420 – Avatar: The Way of Water
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week: don't bet against James Cameron. For our 420th episode and final installment of 2022, all four hosts dig into Avatar: The Way of Water (NOT THE WAY OF THE WATER) and critically examine James Cameron's latest film that showed us some things we hadn't seen before. ALL spoilers this week, because the movie is long and has some stuff in it we had to talk about.
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Holiday Song
2:39 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 420! Reviews!
9:20 – Avatar: The Way of Water
1:16:20 – Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you, Mariah Carey. |
| 0:03.3 | In honor of the end of the year holidays, what's a favorite song for this time of year? |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Katie Rich and there's a song called Carry Me Home by a Canadian band I know nothing |
| 0:12.3 | about otherwise called Hey Rosetta that's on a Christmas playlist that Joanna Robinson |
| 0:16.6 | made available to me nine years ago and then was it to every year. It's a nice |
| 0:21.5 | semi-sad Christmas song about how you just kind of want to go home for Christmas. |
| 0:25.2 | If that's the vibe you're going for, it's a good one. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm at Patches. If I have to pick a single song lately, I'm going to go with |
| 0:31.2 | Alone on Christmas Day by Phoenix from that Bill Murray, Sophia Coppola |
| 0:36.7 | Christmas special that was on Netflix, eons ago. |
| 0:39.5 | It's such a banger. |
| 0:41.0 | But I also have to give a shout out |
| 0:42.2 | to the greatest Spotify playlist currently in my rotation right now, which is called Sufi on Christmas without the weird stuff. |
| 0:50.0 | God bless it. |
| 0:55.0 | Some excellent editing. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey, it's David the seven and I've been enjoying Bing Crosby's |
| 1:00.0 | Mellekalekimaka because it's supposed to be negative five degrees here tomorrow. |
| 1:05.4 | Yakes. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, that's really cold, Dave. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, it's extremely cold. |
| 1:12.0 | Hold on, just googling the name of this song. |
| 1:15.6 | Because Casey Musgrave has an entire Christmas album. Oh, oh, don't I know it. |
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