Why is Avatar so culturally insignificant despite being the highest grossing movie ever made?
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Why is Avatar so culturally insignificant despite being the highest grossing movie ever made?
Why is Avengers Endgame?
The avengers is America's illiad. Endgame is its Odyssey
it's "culturally insignificant" because they never made 4 sequels a year plus 20 straight to streaming shit.
just one great movie and a sequel 13 years later.
that's how you KNOW avatar 2 is going to be great
nah. I mean Titanic was a single movie and that is more culturally significant.
Avatar isn't significant because it is a cookie cutter story, well done, with very competent but unoriginal visuals.
Titanic wasn't just a movie
Titanic was also a cookie cutter story if you remove the fact it's on a boat it's just romance novel schlock. What, at all, is original about the story?
Yes the romance plot was basic but women don't care they love it anyway. Boys like it because of the ship stuff and the tragedy of it.
>Yes the romance plot was basic but women don't care they love it anyway
>Boys like it because of the tragedy
lol
i take it you're not familiar with generic romantic stories.
>Boys like it because of the ship stuff
i said apart from the ship stuff.
>i take it you're not familiar with generic romantic stories.
What are you even saying? Titanic doesn't do anything unique. Women just like romance especially when they can self-insert as the ones fricking young Leo.
that tragedy is a core trope of romance stories
it's a basic thing to have tragedy in a romance.
you said women like it for the romance and boys like it for the tragedy which is moronic.
I meant the tragedy of the actual disaster. Boys don't care about the romance except to maybe fap to Rose
>Boys don't care about the romance
men literally care more about romance than women
>except to maybe fap
this basically describes womanbrain
how many women like revolution road?
>men literally care more about romance than women
name 1 man who actually prefers sex to cuddling
I prefer cuddling over sex even without the romance aspect. Simply being close with other people is a basic human desire and make you release sweet sweet oxytocin
>Men care more about romance than women
Only insofar as it leads to sex. Nobody gives a shit about crappy rom-com romances, Anon. They were always cringe.
Titanic was also a real world event that not a whole lot of people alive today know the details about because they weren’t there on the ship.
There are other films about Titanic that are not as memorable as James Cameron's version.
When that film came out everyone was going to front of ships and sticking there arms out just because of the film.
>it's "culturally insignificant" because they never made 4 sequels a year plus 20 straight to streaming shit.
I can do this all day.
Avatar went nowhere because it was a SFX film with a simple story that said "humans bad, giant blue Black person aliens good" and since nobody dreams of being a giant blue Black person alien it quickly faded away as being just another cool, forgettable movie.
>simple story
there is absolutely nothing wrong with simple or generic stories.
really original films from the past don't even play as original anymore because they've been so widely copied as to be retroactively derivative of their own imitators.
>it's forgotten because i said so!
>culturally insignificant
Zoomies cant remember what they never saw
I remember at safeway Avatat was everywhere, big cardboard cut out at the entrance, on every cereal, radio, commercials, huge lines at movies, blueray and 3d TVs instantly became a thing, constantly talked about and memed into parody.
How old do you think zoomers are? avatar is only 13 years old
Your age plus 5 years
*minus
>culturally insignificant
>One of the longest running aspects of board culture
You WILL watch Avatar: The Way of Water and you WILL read the prime factorization of 122.
>Avatar is culturally significant because a few autists on a Taiwanese knitting board talk about it
awful lead actor that doesnt even react to the corpse of his brother
Movies generally stopped being culturally significant at the time Avatar came out
Avatar is basically a fish out of water movie and a remake of Dances with Wolves but with Le Blue Aliens
the fish out of water thing is perennially a popular form of storytelling
It had the most basic carbon-copied story and characters, so having a pretty landscape isn't enough to get people to remember you.
>Why is Avatar so culturally insignificant despite being the highest grossing movie ever made?
It spent all its cultural capital pushing a meme technology.
It's like if Titanic had smellovision for Kate Winslet's pitts and that got smellovision put in every theatre accross the world and then nothing else ever made sense for it the whole thing would be memory holed because it's the wrong version of the timeline.
>no parodies/spoofs of it
>none of the characters are remembered or liked
>no aspects of the story are remembered or liked
>such a shit movie, people only talk about its box office numbers
>no memorable quotes
I swear MAD did a thing about it when they had that chow on Cartoon Network.
Me and the group of friends I saw this in theatre with still say "I see you" to one another
>no parodies/spoofs of it
Are you fricking kidding lmao
Avatar was ENDLESSLY parodied around the time of its release
>>no parodies/spoofs of it
The starving games has one
Titanic had heart throb Leo and Kate Winslet in a romance that held people’s attention. Avatar was about weird looking blue aliens, that made you feel like you’re watching a video game. Jake Sully might be the most boring protagonist ever
also so culturally reddit
only so close to titanic
Avatar didn’t even get a theme park ride or section of an amusement park dedicated to it. Even Transformers managed to have one
It's a garbage movie.
