Does it have a cultural impact? The franchise seems to have very few hardcore fans and hardly any casual fans. I was at a comic con this weekend and i have seen a guy dressed as a navi. That was the only cosplay i have ever seen. There is also a guy that has his car airbrushed with avatar stuff ever since the first movie came out. Other than that i don’t think i have ever even seen an avatar tshirt
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
When I saw it in the theater back when it came out, it was with my extended family and I knew nothing about it. I assumed it was an Avatar: The Last Airbender movie (which I also knew almost nothing about other than the name). It was a ways into the movie before I realized that I was watching the movie and not some sort of extended preview of another one.
The movie was fine. Great visuals, mediocre plot. It doesn’t deserve to have had much of a cultural impact.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 day ago
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Never seemed to be marketed that way.
I like the films - then again, I’m a sucker for big cinema and IMAX 3D, so from an eye-candy perspective, it’s glorious. Is the story anything earth-shaking? Of course not. It’s escapist fluff… but oh… how it looks.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I feel like saying “James Cameron made a film about nothing” is unfair. I don’t think it’s about nothing. It’s about colonialization. It’s about inter-species racism, but in like a corporate kind of way.
And yet, it really feels like a film about nothing. I wonder why that is.
Is it just that it has nothing interesting to say about how colonialization works? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the film, but I do sort of remember it coming to really obvious conclusions.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think it fell into a ton of tropes is all. Eh, it was a product of it’s time - as all films are - and I found it similar to Dances With Wolves. Banged up protaginist, left broken by his service goes to the frontier and finds a new life…
There it is…
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
iirc that was all it was ever really touted as.
Supreme eye candy, nothing more, nothing less.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Didnt Disney build an entire theme park section based on the franchise?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
They built an area in the Animal Kingdom part of Disney World that is more or less just a bit of fake jungle and rocks that looked like it could be on the planet the movie takes place on. Like the A Bug’s Life section that they had years ago. I don’t even know if it had a ride.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’ve watched both of the sequels now (on the high seas), and they were actually pretty entertaining.
jackintosh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Pocahontas, in space!
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
last two was just Moby Dick, with Quaritch becoming Ahab.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Also Warcraft iii