To be fair the money is the goal. We usually don’t talk about that amazing candy bar we had weeks or months later, but doesn’t mean we won’t have another if we see it and are hungry.
That’s the world today. Way too much info being slammed down our throats from every direction. We’re quickly distracted.
Not every movie has to be a blockbuster franchise with merchandise potential. Sometimes a movie is just a fun movie. It made 2 billion dollars, tons of people saw it and liked it, treating that like some kind of failure is fucking absurd.
Doesn’t help that the proper way to watch it isn’t available once it leaves theaters.
Me and my friend got super high and just couldnt watch the film, the plot was so bad and the characters even worse that we cried of laughter and had to pause every 15 mins to laugh.
Alright. These criticisms were rampant before the release of Avatar 2. It’s kind of funny to see them after its release, when it blows up the box offices again.
What do they really want? My friends are film junkies, we talked a ton about Avatar 2. We don’t anymore, but we already have discussed everything. We also don’t talk about Top Gun, Barbie, Infinity War, Spider-man or the Mario movie anymore either…all of them were smashing successes.
Are they talking about the somewhat lacking toys and merch scene? The Avatar movies (and especially #2) are probably not appropriate for kids under like 10, or whatever. The Navi are cool, but not cute. They aren’t going to be minions.
Do they think Avatar should have a really ravenous fanbase like Marvel or Star Wars? People watch Avatar for different reasons than those movies IMO.
The idea that every highly successful blockbuster needs to stay on the tip of everyone’s tongues and be this culture-defining event for years is just stupid. Look at the top 25 box office movies of all time — less than half fall into that bucket. And many that do are just Marvel movies, which obviously piggyback off the wider cinematic universe. Individually I don’t think many movies are super culturally important from Marvel.
It was fucking terrible. Over 10 years for that clunker?
Why is this narrative always being pushed? I watched in like a week ago.
Boring universe, uninteresting characters. Good cg. There you go.
Oh boy here we go. The cultural impact police are coping again.
I haven’t forgotten.
I enjoyed it a lot, thought it was moving at times. Better than most recent blockbusters. The space whales RULED
Well there’s a game coming in 12/10/23(?) I believe. I’m sure there will be talks about the game in relation to the IP overall. Whether it’s successful or not remains to be seen, but Cameron has provided a world that’s good for sandbox.
It’s James Cameron’s world baby, we’re just livin’ in it
Just like the first one. Made no change as a whole to society.
Just because people go back to their normal lives in between installments doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. Oh no it doesn’t have a toxic obsessive fan base 🙄
My main concern here is if James Cameron’s ego will be okay? S/
That’s hilarious, almost like the first one? Not surprising.
Yet, it’s true. It really is a nearly black hole of online discussion and cultural impact. I thought Avatar 2 was an amazing technical achievement, but was an awful movie as far as a compelling story, characters, writing/dialogue, etc. But definitely a major step down from the original.
To this day. I still think the Nav’i design is still absolutely ridiculous and not sure if I can get over the whole “blue cat” aesthetic.
I know dozens of people who saw the first one. I saw it twice in theaters.
I don’t know a single person that saw the second one.
It was bad…. And the story was a story as old as time, hell the original one was also tired out, I never understood the appeal to this movie or franchise. The cgi is good.
These movies are painfully boring and stand more as a testament to what is possible with CGI than a trilogy worth watching
It is a sequel. It was a decent sequel, but what is there to discuss that wasn’t already covered by the first one? The money it made is a testament to the huge success and lasting impact of the first film, not the uniqueness of the second one.
I haven’t seen it so have zero opinion on its quality but I do find it fascinating that I haven’t even seen a single *meme* of it. Like, how does a film make that much money in this day and age and not have well-known memes?
I saw this opening week and don’t recall a single name of a any character
A movie like Avatar does way better in the international box office compared to most other blockbusters. That’s why it feels “forgotten”, because it didn’t dominate domestically as much as other recent blockbusters.
Cause despite it looking and sounded breath taking the story and plot were dull and lackluster. It was basically three hours of “for family” “oh no my family” the bad guy came “for family” we must honor and protect “for family.” Three hours same line
I just remember hearing the word “bro” like 70 times in this movie
The movie was terrible. I don’t care how much money it made.
They dont learn, when A3 hits people will remember.
With China back to its full potential (it only operated at around 20% during A2 release), it most likely A3 will make even more than A2 did on a global level.
It was fun. Why do I need to remember it?
I have seen neither movies and it seems they are one off events rather than classics that people revisit
So was the first one? Everyone thought it looked cool. But space Pocahontas is not a memorable story. With such riveting plot armour as “unobtanium”
So are we just going to do this until * *checks notes* * 2031 lol?
“Everyone forgot about avatar, nobody’s gonna care about the sequel. Oh the sequel was a huge hit! Oh everyone forgot about the sequel. Nobody will care about the third movie. Oh everyone loved it! Everyone forgot about it again….”
I remember it sucking
Idiotic title that is so stupid as to make me want to avoid the whole article.
It was an awesome movie… Super entertaining… Not every movie has to be like Oppenheimer who gives existential crisis and stay etched in the brain forever
Had and have no desire to see this overrated snooze….
