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The title text in papyrus was pretty impactful
None of the rest of the film was though
I can still remember the overall plot, which puts it ahead of rise of Skywalker
I can still remember the overall plot
I could remember the overall plot the first time I watched Disney's Pocahontus 14 years before Avatar came out.
i could remember the overall plot the first time I watched dances with wolves 5 years before pocahontus came out
this is a lie, i wasnt alive yet when wither of these were released. my point is that its an old story and repackaging those is normal and fine, unless i wanna shit on a movie
Dude, this joke is both old and inaccurate.
Damning with faint praise, there.
The Rise of Skywalker made me retroactively hate Star Wars for a while. I still can't bring myself to watch any of the sequel trilogy again.
It’s just because you remember Pocahontas re-enacted by the blue man group.
#9 didn't have an overall plot.
Did you... did you say Papyrus?!
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Why didn't this movie develop the nerd following of other properties?
It seems to check all the boxes. Why isn't there a huge Avatar fandom running amuck on the internet?
It was very pretty, but not all that memorable. I remember thinking it would make a good video game, which...didn't one just come out? [checks] Yes! Let's see..."Alien Far Cry." Not a fan of that series, unfortunately.
Supposedly it's actually pretty decent if you just turn off all of the quest markers and whatnot in the settings. Turns it into more of an immersive story driven exploration game instead of an Ubisoft clear the map checkbox game.
I'm kinda interested because I really liked the three "Witcher 3 ripoff" AC games, but I tried Far Cry 3 and 4 and just couldn't get into them. I don't know if it's the using guns rather than melee or first person perspective or what.
Shooters work best when there's plenty of cover or when projectiles move slow enough to dodge. Open world melee games often have wide open spaces with little cover, but shooters can't work in those environments. Open world shooters need dense urban settings, areas with plenty of trees and shrubbery, or only have fights take place in those locations. When there's too much wide open space, it becomes a game of waiting for enemies to peak and hiding to prevent getting shot. That's not as interesting as fighting in close quarters where you can move around more and can choose when to engage enemies instead of waiting for the NPCs to peak.
Unfortunately, dense environments are also more demanding on computers, especially in open world games where you can go almost anywhere. In a linear games, areas can be blocked off and never need to be modeled, but open world games need to simulate a large area around the player, requiring even more resources. Heaven forbid the game needs to simulate the interior of a building 4 blocks away holding an NPC that needs to be able interact with the player at a moments notice. It's why most open world games have loading screens when entering interiors or mostly inaccessible buildings.
Melee based games don't need dense environments to have interesting combat, but shooters do, with denser and more dynamic being better. Open world shooters with dense environments need more beefy hardware to run, so they haven't been possible until recently.
That's a good point I hadn't really thought about. I'm trying to think of other open world games that primarily use ranged that I liked and the main one that comes up is GTA. Firefights are usually done in areas with a lot of cover (and the times it isn't are noticeable for how irritating they are) whereas, as you say, Far Cry has a lot of wide open bases when you're shooting, which I just don't enjoy.
Compare to Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings. I'm pretty sure you know what those were about, and usually they had multiple layers of meaning.
I cannot for the life of me tell you what specifically the Avatar team thinks about deforestation, genocide, etc. It feels like they just put objectivelt bad things in the movie for the bad guys to do.
I think the difference is world building. In the stories you listed there's a sense that you're only seeing a tiny fragment of everything notable going on. History is being made by everyone concurrently.
In Avatar, you see everything notable. We don't care what's going on on Earth (they never hint anything), we don't care what's going on outside this one tribe, the only thing happening right now is the conflict on screen.
I actually really don't get the sense of a deep world from Harry Potter as an adult. I know as a kid I did, but the more I thought about the logic involved in the plot the less I felt it held up. I started getting really annoyed with the setting around 10th grade.
First one was a generic story with some interesting ideas and world, just isn't much to discuss once you get past the visuals. I think with the sequels coming and the expanded lore there will be an uptick in fandom size, but Cameron needs to take bigger risks in the story telling. Avatar hasn't really had a Vader/Luke reveal or "avengers assemble" moment
Because it's just Pocahontas but blue.
Star Wars is just Treasure Island in space, being derivative shouldn't have prevented it from being popular
Because it's a shallow prog-rock scribble with no faith in its audience. Two and a half hours of one-note characters yelling at one another to explain the blindingly obvious.
Cameron says he started writing this movie starting in the 70s, and I believe him. You can picture him sitting in his dorm room, listening to Tarkus and Olias of Sunhillow until the grooves wore out, doodling weird furry giantess smut, imagining all the claymation he was gonna do to make the bestest sci-fi film since Dark Star.
What the prequels were to George Lucas, Avatar is to James Cameron. This was his stupid childhood dream project. Somehow it made an entire billion dollars. Introspection will not occur.
The only reason it even made that much was because of the hue over the tech. God knows it's the only reason my mom bought 5 tickets for all of us to see the original. Now that all of us are adults non of us bothered to see the sequel because we saw what the original was in hindsight. There's just more people now than back then who fell for the new water tank hype plus new kids to pad those numbers even more.
I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy it if they do, nor am k saying nobody should watch it. I'm just saying it's not for me.
Huh. My take from Avatar was that the mighty whitey trope was less about distaste of non-whites, but insecurity of European colonial imperialists.
Remember: Imperialism is ok, unless you are European or caucasian.
I don't think that's the case. It's just that Europe was able get the upper hand. The ill behavior that comes with that power is an indictment of the human species. China, Japan and Russia were happy to crush and exploit Korea without a European in sight, leading to the current fractured state. (It's practically the setting of an RTS game.)
But maybe we'll figure out a sociological trick that allows us to maintain an egalitarian society, but that's for the survivors of the next few centuries to figure out. (And they may not be human.)
19th century Russia is literally a European colonial nation through every its aspect
Where'd you come up with that shitty-ass straw man?
U mean that one in my urethra?
yeah so many people lining up to praise the japanese empire....
Good movie either way