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The Filmcast

Ep. 700 - Avatar: The Way of Water

The Filmcast

The Filmcast

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4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

It’s all led up to this moment, a cinematic event 700 episodes in the making…It’s an Avatar extravaganza! David, Jeff and Devindra discuss what it means to them to still be working on The Filmcast 700 episodes later and then dive into their review of James Cameron’s long awaited Avatar: The Way of Water. 

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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
Featured Review (~ 10:15)
Avatar: The Way of Water
SPOILERS (~1:06:25)

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.

0:23.2

I'm David Chen and I feel the need to point out that the plural is not Avatar the Way of

0:28.0

Waters but it's Avatar does Way of Water. Joining me today is Divin your Hardware. I can't

0:35.4

wait for Avatar 3, The Rage of Fire in Avatar 4, The Air Uponus. I see what you're doing, David.

0:43.5

And Jeff Kanata. I'm Jeff Kanata and I just want everyone to know

0:48.4

I accept your apology. Well those are of course all vague and oblique references to the fact that

0:54.4

today on the podcast we're going to be reviewing Avatar The Way of Water, the new film by James Cameron.

1:02.2

You can find more episodes of this podcast at thefilmcast.com, email us at slashfilmcast.geema.com

1:06.7

and find us on TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram at the FilmcastPod.

1:11.8

Today it is our 700th episode. Whoa, what a film.

1:18.0

We made it. 700 episodes, not counting bonuses and after dorks.

1:21.2

And I thought we should take a moment to reflect on this. We're going to do that at the beginning

1:27.1

of the show and then it's going to be an Avatar Extravaganza. An Avic Scanza. An Avic Scanza.

1:36.5

Where we're just going to dive into Avatar The Way of Water. We're going to talk in depth about

1:42.9

our thoughts on seeing the film, the format that we saw the film in, the plot, the stories, the themes.

1:48.2

Could there be a more perfect movie for the 700th episode of the filmcast?

1:54.4

It's all let up to this moment. It was meant to be.

1:58.4

I just want to think, you know, just right away, I want to thank James Cameron for delaying the movie

2:05.3

enough times that it worked out to do the 700th episode. I mean, it was a very generous thing for him to do.

2:11.4

The most waiting for this movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so let's start just by reflecting

2:16.1

briefly on 700 episodes. I mean, I want to start by saying, who'd have thought?

2:23.1

Who'd have thought that we'd ever make it to 700th?

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