James Cameron doesn't like to rewatch his movies too soon after release, but he had to break his own rule with Avatar: The Way of Water: "It's a pretty good ride, I have to say!"

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Three years after its original release, Avatar: The Way of Water is returning to US cinemas today, and director James Cameron thinks it's a "pretty good ride" after rewatching it himself.

"I usually have a moratorium of a couple of years where I just don't want to think about it," he told Variety ahead of the re-release of the Avatar sequel, admitting he doesn't like to rewatch his own movies too soon. "There's a certain point when you've been away from where you could start to be more of an audience and less of a picky filmmaker."

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"We're going through the finish of the VFX now [on Fire and Ash] – we have been, really, for the last two years, but we're really coming down to the wire now," he explained. "And I want to be thematically consistent about the way music was used and underscore during dialogue scenes and things like that. So I have rewatched it. It's a pretty good ride, I have to say!"

The cast includes returning actors Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet, with Game of Thrones star Oona Chaplin debuting as Varang.

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Mireia is a UK-based culture journalist and critic. She previously worked as Deputy Movies Editor at Digital Spy, and her work as a freelance writer has appeared in WeLoveCinema and Spanish magazines Fotogramas, Esquire, and Elle. She is also a published author, having written a book about Studio Ghibli's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' in 2023. Talking about anime and musicals is the best way to grab her attention.