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To be fair the money is the goal. We usually don’t talk about that amazing candy bar we had weeks or months later, but doesn’t mean we won’t have another if we see it and are hungry.
That’s the world today. Way too much info being slammed down our throats from every direction. We’re quickly distracted.
Not every movie has to be a blockbuster franchise with merchandise potential. Sometimes a movie is just a fun movie. It made 2 billion dollars, tons of people saw it and liked it, treating that like some kind of failure is fucking absurd.
**EDIT:** though I did enjoy this bit in the Harley Quinn show – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9BQupG1cRU&t=231s
Doesn’t help that the proper way to watch it isn’t available once it leaves theaters.
Me and my friend got super high and just couldnt watch the film, the plot was so bad and the characters even worse that we cried of laughter and had to pause every 15 mins to laugh.
Alright. These criticisms were rampant before the release of Avatar 2. It’s kind of funny to see them after its release, when it blows up the box offices again.
What do they really want? My friends are film junkies, we talked a ton about Avatar 2. We don’t anymore, but we already have discussed everything. We also don’t talk about Top Gun, Barbie, Infinity War, Spider-man or the Mario movie anymore either…all of them were smashing successes.
Are they talking about the somewhat lacking toys and merch scene? The Avatar movies (and especially #2) are probably not appropriate for kids under like 10, or whatever. The Navi are cool, but not cute. They aren’t going to be minions.
Do they think Avatar should have a really ravenous fanbase like Marvel or Star Wars? People watch Avatar for different reasons than those movies IMO.
The idea that every highly successful blockbuster needs to stay on the tip of everyone’s tongues and be this culture-defining event for years is just stupid. Look at the top 25 box office movies of all time — less than half fall into that bucket. And many that do are just Marvel movies, which obviously piggyback off the wider cinematic universe. Individually I don’t think many movies are super culturally important from Marvel.
It was fucking terrible. Over 10 years for that clunker?
Why is this narrative always being pushed? I watched in like a week ago.
Boring universe, uninteresting characters. Good cg. There you go.
Oh boy here we go. The cultural impact police are coping again.
I haven’t forgotten.
I enjoyed it a lot, thought it was moving at times. Better than most recent blockbusters. The space whales RULED
Well there’s a game coming in 12/10/23(?) I believe. I’m sure there will be talks about the game in relation to the IP overall. Whether it’s successful or not remains to be seen, but Cameron has provided a world that’s good for sandbox.
It’s James Cameron’s world baby, we’re just livin’ in it
Just like the first one. Made no change as a whole to society.
Just because people go back to their normal lives in between installments doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. Oh no it doesn’t have a toxic obsessive fan base 🙄
My main concern here is if James Cameron’s ego will be okay? S/
That’s hilarious, almost like the first one? Not surprising.
Yet, it’s true. It really is a nearly black hole of online discussion and cultural impact. I thought Avatar 2 was an amazing technical achievement, but was an awful movie as far as a compelling story, characters, writing/dialogue, etc. But definitely a major step down from the original.
To this day. I still think the Nav’i design is still absolutely ridiculous and not sure if I can get over the whole “blue cat” aesthetic.
I know dozens of people who saw the first one. I saw it twice in theaters.
I don’t know a single person that saw the second one.
It was bad…. And the story was a story as old as time, hell the original one was also tired out, I never understood the appeal to this movie or franchise. The cgi is good.
These movies are painfully boring and stand more as a testament to what is possible with CGI than a trilogy worth watching
It is a sequel. It was a decent sequel, but what is there to discuss that wasn’t already covered by the first one? The money it made is a testament to the huge success and lasting impact of the first film, not the uniqueness of the second one.
I haven’t seen it so have zero opinion on its quality but I do find it fascinating that I haven’t even seen a single *meme* of it. Like, how does a film make that much money in this day and age and not have well-known memes?
I saw this opening week and don’t recall a single name of a any character
A movie like Avatar does way better in the international box office compared to most other blockbusters. That’s why it feels “forgotten”, because it didn’t dominate domestically as much as other recent blockbusters.
Cause despite it looking and sounded breath taking the story and plot were dull and lackluster. It was basically three hours of “for family” “oh no my family” the bad guy came “for family” we must honor and protect “for family.” Three hours same line
I just remember hearing the word “bro” like 70 times in this movie
The movie was terrible. I don’t care how much money it made.
They dont learn, when A3 hits people will remember.
With China back to its full potential (it only operated at around 20% during A2 release), it most likely A3 will make even more than A2 did on a global level.
It was fun. Why do I need to remember it?
I have seen neither movies and it seems they are one off events rather than classics that people revisit
So was the first one? Everyone thought it looked cool. But space Pocahontas is not a memorable story. With such riveting plot armour as “unobtanium”
So are we just going to do this until * *checks notes* * 2031 lol?
“Everyone forgot about avatar, nobody’s gonna care about the sequel. Oh the sequel was a huge hit! Oh everyone forgot about the sequel. Nobody will care about the third movie. Oh everyone loved it! Everyone forgot about it again….”
I remember it sucking
Idiotic title that is so stupid as to make me want to avoid the whole article.
It was an awesome movie… Super entertaining… Not every movie has to be like Oppenheimer who gives existential crisis and stay etched in the brain forever
Had and have no desire to see this overrated snooze….