I asked my 11 year-old daughter if she wanted to go see it with me.

I got a withering “no” in response.

“Oh, ok. I just thought it would be cool to see it in 3D in the theater.”

“What now?” she asked. “It’s in 3D? Yeah, I want to see that!”

When Avatar first came out, there was talk of it legitimizing 3D tech in movie making and birthing a new era of 3D movies. The fact that it failed to do that probably helps Avatar 2 sell tickets today. A lot of us saw the first one because 3D is a rare thing in modern movies. That’s still true today, which is probably helping the sequel, too.