![]() HDR10 Metadata: Max Light Level/MaxFALL: Not provided by the disc (appear as 0 nits for both on a Panasonic UB820 4K BD player). What you get: Region-free 4K Blu-ray a region A/B/C HD Blu-ray a region locked download code.Įxtra Features: Rather than hold the review up by covering the epic quantity of extra features here, I refer you to this earlier article where I list them in full. However, while I didn’t reach the end reeling from the experience as much after watching the 4K Blu-ray as I did upon leaving the cinema, The Way Of Water still ultimately packs a punch that goes beyond the fancy visuals and raises hopes high for what Cameron might do next time round when he doesn’t have so much world building/reminding to do. It remains the case on home video, though, that the second half of the film not only turns into a classic James Cameron action fest, but strangely manages to make much of the ’family’ stuff that felt a bit ‘blunt tool’ in the film’s first half pay off as you find yourself suddenly surprisingly invested in characters you hadn’t realised you’d actually come to care about.Īvatar: The Way Of Water's visual are tailor made for a 4K Blu-ray HDR experience. And so I felt more aware of some of the clunkier parts of the dialogue and lore. Which is why the transfer’s ability to create immersion is so important - and why despite the fact that the imagery still often looks objectively sensational on 4K BD, the lack of 3D, HFR and sheer image scale (even though the 1.80:1 ratio image fills most of my 75-inch screen) versus a huge cinema screen does mean I wasn’t sucked in to the film as effectively as I was at the cinema. Or perhaps more accurately, it’s an invitation to live on Pandora with the Na’vi. ![]() I guess my impression watching Avatar: The Way Of Water for a second time at home on 4K Blu-ray is that the first half of the film is really just world building.
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