This is a brunch pre-oscers mini podcast to contain spoilers, but we can't imagine you care.

If you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers, there's no way you would logically seek out a podcast about the movie.

Let us begin.

Avatar.

Way of Water.

Is that movie James Cameron made?

It's the sequel to 20-09's Avatar and catches up with Jake Sully, his family,

that pesky RDA. It is the highest grossing film of 2022 and is up for four Academy Awards,

best picture, best production design, best visual effects, best sound. Avatar, the way of water, is a 76 on Rotten Tomatoes, and has a runtime of three hours

and 12 minutes making it, I think, got to be the longest of the best picture.

I would hope so.

Terrancino didn't make a movie this year, I don't think so.

Let me tell you, this movie ain't that bad. Yeah, I'm not giving it a best picture, Oscar. It's too long, but we knew it was going to be too long. They had leaked the runtime. We knew it was going to be too long. We didn't know if it was going to be a movie. They didn't leak the runtime. They just listed it. James Cameron put that on the table and was like, hey, isn't this cool? I get to do whatever I want. He told you because of the runtime, you couldn't take leaks. True. And the question just was, okay, it's definitely going to be too long. Is it going to have an okay story? And it did have

an okay story. This is an okay movie that I texted Avatar heads in my life after and I was

like, saw an Avatar movie and I will tell you that I liked it. So you saw the first one. I

came to the realization. So I'm famously an Avatar disrespecter. I did not see the first one.

Would not have seen this one had it not been nominated for best picture. We as professionals

commit to seeing all of the best pictures, which meant that I had to see Avatar. It did not mean

that I had to see Avatar number one. I went on YouTube and I watched a 12 minute video, got really

caught up on Avatar, gave me everything I needed to know, went into this one. Yeah, it was fine.

You still were more prepared than I was then, because when I went in, I didn't remember anything.

My experience watching Avatar 1 was an allergy-ridden disaster watching on an outdoor screen in the spring. And it was just a

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