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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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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.

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- 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.
  
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  - 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…
    
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- Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  iirc that was all it was ever really touted as.
  
  Supreme eye candy, nothing more, nothing less.
  
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HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Didnt Disney build an entire theme park section based on the franchise?

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- 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.
  
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  - HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah I only know of it because of this video
    
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