It's cultural impact is the idea that it so remarkably didn't have one
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It was just Pocahontas with aliens.
i once got 3rd place in an avatar trivia competition on a modded minecraft server
i still have not received my prize
I really feel like the vast majority of people misunderstand these movies. They are visual feasts, made specifically to be pretty and push tech used for movies further along. I have never seen anything from Cameron or anyone else involved say otherwise. They aren't trying to be story telling masterpieces, they are popcorn flicks that you go to the biggest and best cinema to see and just be wowed by the spectacle. And I really enjoy them for that, seen all three in cinemas, biggest and best screens with 3d in my city. Had a blast every time, it's all about knowing what you're watching and why.
exactly. expectation determines your enjoyment. movies often get slammed for doing exactly what they were trying to do.
Jason Statham movies won't move you emotionally, horror movies won't make sense, just watch it for what it is
The Blue Rabbits Fucking sketch from Robot Chicken is bloody hilarious.
I remember avatar being really pretty, and then realizing as the credits rolled that if what they said about unobtainium is true, that it's a room temperature semiconductor and that these are the only proven deposits of it, and that the Earth is a dying planet that needs unobtanium to stay habitable for billions and billions of people, RDA would probably just throw a big rock at Pandora and comb through the rubble. Us or them.
Nahh! Another cultural impact is, that if you are one with natur it is acceptable to put your tentacle thingies into your girl, pull out, and into an animal it goes. You can even force it into a bird and people will like you for it. I newer saw them wash it after pulling out of an animal, probably it went straight back into the girl off screen.
I know someone who went to see the second one, and there was a power cut part way through. He said he was relieved he didn't have to see the rest.
I didn't bother seeing that one.
I am the person you know lol
Honesty I thought the second was the best one. It's full of plot holes sure, but the watery setting makes a series that primarily is tech-demo eye candy, even prettier.
I was thinking about this the other day - I saw the movie and I know what a Navi is, but I can't recall a single memorable quote or name a character. There is no memorable SNL sketch except the one masking fun of the Papyrus font. There is no fandom, there is nothing
The fauna was beautiful and well-thought out EXCEPT for the Navi because four-armed, collar breathing bipeds would probably won't feel human enough for the target audience
I do remember a few notable scenes, one being him jumping onto the massive bird.
Ferngully did it better.
Haven't watched Avatar, but I think it at least shows the "real bad guys" instead of a monster that isn't even a proper reference to the CEO of the corp
Also, oh my god there is a Ferngully 2!? WHY???
Ferngully 2!? WHY???
Just wait for the live action remake! They're coming for your generation's childhood next...
Signed,
An old fart
(NGL, Masters of the Universe looks like it could be pretty dope)
I was entertained, it was pretty, it pushed for better facial animations. Other than that it's no real major impact.
it pushed for better facial animations
It genuinely pushed for a lot of technical achievements. Knowledge/skills that will be able to improve future films. Sure, the Avatar films may not be good films on their own. But they are being used to develop technologies which will make for better films from other people who actually want to make good films.
eh. I think cameron's masturbating.
he's just pushing stuff around and making nifty bits and bobs, but there's none of the genius that was present in terminator, aliens, the abyss, etc., it does advance the tech but in no way meaningfully and the vast majority of the big advancements are too expensive for smaller creators to leverage.
but there’s none of the genius that was present in terminator, aliens, the abyss
T2 was just the start, beginning with the morph CGI.
The big studios want to do away with animatronics, stop-motion animation, miniatures, physical VFX and prosthetics, believing them to cost so much to shareholders, and spend on and scale up CGI but at the expense of enthusiasts wanting suspension of disbelief over realism.
I thought T2 was pretty great but yeah, it's all building off abyss's water tentacle creature. literally a series of morph targets
the Cinema version if "this meeting should have been an email"
"This movie should have been a 5 minute tech demo"
I remember south park making fun of Avatar for being so painfully generic.
I'm just focusing on the fleshlight in the back...
The pacing of releases was whack.
Too long between 1 and 2, not long enough between 2 and 3.
I also heard that 2 and 3 were basically the same movie, and that they weren't even that good.
My understanding is that it was an unexpected success and it was used as a technology demonstration for Alita. However Alita was much less successful.
3 was a waste of money and I'm saying this as someone who liked 2
I mean, 1 didn’t make me crave sequels, even if they were soon available.
It was a fun action movie, sure. A visual spectacle. But not a world I felt invested in.
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I didn't even know there was a 3rd one, I thought everyone was talking about the second one this whole time.
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