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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Considering [[SequelGap how long it took to make a sequel to]] ''Avatar'', and how hard the movie fell into the PopularityPolynomial (with frequent thinkpieces on how the highest-grossing movie ever left barely any cultural footprint, only allegedly starting to regain popularity with [[Ride/PandoraTheWorldOfAvatar a Disney World area]] and some revisiting upon the close of TheNewTens), ''The Way of Water'' was frequently dismissed as something that wouldn't be that much of a success in a mostly changed movie landscape (also possibly due to the usual online discourse brought by the massive success of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and its "formula" in the meantime, considering how Creator/JamesCameron has been critical of it in those years). Yet it cleared a billion dollars in less than two weeks and two billion in one month, managing to become lucrative in spite of a budget ranked at the $350–460 million scale. It even received a good number of positive reception from critics and general audiences alike.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Considering [[SequelGap how long it took to make a sequel to]] ''Avatar'', and how hard the movie fell into the PopularityPolynomial ObscurePopularity (with frequent thinkpieces on how the highest-grossing movie ever left barely any cultural footprint, only allegedly starting to regain popularity with [[Ride/PandoraTheWorldOfAvatar a Disney World area]] and some revisiting upon the close of TheNewTens), ''The Way of Water'' was frequently dismissed as something that wouldn't be that much of a success in a mostly changed movie landscape (also possibly due to the usual online discourse brought by the massive success of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and its "formula" in the meantime, considering how Creator/JamesCameron has been critical of it in those years). Yet it cleared a billion dollars in less than two weeks and two billion in one month, managing to become lucrative in spite of a budget ranked at the $350–460 million scale. It even received a good number of positive reception from critics and general audiences alike.
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* {{Narm}}: While Lo'ak removing the harpoon from Payakan's fin is a sweet moment, Payakan offering Lo'ak the chance to swim with him by [[OfferingAHand gesturing one of his fins like a hand]] looks a little silly coming from a whale.
** Jake feeling that the Na'vi language is now like English is a decent justification for TranslationConvention, but it comes at the cost of making all the tribes sound no different from people on Earth. Thus, all Na'vi are partially stripped of their uniqueness. Also, there's the fact that they all speak the same language, which disregards the fact that there are dozens of Native American languages.*[[note]] They do use their own form of sign language to communicate underwater, but only underwater, while still speaking Na'vi on land.[[/note]]
** The bullies are pretty pathetic and it's really hard to take them seriously. At one point they act like your stereotypical high-school American teenagers, and then they go to Stephen King levels of bullying when they leave Lo'ak to die. It's a rather jarring tonal shift and [[DisproportionateRetribution an over the top form of revenge]].
** Jake feeling that the Na'vi language is now like English is a decent justification for TranslationConvention, but it comes at the cost of making all the tribes sound no different from people on Earth. Thus, all Na'vi are partially stripped of their uniqueness. Also, there's the fact that they all speak the same language, which disregards the fact that there are dozens of Native American languages.*[[note]] They do use their own form of sign language to communicate underwater, but only underwater, while still speaking Na'vi on land.[[/note]]
** The bullies are pretty pathetic and it's really hard to take them seriously. At one point they act like your stereotypical high-school American teenagers, and then they go to Stephen King levels of bullying when they leave Lo'ak to die. It's a rather jarring tonal shift and [[DisproportionateRetribution an over the top form of revenge]].
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** While Lo'ak removing the harpoon from Payakan's fin is a sweet moment, Payakan offering Lo'ak the chance to swim with him by [[OfferingAHand gesturing one of his fins like a hand]] looks a little silly coming from awhale.
** Jake feeling that the Na'vi language is now like English is a decent justification for TranslationConvention, but it comes at the cost of making all the tribes sound no different from people on Earth. Thus, all Na'vi are partially stripped of their uniqueness. Also, there's the fact that they all speak the same language, which disregards the fact that there are dozens of Native American languages.*[[note]] They do use their own form of sign language to communicate underwater, but only underwater, while still speaking Na'vi on land.[[/note]]
** The bullies are pretty pathetic and it's really hard to take them seriously. At one point they act like your stereotypical high-school American teenagers, and then they go to Stephen King levels of bullying when they leave Lo'ak to die. It's a rather jarring tonal shift and [[DisproportionateRetribution an over the top form of revenge]].whale.
** While Lo'ak removing the harpoon from Payakan's fin is a sweet moment, Payakan offering Lo'ak the chance to swim with him by [[OfferingAHand gesturing one of his fins like a hand]] looks a little silly coming from a
** Jake feeling that the Na'vi language is now like English is a decent justification for TranslationConvention, but it comes at the cost of making all the tribes sound no different from people on Earth. Thus, all Na'vi are partially stripped of their uniqueness. Also, there's the fact that they all speak the same language, which disregards the fact that there are dozens of Native American languages.*[[note]] They do use their own form of sign language to communicate underwater, but only underwater, while still speaking Na'vi on land.[[/note]]
** The bullies are pretty pathetic and it's really hard to take them seriously. At one point they act like your stereotypical high-school American teenagers, and then they go to Stephen King levels of bullying when they leave Lo'ak to die. It's a rather jarring tonal shift and [[DisproportionateRetribution an over the top form of revenge]].
