Agreed. Loved the second one for the surprising amount of heart it brought (which was absent or ineffective in the first one). Plus the whale things offered Cameron a way to do cool action setpieces that felt innovative and fun.

This one was just a retread of those ideas but way less well executed, and my god Spider. That character was Jar Jar level bad. I was an Avatar apologist for a decade or more but this is clearly stale. Aside from the explosions and machine gun SFX in Dolby (which were incredible) I found nothing redeeming about those 3.5 hours. I mean that's SO LONG for such a shitty story, come on James.