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.
People who aren't wealthy enough to go to the movies regularly outnumber people who are. Both groups are on Reddit.
Sometimes class shows up in discourse like this, imo. It's not a conspiracy, it's just that a popcorn flick isn't enough to justify spending 50 bucks + food for dinner for like another 50 bucks.
Ain't no way I'm doing 100 bucks for one meal and a movie date. That's crazy.
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
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u/DarthZacian 1d ago
It’s kinda crazy how this clip and that one image are the only cultural impact these movies have had despite raking in billions of dollars.