Say it to my face.

In the news this week is Avatar. Remember that film from 2012? James Cameron’s Avatar? The movie that everyone saw. The F#cking 3D glasses?!?! Yeah, you remember now don’t ya. Two billion dollars at the box office — the second highest grossing film of all time behind Titanic, I believe, which is also a James Cameron record holder.

Production has officially wrapped on, I believe, all four sequels. That’s right, they’re making FOUR of these. There will be five Avatar films all up. James Cameron must be pretty chuffed about that. I know I would be, because historically, from what we’ve heard and seen, the Avatar production process is a daunting one that takes years. I remember he had to invent the technology that was able to project these films in 3D.

Never again.

He then inadvertently (or perhaps intentionally)opened up Pandora’s box (excuse pun) to an industry that has since died, I hope, a gruelling death, which was the 3D cinema bullshit that we all had to go through. Remember when movies made a cash grab off 3d to showcase their films in subpar stereoscopic projections. I’ll never forget.

Hitting the news this week was the scoop that all four films had wrapped production. They’ve also got unconfirmed titles, which was causing uproar across the internet. Those titles are, and I believe this is in ascending order from films release,

Avatar: The Way of Water,

Avatar: The Seed Bearer,

Avatar: The Tulkun Rider,

Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.

People were, as you can imagine, complaining that these titles were fucking terrible. To be fair — they are. However, is anybody really hanging out for the Avatar sequel in general?

I mean, people are saying yes, the titles are terrible, but nobody is saying, “Oh, die-hard Avatar fans are in tears tonight as the release of these terrible titles were showcased to the world.”

Nobody is losing any sleep over the fact that these films are being made in the first place, so therefore my point is why do we care what their titles are? If you’re James Cameron, somebody who spearheads his own projects pretty much 100% of the time, you are not somebody who walks into a process lightly.

Avatar 2? Anyone?…

Let’s look at his history in filmmaking. He invented the Terminator franchise, followed it up with the groundbreaking Terminator 2 — then dropped the franchise like a sack of potatoes, unwilling to complete the trilogy due to a lack of interest.

He felt like the story was told, notwithstanding the fact that it was a multimillion dollar property held in the palm of his hands that he had every opportunity to continue. This is not a man who takes ‘sequelizing’ his intellectual property lightly, and yet here he is completing four sequels on the back of his most audacious and ambitious project to date.

He’s taking his time to film it, too, because it’s been a long time between Avatars, as we all know.

So, I think it hasn’t been confirmed that these are the titles…

But I think these are the titles. Period.

I believe James Cameron is the sort of person to say, “I do whatever the fuck I want, and you guys can just suck it up. These are the movies I’m making, I have the box office track record to prove that this is what puts bums in seats, So who are you to question my creative decisions? Let’s make them, roll them out into cinemas, and see what happens.”

Should these sequels be released as is, titles and all. This theory will be proven.

My only concern is that they do not bring back that 3D fad that died the way of the previous Avatar, because that was very clearly a cash grab, and the cinematic experience wasn’t enhanced as a result of it. I don’t care what James Cameron says.

But whatever, he’s James Cameron and I’m not.