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In my circles it’s “avatar” and “avatar (the blue one)”, which is also quite telling
In my circles it’s “avatar” and we haven’t needed a way to distinguish space smurfs. Literally never comes up, even when one is in theaters.
Yeah, the only reason the James Cameron one is ever brought up is to talk about how it’s absurd how much profit it makes or to talk about how stupid it is that they’re making a series. Often context is enough to know you’re talking about that one, and not the real one.
It’s weird how the sequel (Way of the Water) came out and it made so much money and it seemed to just not permeate any conversations or memes or anything. At least in my corner of the Internet.
Yeah, I don’t keep up with movies or series, but I know that the non-blue sequel is called “Korra” or something. Never heard “Way of the Water” before.
I thought this new one was the sequel… did another one come out sometime? I’m on the internet a lot and had no idea.
It apparently had the most impressive cgi water ever, with technical breakthroughs being the only interesting part of the series to me.
James Cameron would like that you said that
Technical reasons are the entire backbone of why it took owning the IP for as much time before it was made as it has now been after it’s release
He also is fine having movies for the studios if he didn’t have a passion for the project but off it lets him do one.
Remember this is the guy has long had a fascination with the water
I don’t know anyone who can even remember what the story part of Cameron’s Avatar actually was, let alone anyone who liked the story part. The part about the regular human’s consciousness taking over the artificial blue critter is completely forgotten, and that’s the whole reason the movie was called Avatar in the first place.
Avatar “Pocahontas in space”
Aka Dances with Smurfs
Aka Big Blue Man (from Little Big Man).
Tells me you don’t know, or that you don’t care about why that movie was ever made. And why the second one got made either.
The story is about being an avatar.
Not about fern gully as well
I like both Avatars: The Last Airbender and the Cameron’s one. I don’t understand why in so many people love for one thing transforms into hate for some other thing. It reminds me how much lotrmemes subreddit hates G. R. R. Martin, despite the fact that he told people numerous times that he himself loves LotR and considers it an inspiration for his work.
Having said that the name trademark is unfortunate.
I don’t hate Avatar blue people, I just find it to be mid.
I can help you understand it better from a film making perspective if you are willing to watch some of James Camerons other works.
Might upgrade the value of having watched it and knowing what is about. Even if it doesn’t make the story any better if you ever watch it again it might just give you a different relationship with it
Or could be a complete waste of your time lol
I went to film school, so try me. That said, I haven’t actually watched the newest one, but it seems to have had a similar reaction in culture, so I imagine it’s similarly mid. Mid does not mean bad, it just means not as good as his other stuff.
Can’t wait for the Christmas cross-over special.
(no love for James Cameron, but) are fans of a Nickelodeon series first released in 2005 really complaining about the existence of other media using the name Avatar? 🤔
If they are preventing better series from using it… yeah why not I can be grumpy about a lot of things at the same time.
this guy gets it
I actually really like many of Cameron’s movies, it’s just that Avatar is so mid and forgettable, even compared to a crowd pleaser like Titanic.
Ironic, isn’t it?
Edit: that page is broken at the moment. If anyone can post a screenshot that would be great
I’m surprised people give enough of a shit for that much (EDIT : FAN CONTENT) to be made
Think he got a deal on doing four of them. They’ve also made BANK the first grossed nearly 3B and the second still grossed around 2.3B. Those film executives do not care about comments on the stupidity of the plot or their rotten tomatoes score they can’t see or hear it over the waterfall of money printing.
I don’t think anyone can stop James Cameron at this point. It could bomb and he’d probably still make the next one
But they don’t bomb, which I don’t understand.
I’ve never once heard anyone talk about them, except to make a joke about James Cameron. Literally never even hear mention that they went to see a movie and it was Avatar. The fact that those movies make money confounds me.
I do watch and enjoy them, it’s just, the reason they’re enjoyable isn’t really the plot. In my view, they’re basically tech-demos for how much you can push cgi tech, with a relatively simple and chiche story to tie it together. They’re very pretty, and enjoyable for that reason, but once the movie is over there’s little to bring them up because they don’t inspire the same interest in the characters or plot or worldbuilding that a lot of other popular media franchises do.
I mean, they’re good. Saw both, enjoyed both, will see the next one. There’s just not much to talk about though. The stories are pretty self contained, there’s no source material, so there’s not a lot to go off of. They’re also not trying to build/pander to fanbase, look at the amount of star wars merchandise and events out there. They’re just what I want out of a blockbuster movie, interesting, fun to watch, cool setting, have an anticapitalist moral, and you don’t need to have watched a ton of other movies or tv shows to make sense of it.
I’ve seen both. Happy to talk about them if you want. Way of Water had a lot of really cool moments but a lot of weird visual choices. They swapped between 24 and 48 fps (idk if it was 48 but it was definitely higher) seemingly at random. You’d think it would be something like 24 for dialogue and 48 for action, but it wasn’t that straight forward. Some scenes looked like they needed more time to look good. A boat crash in particular stands out. Other scenes were incredibly gorgeous. The young one (name escapes me) swimming to rescue her family stands out there.
I think my biggest gripe about Way of Water was that they said they get this valuable thing from the whales. But the number was orders of magnitude less valuable than the material they were mining from the first one. It made it seem silly. They could’ve just given a bigger number and it would all make sense. Maybe it’s something about the initial investment to get to Pandora being the biggest cost so now they can pursue things that make less money.
Somehow the sequel made billions. I have no idea how.
I’m talking about fan content. no one gives a shit about avatar the world/story so how is it about as quarter as popular as the animated Avatar series?
James Cameron writes all of it under pseudonyms
