair warning though, if you wear your heart on your sleeve at all, you might want some tissues handy for this one... Don't get me wrong, this movie is not without its flaws. For one its quite long, a little over three hours. However, if you enjoyed the first film and own it on DVD or Bluray, you'll enjoy this sequel in your collection as well. There's extra commentaries, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage of how they made the film on the Bluray disc that you can't get anywhere else, so its well worth owning on Bluray. Highly Recommended.

4k is amazing, the image is clear and crisp, HDR is great, night scenes are marvelous. Great movie, not better than the first one but worthy for a high rate, excellent special effects, visually it is fantastic, but the story is a little weak, very simple for my taste. Easily the movie could have been done in 2 hours with the same script. Some things not well explained, the doctor daughter, the captain son? Also the bad guy is not so bad guy? in term of character not like in the first movie, maybe he will be a good guy in the third part? Who knows? All is possible. Anyway, an excellent movie to watch one time per year at least.

Back when I tried to order this movie on 3D Blu-ray edition, it was so backordered I had to wait. My guess is Disney company underestimated the higher than usual demand fpr 3D Blu-ray edition to issue further pressings after they sold out the first pressing batch that led to inflated price by unscrupulous and greedy scalpers elsewhere. This said, the 3-D presentation is fantastic. I saw the movie at theatres in 3D format (first run within a month) three times with different presentation each time -- one with open caption, one in IMAX and one with D-BOX. The movie is so long that 3-D Bluray had to be split into two discs, and unfortunately had to omit Dolby Atmos which is available in 4K UHD edition. The downside with these standard, 4K and 3D editions is that with the family friendly audio track, it still doesn't omit the profanity in English SDH, oddly. Beware of the F-bomb in English SDH during the family friendly track play. The best-selling status of this movie with demand for 3D format for home video, hopefully, should compel the studios to rethink their attitude overlooking 3D movies for Blu-ray distribution, even for online streaming. There is a demand for 3D, always, as long as there are 3D-formatted movie fans like me.

Disc works great, wasnt scratched and no skips

I couldn't wait to finally be able to buy this set, but was greatly disappointed because on the second BluRay 3D disc (Part 2 of the movie), the movie stopped, by itself, at time 48:18. I was able to get it going again by hitting the play button on the player's remote control. I was then able to continue to the end of the movie. I then tested that disc again and it again stopped, this time at time mark 48:14. A third time of testing then followed with the disc once again stopping at the 48: 16 mark, but this time the stopped image became very pixelated. I was able to get it to play and the pixelation lingered for a short while. These tests happened today, which was the first time that I played this disk. My wife and I watched the first part of the movie on 3D disc 1 and there had been no problem. Needless to say, the defective disc two was a great disappointment. I wonder if anyone else has had this kind of problem. We haven't watched the 2D disc nor the bonus disc. I hope that Amazon will replace this set for one without defect(s). AS A FOLLOW-UP: Amazon gave full credit and I reordered the same item. In the next few days I will test all discs and report back if there is still an issue. So far, my thanks to Amazon for once again providing superior customer support and satisfaction.

Excellent movie

Blu-ray - Sem legendas em Português. Blu-ray - Sem legendas em Português.

Very good copy works in north america.Very happy

If someone does not view the 3d version of this film and sticks to only 4k which is 2d then they are actually being deprived of the real beauty of this film. The film is meant for 3d by the director and it looks even more colour with the blue ray 3d. So do buy the 3d version of this film and feel as if you are in pandora.

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