I have watched A1 maybe five to six times. There's the occasional leap of faith (like the literal leap of faith onto Toruk), but overall it's a reasonable story for a movie. (I try not to think about the white savior theme.)
A2 is a different beast. The conflicts in A2 can be described as:
- Quaritch captures kids.
- Quaritch: Sully, come alone and surrender, or I kill your kids.
- Sully doesn't come alone and doesn't surrender. Quaritch leaves kids alone. Quaritch's men die, kids rescued.
- Quaritch captures kids, again.
- Quaritch: Sully, come alone and surrender, or I kill your kids.
- Sully doesn't come alone and doesn't surrender. Quaritch leaves kids alone. Quaritch's men die, kids rescued, again. One dies from battle wound.
- Quaritch captures kids, again.
- Quaritch: Sully, same deal despite everything, come alone and surrender, or I kill your kids.
- Sully doesn't come alone and doesn't surrender. Quaritch leaves kids alone. Quaritch's men die, kids rescued, again.