The following post contains heavy spoilers for "Avatar: The Way of Water."
James Cameron's "Avatar" is one of the purest forms of cinematic spectacle, a movie with vast world-building, rich mythology, and stunning action. Sure, the story isn't super complex or original, and the characters aren't the best-written or most well-rounded. In fact, a lot of the writing in the first film feels purposely thin, as if Cameron's goal was to include the bare minimum of story and the most archetypical...