People were told 3D was revolutionary but instead of something like the 90's attractions with the dinosaurs popping out of the screen it just adds depth and makes the ticket more expensive.
>People were told 3D was revolutionary but instead of something like the 90's attractions with the dinosaurs popping out of the screen it just adds depth and makes the ticket more expensive.
You're joking, right? You're not seriously upset because Avatar didn't do gimmicky "woooaahh theres a sword pointed right at you!! it popped out of the screen!!" crap?
3D is a gimmick. At least the things popping out of the screen would justify the ticket price.
moron
parce que les normies/zoomer ont la mémoire courte
I must be the only person in the world who has never seen this.
ive never seen it either it, looks trash and the i already know the story now anyway
I really feel like the hype behind that movie was completely artificial and that the abnormal box office was the result of a small group of people seeing it repeatedly or something. In my experience it is hard to find people who have even seen this movie
People went to see it because it had mind blowing CGIs. I also don't think it's culturally insignificant, in fact it's perfectly in sync with "humans are bad and destroying the planet" zeitgeidt that emerged in the 00s.
I saw it once because the theater offered their 3D glasses version for, like, $4.
I don't remember anything about it. Just that it went too long and apparently the aliens were blue cat-Cherokee indians.
That's the nature of blockbusters, OP.
nobody remembers what happened last month due to the daily TORRENT of information flooding wiping our memories of the past
It was only liked because the 3d was neat
>still talking about avatar
>insignificant
Pick one
cool looking blue monkeys
How do I cope with the fact that real life doesn't look this good?
NCO
people don't care about the planet and just continue to litter and live easy
It was gimmicky and it feels insincere.
because it didn't have huge multimedia push. I'm pretty thankful that Cameron decided he didn't want there to be tv spinoffs, cartoons, prequels, books. I think there was one shit game and that was it.
>Why is Avatar so culturally insignificant
I see you watched a jacksfilms video where he paid three (3) people to pretend to be so braindead they couldn't name any characters
Now go outside
The fact that the highest-grossing film of all time is repeatedly overshadowed by the nickelodeon children's cartoon of the same name is hilarious.
Avatar was basically a special effects showcase at a time when people were excited to see how movie CGI can devleop. As such it was a bright spark but a very short lasting one. Nothing more, nothing less
Because they decided to just make a good film, not something to be milked for decades with merchandise
>try to have a conversation with someone about avatar
>they assume you're talking about the last airbender
>POV: your friend group is made up entirely of 20-something pop-culture obsessed manchildren
bump
>try to have a conversation with someone about avatars
>they assume you're talking about a kid's cartoon or a shit movie
It was big purely because it of novelty. 3D exploded for a while before dying again. CGI continued to advance.
I remember they had us watch it in school when I was in like 5th or 6th grade. Even as a kid who was entertained by anything I was bored to tears by the end.
It was successful because people were waiting for a new Cameron movie. Those from my generation maybe sort of remember when Titanic was brand new but we watched Terminator, Aliens, T2, The Abyss as part of our cinematic education and wanted more from this guy. For a lot of people it was their first Cameron in theatres even if it was quite underwhelming and watching it now it's at time embarassing. Actors look goofy in their cat-people form, the script is lame and it uses the most cliche lines completely unironically like "get some" or "you're not in Kansas anymore".
Because it's empty corporate Hollywood liberal bullshit thought up by a man so talentless his entire reputation is built on being the 80's version of Michael Bay. The entire fricking plot of the franchise is stolen from a Steven Seagal movie for fricks sake.
The movie did a good job at making you feel small, since everything on the planet is just an oversized version of things on Earth.
it has an entire fricking section of a Disney park with some sick rides tho
it literally just is the first movie that used the 3D glasses meme, thats why everyone paid to watch it
name 1 character from avatar
I only remember Jake Sully because the aliens pronounced his name Jake Solly even though they never had trouble with their U's before.
eiua and toruk makto
I only know neitiri from the ritualposter
jake, neteery, grace, trudy, tsu-tei, and norm are the ones everyone will remember. i simply do not believe anyone who claims to remember fewer
Why is Avengers Endgame so culturally significant despite being 2000-era-tv-tier trash?
No trannies in there.
Movies are only culturally relevant to people who have no culture.
Because it's a movie about 3D graphics first and whatever the frick the plot was second. It literally has no substance at all.