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Happy 2023 everyone! This month I'm making 2 videos; the first one, which should be out early next week, is about Avatar: The Way of Water, which I think has been somewhat underappreciated by critics when it comes to its storytelling techniques and its thematic substance, and so I want to try and add some depth to the disucssion.

Then, towards the end of the month, I'll be doing a video on the new All Quiet on the Western Front. I had partially written the script for this one a few weeks ago, but decided to shelve it as I wasn't sure how popular the movie was. But it looks like it had a bigger audience than I initially assumed, and so I want to finish up my take on it, which I think can be best seen as a specific case study for my existing video on anti-war cinema, for which I think this movie is an excellent choice; both to demonstrate what I see as effective anti-war sentiments, as well as a few pitfalls that don't quite work for me.

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James Botevyle

Can't wait. Loved both films. The 2nd act of Way of Water was almost Malick-esque in it's insistence to chill out and spend time exploring nature and this new culture. One aspect AQOTWF achieved for an anti-war movie which I think others fail at is the fact that the corpses felt human instead of a bloodied heap of flesh. It really reminds you that it was once a human being with his own life outside of war whereas some movies go to far in the gore department leaving a detachment from the human being that once was.

Jim Roberts

Looking forward to the Avatar one. It's easy bash the story but to engage such a diverse audience is impressive.