Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[IronJimbo]

these websites are kind of buggy, i refresh and the review count goes down not up

[WittyUsername]

2 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

RT is going to be worse than first one it seems. First one started with a bang and dropped to mid 80s over the years. 

This is faltering out of the gate. Oh well. I will watch it but hype has taken a hit.

The first one settled on the low 80s back when it was still in theaters. 

[wildphantom]

Scores are where the reactions were. Some ecstatic. Some less so. A few naysayers. The definition of 70-75% region for RT, and 65-70 on MC. 

 

 

[IronJimbo]

Love how it's my home country with the worst taste of all

The Telegraph / The Guardian, yikes it would be the UK newspapers

Edited December 13, 2022 by IronJimbo

[Grebacio]

5 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

RT is going to be worse than first one it seems. First one started with a bang and dropped to mid 80s over the years. 

This is faltering out of the gate. Oh well. I will watch it but hype has taken a hit.

First Avatar was in the 80's back on December 2009

[SchumacherFTW]

Just now, IronJimbo said:

Love how it's my home country with the worst taste of all

The Telegraph / The Guardian, yikes

You say that when The Daily Star and Daily Sport exist in general 

[IronJimbo]

1 minute ago, wildphantom said:

Scores are where the reactions were. Some ecstatic. Some less so. A few naysayers. The definition of 70-75% region for RT, and 65-70 on MC.

low 80s RT, low 70s MT

[Nikostar]

I new when the reactions first came out that critics would not be over the moon for this.

[Derpity]

7 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

RT is going to be worse than first one it seems. First one started with a bang and dropped to mid 80s over the years. 

This is faltering out of the gate. Oh well. I will watch it but hype has taken a hit.

This is not true. It started in the low 80s, and got pretty much the same exact reviews as this one.

 

edit: lol, i see this has already been pointed out

Edited December 13, 2022 by Derpity

[IronJimbo]

Just now, SchumacherFTW said:

You say that when The Daily Star and Daily Sport exist in general 

I've read many articles in the last 3 months from the guardian and they're full scale haters of the first Avatar and Avatar 2's prospects before it was even close.  In terms of the UK media, I dislike them in general and yeah those two suck aswell.

[wildphantom]

2 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

Love how it's my home country with the worst taste of all

The Telegraph / The Guardian, yikes it would be the UK newspapers

Collin usually loves the big event movies too. Did he like the first one? 

[Lucas]

[Danhjpn]

1 minute ago, Nikostar said:

I new when the reactions first came out that critics would not be over the moon for this.

We need audience, we don't need critics.

[stuart360]

I have to say i'm a little surprised so far, especially after just how many of the early reviews mentioned how much better it is than the first film.

Still feel it could end higher than 82 though.

[wildphantom]

Just now, IronJimbo said:

I've read many articles in the last 3 months from the guardian and they're full scale haters of the first Avatar and Avatar 2's prospects before it was even close.  In terms of the UK media, I dislike them in general and yeah those two suck aswell.

yeah, Bradshaw is a good writer, but his tastes vary wildly.  They usually have a second review in the paper from a different critic so expect that to be positive. 

[AJG]

63% incoming. It seeps into rotten upon release to the public. Another WW84 situation. 

 

You heard it here first.

[ZeeSoh]

7 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

these websites are kind of buggy, i refresh and the review count goes down not up

Gonna be like that for the first couple of hours at least. For instance I am seeing 0% on RT with no reviews in. 

[wildphantom]

3 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

low 80s RT, low 70s MT

we’ll see Jim. We’ll see. Anything over 80 on RT is great imo

[Nero]

Seems like we can't trust the initial twitter reactions for any movie lol until review embargo is lifted.

[danziger]

7 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

RT is going to be worse than first one it seems. First one started with a bang and dropped to mid 80s over the years. 

This is faltering out of the gate. Oh well. I will watch it but hype has taken a hit.

 

Checking the closest available date after 100+ reviews came in, the first Avatar was at 83 on Dec. 29 2009:  https://web.archive.org/web/20091229172645/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/.