“ Avatar films,” says James Cameron at the beginning of Fire And Water: Making The Avatar Films , “are not made by computers.” This is as much a rebuke to the rise of artificial intelligence (Cameron insists that no generative AI is used in his films) as it is a powerful reminder of the vast people-power that goes into the making of the Avatar series. That seems to be the driving message behind this two-part documentary, a fascinating peek behind the curtain of the legendary filmmaker’s most recent obsession, and the blockbuster series that has earned the most superlatives: the biggest, the longest-filming, the most expensive, the most money earned, etc.

Unlike the films it documents, Fire And Water is not especially beautiful to look at, a very ordinary and old-fashioned

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