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Cultural impact (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

When I saw it in the theater back when it came out, it was with my extended family and I knew nothing about it. I assumed it was an Avatar: The Last Airbender movie (which I also knew almost nothing about other than the name). It was a ways into the movie before I realized that I was watching the movie and not some sort of extended preview of another one.

The movie was fine. Great visuals, mediocre plot. It doesn't deserve to have had much of a cultural impact.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Does it have a cultural impact? The franchise seems to have very few hardcore fans and hardly any casual fans. I was at a comic con this weekend and i have seen a guy dressed as a navi. That was the only cosplay i have ever seen. There is also a guy that has his car airbrushed with avatar stuff ever since the first movie came out. Other than that i don't think i have ever even seen an avatar tshirt

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Never seemed to be marketed that way.

    I like the films - then again, I'm a sucker for big cinema and IMAX 3D, so from an eye-candy perspective, it's glorious. Is the story anything earth-shaking? Of course not. It's escapist fluff.. but oh.. how it looks.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like saying "James Cameron made a film about nothing" is unfair. I don't think it's about nothing. It's about colonialization. It's about inter-species racism, but in like a corporate kind of way.

    And yet, it really feels like a film about nothing. I wonder why that is.

    Is it just that it has nothing interesting to say about how colonialization works? It's been a long time since I've seen the film, but I do sort of remember it coming to really obvious conclusions.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I think it fell into a ton of tropes is all. Eh, it was a product of it's time - as all films are - and I found it similar to Dances With Wolves. Banged up protaginist, left broken by his service goes to the frontier and finds a new life..

    There it is..

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Didnt Disney build an entire theme park section based on the franchise?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    They built an area in the Animal Kingdom part of Disney World that is more or less just a bit of fake jungle and rocks that looked like it could be on the planet the movie takes place on. Like the A Bug's Life section that they had years ago. I don't even know if it had a ride.

    The park itself (Disney Animal Kingdom) is just basically a zoo. And not even a good one.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago*

    I've watched both of the sequels now (on the high seas), and they were actually pretty entertaining.

    But I agree that they aren't nearly as culturally significant as the PR would like you to believe

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