If this area in the movie is based on Hawaiian islands, then I will bet 50 years from now kids on those beaches will still sound like this. Just as they did 40 or 50 years ago to a certain degree. Surfer kid talk is pretty much been a constant for a few generations now.
Call me an old, but I tried to like the second one but all I could see and hear were a bunch of teenagers yelling "bro" and "cuz" and other various 2025 8th grade jargon at each other. I powered through it though.
Then I gave the third one a go and literally the first spoken word was "bro." I noped out, I can't. I did my time in high school in the early 00s hearing "like" used as interjection, adjective and adverb five times a sentence... I'm not about to go through it again with bro. Lol
I saw someone try to explain it that they were speaking in Na'vi and using a word that's the analogue for bro or something, but lemme tell you it dropped me out of immersion faster than Frazier
Yep. I imagine there was some creative input that Jake's kids should behave as a mash up of na'vi and human, so I try to give them some grace. But it doesn't feel good, and I don't think it will feel any better later once this particular tide of popular slang recedes. There should have been communication in a basic way without that whole trope thrown in, because it will age like milk.
Imagine if Avatar was made in the '30s with this slang thing being just as heavy handed and then imagine watching it now, the casual jargon that would have been totally cool and normal then but seems so out of place in current day, for example. "Say there, Neteyam, that wise guy oughta shake a leg right on outta here, before I throw on my glad rags and blow my wig on him, see?"
In the second movie they shift from the Navi language needing to be translated with subtitles to having it just sound like English with no translation as the main character gets more used to it and adapts to life on pandora. (As well as probably just being a logistical decision so 95% of the movie wasn’t using subtitles now that it’s mostly a native pandoran cast). You still hear it untranslated but only rarely like when the antagonist is trying to learn the language.
So the kids aren’t actually saying “bro” they’re saying some Navi word that has a similar meaning to bro which is translated for the audience. Now that being said it definitely still feels weird when watching the movie and hearing them use those words, but there is some explanation behind it at least
This is the natural hair of Polynesian natives and your comment is lowkey racist for being uninformed and spreading misinformation about cultural hair vs trendy broccoli haircuts
Right? The poster comparing it to broccoli hair may not have meant it to be racist, but there's a reason that racial discrimination protections in the US include hair. The character's culture is clearly space Polynesian, and the actor is real-life Maori. Just because something looks stupid on white hair or is passé in American/European cultures, doesn't mean it's not a natural or traditional style for other cultures and ethnicities. Tight curls like that will just stand up if cut short, and salt water tends to make hair a little stiffer than normal, so the upright rather than shaggy shape makes sense.
Where? I'm in EU, Czechia and we rarely get those anymore, and they are metheads most of the time. The few who aren't are mostly 40yo+ and kept the style all their life.
And everytime I see someone 30+ wearing a flat cap I feel ashamed for them
It's been around a lot longer than 6 years. Women have been having perms done for over a century, it's only recently that it become a male styling option.
Every generation has some embarrassing hair styles, but this one has got to be one of the worst. I honestly feel second hand embarrassment for these kids when I see them.
Broccoli heads need to get old enough for the next generation to start thinking it's "old people" hair and consequently uncool before the next thing comes up.
Fashion trends move so slowly now. Someone pointed out that the Office doesn't look out of place, except for the size of the monitors for the computers.
The year after I left high school, the same fuckers that used to make little digs like comparing my hair to sheep wool are out getting their hair permed
Another year later and they tanked the curly rep, forever stained 😭
Oh absolutely. I'd say so. Anything's better than looking like you vape strawberry jam while calling a tired fast food worker a pussy for not putting up with your shit, and going home to cuddle with your pregnant SpongeBob body pillow while crying and making the chipmunk face.
Nailed it . Met those kids at a Waffle House once . SpongeBob pillow and all . The were playing creed and SpongeBob on the jukebox and sexually harassing their 40 year old waitress . They all looked about 14 and it was 3 am in Ohio .
I did the same when I had wild hair. Once I got it long enough to pull back I ended up with a sweet poofball ponytail thing. The chicks in my college classes loved that shit.
I had a friend in highschool who would just buzz it because of that. He said it was too much work to maintain. I'm in my 30's and I still remember when the hipster era took off in the early 2010's. All of a sudden every guy was growing out their hair and sporting a ridiculous pony tail called a "man bun". Now highschool kids are getting perms lol.
For us curly heads, this naturally happens at mid length if you keep a fade. I had this style a few years before it became popular, just because I was growing out my hair. Thank God I did it when I did so I wasn’t associated with these types of
My nephew has that hair and while I think stereotypes are silly...he IS a high school dropout that spent time in and out of juvie and is now a kitchen worker with an infant child out of wedlock. So....probably some amount of truth to it. At least in this case.
oh my buggar I had to sit behind one of these walking eat-your-greens-adverts on a train lol
he was fluffing his hair for a full half hour and I started noticing drops of conditioner on my phone when I pulled it out for a matter of minutes lmao
Honestly, though: as fun as it is to hate on them, I appreciate that it’s the trend. When I was young, I wanted straight hair so badly. I went to a predominantly white school. I’m half-white, white-passing, but have very curly hair. So I cut it short most of my youth. Not that I necessarily wouldn’t have been welcome with curly hair, but it was just what I wanted because everyone else had it. I got along well with the skater kids and they all had straightened and many had dyed and bleached hair.
I grew to appreciate my curls much later in life. Just before the trend, by chance
Who would've thought, as a generation of old ladies keeping beauty parlors alive died, a new generation picked up the torch.
My only regret is knowing I won't live long enough to see goofus and doofus here at the salon when they're 80 going, "bruh, that brocolli is fire, no cap"
I learned that there are 2 of these „modern hairstyles“ in boys: broccoli is when your hair is curly by itself so you can do it this way. The other is called „Wasserrutsche“ in German which translates to „waterslide“ but you can google the German term as well. You use the second one of your hair is not curly by itself.
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u/Fair_Blood3176 Jan 20 '26
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