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[-] esc27@lemmy.world 85 points 8 months ago

I think this is the first time I’ve seen avatar mentioned in nearly a year. Weird how a movie series that popular generates so little discussion.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean, a lot of people spent a lot of time discussing the first one, it just boiled down to

"It's sci-fi Dances With Wolves, and it made a load of money."

The sequel is the same thing, but with whales and even more explicit environmentalism/anti-colonialism

All of the social criticism is correct, but, like, do something about it, billionaire filmmaker? The discussion time is over.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

“It’s sci-fi Dances With Wolves, and it made a load of money.”

Sci-fi Pocahontas is more accurate, but yeah, there's just not much to talk about beyond the effects.

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I always heard it was fern gully remake.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

And some people can talk at length about an aspect of the franchise (?) that isn't even a movie.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

It's because the movie is entirely about people of color (blue)

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Nah, it’s because the dirty liberals changed them from their original skin color.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, I mean the original in 1991

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

A grungy sort of beige plaid?

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago
[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, blue environmentalists who live in the woods.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

It was the same with the first one. No one talked about it at all after it left theaters. I'll never understand how these movies were such big hits.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yellowstone is an incredibly popular series but it's not really talked about either online

[-] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

"no one talked about it at all"

I've been parts of discussions about the movie, and we're also in one now.

No need for hyperboles

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Probably because it wasn't any good? I couldn't even get 20 minutes into my rental to get to the plot.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 8 months ago

After i watched the first one there's no way im going to sit through another 4 parts

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago

I saw it in IMAX 3D when it came out because I knew I wouldn't be able to enjoy it at all at home. I was fighting sleep the entire last half, I kept waking up seeing something I thought was cool and trying to stay awake, but I still slept through most of the last ACT

[-] Melt@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I guess it didn't make any meme material?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 35 points 8 months ago

Don't tell James but I saw the original Avatar as a grainy camrip with Russian subtitles and people walking in front of the screen

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 26 points 8 months ago

James Cameron: omae wa mou shindeiru

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago

Yvan eht nioj

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of this video by hbomberguy I watched a couple days ago. It talks about (among other things) how the poor quality of VHS tapes influenced the experience of watching movies, especially the horror genre.

All this to say, it'd be funny if a new type of movie/video emerged that's great for watching on a tiny smartwatch screen but not so much on anything bigger.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

We can already see this to some effect in direct to stream movies. The cinematography is geared towards viewing on smaller screens compared to being best viewed in a movie theater.

[-] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 21 points 8 months ago

James Cameron or Colonel Sanders?

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Much better choice than James Sanders would have been.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

We don't talk about James Sanders.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Isn't he the guy who hangs out with Bruno?

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago
[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 8 months ago

I think maybe because it's a movie known for putting a lot of effort into high detail visuals so watching at low quality wastes the effort put into them? idk I didn't watch it

[-] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

James Cameron will fuck you up if you don't appreciate his amazing cinematography.

[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

I honestly cannot understand why you would want to watch something on a smart watch. i can just about understand a tablet because it's relatively portable, but even a phone is too small!

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I watched YouTube on it once, because my phone died.... and I was somewhere that I wanted to leave but couldn't... So I was bored as fuck and that was the best thing I could do.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I have so many questions. How were you able to watch YouTube on your watch if your phone was dead? Are you one of those rich people who pays for a data plan for their watch? Or if you were at home on WiFi, what was preventing you from charging your phone? Didn't feel like getting up to grab the charger?

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

The watch is a WiFi one, it worked because it had the connection of wifi from there.

I wasn't home, didn't have a charger, and althought I could have asked for one my phone like was like dead I would have needed to be next to the plug to use it and in any case my hope was I could leave soon so I didn't want to bother.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

This is halarious entirely because I don’t understand it.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 8 months ago
[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

how can you get a bajillion dollars from a film and then act pretentious about how people watch it. who cares?

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Artists.

Some years back when there was a bad quality demo leaked from Nightwish album, the head of the band was furious because people would judge the album based on that shit quality sample.

For some artists it's important that the person experiencing the art can see and/or hear it as the artist intended. Which kinda makes sense that you'd want people to see the beat sidw, just like when selling a car

[-] EvilTwin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron.
James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron.

[-] theodoreevans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I'm interested in some of them more and hope you'll write more about them in your next articles five nights at freddy's

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