First of all, let me say that I didn't dislike the movie at all, but my overall rating has to be considered lower than what the ideas it exposes (or just "hints") may deserve.
There are so many ("potentially", someone could argue) good ideas in this movie that they could have turned them into a series of movies or whatever: instead, they decided to fulfill the rules imposed by theaters and tried to stuff all of them in a standard length movie.
By watching the movie it seems that the writers were more used to writing either TV-shows or comics (although this is not the case), which are two formats that give writers the time to put many ideas in a media, and to explore every idea as deep as one wants to.
Skydance even announced years ago that they were going to make a new TV show for tying the new movies together, but it's unclear if and when this is actually going to happen.
I personally hope they will, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the many subplots explored more deeply...
It's also possible that, pushed by the will to make three movies before 2019 (when the main copyrights are going to revert to James Cameron), they wanted to push all the ideas they had in this movie: they could have released a two parts movie with a little higher budget (of course, very few "occasional viewers" would have appreciated the idea), or released it as a longer movie for a little bit higher price (theaters don't like long movies: in the era of relatively cheap 40-50in FullHD TVs theaters should stop trying to impose their rules, if they want to survive).
There are so many ("potentially", someone could argue) good ideas in this movie that they could have turned them into a series of movies or whatever: instead, they decided to fulfill the rules imposed by theaters and tried to stuff all of them in a standard length movie.
By watching the movie it seems that the writers were more used to writing either TV-shows or comics (although this is not the case), which are two formats that give writers the time to put many ideas in a media, and to explore every idea as deep as one wants to.
Skydance even announced years ago that they were going to make a new TV show for tying the new movies together, but it's unclear if and when this is actually going to happen.
I personally hope they will, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the many subplots explored more deeply...
It's also possible that, pushed by the will to make three movies before 2019 (when the main copyrights are going to revert to James Cameron), they wanted to push all the ideas they had in this movie: they could have released a two parts movie with a little higher budget (of course, very few "occasional viewers" would have appreciated the idea), or released it as a longer movie for a little bit higher price (theaters don't like long movies: in the era of relatively cheap 40-50in FullHD TVs theaters should stop trying to impose their rules, if they want to survive).
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