I haven't thought about 3D films since maybe 2013, and I don't even know if The Way of Water makes me believe more in the power of 3D films, either. He equated it to being on a Disney ride, which I still haven't experienced. He's an incredibly seasoned display expert who's hard to impress.

I sat next to my colleague, David Katzmaier, at a screening on New York City's towering AMC Lincoln Square Imax screen. The Way of Water felt, somehow, more… immersive? I felt I was moving through it. It was astonishing then, but in my memory more as a vast canvas, a world I could peer into. I saw the original Avatar in Imax 3D way back in 2009. My mind began to tap into 3D experiences I often have - not In film, but in VR.

I think I found myself, in moments of Way of Water, losing myself in its reality. I guess there are those stories of early film, people who'd scream at the oncoming train, thinking it was real. A towering Imax screen in front of me, 3D glasses on. I think I was trying to look around the room I was in, a cavern the Na'vi were hiding in. There was a moment, sometime in the first hour of watching James Cameron's newest film, Avatar: The Way of Water, that I turned my head to the side.

Avatar: The Way of Water download the new for windows