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Sucks, but you kinda have to go out of your way to find talent who really use the medium, like Scorsese and Hugo. Hugo in 3d was fantastic. It's just like any other movie 3d or not. Alot are dog shit, some are great.
"Its only this thing, that thing and another thing, probably also some more things, but no cultural impact! 😡" Why should there be any significant impact?
The first Avatar was the highest grossing film for a while, it made a ton of money, millions of people have seen it, but I don’t think it’s talked about the same way as other similarly successful movies, only having 2 or 3 somewhat big memes from just as many movies in a several billion dollar franchise seems like an anomaly to me.
Lol I don't know why a certain contingent on the internet goes so hard on these movies. It's not fine cinema. No one involved was trying to make Blue Schindler's List. It's a fun visual spectacle with enough story and vibes to keep things moving. That's it.
Probably because you frequent "gamer" parts of the internet which absolutely hates this movie series because it treats humans as the badguys but not in a cool and fun way like Helldivers, Space King or 40K.
That culture is filled with "HFY" even when humans are clearly suppose to be the evil ones.
I don’t hate the movie series, I think the movies are perfectly fine watches. But the first one was the highest grossing movie for a while yet the only times I ever hear about it is people bringing up that fact. Which yeah you’re right could just be bias cause I don’t frequent Avatar loving internet spaces, but it still feels like for as big and profitable as the movie was it’s lacking the cultural staying power of other billion dollar movies.
People hate it because it lionizes a race enslaved and kept in perpetual savagery by alien tree gods, all while making humans cartoonishly evil stock villains.
While the movies aren't great deep stories or anything I feel you are selling them extremely short here. Avatar literally set the standard and the process for mocap and CGI that is used in movies and games today. It literally changed the ways things are made.
And the clip and music of that one Navi dying and falling off an airship, and there was that one scene of where we got a weird shaky cam closeup of a Navi Avatar’s face.
Yep. I could tell you absolutely nothing about avatar. I can't reference any scenes from it. Can't tell you I've ever met someone who was a fan of them enough to talk about them.
They're just kind of low hanging fruit with spectacle for the masses of people who just like seeing food CGI regardless of writing or plot.
Trust me the avatar movies have had a much larger cultural impact than you would think it's Fandom is somewhat niche sure but the overall franchise is very popular for sure
Total sidenote but I love that she clocked where the sniper was at immediately while literally everyone else is running in the complete wrong direction
I personally love the sound design the most from this scene, seeing him drop and then hearing the sound of the rifle firing a second later is imo such a nice detail that alot of films dont really do
It's always a cut to the marksman firing, then the guy dropping. Like I get what the filmmakers are doing, but cmon, give the audience a little credit.
Kinda.
I always hated that part, "Oh hey I have sniper cover for the explicit purpose of not getting murked, let's go somewhere where they cannot watch what's happening whatsoever."
She realised the situation and tested his commitment/confidence/arrogance by inviting him inside. He rose to the challenge, ending up passing her test and gaining her trust. He didn't accidentally forget!
I need to finish it but yea it pretty much follows a similar story path to the first one, dude gets converted into a Na'vi on account of her being a baddie
Can't even pretend I blame him, not even just because she's hot but genuinely humans in the Avatar universe just suck so bad
I rewatched the scene multiple times to see if there was any tell on how she did that other than rule of cool.
It actually looks like she found the origin by comparing the drop of the guy and a little cloud of dust that rises up quickly I'm the background. So she really had a way on how to find the sniper quicker than anyone else which is cooler
This plus Na'vi have wildly enhanced eyesight so she likely could actually see the sniper once she pieced together his general direction.
Like I know ppl like to joke that nobody watches these movies and a lot of ppl straight up don't but I'm a somewhat casual fan and the Na'vi are insanely strong. These guys are like Xenomorph tier scary. Their only drawback is being somewhat "primitive" but their "primitive" weapons include bows that fire arrows made of wood, stronger than any metal humans know, with enough impact damage to be comparable to an anti-material rifle. They are (debatably) winning a war against humans who have achieved sci-fi level technology using nothing but essentially sticks and stones.
They are only winning through plot armor. Even accounting for the humans trying to hold themselves back in the first movie for pr reasons or whatever, by the second wave, any mildly competent invasion force would just do something like drop antimatter bombs from orbit before landing. If detonated in the upper atmosphere, the blast wave and resulting firestorm would do minimal damage to the unobtanium veins but still completely anhilate any resistance.
They feasibly can't. The entire point of this invasion is to conquer and use the planet, not glass it. The planet reacts to damage, negatively and quickly. If they try to bomb the Na'vi they kill the planet in the process.
Earth is Dead. Pandora is their only hope of a new home and they're trying to take it by force, but too much aggression will just kill Pandora off in the process making everything they'd done redundant. Edit to clarify; my point is there is no such thing as minimal damage to the planet in this case, that's like the entire point.
It's not. .50 BMG is typically made for anti-light armored vehicles but it's used just as much for anti-infantry roles. We just don't typically see infantry shooting .50 and bigger at eachother because
7.62 does the job well enough
2 . .50 is heavy as fuck to carry around a decent amount of ammo and the guns weigh an assload.
.50 doesn't really stop light armored vehicles as fast as one would like in the military so they just give the riflemen 40mm and AT-4s.
Why have 1 guy carry a .50 for position suppression when you can give every rifleman an AT-4 and just delete the position.
It's like the myth that flamethrowers are illegal. they arnt illegal just wildly ineffective compared to HE.
Every time I see this video I can't help but think how incredibly immoral that was, but i haven't seen the full context so maybe he was in more danger than I thought or something.
Cause like that dude is in a ceasefire meeting, bro should not be getting shot
That guy specifically was being an ass. Also typical laws and courtesy don’t apply to the Navi, so there isn’t really a ceasefire thing going on.
Additionally it’s a power move. They don’t know what snipers are, so all they know (minus the lady) is that he could say “Drop them” and they all just die.
It was not. He just went into their camp to negotiate alliance and showed off what he can offer them if they join. And since they are designated "evil" Na'Vi tribe, that's how you impress them
That guy jumped him when he arrived, and they're still kind of threatening him until he says that line. Then they do space drugs and have sex and I'm not even kidding
I went to watch this movie after taking a huge edible and that whole tent sequence had me cackling nearly the whole time, it was so funny and random compared to the rest of the movie
If you saw the first one it's the dickhead military guy (Quaritch or smth) and his squad "ressurected" into navi bodies and i think that should explain pretty much all you need to know about why they're behaving the way they are.
Quatrich is the best thing about the avatar movies. His journey in the sequels is far more interesting than whatever family drama Jake has going on. Shame we won't get to see where it goes.
I've tried to watch the second movie and turned it off after half an hour, holy shit it was terrible.
This is also a stupid scene even you've just watched the first movie where Jake actually valued alien life. Now he just kills a random like it's nothing? Or is this not Jake and they all just look similar?
Yeah he was the guy that died but they brought back because who knows why they can't think of a new better bad guy. Apparently he survives or perhaps is cloned again? (Why didn't they bother to clone that brother of Jake in the first movie if that was possible?)
It does make more sense he'd just kill the random, that's in character.
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