They fucked-up really bad with the second writing and execution. The "meh" scenario could have gotten itself out of the way of a popcorn scenic experience if rewritten by anyone who isn't terminally woke.

But people are still going because the first one was scenic p0rn and it was a while ago, so let's go see the very pretty pictures again.

This isn't going to draw nearly as many people for a third. At that point, rewatch the first.

There is a way to salvage the collossal sums of money put to this visual art tech, and it's to totally rework a Pandora franchise in that stellar system, written by non-wokies.

Humans fleeing Earth as the Sun's expansion is turning the Blue Planet into a dustball. A few colonial stations orbiting somewhere in the stellar system where the Pandora moon is. Attempts at setting foot on surface is met with hostile lifeforms influenced/controled by conscious networks of biomass sprawling across a continent each. DNA similarities across samples taken from the 4 life-compatible moons and planets of the stellar system are too similar to have evolved independently.

There is a market for "based" adventures in a galaxy far-far away now that Starwars was dragged behind the Tatoine shed and shot by Disney.