Avatar: The Way Of Water

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!

I saw it at a 3D theater and preordered the BRD release when it came out. It arrived exactly on time and at a lower price than it is now. I do appreciate the timely release - I'm still waiting on other titles that deserve to be in my collection at home (a forlorn hope for some of those, I'm afraid). The movie IS on the long side, but the pace is brisk and I don't mind a long movie if I'm into it. What I DO mind is the abrupt break for the necessary transition to a second disk. Very poorly timed, especially being on an emotional note between major characters in the story. It's like someone was just looking at the run time clock and nothing else. Poorly managed. The 3D did come across better at home, despite the scale advantages in the theater. I sit moderately close to any movie I see at the theater, 3D or not, but it's been years since I went to a theater except for a few movies where I can expect broad vistas and special effects that would especially benefit from the screen size. More intimate scenes and stories don't really need it, can't really use it. Same goes for sporting events. I much prefer viewing anything at home where the concessions and bathrooms are much closer and better (IMO), and no lines - for the most part. So to sum up, I highly recommend Avatar: The Way Of Water 3D for a home purchase, or even as 2D/4K if you're not a 3D fan (but may need to be an Avatar fan maybe), and I regret their decision to delay the next one by a year or so - I'm looking forward to it.

Great movie

As expected a good movie

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.

Reference disk

Item as stated. The Blu-ray Disc functioned just perfectly in our Blu-ray player.